Links 14/02/2024: Orwellian Spying and State Violence as the 'New Normal'
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Leftovers
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Ruben Schade ☛ Alear from Fire Emblem Engage getting a fig
From our favourite artist Mika Pikazo herself:
Alear will be a figure from “Fire Emblem Engage”. I drew her congratulatory illustration and comments, the reproduction and power is amazing…!
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Ruben Schade ☛ Crunchyroll reneging on Funimation Digital Copies
I’ve talked a lot here about how I’ve given up on music streaming services, though the same mostly applies for video. Streaming platforms give artists a pittance, they revoke even purchased material on a whim, and you can’t have local copies. They’re a bad deal for everyone but the distributor, and I’d rather spend my money elsewhere.
The latest example of this is Funimation, the streaming platform that promised in their FAQ that online Digital Copies of their optical discs would be available forever. The validity of such a claim is already dubious; up there with unlimited, 100% uptime, and Rubenerd Certified. But even by the fast-and-loose standards of modern advertising and customer contracts, this was destined to fail.
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Hackaday ☛ Memory Box Shows Photos Based On Fingerprint
With his young son’s birthday coming up in a few weeks, [Mike Buss] wanted to build him something fun that the boy could hold on to all his life. After doing some sketching, [Mike] arrived at the idea to make a memory box uses a fingerprint scanner to show different pictures based on the fingerprint.
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Hackaday ☛ Writing – So Easy A Caveperson Could Do It
We modern humans tend to take writing for granted, and often forget that like any other technology, somebody had to invent it. Researchers from Cambridge believe they’ve determined the purpose of one of the earliest writing beta-tests.
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Arturo Borrero ☛ Arturo Borrero González: Back to the Wikimedia Foundation!
In October 2023, I departed from the Wikimedia Foundation, the non-profit organization behind well-known projects like Wikipedia and others, to join Spryker.
However, in January 2024 Spryker conducted a round of layoffs reportedly due to budget and business reasons. I was among those affected, being let go just three months after joining the company.
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Common Dreams ☛ Illuminati Rejoice as Demons and Taylor Swift Win Super Bowl
Dear Lord. A blasphemous Super Bowl just broke right-wing brains: Team Soros beat Team Jesus, they sang a Black national anthem, Travis wore a sparkly outfit, Usher danced in a Satanic pit, "pure evil" Pfizer ran an ad, woke Jesus ads preached tolerance - "This feet-washing is heresy" - and the "Aryan goddess" was exposed as a beer-chugging, demon-calling, child-blood-drinking Pentagon psy-op who rigged the game with her vax-shilling boyfriend to elect Biden and beget End Times. Truly, the righteous lament.
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Hardware
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Hackaday ☛ Have A Ball With This 3D Printed Sphere-Making Machine
Alright, everyone has 30 seconds to get all the jokes out of their system before we proceed with a look at this 3D printed wooden ball polisher.
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Hackaday ☛ Tool Changing? Bah! Just Add A Second Gantry
What’s a dual gantry 3D printer? It’s a machine with two completely independent XY motion systems, with two independent hot ends, sharing the same build platform. That might be a little hard to visualize, so head over to [Zruncho 3D]’s Dueling Zero project and get a good look at what what a dual gantry machine looks like.
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Hackaday ☛ A Clock Made Out Of Electromechanical Relays
Electromechanical circuits using relays are mostly a lost art these days, but sometimes you get people like [Aart] who can’t resist to turn a stack of clackity-clack relays into a functional design, like in this case a clock (article in Dutch, Google Translate).
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CNX Software ☛ SMLIGHT launches Zigbee Ethernet/WiFi coordinators and USB adapters based on TI CC2652P7 or CC2674P10 wireless chips
SMLIGHT has recently released Zigbee Ethernet/WiFi/USB coordinators and USB dongles based on either Texas Instruments CC2652P7 or CC2674P10 wireless microcontrollers that update on the company’s SLZB-06 Zigbee 3.0 to PoE Ethernet, USB, and WiFi adapter and Silicon Labs EFR32MG21-based SLZB-07 Zigbee 3.0 USB adapter.
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CNX Software ☛ Vivid Unit is a low-profile Rockchip RK3399 SBC with an integrated touchscreen display
UUGear’s Vivid Unit is a low-profile SBC with an integrated 5.5-inch 1280×720 touchscreen display powered by the older Rockchip RK3399 hexa-core Cortex-A72/A53 SoC coupled with 4GB RAM and a 32GB eMMC flash.
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Health/Nutrition/Agriculture
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Hackaday ☛ Thermal Earring Tracks Body Temperature
If you want to constantly measure body temperature to track things like ovulation, you usually have to wear something around your wrist or finger in the form of a smartwatch or ring. Well, what if you can’t or don’t want to adorn yourself this way? Then there’s the thermal earring.
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Kev Quirk ☛ Fat Boy at 40 - Update 05
My journey to stop being a fat boy by the age of 40 continues. I'm 6 months in, so let's see how we're doing...
Cast your mind back to January, dear reader. The Christmas aftermath had hit and I'd upped my weight from 102.9kg to 105.8kg.
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Security
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Integrity/Availability/Authenticity
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YLE ☛ Police: Fraudsters posing as victims' children extort €70,000
The scam involved sending some 13,000 text messages to people around Finland, claiming money was needed urgently to fix a broken phone.
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Privacy/Surveillance
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Daniel Pocock ☛ Online dating: where does your data really go?
According to a German press release on the Experian web site, they are the back-end for the Parship online dating service. Wikipedia has a page about Parship, a popular service that started in Germany.
Users periodically see an error like this when accessing the Parship site from Tor, it shows just how tightly integrated Parship is with Experian.
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404 Media ☛ Woman Sues Sex Toy Retailer Adam and Eve, Claims It Shared Data About Her Dildos
A woman just brought a class action lawsuit against one of the biggest online retailers for sex toys, Adam and Eve, claiming that the site gave Google information about her searches for 8-inch dildos and strap-on harnesses.
The plaintiff, who isn’t named in the complaint but goes by “Jane Doe,” claims that Adam and Eve uses Google Analytics, which has an anonymization feature that obscures IP addresses of users, but that the site didn’t have that feature enabled. She’s suing PHE, the owner of Adam and Eve, as well as Google, for allegedly disclosing her “sexual preferences, sexual orientation, sexual practices, sexual fetishes, sex toy preferences, lubricant preferences, and search terms” without her consent.
“By using the Google Analytics tool without anonymized IP feature, PHE is sharing with Google Plaintiff’s online activity, along with her IP addresses, even when consumers have not shared (nor have consented to share) such information,” the complaint claims.
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RFA ☛ Hong Kong adds hundreds of surveillance cameras in public places
Facial recognition technology could mean the totalitarian monitoring of anyone in a public space, critics warn.
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Off Guardian ☛ 2024 Is the New 1984: Big Brother and the Rise of the Security Industrial Complex
2024 is the new 1984. Forty years past the time that George Orwell envisioned the stomping boot of Big Brother, the police state is about to pass off the baton to the surveillance state.
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Techdirt ☛ State Dept. Expands NSO Group-Targeting Ban To Include Anyone Who Misuses Commercial Malware
Well, NSO Group really made a mess of this for everyone. Ever since the devastating leak showing its customers routinely targeted journalists, government critics, dissidents, and human rights activists (you know, rather than the violent criminals and terrorists they said they’d use the spyware to track), things have gone from bad to worse to career-ending for the Israeli malware purveyor.
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Meduza ☛ Polish prime minister says he has ‘long list’ of opposition politicians bugged by Pegasus spyware — Meduza
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Defence/Aggression
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Atlantic Council ☛ China is testing its freeriding strategy in the Red Sea
The United States and its allies and partners must find ways to better manage Beijing’s freeriding and opportunism in the northwestern Indian Ocean.
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Techdirt ☛ Florida Legislator Files Bill That Would Keep Killer Cops From Being Named And Shamed
Prior restraint but it’s a law.
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Hackaday ☛ Sprint: The Mach 10 Magic Missile That Wasn’t Magic Enough
Defending an area against incoming missiles is a difficult task. Missiles are incredibly fast and present a small target. Assuming you know they’re coming, you have to be able to track them accurately if you’re to have any hope of stopping them. Then, you need some kind of wonderous missile of your own that’s fast enough and maneuverable enough to take them out.
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ADF ☛ UAE Increases Military Support, Aid to Chad Amid Sahel Strife
The United Arab Emirates has deployed troops to train Chadian Soldiers in warfare and how to operate donated Emirati equipment, including at least six armored vehicles that were delivered last year. News of the UAE troops’ deployment to Chad emerged in January.
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ADF ☛ Somaliland Continues Quest for Independence
Somaliland is an autonomous breakaway state in northern Somalia that has persistently pursued independence for 33 years. It has state institutions, a military, and functioning political and economic systems. The United Kingdom granted British Somaliland independence as the State of Somaliland on June 26, 1960.
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YLE ☛ Finland plans to fast-track unfounded asylum applications
The proposed reforms could see some migrants facing significant restrictions on their freedom of movement while their applications are being processed.
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Breach Media ☛ Hindu far-right lobbied Canadian cities to celebrate a mosque’s destruction
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TwinCities Pioneer Press ☛ How Texas church shooter bought rifle despite mental illness and criminal history is under scrutiny
Authorities say they’re reviewing how the shooter who opened fire at a Houston megachurch was able to legally purchase and obtain the AR-style rifle used in the attack despite a years-long criminal record and a history of mental illness. Public records show that Genesse Moreno faced several charges over the years, including for theft, forgery and assault.
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Moreno used both male and female aliases, but investigators found through interviews and past police reports that Moreno identified as female, according to Houston Police Commander Chris Hassig.
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LRT ☛ Kaunas Airport scraps requirement to remove items from luggage during checks
Kaunas Airport has become the first Baltic airport to scrap the requirement for passengers to remove electronic devices and liquids from their hand luggage for security checks, its operator said on Tuesday.
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JURIST ☛ Syrian refugees face dire human rights situation: UN report
A report released by the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) on Tuesday highlights human rights violations and abuses endured by Syrians upon their return to Syria.
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JURIST ☛ Ethiopian Human Rights Commission says 45 civilians killed by government forces in Amhara region
The Ethiopian Human Rights Commission (EHRC) claimed on Tuesday that federal security forces have killed at least 45 civilians in Ethiopia’s Amhara region. The independent state body also alleged that the civilians had been killed for being supposedly affiliated with the ethnic Amhara armed group known as Fano.
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France24 ☛ PM Henry 'is inciting a civil war in Haiti', former premier Joseph claims
FRANCE 24 spoke to former Haitian prime minister Claude Joseph, who is now head of the opposition party "Les Engagés pour le Développement". He denounced interim Prime Minister Ariel Henry's decision to remain in power beyond February 7, the date on which he had pledged to step down. Joseph said Henry's argument that the security situation prevents elections from being held is simply a pretext to stay in power.
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Federal News Network ☛ How acquisition hinders national security
Contractors probably know as much about the risks to national security as the Defense and Homeland Security Departments. One view suggests the federal acquisition system hinders those departments from obtaining what they really need.
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CS Monitor ☛ Australia, US grapple with reports of rising antisemitism
Australia banned the practice of doxxing after pro-Palestinian activists published personal information about members of the Jewish community. In the United States, a new survey shows antisemitism is on the rise.
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ADF ☛ SAF’s Use of Iranian Drones Threatens to Destabilize Region
The images of a wrecked unmanned aerial vehicle that Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces (RSF) posted to its social control media channels in late January confirmed what many observers have suspected: Iran is supplying weaponized drones to the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF).
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ADF ☛ Survivors Describe Burkinabe Military Drone Strikes that Killed Civilians
The use of drones by Burkina Faso’s military is drawing criticism and calls for restraint amid reports of heavy civilian casualties. Burkinabe military drone strikes killed more than 60 civilians and injured scores more over a four-month stretch in late 2023, Human Rights Watch (HRW) reported. The military junta led by Capt.
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New York Times ☛ Hezbollah Attack Injures 2 Israelis Amid Fresh Push to Reduce Tensions
Diplomats said France had presented a proposal aimed at ending the strikes and skirmishes along the border between Israel and Lebanon.
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New York Times ☛ South Africa Asks ICJ to Act Against Israel’s Plans for Rafah
The International Court of Justice in The Hague, which last month ordered Israel to ensure its actions in Gaza would not lead to genocide, is required to regard the new request as a matter of priority.
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Defence Web ☛ The world is entering an era of instability – IISS
The world has entered a more dangerous period in the last twelve months, with increased tensions and conflict reshaping the global defence-industrial landscape, according to the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS).
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Russia, Belarus, and War in Ukraine
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RFERL ☛ Biden Urges House To Vote Immediately On Ukraine Aid, Says Failure Of Bill Is 'What Putin Is Betting On'
U.S. President Joe Biden has called for the House of Representatives to quickly pass a bill that would provide billions of dollars in aid to Ukraine, challenging Republicans lawmakers to take a stand against Russian President Vladimir Putin and vote in favor of the spending package.
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Meduza ☛ Kremlin says Putin will not participate in pre-election debates as Russians hear his thoughts on matters ‘practically daily’ — Meduza
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Transparency/Investigative Reporting
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Pro Publica ☛ Why ProPublica Focuses on Issues You May Not See on Cable News
The photographs are arresting. Leaking roofs. Classrooms set up in closets and stairwells. Charred electrical outlets that short out when students plug in a laptop. The images document the devastating story of public school infrastructure in Idaho, a state where voters have repeatedly rejected bond issues needed to pay for new schools and repair old ones.
The idea of shining a spotlight on the crumbling schools was proposed by the state’s biggest newspaper, the Idaho Statesman, as a project for our Local Reporting Network. Working in partnership with Statesman reporter Becca Savransky, ProPublica engagement reporter Asia Fields recruited students, teachers, parents and more than 90% of the state’s superintendents to collect the undeniable evidence.
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Environment
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YLE ☛ Helsinki records warmest-ever September in 2023
Finnish researchers blamed the situation on global warming.
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Energy/Transportation
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European Commission ☛ Speech by Commissioner Simson at the IEA High-Level Ministerial Dialogue on 'Energy security through energy transitions: international experiences and local solutions'
European Commission Speech Paris, 13 Feb 2024 Thank you ladies and gentlemen, good afternoon.
I want to start by congratulating IEA for 50th anniversary, that means 50 years since the first energy crisis.
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European Commission ☛ Speech by President von der Leyen at the plenary session on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the International Energy Agency
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YLE ☛ Only half of long-distance trains will run on Wednesday
Trains will continue to be affected, following Tuesday's cancellation by VR for safety reasons.
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New York Times ☛ This Arctic Circle Town Expected a Green Energy Boom. Then Came Bidenomics.
Generous subsidies are helping the United States steal green industries from Europe, as countries race to secure the energy supplies of the future.
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H2 View ☛ JOGMEC and H2Global to cooperate on hydrogen-based initiatives and imports
The Japan Organisation for Metals and Energy Security (JOGMEC) and H2Global Foundation (H2Global) have agreed to collaborate on hydrogen development.
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Bruce Schneier ☛ Molly White Reviews Blockchain Book
Molly White—of “Web3 is Going Just Great” fame—reviews Chris Dixon’s blockchain solutions book: Read Write Own: [...]
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Ruben Schade ☛ Vandragon_de’s 3D printable ocean liners
Speaking of models I only just came across this artist’s 3D printable model ship collection, and they look incredible.
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Wildlife/Nature
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YLE ☛ WWF Finland: Endangered Saimaa ringed seals begin crucial breeding season
Last year saw record-high births of Saimaa ringed seal pups and conservationists hope for a similar number this year.
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Finance
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ADF ☛ As Chinese Debt Comes Due, African Nations Struggle With Repayments
For some African nations, 2024 appears to be a year of economic reckoning as debts to China and other lenders come due. “People went and got low-interest loans by the bucketload,” Nonkululeko Nyembezi chair of South Africa’s Standard Bank, Africa’s largest bank by assets, said recently at the World Economic Forum in Davos...
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Pro Publica ☛ MN Lawmakers Propose Reforms to Contract-for-Deed Home Sales
The excitement that Abdinoor Igal felt after buying a five-bedroom house in a new development in a suburb south of the Twin Cities was short-lived.
At the time, it was the realization of a long-held dream — a spacious, modern home for his wife and seven children to call their own. And Igal, a 37-year-old long-haul trucker, had saved for a house for years.
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AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics
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RFA ☛ Hong Kong is now over, says China’s former good friend
Stephen Roach says the ‘wheels came off’ when the government mistakenly proposed an anti-extradition bill in 2019.
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Misinformation/Disinformation/Propaganda
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Techdirt ☛ ExTwitter Suspends Reporter For ‘Manipulation And Spam’ Hours After Publishing An Article About ‘Manipulation And Spam’ On ExTwitter
Writer Séamas O’Reilly published his weekly column at the Irish Examiner on Saturday, talking about how spam, scams, and manipulation attempts are flooding the internet. It’s a good article and well worth reading, basically just talking about the proliferation of nonsense online, much of which includes scammers trying to steal money from people. Here’s just a snippet:
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Censorship/Free Speech
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France24 ☛ Senegal bans protest over delayed vote, suspends internet access
Senegalese authorities on Tuesday suspended mobile internet and banned a march against the delay of this month's presidential poll as the UN voiced concern about tensions in the country.
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Techdirt ☛ Bill Ackman: Nazis On ExTwitter Are Just The Price Of Free Speech; But Marxist Theory Or Anti-Israel Claims On Campus Are Beyond The Pale
Earlier this year, we wrote about about another “free speech absolutist” and Elon Musk buddy (and investor in ExTwitter), Bill Ackman threatening to file a SLAPP suit over reporting he didn’t like. He’s still promising such a lawsuit against Business Insider, and when it comes, it seems unlikely to succeed. He’s yet to show any actual false statement of fact made about his wife Neri Oxman, he just doesn’t like the way she was portrayed.
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Civil Rights/Policing
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The Straits Times ☛ Malaysia Edition: A missing Sarawak ex-governor and his family wealth | Some of Kelantan’s Islamic laws ruled unconstitutional
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BIA Net ☛ Court accepts the appeal regarding the suspicious death of detainee
The Kocaeli Peace Criminal Court requested the reopening of the investigation into the death of ordinary prisoner Duygu Koral, who died under suspicious circumstances at the Kocaeli 1st High Security Closed Prison.
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JURIST ☛ US House of Representatives impeaches Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas — developing story
The US House of Representatives voted 214-213 Tuesday night to impeach Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas over his handling of the situation at the US-Mexico border. Mayorkas will now face trial in the Senate, where a two-thirds vote is required to remove him from his position.
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New York Times ☛ Mayorkas Impeached by House Republicans Over Border Policies
In a redo of their first failed attempt, Republicans pushed through the charges over solid Democratic opposition, making the homeland security secretary the first sitting cabinet member to be impeached.
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France24 ☛ US House votes to impeach homeland security chief Mayorkas over border policies
Republicans impeached US President Joe Biden's immigration chief on Tuesday, the culmination of months of attacks on the Democratic administration as they seek to make border security a key issue in November's election.
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Hong Kong Free Press ☛ 2,000 new CCTV cameras ‘not enough,’ says Hong Kong police chief, does not rule out face detection function
The 2,000 new security cameras to be installed in Hong Kong by the end of 2024 for improving public safety may be equipped with face recognition functions, the city’s police chief has said.
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The Straits Times ☛ Protesting farmers clash with security forces 200km from New Delhi - TV
Protesting farmers who were attempting to reach the capital New Delhi clashed with security forces for a second day on Wednesday, with drones being used to drop tear gas shells, television visuals showed.
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Internet Policy/Net Neutrality
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APNIC ☛ The edge on speed: Infrastructure for the immersive Internet
Guest Post: What will be needed to power the immersive tactile Internet? Dr Thomas King looks at the challenges and the tasks for infrastructure providers to build the foundations for the future Internet.
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[Repeat] Silicon Angle ☛ EU finds iMessage, three Abusive Monopolist Microsoft products don’t qualify as core platform services
The European Union has exempted Fashion Company Apple Inc.’s iMessage service and three Abusive Monopolist Microsoft Corp. products from certain regulatory requirements that apply to large online platforms. The European Commission, the EU’s executive branch, announced the move today.
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Patents
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JUVE ☛ EPO revokes two more DNA-sequencing patents despite Illumina appeal [Ed: EPO admits it was granting fake patents, yet again]
The Boards of Appeal at the European Patent Office have confirmed the revocation of two DNA-sequencing patents owned by US biotechnology company Illumina, EP 1 451 351 and EP 2 338 893. Both inventions relate to labelled nucleotides, which are the basic building blocks for RNA and DNA.
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Unified Patents ☛ Magnetar Capital entity Togail Technologies 5G patent monopoly instituted
On February 7, 2024, the Central Reexamination Unit (CRU) granted Unified’s request, finding substantial new questions of patentability on the challenged claims of U.S. Patent 10,791,502, owned by Togail Technologies Ltd., a Magnetar Capital entity. The ’502 patent monopoly relates to error-handling procedures for system information requests in communications.
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Unified Patents ☛ GenghisComm 4G/5G patent monopoly challenged
On February 9, 2024, Unified Patents filed an ex parte reexamination proceeding against U.S. Patent 10,200,227, owned by GenghisComm Holdings, LLC, an NPE. The ’227 patent monopoly relates to OFDM wireless communication networks. It has been asserted against many tech and automotive companies, including Continental Automotive, TCL Communication, and Toyota.
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Unified Patents ☛ HyperX zero-touch networking patent monopoly invalidated
On February 12, 2024, the USPTO issued a notice of intent to issue an ex parte reexamination certificate in RE90/015,252, cancelling all challenged claims of U.S. Patent 11,522,756, owned and asserted by HyperX Networks, LLC. The ‘756 patent monopoly relates to zero-touch provisioning systems and methods, and had been asserted against Ciena.
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Dennis Crouch/Patently-O ☛ Redefining Patent Continuation Strategy: Sonos v. Surveillance Giant Google Appeal
by Dennis Crouch
One of the more shocking patent monopoly decisions of 2023 was Judge Alsup’s holding in Sonos, Inc. v. Surveillance Giant Google LLC, No. C 20-06754 WHA, 2023 WL 6542320 (N.D. Cal. Oct. 6, 2023). The scathing opinion left two Sonos multi-zone smart-speaker patents unenforceable due to prosecution laches and a rejection of the $32 million jury verdict.
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Kangaroo Courts
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Unified Patents ☛ World's Most Comprehensive Database for Unified Patent Court (UPC) cases now part of Unified's Portal [Ed: Unified Patent Court (UPC) is illegal and unconstitutional, so each such case is a major scandal]
As the Unified Patent Court (UPC) has begun to hear cases, Unified's Portal now tracks and allows users to examine the dockets to receive real-time case information. Portal users can filter by Case Numbers, Patent Numbers, Actions, Respondents, Claimants, Representatives, Judges, and Filing Dates. It includes all public documents available and all docket metadata.
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Kluwer Patent Blog ☛ Alexander Ramsay: Unified Patent Court working hard to remedy problems with CMS [Ed: The crook Alexander Ramsay, who lied and broke the law to impose an illegal and unconstitutional kangaroo court [sic], is still at it lying about the problems, which have become a massive liability for the EU's legitimacy]
The extent of the problems with the content management system took the Unified Patent Court by surprise.
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Trademarks
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TTAB Blog ☛ TTABlog Test: Is CANTU for Vehicle Tires Primarily Merely a Surname?
Invoking Section 2(e)(4), the USPTO refused registration of the proposed mark CANTU for “Tires; vehicle wheels; air chamber tire parts for vehicles, namely, inner tubes,” finding that CANTU is primarily merely a surname. The name CANTU appears 107,752 times in the search of the Lexis-Nexis Public Records database, but applicant asserted that, under the doctrine of foreign equivalents, CANTU means "sing" or "song" in English, overriding any surname significance of the term. How do you think this came out? In re CP Comerical S/A, Serial No. 90865025 (February 9, 2024) [not precedential] (Opinion by Judge Cheryl S. Goodman).
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Copyrights
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Public Domain Review ☛ Lithographs from Franz Wilhelm Junghuhn’s Java-Album (1854)
Eleven lithographs of Java from drawings by an eccentric Dutch colonial explorer who believed elevation equals greatness.
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Monopolies/Monopsonies
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