Links 23/02/2024: Feed Aggregator and 2 Years of Invasion, Alexei Navalny’s Mother Blackmailed
Contents
- Leftovers
- Science
- Hardware
- Health/Nutrition/Agriculture
- Proprietary/Artificial Intelligence (AI)
- Pseudo-Open Source
- Security
- Defence/Aggression
- Transparency/Investigative Reporting
- Environment
- AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics
- Censorship/Free Speech
- Freedom of Information / Freedom of the Press
- Civil Rights/Policing
- Internet Policy/Net Neutrality Monopolies/Monopsonies
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Leftovers
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Adam Young: Anatomy of a Jam Performance
My Band, The Standard Deviants, had a rehearsal this weekend. As usual, I tried to record some of it. As so often happens, our best performance was our warm up tune. This time, we performed a tune called “The SMF Blues” by my good friend Paul Campagna.
What is going on here? Quite a bit. People talk about Jazz as improvisation, but that does not mean that “Everything” is made up on the spot. It takes a lot of preparation in order for it to be spontaneous. Here are some of the things that make it possible to “just jam.”
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The New Leaf Journal ☛ WordPress.com One-Page Feed Aggregator Site
I noted in Newsletter Leaf Journal 174 that my Osmosfeed static feed aggregator site, which I had been using to collect my articles from around the web in one place, broke. While I am sure that I could have figured out how to fix it, doing so would have required more digging than I was inclined to do – so I decided to shutter that project for now. While I would like to get a real feed aggregator site going again, I decided to improvise a makeshift solution for the time being so I can spend my time doing more productive things such as actually writing articles.
(Note: If you are not familiar with feeds and feed readers, I wrote a general introduction. If you are not sure why you would want to use them, see my article on using a feed reader and read-it-later solution as your portal to the [Internet] from your digital home.)
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Deutsche Welle ☛ Cellular outage disrupts phone service across the US
Service providers AT&T, Cricket Wireless, Verizon, T-Mobile and other networks were affected, though T-Mobile and Verizon said their network was operating normally and the outage was potentially related to customers trying to connect via other networks.
"Some of our customers are experiencing wireless service interruptions this morning. We are working urgently to restore service to them. We encourage the use of Wi-Fi calling until service is restored," AT&T said in a statement.
Customers reported being unable to place calls, text or access the [Internet].
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Ruben Schade ☛ Complexity, complexity everywhere
So the story goes, is a phrase with four words. Woz’s creativity and engineering prowess are the stuff of legend, in particular his ruthless ability for optimisation. He could look at a printed circuit board, rewire it, and remove half the components while maintaining the same functionality.
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Ruben Schade ☛ Media accuracy on topics with which you’re familiar
I’ve mentioned a few times how easy it is to pick apart inaccuracies in media coverage on a topic you know about, and the unease that sets in when you realise every topic likely has the same issues.
I’m by no means the first person to notice this!
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Science
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Crooked Timber ☛ Death, Lonely Death — Crooked Timber
In 1990, just before Voyager’s camera shut down forever, the probe turned around and looked backwards. It zoomed in and took a picture of Earth. But by that time, it was so far away that Earth was just a single pale blue pixel. Look at the right-most band of light. A little past halfway down — see that speck? It’s not a defect. It’s not something on your screen. That’s the Earth.
“That’s here. That’s home. That’s us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every “superstar,” every “supreme leader,” every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there – on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.” — Carl Sagan
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New York Times ☛ Niklaus Wirth, Visionary Software Architect, Dies at 89
Pascal, the programming language he created in the early days of personal computing, offered a simpler alternative to other languages in use at the time.
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Hardware
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The Atlantic ☛ KitchenAid Did It Right 87 Years Ago
You will never pass down an Apple Watch or Sonos speaker through the generations—they’ve been cut off from that possibility by firmware updates and new operating systems. You are almost certainly not using your grandmother’s phone to call your friends, her toaster oven to cook, or her typewriter to function at your desk job. Yet the stand mixer endures. KitchenAids of a certain vintage may never show their age; newer models, which have more plastic parts, are weaker in some ways, though they are still easily repaired, says Zach Dinicola, a KitchenAid-repair expert known as Mr. Mixer, who makes YouTube and TikTok repair videos. “I've worked on fourth-generation mixers, passed down from great-grandma to youngest daughter,” he told me. “I have people in tears: ‘This is the last piece of my mother, this is the last piece of my grandmother that I had; it broke and I thought I had lost that connection.’”
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Health/Nutrition/Agriculture
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University of Michigan ☛ U-M study looks at racial disparities in schools during COVID
A U-M study noted racial disparities in school enrollment during the COVID-19 pandemic, consistent with the fact that communities of color faced greater risks from COVID-19.
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Science Alert ☛ Largest COVID Vaccine Study Ever Reveals The Actual Health Risks You Face
Following a first dose of the AstraZeneca vaccine, there was a 3.2 times greater-than-expected risk of cerebral venous sinus thrombosis (a type of blood clot in the brain) observed in 69 events, compared to an expected 21. The risks were 1.49 times higher after the Pfizer vaccine's first dose, and 1.25 times higher after second doses.
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Democracy Now ☛ Frozen Embryos Are Children? Reproductive Care in Peril After Alabama Supreme Court Ruling
The Alabama Supreme Court has sent shockwaves through the world of reproductive healthcare, relying on anti-abortion language inserted into the state Constitution in 2018 about “rights of the unborn child” to rule that frozen embryos are children. Now Alabama’s largest hospital has paused in vitro fertilization treatments as it studies the impact of the ruling, which could set a template for other states to restrict IVF and other medical care. “It was just very shocking,” says Angela Granger, an IVF patient who previously received treatment in Alabama and who had been considering returning to the state for future rounds of IVF to get pregnant again. “I just don’t trust what’s going on to be able to go back at this point.” We also speak with Barbara Collura, president of the infertility patient advocacy group RESOLVE, who says the Alabama ruling will have far-reaching implications. “It’s going to terrify people all across the country that this might happen in their state,” says Collura, who describes embryos as a “microscopic group of cells” not even visible to the human eye. “We do not look at that as a person, as a child or as a baby.”
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Futurism ☛ Woman Gets Dental Implants, Realizes They Do Something Wild in the Nightclub
For those wondering, there's a perfectly scientific explanation for her natural teeth's glow-in-the-dark quality. Photons in ultra-violet light — or black light, colloquially — interact with certain minerals in teeth to produce fluorescence, the glow we see in teeth at bowling alleys or other events featuring black lights.
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Vox ☛ Why are so many people using their cellphones while driving?
The company found that both phone motion and screen interaction while driving went up roughly 20 percent between 2020-2022. “By almost every metric CMT measures, distracted driving is more present than ever on US roadways. Drivers are spending more time using their phones while driving and doing it on more trips. Drivers interacted with their phones on nearly 58% of trips in 2022,” a recent report by the company concludes. More than a third of that phone motion distraction happens at over 50 mph.
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Proprietary/Artificial Intelligence (AI)
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India Times ☛ Chatgpt bug: 'Haunted' ChatGPT cranks out gibberish for hours
ChatGPT was giving "peculiar" responses, generating non-existent words, incomplete sentences and general gobbledygook, developers using the tool said in a discussion forum on the OpenAI website.
"It gives me meaningless words followed by a bizarre list," one developer lamented.
"It feels as if my GPT is haunted or something has been compromised, either on my end or at OpenAI's (end)."
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Society for Scholarly Publishing ☛ Guest Post - There is More to Reliable Chatbots than Providing Scientific References: The Case of ScopusAI - The Scholarly Kitchen
Last summer, Scopus announced the release of a new tool, ScopusAI, integrated with their bibliometric database. Citing the documentation, “Scopus AI is an AI-driven research tool that uses the Scopus peer-reviewed research repository to help users understand and navigate unfamiliar academic content”. The tool consists of a chatbot interface, which accepts prompts in natural language and provides several sentence-long answers with citations drawn from the Scopus database. Users can type a follow-up question or pick a suggested question from a list. Additionally, the tool creates a visualization of keywords, a functionality not rolled out fully at the time of writing this article.
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Futurism ☛ Google Shuts Down AI Image Generator After It Made "Racially Diverse Nazis"
Google's AI, on the other hand, seemed to be jamming diversity into historical imagery on autopilot, even when the context is bizarre or offensive, like producing images of racially diverse Nazi soldiers in World War II. Worse yet, the AI seemed to be adding diversity to historical imagery proactively, without the user even suggesting the alteration.
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Stanford University ☛ Over-the-air updates and regulatory recalls
Automakers (including Tesla, Daimer, Ford, and GM) as well as automated-driving developers (including Waymo and Cruise) have recalled vehicles by pushing over-the-air (OTA) updates to software in those vehicles. This has produced some suggestion that these updates are not really "recalls." I disagree.
In short: While recall remains the legally correct term for how an automaker addresses a safety problem, I would distinguish between "physical recalls" and "virtual recalls." In fact, I've been making this distinction since 2012.
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Vox ☛ Sora, OpenAI’s video tool, generates a vivid and misleading world
Some AI experts, like Gary Marcus, have raised doubts about whether a model like Sora could ever learn to faithfully represent the laws of physics. But just as DALL-E and ChatGPT improved over time, so could Sora. And if its goal is to become a “world simulator,” it’s worth asking: What is the world that Sora thinks it’s simulating?
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Futurism ☛ An AI Site Ripped Off Our Reporting About AI Ripoffs
Today in AI ouroboros vertigo: our reporting about AI rip-offs was ripped off by a spammy AI site.
In November, we published a story revealing that the legacy American magazine Sports Illustrated had published articles bylined by fake, AI-generated authors. Afterward, on a platform dubbed "Toolify.ai," an outfit called "Curiosity" published two separate AI-generated articles — one titled "The Controversy of AI-Generated Authors: Sports Illustrated's Shocking Revelation," the other titled "The Scandal Unveiled: AI-Generated Authors Exposed in Sports Illustrated" — rehashing our report's findings without credit.
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Mozilla
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Mozilla ☛ Next steps for Mozilla and Trustworthy AI [Ed: Mozilla just vomits buzzwords and PR instead of code and substance. This is the end. Mozilla does not know what Git is anymore? "Our first paper was also “open source,” and this one is, too. [...] Please contact us at AIPaper@mozillafoundation.org and send us your feedback on the report, as well as examples of trustworthy AI approaches and applications."]
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Education
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Society for Scholarly Publishing ☛ What to Do with the AI Elephant in the Room: A NISO Plus Conference Report - The Scholarly Kitchen
It seems hardly a conversation takes place in our community lately that doesn’t at least touch on artificial intelligence and its implications on one aspect of our lives or another. In this respect, the NISO Plus Conference, which ended last week, was no different. The AI sessions attracted the largest crowds and drove much of the hallway conversations during the breaks. The conference was kicked off by a provocative talk by Thomas Padilla, Deputy Director, Archiving and Data Services at the Internet Archive, who began the conference with a discussion of ethical open AI. He considered what might make AI systems more trustworthy and reliable. He laid out a set of attributes that open artificial intelligence systems should include: Reusable, Transparent, Accountable, Affirmative, and Sustainable. Building upon this model, Padilla covered the many ways that these attributes challenge the role of AI systems and their present application in the scholarly communications space, noting ways that we could better engage with the systems. The rest of the first day’s conversations relating to AI focused on transparency, trust, consent, and data privacy were packed so full that some people were sitting on the floor. During the second day, the entire track of AI sessions were moved into a larger plenary room. People were keen to discuss whether to build or buy AI systems, copyright issues, provenance, and eventually, disclosure. The final panel envisioned an AI-transformed world ten years from now.
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Pseudo-Open Source
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Openwashing
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XDA ☛ How to run Llama 2 locally on your Mac or PC
Given that it's an open-source LLM, you can modify it and run it in any way that you want, on any device. If you want to give it a try on a Linux, Mac, or Windows machine, you can easily!
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TecAdmin ☛ How to Create a Systemd Service for Your .NET Core Application on Linux [Ed: Microsoft infestation being openwashed]
In the evolving landscape of software development and deployment, the combination of .NET Core and GNU/Linux has emerged as a powerful duo, offering developers a flexible, high-performance platform for building and running applications.
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TecAdmin ☛ How to Deploy .NET Core Applications on GNU/Linux Servers
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Security
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Privacy/Surveillance
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EFF ☛ NSA Spying Shirts Are Back Just In Time to Tell Congress to Reform Section 702
Section 702 is up for renewal, so we decided our shirts should reflect the ongoing fight. For the first time in a decade, our popular NSA Spying shirts are back, with an updated EFF logo and design. The image of the NSA's glowering, red-eyed eagle using his talons to tap into your data depicts the collaboration of telecommunication companies with the NSA - a reference to our Hepting v. AT&T and Jewel v. NSA warrantless wiretapping cases. Every purchase helps EFF’s lawyers and activists stop the spying and unplug big brother.
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Defence/Aggression
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The Strategist ☛ Navy chief Mark Hammond: With a well-designed campaign, surface warships can operate in a high intensity conflict
Over decades, a truism has matured that modern technology, surveillance systems and weapons have evolved to the point where surface warships will not survive in a high intensity conflict.
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New York Times ☛ Syria Blames Israel for Deadly Airstrike on Damascus
Israel did not comment on the attack, though it has acknowledged hundreds of past strikes on Iran-linked targets in Syria.
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France24 ☛ 🔴 Live: Israel strikes Gaza's Rafah as new truce attempts under way
New attempts are under way to reach a ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas that could pause the war in Gaza, said Israeli war cabinet member Benny Gantz late Wednesday, in the first Israeli indication of renewed talks since negotiations stalled a week ago. Israel launched air strikes Thursday on southern Gaza’s Rafah after threatening to send troops into the city. Read our liveblog for all the latest developments in the Israel-Hamas war.
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Democracy Now ☛ Malcolm X Assassination: Former Security Guards Reveal New Details Pointing to FBI, NYPD Conspiracy
On the 59th anniversary of the assassination of Malcolm X, two former security guards are speaking out for the first time about how they were falsely arrested by the New York Police Department as part of a conspiracy to remove his protection before he was killed. We hear from Khaleel Sayyed, 81, who says he was detained on trumped-up charges just days before Malcolm X was fatally shot, and we speak with Ben Crump and Flint Taylor, two civil rights attorneys who are working with the family. They are calling on New York City Mayor Eric Adams, a former police officer, to support the release of key evidence in the case. We are “trying to peel back the layers to finally, after 59 years, get some measure of justice for Malcolm X’s family,” says Crump. Taylor also places the assassination in the context of police and the FBI targeting Black civil rights leaders through COINTELPRO, such as Fred Hampton, which he helped expose in a landmark case in Chicago.
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The Hill ☛ One-fourth of TikTok users responsible for nearly all content: Study
The most active 25 percent of U.S. adult TikTok users produce 98 percent of public content on the platform, the study found.
Nearly half of users, 48 percent, have never posted any videos, and 60 percent have never posted public videos, based on the study.
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Deutsche Welle ☛ EU launches TikTok probe over child protection concerns
Since last year, Chinese-owned TikTok and other large [Internet] platforms have been obliged to comply with the European's Union's (EU) Digital Service Act (DSA). Compared to similar regulations around the globe, requirements laid out in the DSA are relatively stringent.
Two months ago, the European Commission, which provides oversight, expressed doubt that TikTok was adhering to regulations. It launched preliminary investigations and requested a statement from the platform. According to the European Commission, the statement was unsatisfactory.
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NPR ☛ A man shot dead in Spain may be a Russian army defector
"But, we had access to different police sources who confirmed that the murdered man was Maksim Kuzminov," Bautista said.
Kuzminov was a young Russian former military captain. In August of last year, Kuzminov flew a Russian helicopter into Ukrainian territory and handed himself in. But this was no act of improvisation. Ukrainian intelligence said the defection was the result of a six-month operation.
Kuzminov's defection wasn't completely smooth. Two members of the Russian army, who were also on his helicopter, were killed by Ukrainian forces. The two soldiers were recognized in Russia as war heroes, while Kuzminov was declared a traitor.
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Russia, Belarus, and War in Ukraine
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Off Guardian ☛ Alexei Navalny’s Death and Curious Well-Timed Coincidences
There is propaganda by commission and propaganda by omission, the former often serve to conceal the latter. Timing is crucial. That the U.S. President Joseph Biden, his British, NATO, Israeli allies, and their corporate media mouthpieces are in need of a major propaganda victory is obvious.
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France24 ☛ Navalny’s mother accuses Russia of ‘blackmailing’ her to agree to secret burial
The mother of Russia’s top opposition leader Alexei Navalny said Thursday that she has seen her son's body and that she is resisting strong pressure by authorities to agree to a secret burial outside the public eye. [...] Speaking in a video statement from the Arctic city of Salekhard, Lyudmila Navalnaya said investigators have allowed her to see her son Alexei Navalny’s body in the city morgue. She reaffirmed her demand for her son's body to be handed over to her and decried the pressure she was being subjected to by Russian authorities to try to force her to agree to a secret burial.
“They are blackmailing me, they are setting conditions where, when and how my son should be buried,” she said. “They want it to do it secretly without a mourning ceremony.”
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Meduza ☛ Navalny’s mother allowed to see son’s body, says investigators trying to bury him in secret — Meduza
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Meduza ☛ Navalny’s mother says investigators showed her medical report claiming her son ‘died from natural causes’ — Meduza
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Meduza ☛ Scammers are spreading a fake Navalny letter to swindle people out of money — Meduza
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Meduza ☛ U.S. to sanction Putin for role in Navalny’s death, says Biden — Meduza
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RFERL ☛ Biden Met With Navalny's Wife, Daughter, White House Says
U.S. President Joe Biden on February 22 met the wife and daughter of Aleksei Navalny in California "to express his heartfelt condolences," the White House said in a statement.
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RFERL ☛ Navalny's Mother Says Allowed To See Body, Russian Officials Pressing For Secret Burial
Lyudmila Navalnaya, the mother of late opposition leader Aleksei Navalny, said on February 22 that investigators allowed her to see her son's body late on February 21 in the Arctic city of Salekhard.
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CS Monitor ☛ After two years of war, Russia finds itself frozen, but transformed
Between Alexei Navalny’s death and the anniversary of the invasion of Ukraine, Russia is in transition. The public may be going along with the war, but the country’s space for expression is shrinking.
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New York Times ☛ U.S. to Impose Sanctions on More Than 500 Russian Targets
A package of economic restrictions to be announced on Friday will be the largest since Russia invaded Ukraine two years ago.
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New York Times ☛ Navalny’s Mother Blasts Russia Over Son’s Remains as Putin Rides Nuclear-Capable Bomber
She said Russian authorities told her they would not release his remains unless she agreed to a “secret funeral.” Meanwhile, Aleksei Navalny’s widow met with President Biden.
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New York Times ☛ Navalny and the Mirage of a Different Russia
Aleksei Navalny symbolized a possibility for Russia. His death symbolizes its end.
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Atlantic Council ☛ Ukrainian long-range drones target Putin’s war machine inside Russia
Ukraine is hoping a new campaign of long-range drone strikes against Russia's strategically vital oil and gas industry can help weaken Putin's war machine, write Victoria Vdovychenko and Alexander Khara.
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RFA ☛ Ride or die relations
President Vladimir Putin has presented North Korean leader Kim Jong Un with an Aurus Senat, a luxury passenger car that has been described as the "Russian equivalent of Rolls-Royce." Since a Putin-Kim summit in 2023, the two old Cold War allies have deepened military, political, economic, and cultural ties -- with Pyongyang believed to be supplying munitions to Russia for its conflict in Ukraine.
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Reason ☛ Jen Psaki and Nancy Pelosi Push a Conspiracy Theory About Trump and Putin
Where are the fact-checkers and misinformation cops?
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New York Times ☛ 2 Years Into Russia-Ukraine War, U.S. Campaign to Isolate Putin Shows Limits
Many nations insist on not taking sides in the war in Ukraine, while China, India and Brazil are filling Russia’s coffers.
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New York Times ☛ Putin Has Already Lost
Ukraine will never be his.
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New York Times ☛ Biden Called Putin a ‘Crazy S.O.B.’ The Kremlin Called Biden a ‘Cowboy.’
The comments were a blunt tit-for-tat between the two adversaries.
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European Commission ☛ Opening speech of Commissioner Várhelyi at the Exhibition ‘Escaping Ukraine: Am I My Brother's Keeper?'
European Commission Speech Brussels, 22 Feb 2024 Dear Ladies and Gentlemen,
First of all, it is a great honour for me to welcome you here today at the Berlaymont [...]
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NYPost ☛ Zelensky re-ups invite for Trump to visit Ukrainian front lines
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Thursday re-upped his offer to give Donald Trump a tour of the front lines of his country’s war with Russia. “I suggest [for] him just to come.
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The Strategist ☛ Australian assistance to Ukraine is enlightened self-interest
Australians should take pride in our prompt and generous response to Russia’s all-out invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.
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France24 ☛ US to sanction over 500 Russia-linked targets on Ukraine war anniversary
The United States plans to impose sanctions on more than 500 targets involved in Russia's war in Ukraine, as fighting continues to rage two years after Moscow's invasion, the Treasury Department said Thursday.
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France24 ☛ France says Russia threatened to down spy plane in ‘particularly aggressive’ Black Sea exchange
Russian forces threatened to shoot down a French surveillance aircraft patrolling in international airspace over the Black Sea, a signal of increasingly aggressive behavior from Moscow as its invasion of Ukraine struggles to make headway, French defense officials said Thursday.
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JURIST ☛ EU imposes 13th sanctions package on Russia over ongoing war in Ukraine
The EU adopted on Wednesday its thirteenth package of sanctions against Russia over the ongoing war in Ukraine. EU member states unanimously approved the new sanctions. They are expected to enter into legal force next week.
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LRT ☛ Ukrainian refugees in Curonian Spit risk being left homeless, mayor warns
Neringa Mayor Darius Jasaitis has appealed to Lithuanian President Gitanas Nausėda and Prime Minister Ingrida Šimonytė for help, saying that Ukrainians living in the Curonian Spit are at risk of being left homeless.
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RFERL ☛ IMF Says Ukraine Needs 'Timely Support' From U.S., Other Donors
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) on February 22 said that "timely support" for Ukraine is needed from the United States and other international donors to ensure the country's fiscal viability as it enters a third year battling Russia's invasion.
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RFERL ☛ U.K. Announces New Russia Sanctions To Mark Ukraine Invasion Anniversary
Britain has expanded its sanctions against Russian companies and individuals and entities outside Russia that are suspected of aiding in the circumvention of existing sanctions, the U.K. government said on February 22.
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RFERL ☛ Polish, Ukrainian Officials To Meet In Warsaw Next Month
Polish and Ukrainian government members will hold talks in Warsaw on March 28, Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said on February 22 after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy called on Warsaw and the European Commission to meet to address protests by Polish farmers over Ukrainian food imports.
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RFERL ☛ Czech Ban On Visas, Residence Permits For Russians, Belarusians Extended
Czech Prime Minister Petr Fiala said his government approved a move to extend for an unspecified term a ban on issuing visas and residence permits to Russian and Belarusian citizens that was introduced in 2022 over Russia's ongoing invasion of Ukraine.
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RFERL ☛ Russia's Invasion Of Ukraine Has Exacted 'Horrific' Cost On Civilians, UN Rights Chief Says
Russia's nearly two-year-old invasion of Ukraine has caused immense suffering, with civilians paying a horrendous price as tens of thousands were killed and wounded, while millions were displaced and subjected to bad treatment, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk said.
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RFERL ☛ Ukraine Says Strike On Russian Troops In Kherson Kills Scores, Denies Losing Bridgehead On Dnieper Left Bank
Ukraine's military has acknowledged it struck a training ground in occupied Kherson where Russian troops were preparing for an assault on Ukraine's bridgehead at Krynka on the left bank of the Dnieper River, the second time this week a strike has killed scores of Russian personnel.
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RFERL ☛ Crimean Tatar Rights Activist Detained
Police in the Russian-occupied Ukrainian region of Crimea detained a Crimean Tatar human rights activist, Lutfiye Zudiyeva, after searching her home on February 22, said the Crimean Solidarity human rights groups, of which Zudiyeva is a member.
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The Straits Times ☛ Debris from North Korean missile in Ukraine could expose procurement networks
Many components of the missile were recently manufactured and bore the marks of companies based in the United States.
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YLE ☛ Finland to fly flags in show of solidarity with Ukraine
Saturday marks two years since Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
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New York Times ☛ Friday Briefing: Two Years of War in Ukraine
Also, an attempt at a moon landing.
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Meduza ☛ Ukraine strikes concentration of Russian troops in Russian-occupied Ukrainian territory, says over 60 casualties — Meduza
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Latvia ☛ Latvia bans grain imports from Russia, Belarus
On February 22 the Saeima accepted in two readings the ban on imports of agricultural products from Russia and Belarus into Latvia until at least July 2025.
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Reason ☛ AI Contracts Woke Mind Virus
Plus: Russian sanctions, Finnish gun ranges, Milei supremacy, and more...
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Atlantic Council ☛ Chinese exports have replaced the EU as the lifeline of Russia’s economy
Two years after the initial invasion, Russia’s imports have stabilized. New industrial and consumer exports from from China have replaced trade from the US, EU, and G7.
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RFERL ☛ U.S. Charges Russian Oligarchs, State-Owned Bank CEO, And U.S.-Based 'Facilitators'
The U.S. Justice Department on February 22 announced enforcement actions in five separate federal cases against sanctioned Russian oligarchs and networks supporting Russia.
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RFERL ☛ U.S. Says Growing Iran-Russia Military Ties 'Should Concern' World
The United States says increasing military cooperation between Tehran and Moscow is a "concern," amid reports that Iran has delivered multiple shipments of ballistic missiles to Russia.
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RFERL ☛ Jailed Kremlin Critic Kara-Murza's Suit Over Poisoning Investigation Rejected
A court in Moscow on February 22 rejected a lawsuit filed by imprisoned Kremlin critic Vladimir Kara-Murza that accused the Investigative Committee of inaction in investigating his suspected poisonings.
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RFERL ☛ Kyrgyz Lawmakers Approve Second Reading Of Controversial Bill On 'Foreign Representatives'
The Kyrgyz parliament on February 22 approved on second reading a controversial bill that would allow authorities to register organizations as "foreign representatives" in a way that critics say mirrors repressive Russian legislation on so-called foreign agents.
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RFERL ☛ Russia Adds Kyiv-Based Veteran Journalist Kiselyov To Terrorists Registry
Russian authorities have added a former prominent Russian journalist who currently works for the Kyiv-based Ukrayina 24 TV channel to their list of terrorists and extremists.
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RFERL ☛ Russian Movement Supporting Jailed Former Governor Declared Extremist
A court in Russia's Far Eastern Region of Khabarovsk region on February 22 declared a movement supporting the region's imprisoned former governor, Sergei Furgal, as extremist.
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teleSUR ☛ Belarus and Russia to Hold Joint Military Drills in 2025
Russian and Belarusian presidents initially proposed to hold joint strategic military exercises once every two years back in 2009.
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The Straits Times ☛ Armenia freezes participation in Russia-led security bloc
Armenia has frozen its participation in the Russian-led Collective Security Treaty Organisation (CSTO) because the pact had failed the country, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said in an interview broadcast on Thursday.
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Meduza ☛ ‘I could be searching for him my whole life’: Why are the families of missing Russian soldiers asking the courts to declare them dead? — Meduza
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Transparency/Investigative Reporting
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Environment
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The Revelator ☛ Facts Alone Won’t Save Us
But as our planet continues to warm, the number of extinction events increase, and we become further estranged from the rhythms of the natural world, future inspiration from the majesty of nature will be predicated on the swift implementation of enforceable policies that consider the totality of global life and longevity beyond the immediate potential effects on an economic experience some believe they are accustomed to.
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The Kent Stater ☛ Visiting professor to discuss climate change psychology research in February Colloquium
Climate change and other environmental action discussions will be on the agenda when David Sherman, a professor for the Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences at the University of California, Santa Barbara, presents his “Environmental Engagement in a Diverse World” speech Feb. 28.
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Energy/Transportation
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BIA Net ☛ Report on the gold mine disaster from the Independent Mining Workers' Union
The union prepared a report on İliç, where 9 workers were trapped under cyanide-laden soil: "Prior to the incident at 14:28 on February 13, unusual cracks were detected by workers on the heap, on the heap's roads and around the site, documented in photographs, and reported to authorities through both the company's risk notification system and other channels. However, necessary precautions were not taken."
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Pro Publica ☛ The Rising Cost of the Oil Industry’s Slow Death
In the 165 years since the first American oil well struck black gold, the industry has punched millions of holes in the earth, seeking profits gushing from the ground. Now, those wells are running dry, and a generational bill is coming due.
Until wells are properly plugged, many leak oil and brine onto farmland and into waterways and emit toxic and explosive gasses, rendering redevelopment impossible. A noxious lake inundates West Texas ranchland, oil bubbles into a downtown Los Angeles apartment building and gas seeps into the yards of suburban Ohio homes.
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Deutsche Welle ☛ UK leaves pro-fossil fuel Energy Charter Treaty
The UK has joined nine EU member states in exiting the Energy Charter Treaty (ECT), a controversial investment pact weaponized by big emitters to sue governments — most recently for phasing out fossil fuels.
Following the lead of Germany, Spain, France, Denmark, the Netherlands and others, the UK announced on Thursday that it is leaving the ECT due to its failure to align with "net zero" emission targets.
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Wildlife/Nature
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Salon ☛ Monarch butterfly populations are crashing — but we can choose to do something about it
The Mexican government is not alone in noticing the precipitous decline in monarch butterflies. The Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation — a group that specializes in protecting insects, arachnids, crustaceans and other arthropods — warned in its annual Western Monarch Count that they only counted 233,394 butterflies at 256 overwintering sites compared to last year’s total of over 330,000 butterflies. To put this in perspective, the researchers explained in a press statement that this is "just 5% of their population numbers in the 1980s, when low millions were common."
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AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics
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New York Times ☛ Secret Service Had to Adjust Tactics to Avoid Bites From Biden’s Dog
Newly released documents recorded at least 24 biting episodes before Commander, the president’s German shepherd, was banished from the White House last fall.
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Scoop News Group ☛ DOJ picks Princeton computer scientist as its chief AI officer
The Department of Justice has tapped Princeton University professor Jonathan Mayer as its first chief artificial intelligence officer and chief science and technology adviser, the agency announced Thursday.
The DOJ’s appointment of Mayer — who teaches in Princeton’s computer science department and in its school of public and international affairs — satisfies the White House AI executive order requirement that each of the Chief Financial Officers Act agencies designate a permanent CAIO. FedScoop has tracked the appointments of those AI officials across agencies.
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New Yorker ☛ The Crazy Collapse of the House G.O.P.’s Impeachment Case Against Biden
“A Big Russian Intelligence Op” flops on Capitol Hill.
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Misinformation/Disinformation/Propaganda
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Gizmodo ☛ No, Google Isn’t Sunsetting Gmail
The fake screenshot has been viewed over 1 million times on X at the time of this writing. But, again, this isn’t real. The joke appears to be a photoshopped version of a notice that went out last year notifying users that Gmail Basic HTML view was going away.
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Gannett ☛ AI deepfakes threaten 2024 election. Tech giants pledge to take action
Google, Meta, TikTok and other companies said they would join forces to create tools to detect and debunk election deepfakes. They unveiled the accord as political and security leaders gathered at the Munich Security Conference in Germany.
The deepfakes in question are videos, images, and audio that alter or fake the appearance, voice, or actions of political candidates, election officials or other key figures in a democratic election. These alterations can also be used to mislead voters about when, where and how to vote.
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Censorship/Free Speech
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Techdirt ☛ Prominent MAGA Supporter Is Worried New KOSA Won’t Suppress Enough LGBTQ Speech
By now you know that Senator Richard Blumenthal has released a new version of KOSA, the misleadingly named Kids Online Safety Act, that he pretends fixes all the problems. It doesn’t. It still represents a real threat to speech online, and in particular speech from LGBTQ users. This is why Blumenthal, a prominent Democrat, is putting out press releases including supportive quotes from infamous anti-LGBTQ groups like the Institute for Family Studies and the “American Principles Project” (one of the leading forces behind anti-trans bills across the US). Incredibly, it also has an approving quote from NCOSE, formerly known as “Morality in Media,” a bunch of prudish busybodies who believe all pornography should be banned, and who began life trying to get “salacious” magazines banned.
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Techdirt ☛ Techdirt Podcast Episode 381: KOSA Isn’t Just Wrong About The Internet, It’s Wrong About Child Safety
In our coverage of the problems with KOSA and other legislative pushes to “protect the children” online, we usually (for obvious reasons) come at the subject from the technology side, and look at all the ways these laws misunderstand the internet. But that’s not their only flaw: these proposals also tend to lack any real understanding of child safety. Maureen Flatley is someone who has been vocal from the other side, having covered child safety issues for about as long as we’ve covered tech, and she joins us on this week’s episode to discuss how KOSA and its ilk aren’t rooted in what we really know about keeping kids safe.
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University of Michigan ☛ DMNC hosts panel on suppression of pro-Palestine speech
University of Michigan students, faculty and staff gathered in the Modern Language Building Wednesday afternoon to attend the first panel in a series called “Conversations on Academic and Intellectual Freedom: Current Issues,” focused on examining general principles of freedom of speech and censorship on college campuses.
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India Times ☛ X compliance: X disagrees with govt blocking orders for certain posts and accounts, but complies
The government has asked social media intermediary X (formerly Twitter) to block certain accounts and posts on its platform, the company said. Failure to do so would result in “potential penalties including significant fines and imprisonment,” the company’s global government affairs team said in a post on the platform.
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US News And World Report ☛ Pakistan Blocks X for the Sixth Day as Activists Criticize the Social Media Platform's Shutdown
Pakistan's media regulators have blocked the social media platform X, formerly Twitter, with users across the country on Thursday enduring the sixth day of sweeping disruptions, partial and complete shutdowns.
There was no comment on the outage by the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority and government officials have not responded to repeated queries from The Associated Press for comment.
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Vice Media Group ☛ X Suspends, Then Reinstates, Alexei Navalny’s Widow After Pledge to Continue Anti-Putin Politician’s Work
Prior to the suspension, Navalnaya released a video on multiple social media platforms pledging to continue her late husband’s work to unseat Russian President Vladimir Putin. In the video, which advertised social media accounts on Instagram and X, Navalnaya said Putin was responsible for her husband’s death, and pledged to expose the full details.
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Gannett ☛ West Virginia bill: Librarians face prosecution over 'obscene' books
A West Virginia bill is moving forward that would allow librarians and teachers to be criminally liable if minors obtain books with "obscene material."
HB 4654 passed in the West Virginia House of Delegates last week and has been introduced to the Senate. The bill would erase criminal liability protections for public libraries, museums and schools that display "obscene matter to a minor," when the child is not accompanied by a parent or guardian.
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Techdirt ☛ Mayor Adams Files Ridiculously Stupid, Dangerous Lawsuit Against Social Media, Claiming It’s A Public Nuisance
Every time we think it can’t possibly get dumber, it does. Last month, we wrote about the absolute nonsense in which New York City mayor Eric Adams declared social media a public health hazard, akin to toxic waste. As we noted at the time, this was in the midst of a variety of scandals of his own making and contrary to all of the actual evidence about social media.
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Techdirt ☛ Social Media Isn’t A Shopping Mall
Something strange is happening in the legal academy, and we’re worried about it. On January 23, 2024, the progressive policy organization American Economic Liberties Project filed an amicus brief in the Supreme Court case NetChoice v. Paxton, in support of a Texas law prohibiting social media companies from moderating – “censoring” in the words of the law – the speech of their users, especially conservatives. The brief was joined by several prominent progressive law professors from Harvard (Larry Lessig), Columbia (Tim Wu and Richard John), Fordham (Zephyr Teachout), and Emory (Matthew Lawrence).
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Freedom of Information / Freedom of the Press
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The Verge ☛ Vice is abandoning Vice.com and laying off hundreds
After nearly three decades, Vice will stop publishing stories to its website. Vice Media CEO Bruce Dixon said today that the company is going to lay off hundreds of employees as it plans a shift toward social platforms, according to a memo to employees obtained by Washington Post reporter Will Sommer.
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Truthdig ☛ What's Next for Julian Assange
The hearings on Julian Assange’s appeal request ended yesterday, as expected, without closure. “We will reserve our decision,” said one of the two presiding judges. The choice to delay an announcement may have been influenced by the presence of several hundred Assange supporters gathered at the heavily policed entrance of the neo-Gothic Royal Courts building in Westminster.
A cold drizzle had thinned the previous day’s crowd of a thousand or more, but not by much. The lawyers arguing the U.S. government’s extradition request had to exit the court under escort through the chants and jeers, eyes straight ahead, pretending not to see the placards with Assange’s face next to sentences like JOURNALISM VS. WAR CRIMES: DON’T LET THE WAR CRIMES WIN and R.I.P. BRITISH JUSTICE: 1215 — 2012.
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EFF ☛ Is the Justice Department Even Following Its Own Policy in Cybercrime Prosecution of a Journalist?
Following an FBI raid of his home last year, the freelance journalist Tim Burke has been arrested and indicted in connection with an investigation into leaks of unaired footage from Fox News. The raid raised questions about whether Burke was being investigated for First Amendment-protected journalistic activities, and EFF joined a letter calling on the Justice Department to explain whether and how it believed Burke had actually engaged in wrongdoing. Although the government has now charged Burke, these questions remain, including whether the prosecution is consistent with the DOJ’s much-vaunted policy for charging criminal violations of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA).
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The Hill ☛ Russian hackers attack Ukrainian media outlets
Several Ukrainian media outlets were attacked by Russian hackers this week, posting misinformation about the ongoing war between the two countries.
Ukrainska Pravda, one of the largest online Ukrainian newspapers, and Liga.net, a business media site, were hacked in recent days. Ukraine’s cybersecurity agency confirmed via Telegram that the hacks came from Russia.
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Scheerpost ☛ Julian Assange Extradition Hearing Panel ft. Chris Hedges, Craig Murray and More
This is a panel discussion I took part in with former UK Ambassador Craig Murray and other diplomats, activists and journalists following the first day of Julian Assange’s final appeal hearing.
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CPJ ☛ At least 4 journalists briefly detained in Russia over memorials to Navalny
At least four journalists were briefly detained last Friday and Saturday while reporting on gatherings to mourn Navalny’s sudden death in prison on Friday, February 16, according to media reports and three of the journalists, who spoke to CPJ via messaging app.
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Civil Rights/Policing
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Politico ☛ Staff unions call for EU personnel agency boss to quit
Several labor groups representing EU staffers are calling for the resignation of Minna Vuorio, the head of the EU’s personnel agency EPSO.
In a letter dated Feb. 14 and seen by POLITICO, three unions expressed “deep concern and dissatisfaction with its current management,” and called for a change in mindset and new leadership at EPSO to “restore faith in the EU institutions.”
The European Personnel Selection Office is the gateway to a career in the EU civil service, as it organizes recruitment for institutions such as the European Commission, the European Parliament, the Council of the EU, and the EU’s foreign policy service (EEAS).
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EDRI ☛ When law enforcement undermines our digital safety, who is looking after our interests?
Imagine your friend sent you a private DM on Twitter. Now imagine, instead of the content remaining for your eyes only, Ex-Twitter letting the police also take a peek at it.
Such intrusive practices of state actors accessing private messages have grave consequences for our lives. Some people can be physically harmed, and for some, it can mean that their families and friends could get prosecuted.
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EDRI ☛ EDRi-gram, 21 february 2024
In this edition, we share with you our concerns about the Irish media regulator’s Online Safety Code and the sledgehammer approach of age verification tools. Also, earlier this month, the EU Parliament voted on the agreement on automated data exchange for police cooperation, known as ‘Prüm II’. What does this framework, and the broader securitisation mindset it represents, mean for our fundamental rights?
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Pro Publica ☛ Idaho Resolution Would Aim to Lower Voting Threshold to Pass School Bonds
For decades, school districts across Idaho have struggled to pass bonds to repair and replace their aging, crumbling buildings. A legislative proposal introduced Wednesday could change that by starting the process of lowering the vote threshold school districts need to pass a bond.
Idaho is one of only two states that require two-thirds of voters to support a bond for it to pass. Most states require either a majority or 60% of voters.
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FAIR ☛ ‘Disenfranchised, Under-Resourced Populations Are Burdened With Enforcing Major Federal Regulation’
Janine Jackson interviewed Ariel Adelman about disability and civil rights for the February 16, 2024, episode of CounterSpin. This is a lightly edited transcript.
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Legal
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Omicron Limited ☛ A 500-year-old law laid the foundation for how Norwegians understand—and trust—the law today
One of the reasons the Norwegian Code of the Realm gained such a firm foothold was that it was established locally. The Code states that "only a fool keeps to the letter of the law if the law is too strict or too lenient." Instead, the Code was to be used to pass fair judgment, and the text was intended as a starting point that could then be adapted locally.
The way it worked was that law speakers appointed by the King traveled around and collaborated with local lay judges to pass judgments.
In other words, the Norwegian Code of the Realm facilitated the use of discretion.
"And when the law facilitates the use of discretion, it also facilitates dialogue," says Erik Opsahl.
The Norwegian Code of the Realm laid the foundation for trust in the judicial system.
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Pro Publica ☛ This Mississippi Court Appoints Lawyers for Just 1 in 5 Defendants Before Indictment
The right to an attorney is fundamental to the U.S. justice system. Yet, in a small Mississippi court off the interstate between Jackson and Memphis, that right is tenuous.
The two judges in Yalobusha County Justice Court appointed lawyers for just 20% of the five dozen felony defendants who came before them in 2022, according to a review of court records; nationally, experts estimate that lawyers are appointed to at least 80% of felony defendants at some point in the legal process because they’re deemed poor. In this court, the way these two judges decide who gets a court-appointed attorney appears to violate state rules meant to protect defendants’ rights. A few defendants have even been forced to represent themselves in key hearings.
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Internet Policy/Net Neutrality
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European Commission ☛ Statement by EVP Margrethe Vestager on the future of digital networks
Today, we present a white paper on Europe's digital infrastructure needs, and a recommendation on Submarine Cable Infrastructure.
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APNIC ☛ [Podcast] Taking the pulse of the Internet
Investigating the hard measurements and soft indicators of ISOC's Pulse platform.
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The Register UK ☛ EU wants to make undersea [Internet] cables more resilient
There are no detailed procedures to follow, and the strategy calls for EU members to pay more attention to submarine infrastructure and perhaps help fund important projects.
The Commission notes that European economies and societies are increasingly reliant on the [Internet] and international connectivity, and that submarine cable infrastructure is a significant element in this, as the vast majority of international data traffic is carried through these cables.
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Patents
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Patent Eligibility Limits are Vital to Innovation, Prosperity, and Public Health
A few weeks ago, several public interest organizations including the Public Interest Patent Law Institute (PIPLI), the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), Generation Patient, Public Citizen, and the R Street Institute sent a letter to U.S. Senators Dick Durbin, Chris Coons, and Thom Tillis, as well as U.S. Representatives Darrell Issa [...]
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Unified Patents ☛ $2,000 awarded for InfoGation navigation patent monopoly prior art
Unified is pleased to announce PATROLL crowdsourcing contest winners, Ekta Aswal and Dinesh Swami, who split a $2,000 award for their prior art submissions on U.S. Patent 10,107,628, owned by InfoGation Corporation, an NPE.
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Tom's Hardware ☛ Cooler Master sues competitors for infringing on patented pump-inside-radiator cooler design
Cooler Master is suing three cooler manufacturers for supposedly infringing on its patented cooler designs surrounding its pump-in radiator architecture.
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JUVE ☛ Volkswagen accepts 5G licence from Avanci with little resistance
Two years after the Volkswagen Group accepted a 4G licence from Avanci, the car giant has now signed a 5G licence with the patent monopoly pool. However, according to JUVE Patent information, unlike in the years from 2019 to 2022 no intense patent monopoly litigation preceded the current agreement.
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The Hindu ☛ Utility patent for Marut’s direct seeding drone
The drone, fitted with a multi-nozzle aerial seed dispensing device, obtained the patent following scientific validation by PJTSAU, which also released the standard operating procedures for their use. This validation underscores the reliability and efficacy of the technology in enhancing rice production, Marut Drones said on the patent that has been issued for a term of 20 years from November 29, 2021 under the provisions of the Patents Act, 1970.
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EPO staff vote through resolution urging quality control
The resolution, which hints at a close link between work pressure on staff and patent quality, received overwhelming support
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Kangaroo Courts
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Weekly take: Secretive UPC flies in face of open justice [Ed: UPC is illegal and should not even exist]
The UPC judges are wrong – restricting access to court documents, and making parties appoint a lawyer only to have a chance of seeing them, is madness
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Trademarks
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TTAB Blog ☛ TTABlog Test: How Did These Three Recent 2(d) Appeals Turn Out?
People are saying that one can predict the outcome of a Section 2(d) appeal about 95 percent of the time just by looking at the marks and the goods and/or services. Here are the three Section 2(d) appeals recently decided by the TTAB. How do you think these three came out? [Answers in first comment.]
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Copyrights
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Michael Geist ☛ More Free Money: Media Lobby Campaigning For Even More Government Funding, Grants and Tax Reform
The proverbial ink is barely dry on the disastrous Bill C-18, yet the Canadian media lobby has already moved onto the next targets for government funding, grants, and tax reform. The effort, which is seemingly designed to ensure that government funding or regulation cover the entire cost of news, focuses on extending grants, expanding provincial tax credits, and overhauling the tax treatment of ad spending. It has hard to overstate how dangerous these policies have become as the sector’s addiction to government funding and regulation has come at an enormous cost that erodes public trust and created dependence on the very governments the press is supposed to hold to account.
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Torrent Freak ☛ Record Labels: 'Hisses & Crackles' Are No License to Copy & Digitize Old Records
Record labels have responded to Internet Archive's motion to dismiss 'expired' ‘Great 78 Project‘ copyright infringement claims. The music companies, including UMG and Sony, counter the statute of limitations argument. In addition, they stress that "hisses, crackles, and pops" on old records are flaws, not a license to copy and digitize the music.
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Torrent Freak ☛ IPTV Piracy Group Members Arrested For Signal Theft, Fraud, Money Laundering
Officers of the Quebec Provincial Police (Sûreté du Québec) carried out raids this week against suspected members of an IPTV piracy group operating in Canada. At least five people were arrested on suspicion of various crimes including theft of telecommunications services, fraud, and money laundering. A key suspect targeted in an earlier operation was out of the country. The action follows a criminal complaint filed by companies including Bell, Videotron, and Rogers.
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Techdirt ☛ Fake Entities Are Still Abusing The DMCA Takedown Process To Hide Facts They Don’t Like
The DMCA process remains as easily abused as ever, even as companies like Google (and, especially, Automattic) do what they can to head off this abuse.
It’s a numbers game. When you’re the size of Google, it’s impossible to vet every takedown demand. The easiest thing to do is comply immediately and, if need be, reinstate content when these demands are contested. But that puts the burden on proof on those whose content has been illegitimately removed, rather than on those who are issuing the takedowns.
It’s all the wrong way around, but the incumbents hold all the power. For years, lobbying efforts and misguided legislators have managed to turn a process that was supposed to be equitable into one where content removal requests are honored and follow-up questions are never asked.
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Techdirt ☛ UK Court Ruling Has Potential To Free Up The Public Domain; But Museums Might Still Block It
This touches on a topic that Walled Culture has written about many times: the fact that many museums and art galleries around the world try to claim copyright on faithful reproductions of artistic creations in their collections that are unequivocally in the public domain. Their argument, such as it is, seems to be that taking a digital photo or making a 3D copy requires such an immense intellectual effort that a new monopoly should be granted on it. It’s really about money, of course.
The Creative Commons post mentions “A Culture of Copyright”, a useful report by Dr. Andrea Wallace that looked at how widespread the problem was in the UK. The blog post also refers to a CC Open Culture Platform working group that developed proposals for “technical, legal, and social interventions” to address the problem of “PD BY” (that is, the use of CC-BY licenses to share reproductions of public domain works).
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Monopolies/Monopsonies
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