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Posted in News Roundup at 5:32 am by Dr. Roy SchestowitzContentsGNU/LinuxDistributionsDevices/EmbeddedFree Software/Open SourceLeftovers
This week has been a bit slow in Linux news and releases, but we saw some interesting things along the way, such as the launch of two new Linux-powered laptops from TUXEDO Computers and Entroware. We also saw the end of life of the Linux 5.11 kernel series, so make sure you upgrade to Linux kernel 5.12 or an LTS series soon.
On top of that, this week brought us new releases of the openSUSE Tumbleweed-based GeckoLinux, MX Linux-based AV Linux multimedia production distro, Debian-based antiX Linux, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux. You can enjoy these and much more in 9to5Linux’s Linux weekly roundup for May 23rd, 2021, below!
We had a peaceful week in the world of Linux, with these releases Robolinux 12.05, GeckoLinux 999.210517.0, and antiX 19.4.
KDE Plasma 5.22 Beta has also been released.
I bought a Lenovo ThinkBook 15 ITL Gen2 last year during the Black Friday sale, and it’s been great so far, except that I’ve been underwhelmed by Windows 10.
Apparently, this laptop is “Ubuntu Certified” with their 20.04 “OEM Kernel” package. I asked around and got the answer that Ubuntu’s installer detects when that package is necessary and uses it.
I also gathered that there’s no real difference between the OEM kernel and the regular kernel of those series (other than the usual Ubuntu patches being applied). This means, in theory, any recent kernel series should work fine. But….Then I found this.
Seems when someone tried installing a GNU/Linux distribution, it installed, and then they rebooted and it couldn’t actually start up……and Windows was gone. Oh, Lenovo. Never change!
But it also seems that they updated the BIOS sometime in December of 2020 with a fix to make “Ubuntu” (which I’m guessing is just short for “Linux”) possible to install on the units that came with Windows 10, and this person just jumped the gun and put GNU/Linux on there with the original factory BIOS.
I noticed after upgrading to the latest BIOS revision that numerous small problems that my computer had went away after it was applied. So it appears that it was just super sketchy and they went ahead and released the computer like this to hit a deadline and then fixed it after it shipped.
Which is actually an improvement for them!
If you need a fast computer but don’t have much to spend, consider picking up an off-lease refurbished system. These PCs are a few years old and have seen some use, but they are often heavily discounted and offer a lot of bang for your buck.
In our previous articles we examined the various components that make up a mini PC. Let’s finish the series by looking at some other factors that may be important to your purchase decision.
After three years of consistent support, Chrome OS is officially leaving the Beta feature support for Linux Apps. Moreover, Chrome OS’s next release will enter a more stable channel in a couple of weeks.
Although Chrome OS has always been based on Linux, the Linux development environment has provided access to a Linux terminal that developers can use to run command-line tools. Hence with the end of the beta app, numerous improvements are said to be made to the Linux functionality in Chrome OS which will include a new terminal app, a faster update process as well as better support for USB devices.
Josh and Kurt talk about the Biden Administration new cybersecurity executive order. There are some good ideas in there, but at the end of the day it’s an unfunded mandate. Unfunded mandates are difficult to implement.
According to some folks, Freenode’s time is up. But is this yet another example of the FOSS community overreacting?
The internet is an incredibly complicated beast and one place that you data is being leaked is with DNS as these requests are made in plain text, luckily there is a solution that is being rolled out known as DNS Over HTTPS, but it’s not perfect.
Linus Torvalds has released the Linux 5.13-rc3 kernel as expected as the newest weekly test release of the forthcoming Linux 5.13.
Most notable about Linux 5.13-rc3 is the three dozen patches reverted as part of dropping questionable patches from the University of Minnesota researchers and other clean-ups stemming from the fallout over their “hypocrite commits” research. After reviewing all UMN.edu patches to the Linux kernel over the past month, in Linux 5.13-rc3 the questionable commits have been reverted while some partially address genuine problems in many cases they could be further improved upon or are of limited usefulness.
The third 5.13 kernel prepatch is out for testing. “It’s been a very calm rc3 week, and at least in pure number of commits this is the smallest rc3 we’ve had in the 5.x series. Considering that the merge window was not in any way small, this is a bit surprising, but I suspect it’s one of those ‘not everybody sent in fixes this week’ things that will rectify itself next week.”
A lot of software developers rely on Sublime Text to do their jobs seamlessly.
This first stable release of the latest major version features a lot of changes that will dramatically enlighten the experience of the users.
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Due to its elegant UI and diverse functionalities, Sublime Text makes text editing easier and efficient. This release presents changes ranging from icons’ positions to GPU Rendering and platform integration.
The first stable release of Sublime Text 4 has finally arrived! We’ve worked hard on providing improvements without losing focus on what makes Sublime Text great. There are some new major features that we hope will significantly improve your workflow and a countless number of minor improvements across the board.
A huge thanks goes out to all the beta testers on discord and all the contributors to our packages.
Have you ever wished that you could freeze your Linux desktop screen and draw anything on it? Or, you may want to point out or highlight a part of your app or desktop to someone else while screen recording on Linux?
If so, Gromit-MPX is an easy-to-use on-screen annotation tool that you could use right now.
Bloggers and Developers who are running and managing their own servers, well of course they are responsible for its security as well. If in today’s world we don’t give heed to security then there is the possibility that our server would become a target of attackers – and cause damage. Well, although there are various online WAF, however, to harden the server an open-source program is available called Fail2Ban. It ensures that the IP address of an attacker is blocked for a certain period of time after several unsuccessful attempts and thus prevents an unlimited number of attempts that could later lead to finding out the password.
fail2ban is a package of client, server, and configuration files that uses to protect the system from various malicious attacks. It secures Linux server services against Denial of Service (DoS) as well. Whereas, other basic functions are monitor log files, searches for predefined patterns, and temporarily block IP addresses. It is published under the GNU General Public License Version 2 and is based on Python.
It can run in the background (as a demon) as well as in the foreground. The program is useful, for example, in ssh server you want to limit the number of login attempts. The fail2ban program examines the system’s log files for failed login attempts and then blocks the attacker’s Internet address (IP) for a certain period of time.
Many themes from Ubuntu’s software repositories can be installed in a terminal window. Some themes must be manually extracted using Archive Manager. To apply installed themes in Ubuntu, you must download and install GNOME Tweaks from the Ubuntu Software Center.
Today we are looking at how to install the PokeMMO launcher on a Chromebook. Please follow the video/audio guide as a tutorial where we explain the process step by step and use the commands below.
In this video, we are looking at how to install Flightgear on Deepin 20.2.
Setting up the wireless interface on Ubuntu Linux is likely one of the first things you’ll need to do after installing the operating system and booting into it for the first time. As long as you have the proper hardware, Ubuntu can easily connect to Wi-Fi networks configured with various types of security like WEP, WPA, and WPA2.
In this guide, we will cover the step by step instructions to connect to a Wi-Fi network from the GNOME GUI (the default desktop environment) on Ubuntu. We will also show how to connect to Wi-Fi from command line, which is handy in the case of headless servers or those running without a desktop environment. Follow along with us below to find out how.
There are various reasons why you would want to build your own local repository. It is a great way to create a local mirror repository for caching frequently used packages used by many computers to save bandwidth usage, or you might have a few modified packages that you want to make internally available for the dev team.
In this tutorial, we will show you how to easily create a local Debian package repository, compatible with Debian and Ubuntu versions.
MySQL is a fast, efficient, secure, stable, easy-to-use, multi-platform, multi-threaded, multi-user, and well-documented relational database manager/server. Currently Oracle guides the development of MySQL, however the community version is available under the GPL license so it is still free software.
In the past, we have covered quite a number of command-line monitoring tools in Linux. These include vmstat, htop and top command to mention a few. The top command is the most widely used command since it comes preinstalled and gives a real-time performance of the system in addition to displaying the running processes. In this guide, we will pay more attention to an intuitive and user-friendly command-line tool known as glances.
Based in Python, Glances is a free and opensource cross-platform command-line monitoring tool that provides a wealth of information about your system’s performance. You can monitor system metrics such as memory & CPU utilization, network bandwidth, Disk I/O, File systems, and running processes to mention a few.
Subscriptions, they’re everywhere and more seem to appear all the time. So, what IF Valve were to announce their own Steam Game Pass to give you access to a great many games?
Let’s be realistic here though – Valve doesn’t need one. Steam is and will be for a long time to come, a money printing machine because of the user share they have across PC platforms (Linux, macOS and Windows). However, Valve do have competition increasing all the time. Not just from the Epic Games Store but thinking more on the likes of the Xbox Game Pass Ultimate – which includes a ton of games along with upcoming game streaming support too. That has proven extremely popular for Microsoft and services like that absolutely will pull people away from buying more games on Steam. Why would you, after all, if you can get 100+ (and growing) AA/AAA and indie games often close to release in a single subscription?
Otter comes with playing cards and a chess set, and some ancillary bits and bobs. Until now, if you wanted to play with something else, the only way was to read some rather frightening build instructions to add your pieces to Otter itself, or to dump a complicated structure of extra files into the server install.
Now that I have released Otter 0.6.0, you can upload a zipfile to the server. The format of the zipfile is even documented!
Retro gaming is a big part of my life. So, when Sylvain Gadrat (aka sgadrat or Roger Bidon) contacted me last week to show the new playable character of his Nes game −Pepper− I had suddenly a large grin like a Cheshire cat and I started to see rainbows.
The KDE Team shared the KDE Plasma 5.22 default wallpaper with us. Have a look.
This past week I decided to pick a couple of projects at random from the DistroWatch waiting list to see what new, different, or interesting distributions are being developed. The first project I decided to try was TeLOS. TeLOS is a Debian-based project which uses Debian’s Testing and Unstable branches as its foundation. The distribution runs the KDE Plasma desktop and its website lists an odd combination of features. The TeLOS website claims the distribution is lightweight and full-featured; customizable and not bloated. It also reportedly honours open source software while including non-free firmware, Steam, and the proprietary Chrome web browser. In other words, each line of the project’s description seems to contradict the previous line…
The Gentoo Council held an emergency single agenda item meeting today. At this meeting, we have decided to move the official IRC presence of Gentoo to the Libera Chat IRC network. We intend to have this move complete at latest by 13/June/2021. A full log of the meeting will be available for download soon.
At the moment it is unclear whether we will retain any presence on Freenode at all; we urge all users of the #gentoo channel namespace to move to Libera Chat immediately.
Following the Ubuntu IRC Council resolution, Lubuntu will be moving all of the Lubuntu IRC channels to LiberaChat as well. Some of the channels have already moved at the time of this announcement and the others will follow shortly. We are also working on updating our links to reflect the change.
There are Ubuntu and Android two similar but distinct computer operating systems. The main difference lies on Ubuntu being known for desktop while Android being known for phone. There are other differences such as Companies behind, how Publishing done, Hardware Architectures supported, actual Systems inside, and more.
You can connect the headphone out of a Blue Yeti microphone into the mic in of a Sony a6400 camera but the quality of the audio you get will depend on how clean the USB source powering your Blue Yeti is.
Indian tech cos join hands to make open source based oxygen concentrators; to be priced at around Rs 40kA group of small and medium Indian technology companies and a defence PSU have joined hands to manufacture oxygen concentrators based on an open source design project Marut, initiated by robotic and automation startup Technido to meet the immediate need of patients and reduce dependency on imports.
According to the companies involved in the project, the oxygen concentrator (OC) with 10 litres per minute flow with purity of above 93 per cent and capability to operate round-the-clock can be retailed at about half the price of imported units in the range of Rs 65,000-70,000 per piece.
The prices can further reduce to Rs 35,000-40,000 apiece on bulk purchase of 100 units or more, according to Technido.
MIDI-controlled instruments are awesome, as custom sounds can be loaded and dynamically changed while you play. However, accessing these effects often requires an external controller that can get expensive and complicated. That is why music enthusiast Joe King created the Stryde, which is a fully integrated MIDI preset loader within a small enclosure. Stryde uses an Arduino Nano Every at its core to store presets, display information, and select effects.
I found a useful app for accessing Reddit in the F-Droid store, which is called Infinity.
Like most apps that come from the Google Play store, the official Reddit app is packed full of tracking libraries, it displays a lot of ads, and it just generally doesn’t work very well.
I was surprised to find Infinity in the F-Droid store. I had been using RedReader, but I felt that too much functionality was missing and that it had clearly been designed for a very old version of Android.
I value being able to move through Reddit quickly and not seeing their annoying “sponsored post” advertisements (garbage) while being able to access all of its features, plus being able to get at and download media that Reddit normally tries to hide. Infinity delivers on all of this.
When I’m on my laptop, of course, none of this is a problem, but on mobile, nobody invests anything in their “mobile sites” and they add “incentives” to use their apps, like breaking basic functionality that a mobile browser could run to compel people to get their app, where they can data mine their entire device and the ad blocker will be ineffective. On Facebook’s mobile site, they even removed access to Messenger to try to force people to move over to their Android spyware.
Some blame, of course, goes to Apple, for deliberately holding back the web platform features available to WebKit on iPhones, which all “browsers” on that platform must use, but site owners certainly have no incentive to shift things to a site where people may block their trackers.
As everyone should know already, privacy on an Android phone, in general, is pretty much a joke.
In fact, the more “apps” you install from Google, the worse things get. Not only does every application published in the Play Store phone home, at a minimum, to give Google crash and analytics data about you (even if the underlying program is Free Software), but developers generally have every incentive to include more.
When Facebook was forced to reveal “Off Site Activity Data” under recent privacy laws like the EU’s GDPR and California’s CCPA, it made them very hard to get at, but when you eventually find the link that gives you limited control over it, you’ll find that most Android apps are spying on you when you open them and are sending them data.
In fact, Facebook publishes a tracking library that app developers can bundle in exchange for money.
When you “learn more”, Facebook admits that it gets more data than it tells you about here, and it’s not even clear what really happens to the data when you clear it and set it so that they don’t use this activity later.
So what does that have to do with apps like GasBuddy? Well, I opened it up and TrackerControl revealed that there are no less than 25 tracker libraries included in this one app, and but one of them is Facebook.
We used to joke about Windows that failure was not an option. It came bundled with every copy.
Under Microsoft’s tutelage (and threats of patent aggression), Samsung phones have been getting excessively annoying. I keep saying that my next phone might just be a Google device, but next time I don’t think I’d consider a Samsung, even if they’re really cheap.
When I bought my Galaxy S20 FE last year at Best Buy, I did not know that the Microsoft “integration” went deeper than some apps that the salesman assured me, could mostly be gotten rid of.
While the apps are mostly gone, Samsung has integrated a lot of things directly into the firmware.
Samsung’s Android phones have tended to be a disjointed mess of their own homegrown crap, which has been accumulating, and still there despite users constantly mocking it (Bixby) , Google’s crap, which all has to be preloaded per the Google Play Certification, and now Microsoft’s crap, which is there because Microsoft threatened them with software patent lawsuits if they didn’t bundle it.
Many years ago, Mozilla used to stand for things. The years have not been kind. They ran out Brendan Eich over political views that are not illegal to have or express, but rather due to Cancel Culture, then they proceeded to tear down the things that made Firefox different and special.
Today, Firefox is packed full of proprietary programs and is pretty much a thrall of Google and Microsoft.
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OpenBSD, an operating system concerned foremost with security, patched DNS-Over-HTTPS to set the preference to OFF because the end result is essentially a supercookie which lets Cloudflare keep tabs on a user everywhere they go if it is turned on, and which might cause the user to be tracked, even if they’re in a VPN.
In closing, the number of things the user needs to turn off in Firefox is growing to be nearly as big as those “Windows 10 Privacy” lists. This is insane. Users don’t want to be tracked, fingerprinted, advertised to, and experimented on.
The pgAdmin Development Team is pleased to announce pgAdmin 4 version 5.3. This release of pgAdmin 4 includes 25 bug fixes and new features. For more details please see the release notes.
pgAdmin is the leading Open Source graphical management tool for PostgreSQL. For more information, please see the website.
A lot has been said about the recent CAT report and updates. It feels to me like we’re not getting anywhere because the critical matters aren’t being addressed.
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These different worldviews make it almost impossible for people to talk about the issue at hand, because they’re talking past each other. Almost any discussion on the subject quickly devolves to bickering between people saying “How can you defend this toxic person” versus people saying “how can you defend this miscarriage of justice”. For a lot of people it becomes a “you’re either with us or against us” type of issue. Without splitting these conversations, we can’t actually meet each other eye-to-eye. One can admit that what happened here was a cockup without denying that it tries to deal with an actual issue.
1. Workers are always essential.
Honduras and Paraguay, however, face a shortage of vaccines but have not received any Chinese-made doses. Both countries say they have been offered Chinese-made vaccines in return for cutting diplomatic ties with Taiwan, which China insists is part of its territory.
In the first quarter of 2021, the number of DDoS attacks dropped by 29 per cent compared to the same period in 2020, but increased by 47 per cent compared to the fourth quarter in 2020, says a report.
Configuration change “exposed a design issue in the shutdown process”. Domain name servers that did not restart as expected after a configuration change caused Salesforce’s services to go down worldwide on May 12, the company said in a final root cause analysis of the incident.
On that day, “a configuration change was made as an emergency fix at the network tier, which was designed to address a functional gap in preparation for an upcoming maintenance activity,” Salesforce said.
The U.S. Air Force conducted its first information warfare-focused exercises to test the concept at a new range in the New Mexico desert.
To date, Air Combat Command led 10 “proof of concept” exercises, Jeffrey Phillips, commander of the 67th Cyberspace Wing, said May 18 during an AFCEA Alamo Chapter online event.
These information warfare flags followed the theme of “convergence,” a key concept championed by Lt. Gen. Timothy Haugh, commander of 16th Air Force, the service’s first information warfare numbered force that integrates global intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance, cyber, electronic warfare, and information operations under a single commander.
Iran’s hard-line parliament in December approved a bill that would suspend part of U.N. inspections of its nuclear facilities if European signatories did not provide relief from oil and banking sanctions by February. The IAEA struck a three-month deal with Iran to have it hold the surveillance images, with Tehran threatening to delete them afterward if no deal had been reached.
I’m the president of the UIUC College of Law’s Jewish Law Students Association, JLSA. This evening the entire law school received the statement forwarded below. There was no prior correspondence or contact made with JLSA prior to this statement being issued to the whole school (yet the statement was provided to relatively all minority student orgs besides JLSA before being sent).
A number of Jewish law students have already reached out to me appalled by the statement. While this form of speech is protected under the 1st amendment, a substantial amount of the College of Law community does not have views aligning with the polarizing rhetoric displayed below. Many of my Jewish colleagues, coming from families with Holocaust survivors or loved ones currently living in Israel, were honestly quite hurt reading such hateful words.
Here it is, replete with lies, fabrications and falsifications. It is followed by our rebuttal.
In an unprecedented move, Muslim worshipers on Friday expelled Palestinian Mufti of Jerusalem Sheikh Mohammed Hussein from al-Aqsa Mosque and prevented him from completing his sermon.
Meanwhile, a neighborhood unit (RT) chief and one of the mosque’s caretakers, Abdul Haer, said they met with MR following the alleged complaint. With no satisfactory outcome from the meeting, the story of the alleged complaint quickly spread to Sangereng villagers and stoked their anger.
A couple of clips showing a crowd of villagers swarming Il Lago’s entrance has been widely circulating on social media.
A ceasefire between Israel and Hamas held into a third day on Sunday as mediators spoke to all sides about extending the period of calm after the
worst outbreak of fighting in years.
Egyptian mediators have been shuttling between Israel and the Gaza Strip, which is ruled by Hamas, to try to sustain the ceasefire and have also met the Islamist group’s rival, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, in the occupied West Bank.
“We need to rethink how we value and treat nature in order to safeguard future and present living conditions for life on Earth.”
A planet with fewer people could ease pressure on resources, slow the destructive impact of climate change and reduce household burdens for women. But the census announcements this month from China and the United States, which showed the slowest rates of population growth in decades for both countries, also point to hard-to-fathom adjustments.
The strain of longer lives and low fertility, leading to fewer workers and more retirees, threatens to upend how societies are organized — around the notion that a surplus of young people will drive economies and help pay for the old. It may also require a reconceptualization of family and nation. Imagine entire regions where everyone is 70 or older. Imagine governments laying out huge bonuses for immigrants and mothers with lots of children. Imagine a gig economy filled with grandparents and Super Bowl ads promoting procreation.
Author and journalist Matt Taibbi says that public opinion toward U.S. intelligence agencies has shifted in the past decade in large part due to a shift in media coverage away from intelligence abuses and more toward actions by members of former President Trump’s administration.
On Monday, World Socialist Web Site writer Evan Blake was banned from the national Facebook group “Badass Teachers Association” (BATs) with no explanation. This act of censorship took place shortly after Blake attempted to post the WSWS Perspective, “Survey of epidemiologists exposes lies that children do not spread COVID-19,” which explained the dangers involved with school reopenings and the decision by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to end masking guidelines. The article calls for educators and the entire working class to oppose these policies.
Facts are no longer the bedrock of reason in many cases. A woman was taken to an EU court for hate speech. She had offended a Muslim for making a factual statement about Islam. But in the EU court, it was ruled that the words may be factual, but if they offended a protected class, in this case Muslims, the speaker should be fined.
All of this bothers me, not about being personally abused, but that increasingly facts and critical thought are not the foundation of our civilization. Screaming, insults, persecution of opponents, and hatred are used instead of discussion and debate. And worse, we are being trained to self-censor, the ultimate censorship.
Censorship is totalitarian, and today it attacks what are called conservatives and libertarians. However, once censorship is in place, the day will come when the sword will cut the other way.
Its real aim is to promote mechanisms for governments and tech companies to increase their ability to censor online content that they deem to be promoting terrorism or “violent extremism.” What counts as extremism is determined by the state.
The real target is not the far-right, but left-wing and socialist organisations and individuals. In every country, the ruling class is building up police state powers in preparation for suppressing mass opposition from the working class to austerity, war preparations, and the murderous policies that have allowed the COVID-19 pandemic to spread, killing millions of people.
Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Sunday condemned the forced landing of a Ryanair flight by Belarus and the arrest of an opposition journalist on board, calling it a “shocking act” that endangered the lives of U.S. citizens and everyone else on board.
In a statement, Blinked vowed that the U.S. would respond with its allies in the region, and called for the “immediate release” of journalist Raman Protasevich, who according to reports, was detained by Belarusian security forces after the flight landed.
Alexander Lukashenko has committed what is tantamount to an act of piracy. On May 23rd the embattled dictator of Belarus forced a Ryanair passenger plane to make an unscheduled stop in his capital in order to arrest the editor of an internet channel, NEXTA, that has been reporting on his crackdown since he stole an election last August.
Roman Protasevich, aged 26, was taken off the plane, which was flying from Athens to Vilnius, the Lithuanian capital. Citing what it said was evidence that there were explosives on board, the authorities forced the aircraft to land in Minsk as it passed through Belarusian airspace on its way to neighbouring Lithuania, sending a MiG fighter plane to escort the Ryanair jet down. The state news agency later reported that no explosives had been found, and it seems certain that the incident was invented purely as a way of arresting the journalist.
Media rights groups on Sunday urged Turkish authorities to investigate explosive allegations by a mafia boss about the high-profile killings of two journalists in the 1990s.
Sedat Peker, an underworld mobster exiled abroad, has accused members of the government and the ruling AKP party of corruption and various crimes in a series of YouTube posts over the past three weeks.
In the latest, released on Sunday, he alleges former interior minister Mehmet Agar was the head of the “deep state” in Turkey and that Agar was involved in the 1993 murder of prominent investigative journalist Ugur Mumcu.
Mumcu, who wrote for the Cumhuriyet daily, was killed in the capital Ankara after his car was rigged to explode when the ignition was switched on. The perpetrators were never identified.
Former Associated Press reporter Emily Wilder was fired from the international media company late Thursday following a pressure campaign by right-wing media, including publications such as The Federalist and The Washington Free Beacon working in tandem with the Standford College Republicans. Wilder was “canceled,” if you will, for pro-Palestinian activism during her years in college — not at the AP.
The campaign to have Wilder fired started on Monday with the Stanford College Republicans taking to Twitter to bill the reporter’s past pro-Palestine demonstrating as controversial, coming to the verdict that she would never be able to be impartial while covering national news.
A new Congressional resolution lays out a comprehensive vision for eradicating poverty and tackling racial and economic inequality.
With no more churches to close, it appears the Algerian government is turning its attention to individuals. Pastor Chalah shared with French newspaper Christianity Today that a new wave of persecution is now hitting the country. Algerian Christian Hamid Soudad lost his appeal and is sentenced to five years in prison on blasphemy charges. Pastor Rachid Sieghir and his bookshop assistant Nouh Hamami had their final appeal for two-year prison sentences also on blasphemy charges on May 16 and are awaiting a final decision, scheduled for May 30. Both cases date back at least 3 years.
Chomir Ali told his sons Mujibar Rahman and Mamnoor Rahman to kill a university student who had made his daughter pregnant.
The body of Arash Ghorbani-Zarin, 19, was found with 46 stab wounds in his car in Oxford in November 2004.
The Parole Board has decided Mamnoor Rahman is “suitable” for release.
A group of police officers who hog-tied a man and held him face-down on pavement for five-and-a-half minutes, eventually resulting in his death from asphyxiation, are not entitled to qualified immunity and can thus be sued for damages, a federal court ruled last month.
The decision overturns a lower court ruling, which held that the family didn’t have the right to bring any such suit before a jury. It’s another example of just how subjective qualified immunity decisions can be, which often prohibit victims from holding state actors accountable in civil court when the misconduct they’re alleging isn’t outlined almost exactly somewhere in a previous court precedent.
Or maybe not. On April 30th, Ambassador Katherine Tai, U.S. Trade Representative (USTR), issued the 2021 Special 301 Report. In a press release, the USTR stated that “[i]ntellectual property rights incentivize our creators, manufacturers, and innovators to invent new products and technologies.” The press release notes that the review period underlying the Report took place during the COVID-19 pandemic, “the largest global health crisis in more than a century.”
These patents have been granted by the European Patent Office (EP3215119 ), the United States Patent and Trademark Office (US10987304) and the Japan Patent Office (JP6832276). Nanomerics Ltd. also today announced the publication of two key papers on the topical ocular use of its penetration-enhancing Molecular Envelope Technology (Pharmaceutics 2021, 13(5), 744; and Int J Pharm 2021, 599, 120364).
Who owns the bugs that Trachtenberg has captured?
After filing a lawsuit against the creator of the ‘DubTown’ Lego stop motion series, Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society, the supervising body and publisher for the Jehovah’s Witness religious group, has yet more alleged infringers in its sights. In addition to targeting more YouTube users, Watch Tower is attempting to find out the identities of people posting its songs to Facebook.
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