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This week, Linux Out Loud chats about rolling your own solutions for privacy. Welcome to episode 67 of Linux Out Loud. We fired up our mics, connected those headphones as we searched the community for themes to expound upon. We kept the banter friendly, the conversation somewhat on topic, and had fun doing it.
Bark is a transformer-based text-to-audio model. Bark can generate highly realistic, multilingual speech as well as other audio.
*if you don‘t understand the problems they solve and use them in combination with other solutions that tackle the same challenges albeit less elegantly and with the downside of limiting you in taking full advantage of selectors, one of the coolest features in CSS, and if you ignore the fact that they can help you organise and manage your own and third-party code.
I’ve heard several people say they’ve tried Cascade Layers but didn’t see any changes, so they dropped them again. That can also easily happen to you when you structure your CSS in layers for the first time. I can explain why.
The blog you are now looking at is looking a little different (better I think), especially on mobile devices, because the CSS has been improved. I have a report on the details, and unexpected lessons.
What launched me into action was the acquisition of a Pixel 7, on which this blog’s text was unreadably tiny. I’m not sure what changed, but I got complaints from a couple of other people at the same time that I noticed it myself, so maybe it’s Android’s fault? Anyhow, couldn’t ignore that problem. On top of which, I had a list of minor gripes that had been on the to-do list for way too long.
Impression has a simple, straight-forward UI that couldn’t be easier to use: you open the app, select an image, insert a drive, and flash a-haaaa – you’re away.
You can see the steps in flow in these screenshots: [...]
(a Plan 9 fork)
In this tutorial, you will learn how to install gnome desktop environment on Debian 12 “Bookworm”.There are multiple ways to install gnome on Debian 12. In this tutorial, we are going to install gnome via tasksel and via apt package manager.
tasksel is a tool that
In the Linux file system, some files and directories are hidden for various reasons, often to prevent accidental modification or deletion. These items usually start with a period (‘.’). However, there are times when you might need to view or access these hidden files and folders. In this guide, we will explain how to do this, using both command line and graphical methods.
Managing files effectively is a crucial part of any Linux user’s skill set. The ability to move files and directories around the system not only helps in organizing your data but is also a key part of tasks like system configuration and scripting. In this guide, we will look at the various commands and techniques you can use to move files and directories in a Linux environment.
Find the various ways with command examples to search and find files directly from the Ubuntu command terminal.
Between 2023-06-14 and 2023-06-21 there were 20 New Steam games released with Native Linux clients. For reference, during the same time, there were 250 games released for Windows on Steam, so the Linux versions represent about 8 % of total…
Our last post on accessiblity in GTK4 was a while ago, time for an update.
Thankfully, we have Lukáš Tyrychtr at Red Hat working on accessibility now.
One of the bigger changes in accessibility from GTK3 to GTK4 was that we have a new application API that is modeled on the ARIA specs from the web.
The high-level picture to keep in mind is…
AT stands for accessibility technology here. In practice, that mainly means orca, the well-known screen reader (although there is a new contender, with the odilia project).
The new layer provides APIs such as…
A major rewrite of pfsync(4), the state table synchronization tool for redundant pf(4) setups is in the works.
Learning how to use and develop an entire operating system allows students to interact with more than just a kernel. Many courses teach separate elements that do not function as a full working system. Working with FreeBSD allows students to interact with some of the features that developers are most likely to engage with, and see how the system works in practice, not just in theory. This allows developers to see how their work functions in real-time on a contemporary system.
The strong mentorship culture that already exists within the community is a strength of the FreeBSD operating system. Documentation is expansive and well maintained, encouraging self-growth and research through easily accessible system and tooling references. When submitting patches, feedback is quick and constructive, and maintainers are often willing to work with new contributors to ensure the any changes are made correctly. The flat contributor model encourages development work from newer users, from various backgrounds and expertise.
The SLE BCI team is delighted to share that in conjunction with the launch of SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP5, the Language and Application containers of SUSE Linux Enterprise Base Container Images (SLE BCI) have been upgraded to take advantage of the enhanced features offered the new product version.
In an unexpected move, Red Hat announced that CentOS Stream will now be the sole repository for public RHEL-related source code releases.
The beta of Linux Mint 21.2 “Victoria” lands a couple of weeks ahead of the expected stable release, tentatively scheduled for mind July.
Linux Mint 21.2 is still based on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS (as are all entries in the Linux Mint 21 series) but a sizeable set of enhancements, new features, and UI changes feature.
This is the BETA release for Linux Mint 21.2 “Victoria” Cinnamon Edition. Linux Mint 21.2 is a long term support release which will be supported until 2027. It comes with updated software and brings refinements and many new features to make your desktop even more comfortable to use.
This is the BETA release for Linux Mint 21.2 “Victoria” MATE Edition. Linux Mint 21.2 is a long term support release which will be supported until 2027. It comes with updated software and brings refinements and many new features to make your desktop even more comfortable to use.
This is the BETA release for Linux Mint 21.2 “Victoria” Xfce Edition. Linux Mint 21.2 is a long term support release which will be supported until 2027. It comes with updated software and brings refinements and many new features to make your desktop even more comfortable to use. New features: This new version of Linux […]
You can now download the Linux Mint 21.2 Beta from official third-party mirrors. The Mint project is still to officially announce the release, but we believe it will do so very soon.
Linux Mint, one of the most popular Linux distributions, is back with an exciting release. Linux Mint 21.2 BETA, which is codenamed “Victoria,” is a long-term support release that promises extended support until 2027. This ensures stability and reliability for its users. This upcoming version brings a host of updated software, refinements, and new features, making it a compelling choice for desktop users. Linux Mint 12.2 BETA is based on Ubuntu 22.04 and uses kernel 5.15.
We are very excited about the upcoming Ubuntu Summit 2023! This year, we’ll be gathering in the beautiful city of Riga, Latvia, from November 3rd-5th.
There are many reasons to attend the Ubuntu Summit, including electrifying talks from industry leaders, invigorating hands-on workshops, and a unique opportunity to network with like-minded people from across the open-source world.
Today, IBASE revealed an embedded platform powered by the NVIDIA Jetson AGX ORIN modules, designed for AI applications in smart retail, healthcare, manufacturing, and other industries. The EC3500 is also equipped with 1x 10 GbE LAN, 1x HDMI 2.1 port and many other expansion ports.
Grizzled veterans of the computing industry will relate stories of submitting projects on stacks of punched cards, something those of us who stored their 8-bit works on audio cassettes could only imagine. But for those who fancy experimenting with the format it’s still possible to make a basic card reader using LEDs and light sensors, as [Nino Ivanov] has done using an Arduino Uno as the brains. And these aren’t just for show, each of his cards holds a LISP program that runs in a cloud service.
On June 26th-28th, the Arduino Pro team will be in Amsterdam for the tinyML EMEA Innovation Forum – one of the year’s major events for the world where AI models meet agile, low-power devices.
Once you’ve made a backup of ADM from the eMMC, you could erase the eMMC drive and install Linux on top of it. But that’s a bad idea, because (a) that eMMC drive is only 8 GB, which means you could run out of space on it pretty easily, and (b) it’s easier to leave that volume in place and just boot from an external USB drive.
My childhood PC has started exhibiting strange behaviour with its internal hard drives. Any OS I boot reports seeing two internal drives, even when only one physical CompactFlash card is present. It didn’t do this before, and I’m stumped as to why.
Mike and I have been asked, multiple times, about what Fosstodon’s position is on Facebook potentially joining the Fediverse.
If you’re not aware, the TL;DR is that Facebook, or their parent company, Meta, is planning to create a Twitter clone that will support ActivityPub (more here). That means that Facebook, or some semblance of it, could be coming to a Mastodon instance near you.
Needless to say, this has a lot of folk on Mastodon a little worried – hence the constant stream of messages to myself and Mike asking what we, as admins of Fosstodon, plan to do about it.
The bash basic series continues and so does the Linux learning.
↺ Venture Beat ☛ Aerospike invades the graph database space with a little help from Apache TinkerPop
Aerospike is expanding its database capabilities with its Aerospike Graph database, which brings graph data model capabilities.
We’re Earthly. We make building software simpler and therefore faster using containerization. This article covers cross compiling. If you’re someone who builds software often, you might want to check us out and see if Earthly can help you build faster and easier.
I’m kinda tempted to port one of them to Z80 assembly, and see if I can get it running under CP/M. I guess I could add a REPL for interactive use, though without actual hardware connected to my single-board computer it might all feel a little pointless. Then again I have Turbo Pascal, and even a tiny C-compiler, so I guess with those in mind any toy-language is pointless in a completely different regard.
The Fibonacci Sequence is a series of numbers in which each number (Fibonacci number) is the sum of the two preceding ones. The sequence often starts with 0 and 1.
The Fibonacci sequence is a series of numbers where the next number is found by adding up the two numbers before it.
As a programmer, you’re constantly faced with the task of organizing and analyzing data. One powerful tool in your R arsenal is the xtabs() function.
I haven’t been TidyTuesdaying because I’ve been learning Tableau. I’ll write more about that later; but it has been an interesting experience and provides different perspectives on data compared to what you might get from R.
If you have a child curious about software development, this book might be just the right thing to pique their interest.
Continuing from our adventures into latent semantic analysis in Perl, I have been toying with neural networks, the ultimate goal being word2vec-style word embeddings.11 Again, not because I think the outcome will be practically useful – there are pre-trained word2vec models for that – but because I need an excuse to do something I’ve never done before: write a neural network.
The “NumPy Indexing” in Python allows you to access and manipulate elements of a NumPy array based on their positions or index values.
The “countplot()” method of the “seaborn” library is used to count the number of observations per category and visualize the results.
The “matplotlib.pyplot.violinplot()” function in Python is a versatile tool for visualizing data distributions using violin plots.
The “clear()” method, “del” keyword, “pop()” method with Loop, and “remove()” method are used to clear the list in Python.
The “Python Binary Search” is a technique that is utilized in a program to find/get an element in a given sorted list or array.
To determine the dot product of “Scalar Values”, “Complex Numbers”, “1-D”, “and 2-D” arrays the “numpy.dot()” function is used in Python.
The “simps()” method of the “scipy.integrate” model of the “SciPy” library is used to determine numerical integration by utilizing Simpson’s rule.
In Python, the “numpy.hstack()” function of the “numpy” module is used to stack two or more arrays horizontally along their second axis.
In this Bash scripting example, learn how to use for loop with arrays.
As of today, RFC 3392 has been merged, forming the new top level governance body of the Rust Project: the Leadership Council. The creation of this Council marks the end of both the Core Team and the interim Leadership Chat.
The Council will assume responsibility for top-level governance concerns while most of the responsibilities of the Rust Project (such as maintenance of the compiler and core tooling, evolution of the language and standard libraries, administration of infrastructure, etc.) remain with the nine top level teams.
Each of these top level teams, as defined in the RFC, has chosen a representative who collectively form the Council: [...]
Tadayoshi Kohno, Yasemin Acar, and Wulf Loh wrote excellent paper on ethical thinking within the computer security community: “Ethical Frameworks and Computer Security Trolley Problems: Foundations for Conversation“: [...]
Most comments – but by no means all – are delightful. People wanting to share their own stories, add something to the discussion, or politely disagree.
I moderate heavily. If someone is rude or abusive, their comment isn’t published. Unless it’s really funny.
United States Attorney Steven Russell announced that Jonathan Manzi, 31, currently of Beverly, Massachusetts, was sentenced on April 20, 2023, in Lincoln, Nebraska, by Senior United States District Judge John M. Gerrard for obtaining information from a protected computer. Manzi was sentenced to 18 months in prison and will also serve a year on supervised release. Manzi was also ordered to pay $655,000 in restitution.
Today in Tedium: In many ways, the [Internet] is a network driven by literally millions of examples of the same problem happening over and over—people freeloading on access to resources someone else made available for free. We all do it—some of us want to read paywalled articles, so we try to find ways around the paywall. We hate distractions, so some of us turn on ad blockers. We don’t want to pay for every cable channel or streaming service, so we load up torrent programs (unless you’re Gen Z, then you may not know what they are). In many ways, the recent debate around Reddit has been a discussion of infrastructure and freeloading. Who’s getting the free ride? And who’s stealing resources from whom? In many ways, Reddit represents a microcosm of how the [Internet] works when it comes to people taking advantage of free resources. So with that in mind, today’s Tedium ponders freeloaders and free-riders in the digital era. — Ernie @ Tedium
As a programmer, you use hash functions every day. They’re used in databases to optimise queries, they’re used in data structures to make things faster, they’re used in security to keep data safe. Almost every interaction you have with technology will involve hash functions in one way or another.
b Hash functions are foundational, and they are everywhere.
But what is a hash function, and how do they work?
In this post, we’re going to demystify hash functions. We’re going to start by looking at a simple hash function, then we’re going to learn how to test if a hash function is good or not, and then we’re going to look at a real-world use of hash functions: the hash map.
Driving the news: The decline in math scores last year was the biggest in the past 50 years, according to newly released federal data.
Suppose that someone makes a prediction like ‘PCIE 5.0 will dominate the datacenter in five years’ (as a hypothetical example). If we’re looking at how likely this is and what would have to happen when in order to get there, one important thing to remember is that domination has a lead time, and this lead time will shorten all of the timelines from what you might otherwise think. The ultimate cause of this lead time is the inertia of the installed base.
The Drone Racing League specifically was founded in 2015 by Nicholas Horbaczewski. Since then, DRL has raised millions of dollars in funding from investors including Hearst Ventures, CAA Ventures, Muse lead singer Matthew Bellamy and Miami Dolphin’s owner Stephen Ross’s venture-capital firm RSE Ventures. In 2020, DRL appointed former NBA executive Rachel Jacobson as president.
AAEON’s RTC-1020 is a rugged tablet computer designed to withstand challenging environments while delivering powerful performance. The RTC-1020 is equipped with a 2270mAh battery, a 10.1” FHD screen, 1x GbE LAN and support for Wi-Fi/BL 5.1 and LTE connectivity.
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By focusing on the Chinese cloud companies, U.S. officials are potentially widening the scope of the technological tensions between Washington and Beijing. In recent years, the United States has choked China’s access to crucial technologies while trying to limit the reach of Chinese tech and telecommunication companies abroad.
Apple, meanwhile, isn’t even pretending to talk a big game when it comes to AI. John Gruber, a longtime Apple follower who runs the technology blog Daring Fireball, told me that he doesn’t expect any of the machine-learning features Apple announced this year to significantly alter the iPhone-user experience. They’ll just make it nominally better. “We expect autocorrect to just work,” he told me over email. “We notice when it doesn’t.”
The vulnerabilities in question, first revealed on June 1, appeared to have led the main Russian intelligence agency to make unusually public claims that Apple intentionally left the flaws in its iOS so the National Security Agency and other U.S. entities could compromise “thousands” of iPhones in Russia. Apple has denied those claims.
As tools based on artificial intelligence spread, calls for regulating the technology – and addressing basic questions of trust – have been rising.
Opera hits a milestone with version 100, unveiling Opera One, the stable release packed with an impressive set of innovative features.
The seven-year-old Justīne Reinikova, missing since the beginning of May, has been found dead with obvious bodily harm. Two suspects have been detained, State Police (VP) told LETA on June 20.
Defending Ireland’s traditional neutrality, President Michael D. Higgins contrasted the country with the Baltic states, arguing against a dangerous foreign policy “drift”. He later apologised for some of his statements that evinced criticism from Irish politicians.
Portugal is considering to contribute to a rotational air defence model agreed by NATO defence ministers, General José Nunes da Fonseca, the country’s chief of defence, said in Vilnius on Tuesday.
The US Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) announced on Tuesday that it was sanctioning two South Sudanese officials involved in conflict-related sexual violence.
A Belarusian court sentenced Nasta Loika, the founder of the human rights organization Human Constanta, to seven years in a penal colony on Tuesday.
They were arrested in connection with the killing of a hospital director.
The latest figures published by the Panamanian authorities reveal that, as well as Venezuelans and Haitians — the two nationalities that top the list of people taking the Darién route — many other languages are beginning to echo in the jungle. More and more Colombians have crossed it: 5,509 so far in 2023.
The situation is so serious that the president of Colombia, Gustavo Petro, recently described the migratory crisis as “a human rights holocaust” and said he would like to visit the Darién Gap to verify it. The humanitarian crisis in the area is critical. According to Verónica Martínez, the head of humanitarian response for the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) in Darién, it is also the most underfunded migration crisis in the world.
European Commission Speech London, 21 Jun 2023 Prime Minister Sunak [...]
European Commission News Brussels, 21 Jun 2023 The Ukraine Recovery Conference, held jointly by the UK and Ukraine, is a continuation of the cycle of annual events with the last one conducted jointly with Switzerland in Lugano. The previous edition of the conference launched the Lugano Principles…
The protracted war on Ukraine has been fought on both physical and digital worlds, but after the initial forays last spring, Russian attacks on Ukrainian digital infrastructure have increased lately, according to new reports by three security analyst groups.
Last week, as Ukraine’s counteroffensive against Russia was gaining pace, former Russian president Dmitry Medvedev said that Russia could destroy the undersea cables connecting Europe and the US to the internet in retaliation [...]
International attention is currently focused on the progress of the Ukrainian counteroffensive but it is also vital to make sure Ukraine wins the peace by creating a secure and prosperous country, writes Yulia Svyrydenko.
As Ukraine’s long-awaited counteroffensive gets underway, there are fears that Russia’s deteriorating military predicament could lead to an escalation in Vladimir Putin’s nuclear threats, writes Diane Francis.
Rasmussen and Yermak discuss how NATO can establish security guarantees for Ukraine ahead of the Vilnius summit.
Founder of Paramount, Ivor Ichikowitz, played a significant role in the African peace mission to Ukraine last weekend, which was led by South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa.
Ukrainian forces have carried out a missile strike on the Chongar bridge connecting Russian-held parts of the Kherson region and Crimea, Russian-appointed governors in both regions said on Friday. Vladimir Saldo, the Kherson governor, said that the road was damaged but no casualties have been reported.
Russian forces struck civilian and infrastructure targets with a fresh wave of missiles and drones overnight, the Ukrainian military said in its early morning update on June 22, adding that fierce battles were under way in the eastern region of Donetsk, where Russia was intensifying its attacks.
European Union governments have agreed to an 11th package of sanctions against Russia over its invasion of Ukraine aimed largely at stopping other countries and companies from circumventing previously imposed sanctions.
A popular television celebrity in Russia’s Siberian region of Sakha-Yakutia refused to anchor a broadcast on the Yakutian traditional Ysyakh Tuimaady holiday after the mayor of the regional capital announced that celebrations would be devoted to supporting Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
Elif Batuman discusses Elizabeth Gilbert’s recent decision to call off the publication of her next novel, and the deeper conflicts surrounding literature in Ukraine.
Like Ukraine as it rolls out its military offensive, neighboring Moldova has launched a truth-telling campaign against a massive information war by Moscow to keep the country in its orbit.
The Pentagon uncovered an accounting error in valuing the weapons it has sent to Ukraine. The surplus will be used for future military support. The Biden administration has repeatedly stated the U.S. will help Ukraine “as long as it takes.”
Seeking to bolster morale and Western support, President Volodymyr Zelensky and his aides say that the slow progress of Ukraine’s counteroffensive is to be expected.
With the enemy entrenched in unforgiving terrain, Ukraine’s forces face a tough fight.
The Pentagon claims it overestimated the value of weapons it sent to Ukraine.
Now that the Ukrainian counteroffensive is underway, it is clear that the government and its Western allies are maintaining silence to conceal the brutal cost Ukraine’s brave young people are paying.
In its daily intelligence update on Wednesday, the U.K. Defense Ministry reported that Russia’s military command has continued to strengthen its defenses far from the front line, including around the town of Armiansk in northern Crimea, where a narrow land bridge connects the peninsula to Ukraine’s Kherson region.
A European Union working group that has been studying how the E.U. can use frozen assets from Russia’s Central Bank in Ukraine says there are no legal means to simply confiscate the funds, reports Bloomberg, citing a document obtained by the publication.
At the Corner Pub in Kyiv, supporters are cheering on their team, but they have also become fund-raisers, military boosters and logistics experts providing equipment to the front lines.
As a result of the Kakhovka dam’s collapse earlier this month, four major irrigation canals are drying up, according to the BBC.
Moscow-installed annexation officials in Crimea and in Ukraine’s Kherson region have reported that the Ukrainian army carried out a missile attack on bridges connecting the peninsula to the region.
The forced movement of people, the destruction of agricultural land and the increased instability are being felt in Ukraine and beyond, said John Kerry, President Biden’s climate envoy.
Wartime fears closed the Ukrainian city’s famed beaches last year, but crowds were starting to return — until the destruction of a faraway dam dumped debris and dangers into the Black Sea.
Two banks facilitating the junta’s arms purchases have also been blacklisted.
The prosecution has asked a court in Barnaul, the capital of the Siberian region of Altai Krai, to convict and sentence Vadim Ostanin, the former leader of jailed opposition politician Aleksei Navalny’s team in the region, to 11 years in prison.
A court in Russia’s southwestern city of Taganrog has sentenced a Jehovah’s Witness to seven years in prison amid a crackdown on the religious group.
In the latest move to get distance itself from Russian dominance, Kazakhstan has renamed a town in the region around Astana, the capital, after Kenesary Khan, who led the largest uprising against Russia’s colonial troops in Kazakhstan in the 19th century before he was killed in 1847.
Lithuanian lawmakers have initiated a process to take away the citizenship of Moscow-born figure skater Margarita Drobiazko over her participation in an event in Russia in August 2022, Lithuania’s National Radio and Television reported on June 21.
The EU will penalize ships transporting Russian crude or derivatives purchased above the maximum price agreed by Australia, Canada, Japan, the UK, and the U.S.
The Radio and Television Commission has decided to block IP addresses used to access Russia’s main TV channels that are banned in Lithuania.
On June 13, Russian President Vladimir Putin met with war correspondents and military bloggers for a question and answer session at the Kremlin. One war correspondent asked Putin “a question about the notorious red lines.”
Russian citizens taking the mandatory Latvian-language exam have a possibility of repeating it if they fail the first time. Only about a third of those who failed have applied so far, Latvian Radio reported from the meeting of the Saeima Citizenship, Migration, and Social Cohesion Committee on June 21.
Russian anti-malware vendor shares technical details on spyware implant deployed as part of recent zero-click iMessage attacks.
Nuclear physicist Grigory Klinishov, one of the creators of the first Soviet two-stage thermonuclear bomb known as RDS-37, was found dead in Moscow on June 22.
A court in the Russian city of Nizhny Novgorod sentenced an employee of the Federal Nuclear Center to nine years in prison on June 21 on a charge of treason.
The International Olympic Committee still has sufficient time to decide whether Russian and Belarusian athletes will take part in the 2024 Olympics in Paris, spokesman Mark Adams said on June 21.
Russia’s Investigative Committee said on June 21 that it has launched a probe into the death in custody of 40-year-old anti-war activist Anatoly Beryozikov in the southwestern city of Rostov-on-Don last week.
The price tag for reconstruction has soared, driving debate among U.S. and European officials, legal experts and others about using frozen Russian assets to pay for it.
Eventually, Mr. Ellsberg gave Mr. Sheehan access to the papers, but with a condition: Mr. Sheehan could study and take notes on the documents, but he couldn’t make copies of them.
Mr. Sheehan violated that agreement, making copies of the documents with the help of his wife, Susan Sheehan, a former writer for The New Yorker. Mr. Sheehan did not tell Mr. Ellsberg. Over the next several months, he misled Mr. Ellsberg about the newspaper’s timetable for publishing a story about the documents.
The Telegraph Media Group has had the same ownership since 2004 but is up for sale after being repossessed by Lloyds Banking Group over an outstanding debt reportedly worth around £1bn.
The group includes Telegraph properties The Daily Telegraph, Sunday Telegraph, Telegraph.co.uk, The Telegraph Magazine and the Telegraph app. It has also owned Chelsea Magazine Company since March this year.
Thousands of people were without power in the state, and days of sweltering temperatures are expected to put further strain on resources there and in Texas.
As of July, new electricity tariffs will come into force, which will significantly increase electricity bills, for households with more powerful connections rising by as much as 157%. Therefore, the “Distribution network” (Sadales tīkls, ST) calls on everyone to assess the effectiveness of their connection and possibly to save by changing it, Latvian Television reported on June 20.
Rescuers in a remote area of the Atlantic Ocean are racing against time to find a missing submersible carrying five people who were on a mission to document the wreckage of the Titanic. Authorities reported the vessel overdue Sunday night.
Experts inside and outside the company warned of potential dangers and urged the company to undergo a certification process.
Three more vessels arrived Wednesday to join the international effort to find the missing submersible. The Coast Guard said it was looking for the source of noises it detected.
Here are nine questions about the Titan and the effort to find it. We’ll be updating this post as the story develops.
More than half a million Australians plan to buy electric vehicles over the next tour years, according to Roy Morgan Research, an independent Australian social and political market research and public opinion statistics company.
In a statement on Wednesday, the firm said 548,000 Australians had expressed such intentions; this was equal to 12.5% of all those intending to buy new vehicles in the same period.
The San Tin Technopole development project disregards wetland conservation policies and may cause harm to 248 hectares of conservation area and buffer zones, according to nine environmental groups who have united to urge the government to revise the plan.
Located 45 km south of Playa del Carmen, Xcacel-Xcacelito has been a protected natural area since 1998 and is considered a wetland of international importance, also known as a Ramsar site. The area covers 362 hectares of jungle, beaches, mangroves, cenotes and coral reefs and has become an important tourist destination in Quintana Roo.
“The emergency funding will help jumpstart the response…”
Three months after rejigging its corporate structure—splitting into six—Alibaba is rejigging its top brass.
JPMorgan Chase & Co has in a new round of downsizing cut around 20 investment banking jobs in Asia, a source with direct knowledge of the matter said, joining global peers in trimming headcount as dealmaking slows.
JPMorgan on Tuesday notified the impacted bankers, the majority of whom are at junior ranks from analysts to executive directors, according to the source, declining to be named as the information is not public.
Those dealmakers covered consumers, healthcare sectors and private capital markets, the source added.
The latest data released by Statistics Finland reveals a concerning rise in unemployment figures and the unemployment rate in May. The report highlights the challenges faced by the Finnish labor market, with significant increases in the number of unemployed individuals, particularly among young people. However, there were positive developments as well, with growth observed in the number of employed individuals and a decline in the number of individuals outside the labor force.
The number of people in employment also increased, according to the latest Labour Force Survey.
Since the pandemic ended, we’ve had the pleasure of organizing three different company meet-ups for 37signals. We got going again in Miami, then hopped to Amsterdam, and most recently we went to New Orleans. Next we’re going to Barcelona in the fall. Would you have guessed that hosting a company meet-up in US was almost twice as expensive as Europe? I wouldn’t!
I feel like Americans often complain about how expensive things are in Europe, but looking at our expenditures on meet-ups, that just isn’t so. Here’s what we spent per person in the three most recent locations, all-in: [...]
A call on the Reserve Bank of Australia’s leadership will be made within weeks, which could see a new governor take the reins within months.
Philip Lowe’s seven-year term is up in September, and while he has expressed his willingness for another stint in the top job, the treasurer may opt for a fresh face.
Australian charities raked in $13.4 billion worth of donations in the 2020-21 financial year and employed over 10 per cent of the total workforce.
All up charities recorded revenue of $190 million, of which $9.7 billion was distributed in grants and donations to those in need, according to a report by the sector regulator released Thursday.
Court documents in a case between Microsoft and the IRS provide a detailed look at how the company, like other multinational corporations, has created a complex structure that allows it to minimize its tax bill.
While I’ve been involved with the Python community for more than 15 years, I only recently realized (getting over my imposter syndrome) that I, too, could contribute directly to PSF.
From June 12 to the 14th, thousands of subreddits turned their communities private, locking out hundreds of millions of users in protest of new fees for accessing the site’s API. Third-party app developers, researchers, and developers use the site’s API to build tools and collect data, but in most cases, the fees would be too exorbitant to continue that work. The developers for popular third party Reddit app Apollo said it would cost more than $20 million per year to keep running, and shut down as a result. Unpaid, volunteer moderators, especially, rely on third-party apps to keep their subreddits running safely in compliance with Reddit’s terms of use.
Attorney for the plaintiffs, Shannon Liss-Riordan says Twitter owes “tens of millions of dollars” in bonuses. It is worth noting that the social media giant has a cash performance bonus plan that is paid every year. A Bloomberg report claims Twitter staff were promised to be paid 50 per cent of their target accounts in the form of bonuses ahead of Musk’s acquisition of the company. However, the company failed to pay at least half of the target amounts for last year’s bonuses.
Alibaba is reshuffling its leadership at a critical time. The company was the highest-profile target of a crackdown by Beijing on the power of China’s biggest tech companies. Its stock price has tumbled from its 2020 peak.
Alibaba’s founder, the billionaire Jack Ma, was driven out of the public eye in 2020 after criticizing Chinese regulators for stifling innovation at Ant Group, Alibaba’s financial technology sister company. After his remarks, Chinese officials suspended plans for Ant Group to sell stock in an initial public offering. In 2021 Chinese antitrust regulators fined Alibaba $2.8 billion for preventing merchants from selling their goods on other shopping platforms.
Please start by listening to this brief BBC interview.
Talk about “conduct unbecoming”: A vengeful, ignominious GOP just barely passed a farcical censure resolution against Adam Schiff for doing his duty, confronting “one of the most egregious abuses of presidential power in our history,” and spearheading Trump’s impeachment. As furious Dems blasted the rare censure as “deflection, retaliation, and distraction” from Trump’s crimes, a stately Schiff dismissed “this hollow sop to the MAGA crowd” and thanked a clownish GOP for placing him “among the truth-tellers.”
Moscow is ready to develop new air routes with its “key partner in the Middle East.”
The visit has big implications for U.S.-India relations as President Biden seeks to shore up an alliance against Russia’s aggression and China’s economic influence.
John H. Durham, the Trump-era special counsel, criticized the F.B.I. during a six-hour hearing before the House Judiciary Committee.
The House on Wednesday voted largely along party lines to pass a Republican measure censuring Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.).
Why it matters: It’s a significant rebuke of a vocal Trump critic by the House Republican majority.
Three drones were downed using electronic warfare systems in the Moscow region, Russian law enforcement sources told state media on Wednesday.
The Russian Investigative Committee has opened a criminal case over the death of activist Anatoly Berezikov, who died in a prison in the country’s Rostov region last week after his lawyer alleged that the prison authorities were torturing him.
Russia’s Prosectuor General has outlawed the local operations of the World Wildlife Fund, designating the group as an “undesirable organization” on the grounds that it poses a threat to Russia’s national security: [...]
The Constitutional Court of Russia rejected claims that the law on “discrediting” the Russian Army is unconstitutional, refusing to repeal the law.
Russian security officials searched the home of Irina Gak, the lawyer who represented activist Anatoly Berezikov, who died in a prison in the country’s Rostov region last week, local media reported on Thursday morning.
The Future Fund manages more than $200 billion of public sector funds but does so with a notorious penchant for secrecy. This third instalment in a series from Rex Patrick and Philip Dorling shines a spotlight on the fund’s surprising gambling stake.
Former Liberal Treasurer and current Future Fund Board of Guardians chair Peter Costello once confessed to being “a bit of a gambling man, a bit of a punter”. But who would have imagined that under his stewardship the Future Fund would have staked more than $280 million of taxpayers’ funds on companies that extract wealth from the community and cause harm through gambling.
Treasurer Jim Chalmers has labelled findings that consulting firm PwC was calculating in using confidential information for clients as “deeply disappointing”.
A parliamentary committee found PwC engaged in a “calculated” breach of trust by using confidential information for tax avoidance.
It will chart a faster route to giving them permanent residency.
The United States, traditionally a leader in offering refuge, received the world’s most asylum applications last year. Yet a new rule limits access to asylum at the southern border.
The former Pakistani prime minister spoke with the Atlantic Council about unsuccessful plans to meet with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and much more.
A state visit to Washington by the country’s leader comes with hints of shared values, not just shared interests.
The Indian leader, who visits Washington this week, has softened his image at home with an old-fashioned radio show, which feeds a vast social media apparatus.
On World Refugee Day, our charts highlight the flows of displaced people, as a U.N. report calls for more global action to help.
The definition excludes a vast range of people fleeing horrific violence and oppression.
On Tuesday, the Estonian parliament voted in favour of legalising same-sex marriage, becoming the first Baltic state to do so.
Estonia’s Parliament, the Riigikogu, passed a bill Monday to allow gender-neutral marriage in the country. The bill was sent to President Alar Karis for approval on Tuesday. Estonia is the first Baltic nation and the first former Soviet Union nation to legalize gender-neutral or same-sex marriage.
Land and religious freedom remain at the heart of Montagnard grievances, but there are others.
Jailed Burmese leader often appeared in public with flowers in her hair
They also question why the pro-military government organized the meeting when it was drubbed in the May election.
Samoa’s prime minister says the government has cut ties to a Hong Kong company that chartered flights
The colourful former politician known for his protests against high-society balls, has passed away aged 78.
A Hong Kong pollster has said that it will scrap about a quarter of its usual survey questions and make private the results of some others, with those relating to the Tiananmen crackdown among the affected topics.
Mark Alexander says he was wrongfully convicted and wants to speak to a podcast about his case.
For more than four years, a rogue federal appeals court has given life to a highly dubious lawsuit targeting DeRay Mckesson, a prominent figure within the Black Lives Matter movement. The United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit’s decisions would not only strip Mckesson of his First Amendment-protected right to organize mass protests against police violence, it threatens all Americans’ ability to organize any protest.
On Friday, the Fifth Circuit handed down its latest decision in Doe v. Mckesson, the case at the heart of this crusade against the First Amendment. Under the Fifth Circuit’s latest approach, a protest organizer who commits even a minor legal violation — in this case the court faulted Mckesson for leading a protest “in front of the Baton Rouge police station” and for attempting “to block a public highway” — may potentially be held liable for the illegal actions of someone else who attended the protest.
Reddit’s ongoing war with its volunteer moderators (and users) has moved up a notch. As you’ll recall, last week, the ever tone-deaf CEO Steve Huffman insisted that the protests were just a blip, would be over by last Wednesday, and were having no real impact on the site anyway.
The Hakkari Governorate enforced restrictions on various activities, such as public meetings, demonstrations, sit-ins, press statements, hunger strikes, setting up stands, and releasing sky lanterns.
Following a recess, the court announced its verdict, acquitting Sezer and Ergün of the charges of “insult” and “libel” but sentencing them separately to 1 year and 8 months in prison for “unlawful disclosure of data obtained by recording non-public conversations through the press and media.” The court suspended the sentences for both journalists.
“We will tighten all the conditions to come to Finland, to stay here and to be in Finland,” Mari Rantanen of the Finns Party told Yle on Tuesday morning.
Bernie Sanders has announced a US Senate investigation into working conditions at Amazon warehouses in an open letter to Andy Jassy, the e-commerce giant’s CEO.
There aren’t enough homes in the U.S. That’s one big reason house prices have barely fallen since the Fed’s rate hikes sent mortgage costs soaring.
Why it matters: Except for the very wealthy who can afford to buy whatever they want, the housing shortage touches almost every aspect of Americans’ lives and livelihoods and hits the overall economy, too.
The inmates were found shot or burned to death in the latest spasm of violence in the country’s troubled prison system.
Twenty years ago, Justice Sandra Day O’Connor wrote, in a draft opinion, that white applicants could not be favored over Asian Americans. Why did she delete those lines—and why did Justice Clarence Thomas adopt them in his own opinion?
An estimated 5,259 minors were married in Michigan between 2000 and 2018, and nearly 300,000 nationwide, according to researchers.
Many involved “a spousal age difference that should have been considered a sex crime,” Michael Nyenhuis, President and CEO of UNICEF USA, previously told Michigan lawmakers in written committee testimony.
“Child marriage is a violation of human rights and comes at a cost society cannot afford,” he said.
Apple destroyed union flyers and interrogated its staff in New York City about their unionization efforts, a watchdog has ruled.
In a decision issued yesterday, National Labor Relations Board judge Lauren Esposito said Apple broke American employment law in an “unprecedented manner” at its World Trade Center store.
The government’s plans create the impression Finland has a hostile attitude towards foreigners, according to the Finnish Startup Community.
A Hong Kong court has issued an arrest warrant for a man facing trial over an illegal assembly during the 2019 extradition bill protests, after the defendant missed two days of trial in a row.
We speak with Minneapolis City Councilmember Robin Wonsley, the first Black Democratic Socialist on the City Council, about the Justice Department’s newly released probe into the city’s police department that found systemic problems with discrimination and excessive force and concluded: “The patterns and practices we observed made what happened to George Floyd possible.” Wonsley says “none of this is new,” and demands a strong community role in public safety reforms expected to follow the report.
Several former HDP deputies also face legal proceedings after not being re-elected.
The Democratic majority in Minnesota’s state Legislature, along with Democratic Governor Tim Walz, have enacted sweeping progressive reforms this year, with many praising the ambitious agenda as a “Minnesota Miracle.” Democrats have successfully codified abortion rights; protections for transgender people; driver’s licenses for undocumented residents; new gun control rules; the restoration of voting rights for previously incarcerated people; a $1 billion investment in affordable housing that includes rent assistance; stronger protections for workers seeking to unionize; and paid family, medical and sick leave, among other measures.
The online influencer and his brother, Tristan Tate, appeared in court for the first time since their indictment on charges including human trafficking.
The blast, in the Fifth Arrondissement of the French capital, started a blaze that firefighters quickly brought under control. The origin of the explosion, which critically injured four people, was unclear.
Daniel Rodriguez, whom the judge called a “one-man army of hate,” received one of the stiffest sentences so far in the Justice Department’s investigation of the Capitol riot.
It seems that we’ve had a rash of formerly loved internet services going down the enshittification curve. As coined (brilliantly) by Cory Doctorow, enshittification is the process by which a company gets gradually worse. As he puts it:
Measuring the IETF data tracker gives a unique perspective on the current state of document production.
Guest Post: Testing, and breaking, Multi-Signer models in Bind 9.
APNIC presented on IXPs and the importance of CERTs at the PITA 27th AGM & Business Forum Expo 23, held from 29 May to 1 June in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea.
Google singled out Microsoft in the complaint, arguing that through its dominant Windows Server and Microsoft Offices products, the company can make it difficult for its massive roster of clients to use anything but its Azure cloud infrastructure offering. Google described Microsoft’s licensing restrictions as a “complex web” that prevents businesses from diversifying their enterprise software vendors.
Google also said such control represents a significant national security and cybersecurity risk. It highlighted successive cyberattacks involving Microsoft products, including the SolarWinds breach. Microsoft and Google both have active cybersecurity practices that respond to and research cyber threats.
The letter, obtained by CNBC, takes issue with Microsoft using its Windows Server and Office products to keep clients on Azure, and argues that Microsoft’s control presents a national security risk.
In its lawsuit, the F.T.C. argued that Amazon had “duped millions of consumers” into enrolling in Prime by using “manipulative, coercive or deceptive” design tactics on its website known as “dark patterns.” And when consumers wanted to cancel, Amazon “knowingly complicated” the process with byzantine procedures.
“Amazon tricked and trapped people into recurring subscriptions without their consent, not only frustrating users but also costing them significant money,” Ms. Khan said in a statement.
The recently released files of the late Associate Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens reveal interesting details concerning some of the Court’s significant copyright decisions, but leave important questions unanswered. Justice Stevens (1920-2019) left his papers to the Library of Congress, which opened them to the public in May 2023. (See here for a blog post on Justice Stevens’ important decisions relating to information technology.) While the papers to do not provide additional information about Justice Stevens’ pivotal role in the shaping of the Sony v. Universal (“Betamax”) decision, revealed by Justice Thurgood Marshall’s files, they do increase our knowledge about Lotus v. Borland, MGM v. Grokster, and Eldred v. Ashcroft.
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