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Links 06/05/2024: Scams and Politics
Posted by Roy Schestowitz on May 06, 2024
Contents
Leftovers
Science
Gizmodo ☛ 2024-04-24 [Older] Explore NASA's Best Photos of the Year
Hardware
Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-04-29 [Older] Why Japan is investing in semiconductors once more
Health/Nutrition/Agriculture
Truthdig ☛ 2024-04-24 [Older] How Development Banks Underwrote Fast Food’s Global Takeover
Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-04-23 [Older] India spice maker says products safe after health concerns
CBC ☛ 2024-04-26 [Older] Nearly 23% of the Canadian population reported food insecurity in 2022
HRW ☛ 2024-04-26 [Older] African Governments Falling Short on Healthcare Funding
CBC ☛ 2024-04-23 [Older] Sask. officials knew COVID-19 was spreading at an 'exponential' rate in 2021, but refused restrictions
Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-04-29 [Older] COVID: Is Germany prepared for another pandemic?
Video ☛ Encouraging movement
> The C.D.C. has said there were no confirmed deaths related to myocarditis, but in fact there have been several accounts of deaths reported post-vaccination.
Proprietary/Artificial Intelligence (AI)
9to5Mac ☛ 2024-04-27 [Older] Widespread Problem Has Locked Many Out of Their Apple IDs
Gizmodo ☛ 2024-04-23 [Older] Apple Vision Pro Gets a Reality Check
Gizmodo ☛ 2024-04-27 [Older] Apple Vision Pro Sales Slump, Robot Weapons Get Scarier, TikTok Ban Is Here and More
NL Times ☛ 2024-04-24 [Older] Mass claim case launched against Apple for deliberately slowing its iPhones
IP Kat ☛ 2024-04-25 [Older] [Guest post] Generative AI, originality, and the potential role of contract in protecting unoriginal works
The Register UK ☛ Google to relocate some US jobs to India and Mexico
> Google announced the layoff of 200 of its core team professionals last week while moving some roles to India and Mexico, according to reports.
> Teams affected in the reorganization include IT technical units, a Python developer team, technical infrastructure, security foundation, app platforms, core developers and some roles in engineering. The cuts were also said to affect the governance and protected data group.
> "We intend to maintain our current global footprint while also expanding in high-growth global workforce locations so that we can operate closer to our partners and developer communities," wrote Asim Husain, vice president of Google Developer Ecosystem, in a reported email.
Security
Integrity/Availability/Authenticity
CBC ☛ 2024-04-25 [Older] Canadian banks need to do more to stop abusive e-transfers, survivors say
NL Times ☛ 2024-04-30 [Older] Sextortion suspect facing 6 years in jail for coercing minors to send nude photos
Privacy/Surveillance
Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-04-23 [Older] Spain: Court reopens investigation in Pegasus spying scandal
Defence/Aggression
Modern Diplomacy ☛ 2024-04-27 [Older] Stoltenberg: Germany makes major contributions to our shared security
US News And World Report ☛ 2024-04-27 [Older] UN Security Council Concerned Over Imminent Attack in Sudan's North Darfur
US News And World Report ☛ 2024-04-23 [Older] Haiti's Government Scrambles to Impose Tight Security Measures as Council Inauguration Imminent
Defence Web ☛ 2024-04-25 [Older] Terror deaths double in Niger
US News And World Report ☛ 2024-04-25 [Older] Massive Policing for Paris Olympics to Include Security Checks for Some of the Capital's Residents
Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-04-23 [Older] Rwanda explained: From politics to human right to migration
Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-04-23 [Older] Pessimistic young Germans turning to far right, says study
US News And World Report ☛ 2024-04-26 [Older] Private Security Firm Says Missile Fire Seen off the Yemen Coast in the Red Sea Near Crucial Strait
US News And World Report ☛ 2024-04-26 [Older] Missiles Sighted 15 Nautical Miles SW of Yemen's Mokha - Security Firm Ambrey
CBC ☛ 2024-04-26 [Older] RCMP's ability to defend national security is eroding, report warns
Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-04-23 [Older] Israel: US plans to sanction an IDF unit
Counter Punch ☛ 2024-04-30 [Older] Twain’s Anti-Imperialism and the Boxer Uprising
US News And World Report ☛ 2024-04-23 [Older] 11 Inmates Face Charges Related to an Uprising at South Dakota Prison
NL Times ☛ 2024-04-29 [Older] Turkey supports Rutte as next NATO Secretary-General: Report
US News And World Report ☛ 2024-04-29 [Older] Turkey Backs Rutte as Next NATO Chief, Ankara Official Says
US News And World Report ☛ 2024-04-30 [Older] Judge Dismisses Lawsuit Against Saudi Arabia Over 2019 Navy Station Attack
Modern Diplomacy ☛ 2024-04-29 [Older] WEF special meeting in Saudi Arabia: Insights
Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-04-29 [Older] Middle East updates: Blinken in Saudi Arabia on crisis tour
HRW ☛ 2024-04-25 [Older] Lebanon: Stepped-Up Repression of Syrians
US News And World Report ☛ 2024-04-26 [Older] A Turkish Court Sentences a Syrian Woman to Life in Prison for a Bombing in Istanbul in 2022
Gizmodo ☛ 2024-04-26 [Older] Fight, Sell, or Shut Down: What's Next for TikTok?
Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-04-26 [Older] China's ByteDance denies plans to sell TikTok in US
International Business Times ☛ 2024-04-26 [Older] Chinese Students Are Attending 'TikTok School' To Learn How To Sell Clothes Abroad
Gizmodo ☛ 2024-04-25 [Older] Do You Have a Constitutional Right to TikTok?
Gizmodo ☛ 2024-04-25 [Older] The TikTok Ban Is Law. What Now?
US News And World Report ☛ 2024-04-25 [Older] Sale? Ban? What’s Next for TikTok – and its Users?
Gizmodo ☛ 2024-04-24 [Older] Biden Signs TikTok Ban Into Law, but His Campaign Will Continue Using It
Gizmodo ☛ 2024-04-24 [Older] TikTok Divest-or-Ban Bill Passes in the Senate
CBC ☛ 2024-04-24 [Older] Why did the U.S. TikTok ban bill get packaged with foreign aid?
Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-04-24 [Older] TikTok vows legal fight after Biden signs sell-or-ban bill
Make Tech Easier ☛ 2024-04-24 [Older] Are you Worried About the Potential Sale of TikTok?
US News And World Report ☛ 2024-04-24 [Older] Biden Just Signed a Bill That Could Ban TikTok. His Campaign Plans to Stay on the App Anyway
The Washington Post ☛ 2024-04-24 [Older] Senate Passes Bill to Force Sale of TikTok
US News And World Report ☛ 2024-04-23 [Older] TikTok Has Submitted Risk Assessment Report on TikTok Lite to EU
US News And World Report ☛ 2024-04-23 [Older] Senators Hope TikTok Will Remain in Business in US Under New Owner
US News And World Report ☛ 2024-04-23 [Older] US Sanctions Militant Leaders Over Hostages in West Africa
Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-04-24 [Older] UK arrests 3 over Channel crossing deaths
CBC ☛ 2024-04-25 [Older] Canada sanctions Iran's defence minister, others after missile attack on Israel
HRW ☛ 2024-04-23 [Older] Can New African Union Genocide Envoy Curb Atrocities in Africa?
US News And World Report ☛ 2024-04-25 [Older] US to Pull Troops From Chad and Niger as the African Nations Question Its Counterterrorism Role
US News And World Report ☛ 2024-04-30 [Older] Mali Says It Killed Extremist Commander Who Took Part in One of Worst Attacks on US Forces in Africa
TruthOut ☛ 2024-04-27 [Older] African Governments Are Increasingly Turning Against US Military Presence
Defence Web ☛ 2024-04-30 [Older] No longer needed EU equipment gifted to Mozambican military
Defence Web ☛ 2024-04-30 [Older] Senior UN peacekeeping official meets SADC Executive Secretary
Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-04-29 [Older] German far-right coup plot trial begins
Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-04-29 [Older] Iran renews violent crackdown on women
Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-04-30 [Older] Afghanistan: Shooting attack on mosque kills 6
Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-04-30 [Older] Colombia: 9 soldiers killed in military helicopter crash
Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-04-30 [Older] Donald Trump fined $9,000 for defying gag order in hush money trial
Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-04-30 [Older] London: Boy dies after man attacks people, police with sword
Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-04-24 [Older] Germany: Prosecutors charge 7 Islamist terror suspects
Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-04-24 [Older] Germany, UK boost defense ties after Berlin talks
Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-04-28 [Older] Macron: Nuclear arms should be part of EU defense debate
Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-04-28 [Older] Middle East updates: Video shows hostages alive in Gaza
Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-04-27 [Older] Australians protest gender violence after knife attack
Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-04-27 [Older] Portugal says no plans to pay colonial reparations
Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-04-27 [Older] Myanmar: Civil war of 'many against many' tearing country up
Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-04-27 [Older] Cambodia: 20 soldiers killed in army base blast
Russia, Belarus, and War in Ukraine
Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-04-25 [Older] Sorbonne speech: Will Macron's European plea be heard?
Modern Diplomacy ☛ 2024-04-25 [Older] Macron Warns Europe: We face challenges of security, economy, and culture
Modern Diplomacy ☛ 2024-04-30 [Older] Macron’s Sorbonne II speech: A Machiavellian Moment for Europe?
Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-04-23 [Older] Evan Gershkovich: Appeal rejected by Moscow court
Environment
Modern Diplomacy ☛ 2024-04-25 [Older] Climate Crisis; Protecting Human Security in a Changing World
CBC ☛ 2024-04-30 [Older] Ottawa's $8B climate fund failing to attract largest emitters, watchdog says
NL Times ☛ 2024-04-27 [Older] Amsterdam climate protest blocks A10 highway; Pro-Palestinian group blocks central road
US News And World Report ☛ 2024-04-30 [Older] China, US to Hold Climate Meetings in Washington in May
Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-04-27 [Older] Hydropower: Can it hold up against climate change?
Scheerpost ☛ 2024-04-27 [Older] Dozens of Climate Activists Arrested at Citibank Headquarters in New York City During Earth Week
Counter Punch ☛ 2024-04-26 [Older] Indoor Air Quality Matters: COVID, Climate Change, and More
Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-04-26 [Older] Climate phenomena: What are El Nino and La Nina?
Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-04-26 [Older] El Nino: climate phenomenon intensifies in East Africa
Vox ☛ 2024-04-26 [Older] The end of coral reefs as we know them
Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-04-26 [Older] German private firms asked to pay up for climate protection
US News And World Report ☛ 2024-04-23 [Older] Martian Skies Over Athens? Greece's Capital Turns an Orange Hue With Dust Clouds From North Africa
CBC ☛ 2024-04-23 [Older] Eerie, orange skies engulf Athens as dust clouds blow in from Africa
US News And World Report ☛ 2024-04-23 [Older] German Climate Activists Sentenced for Spraying Paint on Brandenburg Gate
TruthOut ☛ 2024-04-23 [Older] South Korean High Court Hears First-Ever Youth Climate Case in Asia
CBC ☛ 2024-04-24 [Older] Coke, Pepsi top list in global count of plastic waste
TruthOut ☛ 2024-04-24 [Older] Climate Activists Blockade HQ of World’s Second-Largest Funder of Fossil Fuels
CBC ☛ 2024-04-25 [Older] Dubai deluge likely made worse by warming world, scientists find
University of Michigan ☛ 2024-04-25 [Older] Wege Lecturer says effective climate action is fueled by hope
Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-04-29 [Older] Kenya flooding leaves dozens dead after dam collapse
Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-04-24 [Older] Shopping showdown — what's greener, plastic or paper?
CBC ☛ 2024-04-24 [Older] Peguis First Nation launches $1B flood damages lawsuit against feds, Manitoba and 2 municipalities
CBC ☛ 2024-04-24 [Older] For First Nations in Alberta, drought only compounds existing water issues
Energy/Transportation
Gizmodo ☛ 2024-04-26 [Older] Saudi Arabia's Sci-Fi Megacity in the Desert Isn't Going Well
Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-04-30 [Older] Indonesia's Ruang volcano erupts again, closing airport
The Age AU ☛ 2024-05-01 [Older] Winds of change: New era for offshore energy industry set to blow in
US News And World Report ☛ 2024-04-25 [Older] Battery Firm LG Energy Solution Q1 Profit Plunges on Weak EV Sales
CBC ☛ 2024-04-24 [Older] Table set for Honda's massive bet on Canada's electric vehicle sector
CBC ☛ 2024-04-24 [Older] Former SNC-Lavalin executive sentenced to prison term in Montreal bridge bribery case
CBC ☛ 2024-04-25 [Older] New truckers in Canada aren't being trained well enough. How do we fix that?
Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-04-30 [Older] Germany's energy transition: Can a new hydrogen scheme help?
Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-04-28 [Older] Dubai reaches for the sky with massive airport expansion
Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-04-29 [Older] Not enough charging points for electric cars in EU: ACEA
Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-04-30 [Older] Lufthansa sees 'turning point' after Q1 marred by strikes
Wildlife/Nature
Counter Punch ☛ 2024-04-26 [Older] How Banks and Investors are Fueling a Biodiversity Crisis
CBC ☛ 2024-04-30 [Older] Firefighters who lost homes to wildfire gear up for season ahead
Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-04-29 [Older] Should the use of animals in sports be banned?
CBC ☛ 2024-04-23 [Older] Caribou herds in B.C. and Alberta have grown nearly 50%, mostly due to wolf culls, study finds
Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-04-24 [Older] London police recapture 2 horses on the run
Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-04-24 [Older] Germany: Camel leads circus animal breakout
CBC ☛ 2024-04-25 [Older] Makeshift slaughterhouse in a residential garage points to growing concerns about illicit meat sales
Overpopulation
HRW ☛ 2024-04-25 [Older] Africa’s High Teenage Pregnancy Rate Demands Strong Response
Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-04-30 [Older] In Indian tech hub Bengaluru, water crisis gets political
Finance
CBC ☛ 2024-04-30 [Older] Canadian economy grew 0.2% in February [Ed: How much lower than inflation? The cult or illusion of constant "growth" is not sustainable.]
CBC ☛ 2024-04-30 [Older] Canada is scaling back temporary foreign workers. Critics say the program needs an overhaul
CBC ☛ 2024-04-30 [Older] Federal public servants to return to the office 3 days a week this fall
Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-04-30 [Older] Germany's economy shows slight upturn, raising hopes
Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-04-24 [Older] Israeli economy moves toward normality despite the war
Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-04-24 [Older] Klimt painting sold at Austrian auction for €30 million
AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics
Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-04-25 [Older] How important is the Commonwealth to Africa today?
US News And World Report ☛ 2024-04-27 [Older] It's 30 Years Since Apartheid Ended. South Africa's Celebrations Are Set Against Growing Discontent
The Age AU ☛ 2024-04-24 [Older] WA news LIVE: Major Perth builder collapses; Rinehart takes swipe at Facebook
Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-04-30 [Older] EU probes Facebook, Instagram over election disinformation
Vox ☛ 2024-04-26 [Older] Canada’s polite Trumpism
Netzpolitik ☛ 2024-04-30 [Older] Facebook und Instagram: EU-Kommission untersucht Desinformation und Drosselung politischer Inhalte
uni Emory ☛ 2024-04-29 [Older] Emory’s Jews are disturbed by the content of the protests, even if we support free speech
The Age AU ☛ 2024-04-29 [Older] Albanese's speech at the What Was She Wearing rally
NL Times ☛ 2024-04-26 [Older] Wilders does not want his speech at far right conference to cause a political problem
International Business Times ☛ 2024-04-24 [Older] Elon Musk Woes Continue: Meta Threads Poised to Overtake X
Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-04-29 [Older] Scotland's Humza Yousaf quits as ruling-SNP first minister
Vox ☛ 2024-04-23 [Older] Can Canada stave off populism?
Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-04-29 [Older] Congo President Tshisekedi: 'I want to give peace a chance'
Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-04-29 [Older] Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez says he will not resign
Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-04-24 [Older] Spain: PM Sanchez suspends public duties as wife probed
Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-04-23 [Older] Economic hurdles of EU expansion into Eastern Europe
Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-04-23 [Older] EU lawmakers approve overhaul of budget rules
Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-04-24 [Older] US aid for Taiwan 'will only increase tensions,' China says
Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-04-24 [Older] US top diplomat Blinken visits China for tough talks
Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-04-23 [Older] China and India compete for influence in the Maldives
Censorship/Free Speech
CPJ ☛ 2024-04-25 [Older] European Parliament calls for repeal of Hong Kong security laws
ANF News ☛ 2024-04-27 [Older] Book by Gültan Kışanak banned in Turkey
Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-04-29 [Older] Burkina Faso blocks DW website over massacre coverage
Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-04-29 [Older] Why Burkina Faso is muzzling foreign media
Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-04-28 [Older] Burkina Faso dismisses HRW massacre report as 'baseless'
Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-04-24 [Older] Iran: Rapper Toomaj Salehi sentenced to death, says lawyer
Gizmodo ☛ 2024-04-23 [Older] Elon Musk Has a Point
Counter Punch ☛ 2024-04-25 [Older] Censorship Wars: Elon Musk, Safety Commissioners and Violent Content
Project Censored ☛ 2024-04-29 [Older] World Press Freedom Day: Independent Media, Social Justice, and the Vox Populi
Jacobin Magazine ☛ 2024-04-27 [Older] France’s Justice System Is Cracking Down on Israel’s Critics
Truthdig ☛ 2024-04-26 [Older] Salman Rushdie Confronts a World Where Free Speech Is No Longer Sacred
The Age AU ☛ 2024-04-25 [Older] Bishop Mari Emmanuel's free speech defence of the attack video
Vox ☛ 2024-04-26 [Older] Student protests are testing US colleges’ commitment to free speech
US News And World Report ☛ 2024-04-24 [Older] Pro-Palestinian US High School Students Accuse School of Censoring Speech
Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-04-23 [Older] Did China cover up a swim team doping scandal? [Ed: Well, do not ask questions as headlines. Answer your own questions.]
Freedom of Information / Freedom of the Press
TruthOut ☛ 2024-04-30 [Older] Photojournalist Violently Arrested at Texas Campus Protest Faces Felony Charge
BIA Net ☛ 2024-04-24 [Older] Union condemns crackdown on pro-Kurdish media in Turkey, Belgium
CPJ ☛ 2024-04-29 [Older] Mass raid in Turkey jails 3 Kurdish reporters, others put under judicial control
CPJ ☛ 2024-04-30 [Older] CPJ, MENA Rights Group file Urgent Action to UN on disappearance of Syrian journalist in Iraqi Kurdistan
Project Censored ☛ 2024-04-23 [Older] The Importance of Independent Journalism in Fighting Censorship and Countering Corporate Media Propaganda
Civil Rights/Policing
HRW ☛ 2024-04-29 [Older] Saudi Arabia: Halt Executions of Child Offenders
CBC ☛ 2024-04-30 [Older] Manitoba war vet's request for D-DAY licence plate twice rejected by MPI before finally getting OK'd
Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-04-29 [Older] Australia: PM Albanese says domestic violence is a 'crisis'
Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-04-24 [Older] European Broadcasting Union (EBU) Diversity Conference in Reykjavik
Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-04-24 [Older] Germany arrests suspected members of Nigerian dating mafia
CBC ☛ 2024-04-24 [Older] Edmonton police seeing no further extortion of South Asian businesses as investigation continues
CBC ☛ 2024-04-25 [Older] Ontario woman 'blindsided' as government questions her Canadian citizenship — 30 years later
Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-04-28 [Older] Iraq: US, UK condemn bill criminalizing homosexuality
Digital Restrictions (DRM)
Make Tech Easier ☛ 2024-04-25 [Older] Spotify and Apple Still Tussling Over App Store Policy
Monopolies/Monopsonies
2024-04-23 [Older] FTC Bans Non-Compete Agreements
IP Kat ☛ 2024-04-24 [Older] [Guest Post] Italian Supreme Court finds plant breeder's contractual terms were contrary to public interest
Patents
US News And World Report ☛ 2024-04-30 [Older] US Challenges 'Bogus' Patents on Ozempic and Other Drugs in Effort to Spur Competition
2024-04-28 [Older] Salix Pharmaceuticals, Ltd. v. Norwich Pharmaceuticals Inc. (Fed. Cir. 2024)
2024-04-25 [Older] Guest Post by Lolita Darden: PPAC’s Bold Strategy to Transform Patent Inclusion [Ed: Conflating "Patent" and "Inclusion" contributes to whitewashing of monopolies]
Trademarks
IP Kat ☛ 2024-04-23 [Older] [Guest post] A correct reading of the ‘Puma-Rihanna’ case (T-647/22) – Five steps to happiness
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