● 04.20.23

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● Links 20/04/2023: Ubuntu 23.04 “Lunar Lobster” Released

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GNU/Linux

Audiocasts/Shows

• What we like about Fedora 38, why the Rust foundation is in hot water, and more.

Kernel Space

Graphics Stack

Applications

• I am happy to announce Tumpa 0.10.0 release.Tumpa is a desktop application which allows you to create OpenPGP keys and also allows uploading them to Yubikeys with a user friendly GUI. With Tumpa, all you need is a few form inputs and few clicks, and done! No more wrangling and breaking your head with command line interface.

• Not long ago, people considered JavaScript an obsolete language that tends to mess things up more than help.

• RSS Guard is a simple (yet powerful) feed reader. It is able to fetch the most known feed formats, including RSS/RDF and ATOM. It’s free, it’s open-source. RSS Guard currently supports Czech, Dutch, English, French, German, Italian. RSS Guard will never depend on other services – this includes online news aggregators like Feedly, The Old Reader and others.

Instructionals/Technical

• Hello, friends. Today, you will learn how to upgrade to Fedora 38 from Fedora 37. Fedora 38 has been recently released as a stable version, including many changes that make it an attractive release this year.

• Combined Apache, PHP, and MySQL create a basic but popular web development stack known as LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP). This open-source stack is widely used for building PHP-based web applications and websites.

• In the digital age, securing your online accounts is more important than ever. Passwords serve as the first line of defense against unauthorized access, and a password manager can help you maintain strong, unique passwords for all your accounts. One such password manager is KeePassXC, a powerful, open-source solution to secure sensitive information.

• Sysdig is an innovative, powerful, and versatile monitoring and troubleshooting solution that caters to the needs of modern containerized environments.

• As a Linux user, you’ve likely encountered RPM (Red Hat Package Manager), a powerful package management system used by various Linux distributions including Red Hat, CentOS, Fedora, OpenSUSE, and more. RPM is known for its simplicity, ease of use, and enhanced security features. In this guide, we’ll explore the RPM command and its practical use cases, from installing and upgrading packages to querying and verifying them. Let’s get started!

• In this tutorial, we will show you how to install MongoDB on Fedora 38. Are you looking to install MongoDB on your Fedora 38 system but don’t know where to start? Look no further!

• In this tutorial, we will show you how to install SELinux on Rocky Linux 9. Are you worried about the security of your system resources?

• In this tutorial, we will show you how to install LAMP Stack on Fedora 38.

• Fedora 38 has been released! This step by step tutorial explains how to upgrade to Fedora 38 from Fedora 37 and older versions.

• In this tutorial, we will use Arduino with a flex sensor to get the degree of bending. Flex sensors are commonly used in applications such

Desktop Environments/WMs

K Desktop Environment/KDE SC/Qt

• New apps join KDE Gear ⚙️ 23.04 and unlock access to fledgling social media platforms, online video streaming services, podcasts, and much more. This new generation of apps are designed to work both on your computer and mobile phone right out of the box.

• But, of course, if you are also looking forward to new versions of the KDE tools you already know and trust, those are here too! Classics like Spectacle, Dolphin, Kdenlive, Kate, and Okular all boast shiny new features, code optimizations, and performance improvements.

Distributions and Operating Systems

Fedora Family / IBM

• Learn the basics of using Redfish and how to set up the Redfish Mockup Server.

• Recent advancements in artificial intelligence (AI) have made the technology more accessible in everyday use, thrusting AI to the forefront in nearly every industry. Executives want to know how they can use AI to optimize and streamline operations, grow their businesses, and increase revenue. Employees want to know how AI can make their jobs easier.

• The pandemic propelled many businesses to adopt digital technologies faster than ever before. While the immediate rush to adopt new technologies and services that address pandemic-related challenges has subsided, investing in digital transformation has not: Worldwide spend on new technologies and services is steadily increasing year over year and will reach US$3.4 trillion by 2026, according to recent Statista research.

• As edge infrastructure scales outside the data center into remote locations, small-factor devices such as IoT, POS, and sensors that have Linux images, need a way to be updated at scale.

• The rpm-ostree core premise is that by default, the updates should base on a whole base image that is created and tested offline, and once ready deployed everywhere into the remote locations, overriding the previous image and lowering the risks of patching at scale.

Red Hat ☛ OpenJDK 8u372 to feature cgroup v2 supportThe control group (cgroup) pseudo filesystem is the key feature enabling resource quotas on containers deployed on Kubernetes. The cgroups filesystem is a Linux kernel feature and comes in one of three forms, depending on the hosts’ configuration:cgroup v2, or unified hierarchycgroup v1, or legacy hierarchyhybrid (basically cgroup v1, but some system services use cgroup v2).

Debian Family

• Tails 5.12 is now available. It comes with several improvements for the persistent storage feature such as secure password generation and a new delete data option after disabling the feature.

Canonical/Ubuntu Family

• Dubbed the “Lunar Lobster”, Ubuntu 23.04 is powered by the latest Linux 6.2 kernel series and features the recently released GNOME 44 desktop environment series. These two changes, which bring numerous new features, will make many Ubuntu users upgrade their existing installations.

• Another major change in the Ubuntu 23.04 release is a brand-new installed for the Ubuntu Desktop edition, which has been in development for a few years now and it’s written entirely in Google’s Flutter UI SDK. While it preserves the functionality of the old installer, the new one is missing support for new ZFS installations.

• The Kubuntu Team is happy to announce that Kubuntu 23.04 has been released, featuring the ‘beautiful’ KDE Plasma 5.27 simple by default, powerful when needed.

• Codenamed “Lunar Lobster”, Kubuntu 23.04 continues our tradition of giving you Friendly Computing by integrating the latest and greatest open source technologies into a high-quality, easy-to-use Linux distribution.

• Ubuntu MATE 23.04 is the least exciting Ubuntu MATE release ever. The good news is, if you liked Ubuntu MATE 22.10 then it is more of the same; just with better artwork! I entered this development cycle full of energy and enthusiasm off the back of the Ubuntu Summit in Prague, but then I was seriously ill and had a long stay in hospital. I’m recovering well and should be 100% in a couple of months. This setback and also changing jobs a couple of months ago has meant that I’ve not been able to invest the usual time and effort into Ubuntu MATE. I’m happy to say that I’ve been able to deliver another solid release with the help of the Ubuntu community.

• Ubuntu 23.04 Lunar Lobster has been released. You can now update or download Ubuntu 23.04. Ubuntu 23.04 Lubar Lobster comes up with some new features and upgrades from existing Ubuntu. Meanwhile, It is not a Long-Term Support version. Ubuntu 23.04 will be supported for 9 months until January 2024.

• It is that time of year, a new Ubuntu release! Ubuntu 23.04.

• However, it is not a Long-Term Support version. So, Ubuntu 23.04, codenamed Lunar Lobster is not everyone.

• If you want the latest and greatest and do not mind upgrading your system within a year, this release is for you. And if you want to stick to one version for a few years, you should continue with Ubuntu 20.04 LTS or Ubuntu 22.04 LTS.

• This update is the latest short-term release of the Ubuntu Linux operating system and is supported by 9 months of ongoing support, bug fixes, and critical app updates. This might not sound like a long time but Ubuntu 23.10 is released in 6 months time and users of this release will be able to upgrade to it.

• From today, Ubuntu 23.04 (Lunar Lobster) will be available for download, publisher Canonical has announced. The release marks a significant step forward for enterprise deployment and customization.

• A unified Ubuntu server and desktop installation engine, Subiquity, supports the same autoinstall configuration workflows for both desktops and servers, making life easier for admins. The Ubuntu 23.04 installer has a refreshed user interface with a modern but familiar first-time user experience, along with new enterprise management capabilities.

• Ubuntu 23.04 ‘Lunar Lobster’ has just hit the streets, and it is packed with a plethora of new features and improvements that are sure to delight Ubuntu enthusiasts and Linux users alike. It is an interim release of Ubuntu, but if you are now entering the Ubuntu world, we will briefly explain.

• Canonical is releasing the next major update to its popular Ubuntu GNU/Linux distribution today. Ubuntu 23.04, also known by the code name “Lunar Lobster,” introduces a new operating system installer, an updated default desktop environment, updates to many pre-installed applications, and smoother downloads and installation of applications packaged in the snap format.

• If you are looking for a KDE-based distribution, Kubuntu is a no-brainer as an official Ubuntu flavour.

• With Kubuntu 23.04, you can expect an enhanced KDE experience and several other improvements.

• Let me take you through the highlights of the Kubuntu 23.04 release.

• Included as part of the Ubuntu 23.04 release, there are the following official flavors: Kubuntu 23.04, Xubuntu 23.04, Lubuntu 23.04, Ubuntu Unity 23.04, Ubuntu Cinnamon 23.04, Edubuntu 23.04, Ubuntu Studio 23.04, Ubuntu MATE 23.04, Ubuntu Budgie 23.04, and Ubuntu Kylin 23.04.

• As you can see, Ubuntu 23.04 comes with two new official flavors, namely Ubuntu Cinnamon and Edubuntu. The Edubuntu 23.04 flavor was already an official flavor but it hasn’t been updated for about nine years. The new release uses the GNOME desktop environment, just like Ubuntu.

Mobile Systems/Mobile Applications

Free, Libre, and Open Source Software

Licensing / Legal

• Fedora Legal will be conducting a SPDX identifier hackfest on April 26, 2023 during a four hour block. Please join us on Wednesday, April 26, 2023 between 10:00 AM EDT / 1400 UTC / 16:00 CEST and 14:00 EDT / 1800 UTC / 20:00 (CEST) on Google Meet. Information is also on the SIGs calendar.

• Software is a cultural artifact, a proxy for the law in the lives of every citizen, a tool for control and for freedom depending on the hand that wields it.  It is imperative that all software is open for scrutiny and preserved for posterity.

Programming/Development

• The latest Qt 6.5 release introduced a lot of new features. You can read about all of them in the recent blog post. This blog post will give an overview of the improvements that we have made to the Qt CAN Bus module.

• You think you’re ready but you’re not.

• In this post, I’m sharing tips & tricks about managing/maintaining an open-source Zig project and mentioning the commonly used practices. I’m also giving a brief introduction to my first-ever Zig project “linuxwave” which led to the writing of this series.

• We outline our plan for future Godot releases and Godot 4.1 specifically, which you can expect at the end of June, after three months of feature merging and one month of bug fixing.

• On April 2, we released Inkscape 1.3 alpha0 for testing! You can get it here.

• Please download this if you would like to help us test the brand-new features for Inkscape 1.3 (or if you’re curious!). Martin also made a funny video for you, where you can learn about testing Inkscape.

Python

• Python is a general-purpose programming language for building anything; from backend web development, data analysis, and artificial intelligence to scientific computing.

Rust

• Hello and welcome to another issue of This Week in Rust!Rust is a programming language empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software.

Leftovers

• Vinson Cunningham, Helen Shaw, and Michael Schulman revisit Andrew Lloyd Webber’s mega-musical.

• Miranda Dickson was told that the color failed “to preserve the character” of the Scottish city’s New Town district, a UNESCO World Heritage site. This week she painted the door peacock green.

Hardware

• Intel hints that it will be designing next-gen chips up to 2000W, and is aiming to get new cooling materials and technologies in place ahead of their arrival.

Health/Nutrition/Agriculture

• In “Spoiled,” the culinary historian Anne Mendelson takes aim at the American fallacy of fresh milk as a wonder food.

• The deal enabled the export of over 28 million tons of grain and foodstuffs from Ukraine’s Black Sea ports.

• Lithuania should seize the opportunity to export more Ukrainian grain via its seaport of Klaipėda, Lithuanian Foreign Minister Gabrielius Landsbergis said on Wednesday.

Proprietary

• Twitter is being removed from yet another big B2B platform. And this time it’s one of the biggest companies in the tech industry.

• Jay Caspian Kang discusses how the killing of Bob Lee exacerbated tensions in San Francisco over crime and prosecution.

• Shortly after reports emerged on Wednesday that Microsoft is about to remove Twitter from its ad platform, Twitter CEO Elon Musk fired back with the threat of a lawsuit, claiming the computer giant illegally used Twitter’s data, such as users’ tweets, to train its artificial intelligence (AI) tools.

Security

• Oracle’s April 2023 critical patch update (CPU) includes 433 new security patches, including more than 70 that fix critical vulnerabilities.

• A subgroup of Iran-linked APT Phosphorus (Mint Sandstorm) has started to quickly adopt PoC exploit code targeting vulnerabilities in internet-facing applications.

• US and UK government agencies have issued a joint warning for Russian group APT28 targeting Cisco routers by exploiting an old vulnerability.

Privacy/Surveillance

• The EDRi network published amendments and recommendations for the European Media Freedom Act (EMFA) proposal calling for comprehensive protection for journalists, journalistic sources and human defenders against surveillance measures.

• EDRi member in the Czech Republic Iuridicum Remedium handed out its anti-prizes for the eighteenth time in March 2023. 2022 was exceptional: one of the “awardees” came for the award, and the others had to express themselves under the pressure from the media.

• Newborn screening programs are a vital public health measure implemented in the U.S. and across the world, with about one third of babies born globally undergoing some screening. As part of this program in the U.S., nearly every baby born has blood drawn soon after birth, and that blood is tested for a panel of potentially life-threatening inherited disorders. Current newborn screening programs have been invaluable, both in lowering medical costs through early detection and intervention and in decreasing the toll of human suffering that comes from a late diagnosis. Unfortunately, innovation in this field is rapidly outpacing the law, leaving families vulnerable to privacy invasions.

• In October 2022, a global consortium of scientists and other newborn DNA sequencing researchers convened to discuss a bold possibility for future care: Every baby born in the U.S. could have their full genome sequenced as an addition to existing newborn screening programs. This means that doctors would have on record all of the baby’s DNA, in addition to drawing their blood and testing for specific, known inherited disorders that can cause serious health problems at birth. The data derived from the blood samples now is fairly limited and only relevant to the baby’s health at birth. This includes data on the date, location, and time of birth; the mother’s name and address, the disorder being screened for, and a value indicating whether the baby is likely to have a particular hereditary disorder.

• We recently tried out the Swan Alexa Smart Kettle, the first kettle with an official Alexa partnership. It could be the closest you get to having a butler, but do you really need one?

Defence/Aggression

Axios ☛ A U.S. arms race with Russia and China could spin out of controlThe U.S. suddenly faces a new arms race that could be more dangerous than the Cold War: This time there will be three nuclear superpowers.The big picture: China is on track to become a nuclear peer with the U.S. and Russia — and Moscow and Beijing have shown signs they could align against Washington.Chinese President Xi Jinping’s apparent determination to close the gap with the Cold War-era nuclear behemoths, and his increasingly close relations with Russian President Vladimir Putin, mean the next arms race could be more unpredictable than the last one.

• Denmark and the Netherlands will jointly donate 14 Leopard 2 tanks to Ukraine, the two countries said on April 20.

• Ukraine’s space agency says a flash of light that appeared on April 19 over the capital was not due to a falling NASA satellite, as earlier reported by the military.

• Defense Secretary Lloyd J. Austin III, visiting Sweden, said he hoped that objections to adding the country to the alliance would be ironed out by midsummer, when member states meet in Lithuania.

• China is advancing its superpower status in the world’s coldest regions. And to get there faster, the country has built stronger ties to Russia to supply equipment in the Arctic, a new report by the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) reveals.

• Pakistan has placed its first order for discounted Russian crude oil under a new deal struck between Islamabad and Moscow, the country’s petroleum minister said, with one cargo to dock at Karachi port in May.

• NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg is visiting Kyiv for the first time since the start of Russia’s unprovoked invasion of Ukraine, an alliance official said on April 20, as Russia rained more drones on Ukrainian civilians amid heavy fighting in the east.

• The United States is sending Ukraine about $325 million in additional military aid, including an enormous amount of artillery rounds and ammunition, the Pentagon said on April 19.

• China is on track to massively expand its nuclear arsenal, just as Russia suspends the last major arms control treaty. It augurs a new world in which Beijing, Moscow and Washington will likely be atomic peers.

• In an interview with The Breach, the scholar discusses Canadian imperialism, the dangers of NATO and building a better future

• What led the two generals, recently allies, to turn their forces on each other — devastating a country of 45 million people?

• New NATO plans for the defence of its eastern flank would keep Russian forces out of the Baltics, says Estonian Defence Minister Hanno Pevkur, confirming reports by the New York Times.

Axios ☛ Scores killed in stampede in Yemen’s capital, officials sayAt least 78 people were killed in a stampede at a financial aid distribution event in Yemen’s capital, Sanaa, late Wednesday, Reuters reported, citing official Houthi media. Driving the news: Witnesses told AP that the stampede took place when an electrical line exploded after armed Houthi rebels fired into the air to try to control the crowd. The event was organized by merchants to give out charitable donations at a school to mark the final days of the holy month of Ramadan, per Reuters. Dozens were injured, AP reported. Houthi officials said two of the event’s organizers had been detained and an investigation was underway.

• Switzerland says it is adding the Russian private mercenary group Wagner and the RIA FAN news agency to its sanctions list.

• The strategically important country in northeastern Africa has been consumed by fighting between two military factions, with plans for a transition to a civilian-led democracy now in shambles.

• NATO’s Baltic defence plans are expected to be approved in principle by June’s meeting of the alliance’s defence ministers, according to Deividas Matulionis, Lithuania’s ambassador to the organisation.

• A burning candle was thrown into the grounds of the Belarusian Embassy in Vilnius on Thursday night, police said.

• “The West has given Ukraine enough to survive, but not enough to win.”

• Just over 100 days into his newest tenure as prime minister, questions are mounting about whether Benjamin Netanyahu can keep Israel united and secure, his extremist partners at bay, and his government intact.

• The French president may have caused upset by saying the EU should be more independent in its dealings with China. But analysts suspect other EU leaders may feel the same – even as pressure to side with the US increases.

• If Russia can claim victory in Ukraine, it would catastrophic for European security, says Wolfgang Ischinger, a German diplomat and former head of the Munich Security Conference.

• The special inspector general for Afghanistan’s reconstruction accused the Biden administration of blocking his efforts to track assistance.

• The Pacific country is forging closer security ties to countries in the AUKUS nuclear subs pact.

Transparency/Investigative Reporting

Environment

• All but one of 16 demonstrators who were pepper sprayed are demanding that officers pay them 1,500 euros each in damages.

Energy/Transportation

• Fatih Özer had fled Turkey last year after shutting down his cryptocurrency exchange.

• Taylor Swift’s inquisitiveness saved her from jumping on the doomed FTX bandwagon.

Wildlife/Nature

• The country aggressively tries to control invasive species, but the culling event, which was to be part of a bigger hunting competition, generated a backlash.

Overpopulation

• We look at India’s looming status as the world’s most populous country and also give you the latest on the Fox News settlement.

Finance

Axios ☛ McCarthy unveils $1.5 trillion debt ceiling packageHouse Speaker Kevin McCarthy proposed a debt ceiling increase on Wednesday of $1.5 trillion — paired with a package of spending cuts.Why it matters: If McCarthy can get Republicans to pass the plan through the House — which is far from certain — he’ll have something concrete in negotiations with the White House. In a speech on the House floor, McCarthy said the plan includes the following spending cuts: Setting discretionary spending at Fiscal Year 2022 levelsCapping spending growth at 1% a yearPulling back unspent COVID fundsRepealing IRS funding legislationHouse energy legislation called HR1Ending President Biden’s student loan forgivenessRepealing some Inflation Reduction Act tax credits

• Lithuanian Deputy Finance Minister Gediminas Norkūnas, who was found by an ethics watchdog to have been in a conflict of interest over owning a stake in a state-controlled energy company, is stepping down and is leaving office on April 28, the Finance Ministry said on Thursday.

• Helsinki Research Forum recently updated its estimates on the vacancy rates of the central office areas in the Helsinki metropolitan area, as well as the current state of the office stock. As of the end of March, there were approximately 528,000 square meters of empty office space, with an average vacancy rate of 12.6 percent.

• The research group examined the use of office space in a total of 12 different neighborhoods in Helsinki, Espoo, and Vantaa.

• This month’s figures sets student loan interest in September but a cap will protect graduates from soaring inflation

• Pandemic-era bans on evictions have evoked a healthy rethink on ways to curb adversity and costs of evicting tenants.

• Most House Republicans haven’t even begun to dig into the GOP leadership’s 230-page debt ceiling bill, but some key lawmakers are already signaling they are prepared to vote for it.

• Why it matters: House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) hopes that showing he can get 218 votes for a debt ceiling increase and corresponding budget cuts finally could bring the White House to the negotiating table.

• The largest public sector union in Canada went on strike on Wednesday over wages and return to office rules, causing delays to border crossings and passport and income tax services.

• Just like US inflation overall, prices on housing rentals continue to rise, but at a much slower pace than a year ago. What does that mean for rents in the months ahead? Economists are about to get their closest look yet.

AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics

• Micropayments are the revenue solution that won’t go away. But can they ever work for news?

• For years, denialists have said that the Mueller indictment charging twelve GRU hackers in the hack-and-leak of the DNC and other victims might not be proven in court. Here’s how DOJ proved a hack-and-trade case involving one of those twelve.

• The year is 2026. Turns out that, in spite of much evidence to the contrary in 2023, early Wittgenstein was wrong, and language is neither used nor particularly useful as a substrate for communicating direction information about reality.

• Language models and multimedia generation models have really come to form, TikTok has now removed all human content creators, and most moderately intelligent people suspect somewhere between all and most “social media” “creators” to be bots.

• Still, while having made the online and “knowledge work” space significantly weirder, in some ways it’s all the same. A lot of spam, most people are employed to think, speak and type question whether or not their job has any use of meaning, and everyone’s trying to sell you something.

• Snap CEO Evan Spiegel is making no secret of the threat TikTok poses.

• The past month for social media regulation has been nothing short of chaotic, to put it lightly. From the congressional hearing with TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew to members of the Senate bringing forward the RESTRICT Act, social media regulation has been a major focus of the federal government.

• The presidential veto and the proposal to impose the same restrictions on Russian and Belarusian citizens is not right, Speaker of the Lithuanian Seimas Viktorija Čmilytė-Nielsen says, adding that it runs against Lithuania’s established stance towards the Belarusian opposition.

• A Moscow court has ordered the arrest of former Russian Deputy Culture Minister Olga Yarilova on suspicion of involvement in a fraud that led to the alleged embezzlement of 200 million rubles ($2.5 million).

Censorship/Free Speech

• Recent government mandates across the world calling for greater internet regulation and requiring social media sites remove user-generated content.

• A Montana county’s battle shows how faith in public learning and public space is fraying.

• The Bolshoi Theater in Moscow has dropped a ballet about Russian dance legend Rudolf Nureyev from its repertoire after a law on so-called “gay propaganda” was tightened.

• Azerbaijani media say 20 people allegedly affiliated with Iran’s Intelligence Ministry were arrested on April 19 as relations between the two countries fray.

Freedom of Information / Freedom of the Press

• Monitor contributor Fahad Shah’s long detention and ongoing trial raise questions about India’s approach to terrorism.

• The top appeals court had previously overturned Güleş’s sentence for the same offense.

• The reason for the detention is not yet clear. Akinan recently interviewed a social media figure who has been leveling corruption allegations against government officials and businesspeople.

Civil Rights/Policing

• Read in Burmese Last month, the Myanmar military issued a slew of new by-laws pursuant to the country’s 2014 Counter Terrorism Act – all of which give the junta vast

• Troops killed 5 People’s Defense Force members during fierce fighting.

• My name is Sara Alsherif, and I am excited to introduce myself as the new Programme Manager for the Migrant Digital Justice Programme. I am a human rights defender and digital rights researcher with a master’s degree in digital media from the University of Sussex.

• The case centers around the death of an 18-year-old woman who accused a military officer for sexual assault before attempting to kill herself.

• Research by Gözlemevi, an initiative working to raise awareness about digital political ad activities, reveals that the platform most frequently used for this purpose shows political ads overwhelmingly to men.

Internet Policy/Net Neutrality

• In 2022, a new top-level domain suffix, .day, was introduced to the Internet by Google.

• The Anzac.Day domain name has been registered by a German:

Monopolies

Patents

• The EPO has commissioned two artists to transform old paper patent applications into exciting new artworks for The Hague and Munich

• On April 17, 2023, Unified Patents filed an ex parte reexamination proceeding against U.S. Patent 8,484,260, owned by Entangled Media LLC. The patent relates to operating on files located on multiple devices using a singular file system and is being asserted against Dropbox.

• View district court litigations by Entangled Media.

• On April 19, 2023, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) instituted trial on all challenged claims in an PGR filed by Unified against U.S. Patent 11,212,553, owned by the Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI) and Hanbat National University Industry-Academic Cooperation Foundation.

• Avanci has announced electronics giant Samsung as its newest licensor, after the Korean company signed an agreement to join the patent pool’s Avanci Vehicle 4G, Avanci Aftermarket and Avanci Broadcast licensing programmes.

Trademarks

• In an extremely rare ex parte double reversal, the Board tossed out two refusals to register the mark BEAUTY POPS for a “cosmetic kit for applying superfoods that function as a facial mask for nourishing and revitalizing the skin, the kit comprising face mask powder, tray, spatula and spoon, the foregoing used, when the powder is mixed with water and frozen, to create an applicator that has the appearance of a lollipop.” The Board found the mark not likely to cause confusion with the registered mark POPBEAUTY for “cosmetics and non-medicated skin care preparations” under Section 2(d) and not merely descriptive of the goods, under Section 2(e)(1). However, Applicant Lynda Truong was required to disclaim the word BEAUTY. In re Lynda Truong, Serial No. 90612249 (April 13, 2023) [not precedential] (Opinion by Judge Cindy B. Greenbaum).

• The USPTO refused to register the mark FREEDOM X, in standard character and stylized forms, for “cannulas for oxygen concentrators for medical applications,” finding confusion likely with the registered mark OXLIFE FREEDOM for “oxygen concentrators for medical applications.” The Board found the goods to be related and complementary, since “cannulas for oxygen concentrators for medical applications are necessarily used with oxygen concentrators for medical applications – at the same time, by the same consumers.” But what about the marks? How do you think this came out? In re 3B Medical, Inc., Serial Nos. 88948110 and 88953956 (April 17, 2023) [not precedential] (Opinion by Judge Robert H. Coggins).

Copyrights

• From cabbage green to course meal, medieval manuscripts exhibit a spectrum of colours and consistencies when describing urine. Katherine Harvey examines the complex practices of uroscopy: how physicians could divine sexual history, disease, and impending death by studying the body’s liquid excretions.

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