● 06.10.23

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● Links 10/06/2023: Wine 8.10

Posted in News Roundup at 8:41 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz

GNU/Linux

Server

• Fedora Server and Ubuntu Server have long been key players in enterprise applications, offering robust functionality for web and application servers. Each has a unique blend of features and benefits that make them suitable for various uses.

Applications

• Audacity audio editor released version 3.3.3 a day ago. The new release fixed the Filter Curve EQ and Graphic EQ scaling when resizing the dialog. Previously, resizing it only cause large blank area while leaving EQ unchanged. The release also fixed audio.com upload flow.

• With webspam, chaff, sponsored puff pieces and worse things being presented as “the news” we’re running out of actual purpose for the World Wide Web

Instructionals/Technical

• If you’re refurbishing an old box that’s only detecting your DDR4-2133 or 2400 as 1867 MHz, get into the BIOS and disable POR: [...]

• In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Portainer on Debian 11. Looking to simplify your container management? Portainer is your answer! This fantastic open-source tool makes it easy to manage and deploy your containerized applications.

• SuiteCRM is an open-source customer relationship management solution written in PHP. It’s a fork of the popular SugarCRM. In this post, you will learn how to install SuiteCRM using the Nginx web server and Let’s Encrypt SSL on a Rocky Linux 9 server.

• Puppet is a centralized configuration management and automation tool. This guide shows you how to install Puppet Server and Agent on AlmaLinux servers. We’ll also show you how to start with the Puppet configuration management tool by creating the first Puppet deployment for LAMP Stack.

• When it comes to Linux desktop environments, diversity is one of the greatest strengths. KDE Plasma, often simply referred to as KDE, is one such desktop environment that has been honed over the years for optimum performance and aesthetics.

• In Linux, creating a new user and setting up an SSH key for them is a common task, especially in environments that require secure and efficient remote access. SSH keys provide a more secure way of logging in compared to passwords.

• Tor Browser is an open-source software toolset that serves as a formidable guardian of user privacy and online freedom. Developed by the Tor Project, the browser is essentially a modified version of Mozilla Firefox, equipped with several privacy-focused enhancements.

• As the digital world continues to evolve, Next.js stands as a beacon of progress in the sphere of web development. Developed by Vercel, Next.js is a robust, open-source JavaScript framework that enables the creation of high-performing static websites and server-side rendered applications, leveraging the power of React.js.

• In this post, you will learn how to install Sentry using Docker. This method ensures compatibility but, above all, ease of processing. Sentry is an open-source application that works as a real-time error monitor.

• In this tutorial, you will learn how to install flask and create a simple web app using flask.

• Flask is a python web framework that you can use to create python web apps.

• If you are a python programmer or just starting to learn python, and want to build web

• Introduction Docker images have become an integral part of the modern software development process, particularly with the adoption of containerization technology. A Docker image is a pre-configured package that contains all the dependencies and libraries needed to run an application.

WINE or Emulation

• Wine 8.10 has been released to the development branch. It comes with several improvements and bug fixes. Wine lets you run Windows programs in both Linux and macOS with some success.

Desktop Environments/WMs

GNOME Desktop/GTK

• Want to thank the GNOME extension developers for their work? They now have the option to add a donate button.

Distributions and Operating Systems

• As is the usual way of things, the monthly Activity Report is hereby combined with my Contract Report.

• This report covers hrev56962 through hrev57061. It was quite a busy month!

• jscipione fixed Deskbar’s window size limits in horizontal mode, and cleaned up some parts of its source code.

• jscipione reworked Tracker’s handling of read-only folders and volumes. Now, instead of triggering errors, menu actions related to editing will simply be disabled outright. In addition, the faded gray background (which was already used for queries, virtual directories, and some other special views) will also be used in any read-only folder or volume. He also cleaned up and refactored some of the code for clarity and consistency.

Fedora Family / IBM

• Red Hat, Inc., the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, today announced a collaboration with ETAS, the Bosch subsidiary responsible for the development of application-independent software for vehicles and the cloud, to deliver an in-vehicle automotive platform that will lower the development cost and further accelerate time-to-market for automakers. This pre-integrated and pre-tested foundation platform will provide automakers with a streamlined out-of-the-box developer experience to deliver application software. The ETAS deterministic middleware solution will significantly accelerate the development of advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) applications with Red Hat In-Vehicle Operating System positioned to provide a continuously-certified and open standards-based operating system.

• Whether the latest incarnations of generative AI will live up to their seemingly great promise remains to be seen. This does not always happen with new technology, but the torrent of AI advancements is promising disruption across nearly every industry. Instead of posing a threat to human roles, AI now aims to make tasks easier, faster and more efficient. “This is precisely what we have been trying to achieve with Ansible and automation through generative AI models,” according to Richard Henshall, senior manager of Ansible Product Management at Red Hat. “At the end of the day, AI is another form of automation, and while we do not have thinking computers yet, we do have highly advanced and powerful models that can automate access to data.”

• Edge computing continues to push the boundaries and capabilities of modern information technology (IT). At the same time, operational technology (OT) requirements are becoming more and more aligned with IT. As a result, a paradigm shift is taking place in the industrial sector as manufacturers turn to open source technologies to support more agile operational technology (OT) platform architecture and capture real-time data insights at the edge. In fact, IDC predicts that by 2024, 30% of industrial organizations will have become leaner and more agile than their competitors as a result of making real-time operational insights available anytime, anywhere, to anyone1.

Debian Family

• As I blogged before, I’ve been working on a Planet Venus replacement. This is necessary, because Planet Venus, unfortunately, has not been maintained for a long time, and is a Python 2 (only) application which has never been updated to Python 3.

Canonical/Ubuntu Family

• Ubuntu 23.10 will feature enhanced tiling capabilities, allowing users to easily snap windows to the four corners, as well as horizontally and vertically. This feature could improve productivity.

• Ubuntu snap developers can now progressively release their apps to end users. This will let app creators test their app among a subsection of users to ensure there are no lingering bugs.

Devices/Embedded

• The WuKong Board H3 Zero is a small single board computer powered by a quad-core Allwinner H3 processor. The board comes with 10/100Mbps Ethernet support and various GPIOs for interfacing external devices.

• This board appears to be a Orange Pi Zero LTS clone since it features the same processor and provides very similar peripherals. The product page mentions that the standard version comes with 256MB SDRAM, but it can support up to 512MB.

• The User Manual indicates that the 26-pin header interface is similar to the pinout of the Raspberry Pi Model A/B. The WuKong board is also compatible with operating systems such as Android, Ubuntu, Debian, etc.

• ICOP also highlights the dev board’s open frame design since it facilitates easy integration into diverse applications; it can be conveniently mounted on surfaces or within enclosures. Additionally, the open-frame design allows for flexible customization, enabling users to add peripherals and connectors as needed.

• Axiomtek AIE110-XNX Edge AI developer kit provides up to 21 TOPS of accelerated AI computing performance thanks to an NVIDIA Jetson Xavier NX system-on-module with a 6-core NVIDIA Carmel ARM v8.2 64-bit CPU and a 384-core NVIDIA Volta GPU with 48 Tensor Cores.

• ADLINK Technology’s i-PI SMARC 1200 is an industrial prototyping kit for AI IoT and Robotics based on a SMARC 2.1 compliant LEC-MTK-I12000 system-on-module (SoM) powered by the MediaTek Genio 1200 (MT8395) octa-core Cortex-A78/A55 AIoT processor with a 4.8 TOPS AI processor. The company sent me a sample for evaluation and review, and in this first post, I’ll go through an unboxing and how to boot the system with the supported Yocto Linux or Ubuntu. i-Pi SMARC 1200 unboxing The i-Pi SMARC 1200 may be destined for industrial users, but it still comes with a neat retail package. The “i-Pi LEC-MTK-I1200-44-64G/EU” kit features a CPU module with 4GB LPDDR4 memory and 64GB UFS storage.

Open Hardware/Modding

• For fans of Harry Potter, Hogwarts Legacy is a dream game. It drops you into the Potterverse where you can become a wizard, casting spells and riding brooms to your heart’s content. It is a very immersive game, but you lose some of that immersion when you realize you’re actually just pushing buttons on a gamepad.

Free, Libre, and Open Source Software

Web Browsers/Web Servers

Mozilla

• More than ever, we need a movement to ensure the internet remains a force for good. The Mozilla Internet Ecosystem (MIECO) program fuels this movement by supporting people who are looking to advance a more human-centered internet.

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• Born in Adelaide, Australia to a Malaysian Chinese family, Brendan’s experience spans wide: He frequently visited Asia, earning a joint undergraduate degree at the National University of Singapore and the Australian National University. Before going to graduate school in Oxford, where he would get his Ph.D. in computer science, he studied with the mathematical physicist John Baez. Baez became one of his Ph.D. advisers and a close collaborator, and he now sits on the advisory council at the Topos Institute, where Brendan is chief executive.

• AlgebraicJulia, Brendan’s project with the MIECO program, aims to create new approaches to scientific computing by bridging the gap between stakeholders in different fields, facilitating structured and formal communication between them.

• AlgebraicJulia can produce easy-to-understand visualizations and predictions by creating models that, for example, can predict the spread of diseases and the impact of human behavior. This feature can help build trust between stakeholders and the public, thereby making the technology sphere more reflective of human values.

• As Brendan put it, “The goal is to make [these theories] useful for the general public without individuals having to go through all the technical aspects of mastering them. Instead, we hope to use them to create tools for better communication and cooperation.”

Programming/Development

Shell/Bash/Zsh/Ksh

• Not all characters are equal in Bash. Some of them carry out special functions, tweak commands, and help us manipulate data. That’s why we’ve compiled the following list with the most important Bash special characters. Read on to find out how to use them and how they can make your daily Bash life easier.

Leftovers

• This isn’t the first time Apple has introduced a bulky piece of hardware that nobody is sure people will want to buy. Can Apple pull off another wearable revolution?

Science

• And science set her free.

• It all adds up. (Or down?)

Hardware

• What Iran’s military called “the first product of the quantum processing algorithm” of the Naval university appears to be a stock development board.

• The US CHIPS Act, the measure that oversees the distribution of around $280 billion in funding for semiconductor-related pursuits, may not have as secure a funding guarantee as previously thought.

• Apple’s M2 Ultra cannot beat Intel’s Core i9-13900K, thrashed by AMD’s Threadripper Pro and Intel’s Xeon W9.

• A federal judge in Seattle rejected the proposed dismissal of a lawsuit targeting Apple and Amazon for inflating the prices of iPhones and iPads on Thursday (June 9).

Health/Nutrition/Agriculture

• Canada will now attend USMCA consultation meetings between the U.S. and Mexico as an interested party, since it exports GM produce to Mexico.

• The United Nations World Food Program said Friday that it is temporarily suspending food aid to Ethiopia because its supplies are being diverted, an announcement that came a day after the United States Agency for International Development said it was doing the same.

• The EU water quality assessment does not include toxic blue-green algae blooms, though.

• Cocaine use is steadily increasing, particularly in the capital region, but in other cities, its use has been low or even non-existent, according to the THL.

• Up to 9 months younger.

• Makes you that much stronger.

• A web of lessons.

• A panel of Food and Drug Administration advisers on Friday unanimously endorsed an experimental Alzheimer’s drug that’s been shown to have modest success slowing the progression of the disease, clearing a hurdle for full agency approval.

• Allina Health, a large health system in the Midwest, had withheld care for patients who had $4,500 in medical bills.

• There’s a lifeguard shortage in America. It’s been going on for a century.

• The arduous six-hour rescue in May came during an especially deadly spring climbing season on the world’s highest mountain.

Security

• PowerShell remains an excellent way to compromise computers. Many PowerShell scripts found in the wild are usually obfuscated.

Defence/Aggression

• French President Emmanuel Macron on Friday visited the hospital where preschool children who were wounded in a knife attack in the Alpine town of Annecy were being treated. Four children and two adults were injured in the attack by a Syrian refugee. The president said that their conditions were improving.

• Two adults and four children were injured in the assault, which shocked the country and could have been worse if not for the intervention of a 24-year-old man known only as Henri.

• The attacker slashed at the 24-year-old man with the knife that he used to savagely stab one young child after another. But rather than run, Henri held his ground – using a weighty backpack he was carrying to swing at the assailant and fend off his blade.

• Lithuania and Germany share the same views on defence, Speaker of the Lithuanian Seimas Viktorija Čmilytė-Nielsen said on Friday after her meeting with visiting President of the German Bundestag Barbel Bas in Vilnius.

• The twin island state of Trinidad and Tobago lies between the South American coast of Venezuela and the West Indies. Home to roughly 1.5 million inhabitants of African and Indian descent, the tiny Caribbean nation has one of the world’s highest volunteer rates for the Islamic State (IS) group. Between 2013 and 2016, more than 130 Trinidadians left to join the IS group, making the island country one of the world’s biggest recruiting grounds, per capita, for would-be jihadists. Since the fall of the self-declared caliphate in 2017, 90 Trinidad and Tobago nationals, including 56 children, have been detained in camps in Syria and are unable to return home. FRANCE 24′s Cyrille Charpentier and Damien Lansade report.

• Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has decided to postpone next week’s scheduled meeting on the highly sensitive settlement plan in the E1 area of the occupied West Bank, two Israeli officials told Axios.

• NATO is more optimistic that Turkey will approve Sweden’s membership before or soon after an alliance summit next month.

• Observers question whether the NUG’s absence points to a schism within the opposition.

• Channel C struggles to cover costs after trying to fill a void left by strict government censorship

• At least one United Nations peacekeeper was killed and four others seriously injured when their patrol was attacked in northern Mali on Friday, the peacekeeping mission MINUSMA said.

• The United Nations on Friday expressed support for its envoy to Sudan, saying a decision by local authorities to declare Volker Perthes ‘persona non grata’ was a violation of international law.

• June 10, 2023 5:00 AM

• ST Correspondent Chang May Choon recalls the challenges and surprises as her eight-year posting in Seoul ends.

• A previously unexploded mortar shell went off as children were playing around it in a city in southern Somalia.

• In this country, the armed conflict, bullets, bombs, and armored vehicles took the lives of hundreds of children. The perpetrators have either not stood trial at all, or received minor punishments, almost like rewards. The systematic impunity is creating new perpetrators every day.

• President Aleksandar Vucic, who has been the target of protests in Belgrade, has been playing up his role defending Serbs in Kosovo, where tensions have recently flared.

• The Islamic State group has claimed responsibility for an explosion inside a mosque during a funeral service for a Taliban official in the northern Afghanistan province of Badakhshan.

• A judge overseeing the case against a man charged with killing four University of Idaho students is considering whether to revoke or alter a gag order that largely bars attorneys and other parties in the case from speaking with news reporters. A coalition of more than 30 media organizations has challenged the order during a hearing Friday, saying it violates the Constitution’s guarantees of free speech and a free press. A lawyer for one of the victim’s families has also made that argument in the case set to be heard Friday. But prosecutors and the defendant’s lawyers insist it’s needed to prevent prejudicial news coverage that could damage Bryan Kohberger’s right to a fair trial.

Transparency/Investigative Reporting

Environment

• Experts say the country may face higher temperatures than last year’s records.

• The US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) declared on Thursday that the El Nino climate pattern is now underway, bringing the threat of more frequent tropical cyclones in the Pacific, increased rainfall and flooding in parts of the Americas and rising temperatures across the globe.

• AENOS ARGOSTOLI, Kefalonia, Greece – Aenos National Park achieves official designation by DarkSky International as the first certified International Dark Sky Park in Greece.

Energy/Transportation

• The crown prince claimed in private that “he will not deal with the U.S. administration anymore” and promised “major economic consequences for Washington,” according to the document.

• European Commission Speech Copenhagen, 09 Jun 2023 I am very happy to be with you here today. Without exaggeration, you are among the most influential actors in Europe’s green transition.

• European Commission News Brussels, 09 Jun 2023 In December 2022, during the EU – Western Balkans Summit, when the EU re-confirmed its full and unequivocal commitment to the European Union membership…

• Use of biofuel – part of a key dispute in the ongoing government formation talks – declined last year.

• Vortex Energy Corporation has said it has identified two large salt structures suitable for hydrogen storage in Newfoundland, Canada, each exceeding a storage volume of over two million metres3.

• Saudi Arabia’s goal is to get 480 companies to open regional headquarters by 2030 to grow the Saudi economy.

• AMLO spoke with U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg about Mexico’s aviation safety and the development of cargo routes to AIFA.

• The implosion of Three Arrows Capital, a cryptocurrency hedge fund, devastated the industry. Its two founders spent the next year surfing, meditating and traveling the world.

• Binance is breaking up with the US dollar because the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) lawsuit against the crypto exchange, which alleges that it offered customer unregistered securities, has strained its US banking relationships.

• Californians have always loved their cars but now the state’s public transit system has lost $2 billion in government funding. A decline in ridership during the pandemic is partly to blame, but advocates say scaling back will weaken the system even more.

• Infrastructure consulting firm AECOM has been appointed to oversee the expansion of The Chemours Company’s green hydrogen facility in Villers-Saint Paul, France.

• Four Indigenous children who had been missing for more than a month in the Colombian Amazon rainforest were found alive and flown to the capital Bogota early Saturday.

• The situation as it unfolds.

• Congress will consider rolling back an Obama-era rule that requires airlines to show the total cost of a ticket when advertising fares. Republicans and Democrats on the House Transportation Committee proposed Friday to let airlines exclude taxes and fees from advertised fares, as long as the full price is available by clicking a hyperlink or through some other way. That’s in a bill to reauthorize the Federal Aviation Administration for five more years. The bill would also make it slightly easier to become an airline pilot by increasing the amount of training that can be done in simulators instead of flying a plane.

Wildlife/Nature

• Thick, smoky air from Canadian wildfires made for days of misery in New York City and across the U.S. Northeast this week. But for much of the rest of the world, breathing dangerously polluted air is an inescapable fact of life — and death. Almost the entire world breathes air that exceeds the World Health Organization’s air-quality limits at least occasionally. The danger grows worse when that bad air is more persistent than the nightmarish shroud that hit the U.S. — usually in developing or newly industrialized nations. Many such nations have weak or little-enforced environmental laws. They suffer increased air pollution for other reasons, too, including a reliance on coal, lower vehicle emissions standards and the burning of solid fuels for cooking and heating.

• Waking up to the red sun in the morning when sailors take warning is a miracle nevertheless. The world turns as it always has. Early in June here in the grand country of Canada, in the province of Quebec the lily of the valley honeys the air.

• Of the more than 400 fires burning in Canada, more than one-third are in Quebec, which has little experience with so many and such large wildfires.

• Federal and provincial governments have pledged to match donations to the Canadian Red Cross for those affected by wildfires in Nova Scotia, Alberta and the Northwest Territories.

• Ancient ancestors we never knew about?

• “How do you respond to challenges?”

• Wildfires have so far ravaged some 45,000 square kilometers of land in Canada.

• High temperatures and dry conditions have created a heightened risk of forest fires, according to the State Fire and Rescue Service (VUGD) and the Latvian Environment, Geology and Meteorology Center (LVĢMC) June 9.

• Provincial firefighting agencies are stretched thin, there is no national agency and it’s hard to get approval for controlled burns — factors that have exacerbated recent outbreaks.

• Canada’s devastating fires and toxic smoke might not recur every year, but the heat from climate change increases the risks of a wide range of disasters.

• Smoke from Canadian wildfires shrouded US cities in a noxious haze again Thursday, delaying flights and disrupting outdoor events in what President Joe Biden called a “stark reminder” of climate change.

• Wild fires started earlier, are higher in number and spread across much of the country, burning millions of acres as climate change turns more of the country’s forest into a tinderbox.

• According to a recent University of Michigan study that synthesized datasets from Chicago and the Amazon rainforest, birds have been getting smaller as climate change progresses. This effect is most pronounced in smaller bird species.

Finance

• Our CEO Travis Bembenek shares his thoughts on the accelerating strength of Mexico’s currency and its impact on individuals and businesses.

• Reporter Pamela Cerdeira placed Airtags on the rice and toilet paper she gave a Mexico City collection center, then tracked their movements.

• Mehmet Şimşek, the Finance Minister in the new cabinet, wanted to have Erkan, a CEO in the finance sector in the US, as the Governor of the bank.

• If the Supreme Court knocks down US President Joe Biden’s attempt to wipe out a chunk of the nation’s student loan debt, it’s unlikely that Biden will pursue other population-wide debt cancellations from the Education Department, according to a report from the Wall Street Journal based on anonymous sources.

• Should it be 2 percent or bust? Probably not.

• The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe has released an official statement on the Nostro account issue. If you were under a rock, a couple of leaked bank memos raised concerns about the status of Nostro accounts in the country.

• The smartest insight and analysis, from all perspectives, rounded up from around the web:

• A surprisingly strong jobs report should put recession talk to rest, said Jonathan Levin in Bloomberg. The Labor Department last week reported that employers added 339,000 jobs in May, “the most since January and a number entirely out of line with widespread predictions of an imminent recession.” In addition to May’s report, “significant upward revisions to previous months’ data” show that the labor market “isn’t even really cooling off — let alone collapsing.” Economists have been “projecting a weaker economy ‘just around the corner’ all year,” thanks to the Federal Reserve’s interest rate increases. Headlines about mass layoffs at big tech firms and Wall Street banks added to the feeling of economic gloom. But concerns about the labor market, consumer spending and company earnings look overstated.

• Twitter has refused to pay its Google Cloud bills as its contract comes up for renewal this month, which could result in the social media company’s trust and safety teams being crippled, Platformer reported on Saturday.

• Provisional data published on June 9 by the Central Statistical Bureau (CSB) show that in April 2023 the foreign trade turnover of Latvia amounted to EUR 3.5 billion, which at current prices was 10.6 % less than a year ago.

AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics

• The federal indictment against Donald Trump accuses the former president of illegally hoarding classified documents at his Florida estate after leaving the White House in 2021, and then scheming and lying to thwart government efforts to recover them. Justice Department prosecutors brought 37 felony counts against Trump in their indictment, relying upon photographs from Mar-a-Lago, surveillance video, text messages between staffers, Trump’s own words, those of his lawyers, and other evidence. An aide to Trump, Walt Nauta, was charged as a co-conspirator with six felony counts.

• The Republican-led House Judiciary Committee on Friday doubled down on its request for the Justice Department to provide documents about the FBI’s search of Mar-a-Lag0 last year.

• The former Fox host is embracing his new outsider status with “Tucker on Twitter.”

• Fake Instagram accounts, offensive Facebook comments, and pro se parents.

• Beijing has positioned itself as a mediator in regional conflicts in the Middle East.

• US Secretary of State had canceled February trip over alleged Chinese spy balloon

• Dark-blue uniformed officials are unleashed to crack down on ‘uncivilized’ behavior in film, TV, culture.

• To understand the significance of this week’s U.S. Supreme Court ruling, books about the Deep South’s changes in the 20th century are critical to read.

• For an architect trying to renovate his beloved but crumbling Palace of Justice in Brussels, once the largest building in the world, the design challenges pale compared with the political ones.

• Former US president Donald Trump was indicted on 37 counts in a classified documents probe, including a charge under the Espionage Act.

• The Secret Service will not seek “special accommodations” ahead of former President Donald Trump’s arraignment in a Miami federal courthouse on charges related to his alleged mishandling of classified documents.

• The feds allege the former president was keeping classified documents on America’s nuclear program and defense capabilities in his Mar-a-Lago resort.

• Walt Nauta, an aide to former President Trump, has been indicted in the investigation into his handling of classified documents, according to the 49-page indictment unsealed on Friday.

• Driving the news: Nauta worked in the Trump White House and at Mar-a-Lago, where one of his jobs was to transport cardboard boxes with papers of the former president, according to the indictment.

• Plus: FIRE investigates “woke” Florida professor’s dismissal, inequality index finds progress across multiple dimensions, and more…

• A federal court in Washington DC on Thursday refused to intervene in a disciplinary hearing over former Department of Justice (DOJ) official Jeffrey Clark’s participation in an effort to overturn the results of the 2020 election.

• US federal prosecutors Friday unsealed a 38-count indictment against former President Donald Trump and his former aide Waltine Nauta. Special Counsel Jack Smith, appointed by the Department of Justice (DOJ) to oversee the investigation into Trump, charged Trump with 31 counts of willful retention of national defense information.

• The former president has a diabolical genius for selling his supporters on an alternative version of reality.

• The federal indictment of Donald Trump depicts a man who knew that what he was doing was wrong and went to great lengths to cover it up.

• The special counsel’s indictment offers party leaders their best escape from the loyalty trap yet—if they choose to take it.

• Prosecutors say the documents he stowed, refused to return and in some cases showed to visitors risked jeopardizing not only relations with foreign nations but also the safety of troops and confidential sources.

• With the former President facing federal charges, our political roundtable considers how much baggage is too much to win the Republican nomination.

• Against the former President’s miasma of lies and disinformation, finally, a damning set of facts.

• Days before he appears in court to face seven criminal charges, the former President is trying to rally his base and elected Republicans behind his false claim that the case is “a hoax.”

• Jack Smith charged Trump and Walt Nauta with seven different kinds of obstruction, before charging Nauta alone for false statements.

• When John Durham made claims in a filing that led Donald Trump to issue death threats against Michael Sussmann, he had evidence in hand his claims were wrong.

• Donald Trump has been indicted under the Espionage Act.

• As Donald Trump faces new legal jeopardy, his charges of a corrupt Department of Justice are heightening the nation’s political rifts.

• Indicted on charges of mishandling classified documents at his Florida home, Donald Trump becomes the first former U.S. president to face federal criminal charges. The development is expected to bear weighty legal and political consequences.

• The accounts in the 49-page indictment provide compelling evidence of a shocking indifference toward some of the country’s most sensitive secrets.

• Former President Trump has been indicted twice — and faces potential criminal convictions — but he’s not barred from running for or assuming presidential office.

• Why it matters: While Trump is the first former U.S. president to face criminal charges, his legal peril doesn’t endanger his legally viable path to a second term — and could even be a boon politically, experts told Axios.

• Donald Trump’s handling of classified documents was genuinely unusual.

• “We have one set of laws in this country, and they apply to everyone,” special counsel Jack Smith said on Friday in his first public remarks following the indictment of former President Trump.

• The special counsel has four hurdles to overcome.

• The available evidence supports the indictment by the special counsel Jack Smith.

• Former U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson shocked Britain on Friday by quitting as a lawmaker after being told he will be sanctioned for misleading Parliament.

• Spain’s hard left decided Friday to join forces on a single political platform for the July 23 elections, in a boost for Socialist Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez’s reelection hopes.

• This comes as the employees continue to deal with the after-effects of the mass layoffs the company carried out since last year. Several employees have reportedly spent weeks sharing responsibilities from their colleagues who left the company after being laid out. The remaining employees are reportedly trying to figure out while being used to new managers, a Washington Post report stated.

Misinformation/Disinformation/Propaganda

• Just published as part of the symposium on Media and Society After Technological Disruption, edited by Profs. Justin “Gus” Hurwitz & Kyle Langvardt.

Censorship/Free Speech

• The classic movie The French Connection was stealth edited to remove an offensive exchange.

• The League of Social Democrats say the move has hampered their ability to raise funds from supporters.

• In Thailand, companies and people in positions of power often use libel suits to intimidate and punish activists and critics.

Freedom of Information / Freedom of the Press

• Visa for last Chinese reporter in India hasn’t been renewed, China has threatened countermeasures on last Indian reporter.

Civil Rights/Policing

• The United States’ border region has always borne the brunt of our most aggressive immigration enforcement efforts, including dangerous high-speed vehicle pursuits by Border Patrol agents that far too often end in serious injuries and deaths.

• After years of public outcry from advocates, victims, and borderland residents, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) announced a revised vehicle pursuit policy earlier this year. This new policy, which took effect this month after a delay, includes measures that we believe can be important for safeguarding the lives of everyone in our communities. But serious questions remain about the implementation, training, and enforcement of the new policy that will be critical for its success.

• Our extensive concerns about CBP’s vehicle pursuit policy reflect a tragically long and growing list of pursuits that have ended in deaths or serious injuries. The ACLU of Texas’ Fatal Encounters tracker has tallied dozens of deaths from CBP vehicle pursuits over the past decade.

• The organization denies the accusations, saying that it had offered a pay rise higher than the official inflation figures in the country.

• Prominent Iranian civil activist Hossein Ronaghi says he won’t leave the country despite moves by the government to ratchet up pressure on him, including the freezing of his bank accounts and the violation of his civil rights.

• A series of attack on the graves of protesters killed during nationwide protests in Iran have sparked accusations from activists and families of the dead that the government is using intimidation to quell any further unrest following the death of a woman while in police custody in September 2022.

• In a letter addressed to LGBTQ+ campaigner Peter Tatchell, the Metropolitan Police (Met) Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley became the first UK police chief to apologize on Wednesday for the force’s homophobic failings.

• Illinois is making it easier for gay couples to marry and moving toward gender-inclusive language in laws affecting LGBTQ+ youth in foster care through two new laws signed Friday by Gov. J.B. Pritzker. They will become effective on Jan. 1, 2024 and on Aug. 8, respectively. Illinois is one of several U.S. states that has worked to reinforce LGBTQ+ rights, as others advance bills that target the community. The two new pro-LGBTQ+ Illinois laws were signed about a week into Pride month, a season intended to celebrate the lives and experiences of LGBTQ+ communities, but which this year takes place in a contentious political climate.

• Posters promoting the “protection of the family” were hung on campus prior to the parade.

• European Commission Speech Brussels, 09 Jun 2023 The history of the Jewish people is the history of Europe.

Internet Policy/Net Neutrality

• “This is a true horror story.”

Digital Restrictions (DRM)

• Netflix saw a sharp increase in its number of subscribers after its decision to crack down on password sharing in the US, according to data from streaming analytics firm Antenna.

Monopolies

Patents

• On June 2, 2023, less than a month after Unified filed an ex parte reexamination, the Central Reexamination Unit (CRU) granted Unified’s request, finding substantial new questions of patentability on the challenged claims of U.S. Patent 8,594,698, owned and asserted by Broadphone LLC. The ‘698 patent generally relates to determining the location of a device based on the relative signal strength for each of a plurality of nearby, identified “antenna stations” and determining whether the device is within the proximity of a “device-specific target location”. The patent has been asserted against Samsung.

• Unified is pleased to announce prior art has been found on three patents owned by Speir Technologies, an Atlantic IP Services subsidiary.

• We would also like to thank the dozens of other high-quality submissions that were made on this patent. The ongoing contests are open to anyone, and include tens of thousands of dollars in rewards available for helping the industry to challenge NPE patents of questionable validity by finding and submitting prior art in the contests. Visit PATROLL today to learn more about how to participate.

• Unified is pleased to announce prior art has been found on three patents owned by Redwood Technologies, LLC, an NPE and entity of the Dominion Harbor Group.

• Shortly after the Brexit referendum in the summer of 2016, all patent experts thought the same thing:  The United Kingdom is out of the UPC. Whereas British judges, patent attorneys and lawyers were bitterly disappointed, many from continental Europe were delighted. For those in Amsterdam, Düsseldorf, Munich and Paris it meant one fewer major competitor.

Software Patents

• The Linux Foundation, Unified Patents and Electronic Frontier Foundation hosted a webinar this week to give an overview of the serious issue of patent trolls and the recent proposal from the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) to change the current rules for protecting and defending Open Source software from patent trolls.

Trademarks

• You may have heard that the Supreme Court issued its decision in the “Bad Spaniels” case yesterday [pdf here], vacating the Ninth Circuit’s decision that, inter alia, had immunized VPI from trademark infringement under Rogers v. Grimaldi. The Court ruled that, since VPI was (concededly) using its comedic design as a source indicator, Rogers did not apply. Therefore, the Ninth Circuit was wrong in reversing the district court’s finding of likelihood of confusion.

Copyrights

• The government released its long-promised draft policy direction on Bill C-11 to the CRTC yesterday. The policy direction is open for public comment until July 25, 2023, after which the government will release a final version that gives the CRTC guidance on its expectations for how the bill will be interpreted.

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