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GNU/Linux

Instructionals/Technical

• Administering a Linux system often requires knowledge of managing user sessions, especially in multi-user environments. There may be instances where you need to force a user logout due to system maintenance, high resource usage, or security reasons.

• Docker is an open source application similar to a virtual machine. It is used to simplify the process of automation of applications deployment with its runtime dependencies within Linux containers. Containers, which work independently from the host operating system, enable users to perform quick application deployment, troubleshooting and maintenance with improved security.

• Everyone comes into their personal computing situations in different ways. For me, a lifelong Windows user with a powerful primary laptop that needed a lightweight and quick secondary laptop, I gravitated toward a Chromebook. But whether you’re a seasoned veteran of this platform or the other and you’ve brought a Chromebook into your life, you might be looking for ways to tailor the experience to your needs and habits — we’ve got some tips for that.

• A Docker Registry is a local system that acts as a hub to upload and download Docker images. The Docker Registry is a repository of the images that you made or downloaded.

• The Docker Registry will be available to all systems on the network with access, as well as having a key and the user knowing the username and password.

• Software development has evolved significantly over the years, and Docker has become an essential component for modern software development. Docker is a platform that allows developers to create, deploy, and manage applications in a containerized environment. It provides a standardized approach to building, shipping, and running applications across any infrastructure.

• Docker has revolutionized the way software development is done by providing a lightweight, flexible, and portable way to package, deploy, and run applications. Docker containers encapsulate all the necessary dependencies required to run an application on any platform.

• In our digital era, where data has transformed from being an auxiliary resource to becoming the lifeblood of businesses and organizations worldwide, the concept of databases isn’t just technical jargon anymore. Instead, it’s now an integral part of our everyday lexicon.

• WordPress is one of the best open-source CMS platforms that allow publishers easily post articles right from the desktop browser and if you are using its Desktop application then you even don’t need a browser.

• Docker is a powerful tool that has revolutionized the way software developers package and deploy their applications. Docker simplifies the process of creating, deploying, and running applications by providing an efficient way to package all the necessary components into a single, portable container.

• In today’s fast-paced software development world, streamlining the build process is essential. It is important to ensure that your builds are efficient, reliable, and consistent. Streamlining the build process can save time and money, as well as reduce errors that can impact deployment.

• Want to see the difference between two files? Normal users use diff command. Pro Vim users go for vimdiff.

• In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Inkscape on Rocky Linux 9. For those of you who didn’t know, Inkscape as a powerful open-source vector graphics editor and its significance in graphic design and illustration.

• Docker images are a vital component of containerization. They are the building blocks that make up Docker containers, and they contain all the necessary files, libraries, and dependencies needed to run an application in a container.

• Developers who are new to Docker may feel overwhelmed by the seemingly endless possibilities of containerization. Dockerfiles provide a simple, straightforward way to create custom images that can be used across different environments, making it an essential tool in the containerization process.

• In today’s modern technology landscape, Docker images have become an essential tool in the world of software development. These images are built on top of a lightweight container system that allows developers to create portable and scalable applications with ease.

• Docker is a powerful tool that allows developers to build, test, and deploy applications in a consistent manner regardless of the underlying infrastructure. Docker works by leveraging containerization technology to package all of the application’s dependencies into a single self-contained unit that can run on any system with Docker installed.

• If you’re familiar with containerization, you know how Docker has revolutionized the world of software development by making it easier to build, ship and run applications. One feature that enables this is the Docker Registry/Index, which serves as a repository for Docker images.

• Virt-manager still appears to be the most powerful tool in regards of deployment and managment of KVM guests. Also sometimes it seems to be more functional rather then Cockpit Web console, in my very personal opinion. In particular, it allows to configure some features required by Windows 11 KVM Guest in the most recent builds of Fedora Linux 38,37.

Distributions and Operating Systems

BSD

• You can now clean up, grow, and destroy HAMMER2 volumes, even when they are not mounted.  There’s also an emergency mode, though I’m not clear on when you’d invoke it.

Debian Family

• “”After 1 year, 9 months, and 28 days of development””, Debian 12, codenamed “bookworm”, has been released. The announcement has lots of details about package versions for desktop environments (6 are supported), kernel version (Linux 6.1 series), other package versions (compilers, graphics tools, office suites, languages, and more), architectures supported (8 for real hardware and 5 for cloud services), blends, and lots more.

Canonical/Ubuntu Family

• ROS 2 release Foxy Fitzroy was released on June 5, 2020. Foxy was a major milestone in ROS 2 development and was the first ROS 2 release with a three-year long-term support window. The name Foxy Fitzroy references the Fitzroy River Turtle, Rheodytes leukops, which is endemic to the Fitzroy River in Queensland, Australia. The “foxy” adjective describes something that is cunning and shrewd, like how foxes are depicted in many cultures around the world.

• I’ve been using desktop Linux since before many of you were born. Seriously. I first ran it when I downloaded the source code from Linux kernel developer Theodore Ts’o’s MIT FTP server in 1991. So, when I say it’s time to wave bye-bye to using package managers such as apt or dnf and replace them with containerized package managers such as Appimage, Snap, or Flatpak, I do have a clue about what I’m talking about.

• Before going into why, let me give you a quick refresher on application installation on Linux. In the beginning, there was the source code. We downloaded it, built it, and compiled it. You can still do it that way today, as in this example of how to install Node.js v8.1.1 to your Linux desktop.

• Most people don’t do it that way because it’s a pain. Only developers build from source code these days. The vast majority of users use package managers. For users, they’re easy whether you use a GUI interface such as Linux Mint’s Software Manager or a shell-based package manager such as DPKG, Pacman, Yum, and Zipper.

Devices/Embedded

• iWave adds to the iW-RainboW-G50M family: The Solderable NXP i.MX 91-based LGA System on Module (SoM). The SoM incorporates the newest member of the i.MX 9 applications processor series and is built on the OSM v1.1 solderable SoM standard, providing extensive interfaces in a rugged and compact form factor.

Mobile Systems/Mobile Applications

• The PinePhone and PinePhone Pro are smartphones designed to run mobile Linux distributions. While they ship with builds of Manjaro featuring the KDE Plasma Mobile user interface, there are a whole bunch of other operating systems designed to run on the phones.

• For the past few years, developer megi has been offering Phinephone multi-boot disk images that allow users to quickly try out a range of operating systems with a single microSD card. Now megi has found a way to prepare a single microSD card so that it can be booted on both the original PinePhone and the PinePhone Pro. That means soon you may be able to test out a bunch of different mobile Linux distros on both phones using a single card.

Free, Libre, and Open Source Software

Web Browsers/Web Servers

Mozilla

• Large online platforms can help us connect with others, shop, work, and express ourselves, but they also play a key role in the spread of disinformation, discrimination against marginalized groups, romance scams, privacy violations, and other online harms. With the ever-evolving social media landscape, we must enact tools to scrutinize these platforms and safeguard the health of the Internet.

SaaS/Back End/Databases

• Devart has released an update of the dbForge product line for PostgreSQL. The update delivers quite a few functional enhancements and newly added compatibility options, including support for Aiven Data Cloud, EDB BigAnimal, SHA-256/512, and Transport Layer Security.

• Devart, one of the leading developers of database management software, ALM solutions, and data providers, has released dbForge Studio for PostgreSQL v3.1 and new versions of other tools from the dbForge for PostgreSQL product line. These tools are designed to streamline an extensive number of tasks related to PostgreSQL database development, management, and administration.

• The most notable updates are as follows: [...]

Programming/Development

• We are happy to announce the release of Qt Installer Framework and Qt Online Installer 4.6.0.

• What is a Laravel Starter?

• Laravel Starter is a powerful and versatile starter project that is based on Laravel 10.x. It is designed with developers in mind and comes equipped with essential and commonly required features.

• What is Laravel?

• Laravel is an exceptional, open-source PHP web application framework that provides web developers with an elegant toolkit to create full-featured web applications. It follows the widely accepted Model-View-Controller (MVC) architectural pattern and offers an impressive suite of features such as routing, middleware, authentication, and much more.

• Build scalable APIs faster | With PHP and Laravel

Standards/Consortia

• In short: I created UTF-21, an impractical alternative to character encodings like UTF-8.

• Before you can understand my horrible creation, you need to understand a little about Unicode. You can skip this if you want.

• Character encoding is the process of converting characters to numbers and back, typically for digital storage and transmission.

• You’ve probably heard of ASCII, which maps 128 characters to numbers. For example, W is number 87 and number 36 is $.

• As you might expect, there are more than 128 characters in the world. Characters like ñ and 🥺 can’t be represented as ASCII.

• Unicode is like ASCII, but instead of 128 characters, there are 1,114,111 characters. Way more! That lets us store characters like ñ (character #241) and 🥺 (character #129402). It’s a little more complex than this, but that’s the rough idea.

• Here are a few examples from the big Unicode table: [...]

Leftovers

• I quoted this from a video I watched in 2021, and promptly forgot where I saw it. I’m pulling it out of the drafts now because its still great. You could apply the same thinking to file systems.

• Innovation happens slowly in civil engineering, because the consequences of failure are so high. Gaining confidence in a design has as much to do with engineering theory, as it does to simply seeing how well similar designs have performed in the past.

• Rescuers had been searching for the children — aged 13, 9, 4 and 1 — ever since they survived a plane crash that killed the three adults on board.

• The 2,000-year-old man turns 97 this summer. I talked with him about fighting in World War II, his life in comedy, and the secret to happiness.

• Daytime soaps, unfairly maligned for too long, might seem in danger of extinction. But prime-time prestige television has absorbed their DNA.

• We’re living in an age of “period positivity.” That’s not enough.

• [...]

• Despite major advances for women over the past 100 years—the invention of the contraceptive pill, greater access to safe abortions—much of female biology is still woefully underserved by science. There are reasons for this, most notably the historical exclusion of women from medical and pharmaceutical trials, partly because our awkward hormone cycles were thought to skew results. There’s also the fact that some scientists still project findings from research on men onto women, seeming not to realize that women aren’t just small men: Women are different down to the cellular level, meaning that many of our immune responses, experiences of pain, and symptoms (including, for instance, those that accompany a heart attack) may be different from men’s. Are you having a nasty, unexpected side effect from your medication? That could be because most drugs were developed with male bodies in mind. A 2020 review of 86 common medications, including antidepressants, cardiovascular drugs, and painkillers, found that women were likely routinely overmedicated and suffered adverse reactions nearly twice as often as men.

Hardware

• A TikToker has gone to the extreme and modified a Steam Deck handheld to use a full-blown 240MM AIO CPU cooler. The thermal results are very good unsurprisingly, dropping temps by 32%.

• When I got my Am386 motherboard working earlier this year, I wed it to an Oak OTI-067, the only ISA graphics card I had. It worked surprisingly well, and its second connector even supported CGA, which assisted troubleshooting my Commodore 128’s 80-column mode. But my dream was to find a Tseng Labs ET4000, the king of SVGA on the ISA bus.

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• Well someone local I’ve bought from before listed theirs, and for less than half our grocery bill last week (yikes), so I pounced. It arrived yesterday, and here it is: [...]

Health/Agriculture

• As major Finnish retailers report a staggering 90 percent drop in the sale of home test kits compared to the previous year, concerns arise over the reliability and necessity of these tests.

• “Profound and potentially landmark.”

• Thin-skinned authoritarians of the world, unite!

• The losses caused by spring frosts are regarded as an emergency for farmers, and the aid will have to be sought both in Latvia and at the European level, Agriculture Minister Didzis Šmits (United List) told Latvian Television on June 8.

• How do Americans rediscover their spirit of community and connection after a pandemic that left behind an epidemic of loneliness?

• ALF, in Chelsea Market; Radio, in Greenpoint; and Librae, in the East Village, offer a variety of French viennoiserie, breads, and sandwiches.

• Recent food fraud revelations show that we can’t take it for granted

Proprietary

• OpenAI has been hit with its first defamation lawsuit after ChatGPT fabricated legal accusations against a radio host. Mark Walters, a radio host in Georgia, is suing OpenAI in what appears to be the first defamation lawsuit against the company over false information generated by ChatGPT.

Pseudo-Open Source

Openwashing

• The Linux Foundation and the National Spectrum Association have signaled intent to help advance the development of open radio access network software prototypes via a memorandum of understanding.

Security

• A recent SSL issue affecting both OpenSSL and Schannel in Qt Network has been reported and has been assigned the CVE id CVE-2023-34410.

• Evidence suggests that the Cl0p ransomware group has known about and conducted tests with the recently patched MOVEit zero-day since mid-2021.

• ESET has linked several cybercrime and espionage campaigns to a threat actor tracked as Asylum Ambuscade.

• Containerization and microservices have taken center stage, with Kubernetes leading the charge as the go-to orchestration platform. As powerful and versatile as Kubernetes is, its complexity introduces significant security challenges that organizations must tackle to safeguard their deployments.

• Hackers were able to get a hold of tens of thousands of Minnesota students’ information.

• The Minnesota Department of Education (MDE) says they were notified of a breach in their file transfer software called “MOVEit” on May 31.

• A hacking group tracked as ‘Asylum Ambuscade’ was observed in recent attacks targeting small to medium-sized companies worldwide, combining cyber espionage with cybercrime.

• The particular threat group, believed to have been operational since at least 2020, was first identified by Proofpoint in a March 2022 report that focused on a phishing campaign against entities aiding the Ukrainian refugees’ movement.

• The Nova Scotia government revealed Friday that cyber criminals made off with the private information of tens of thousands of people, including high school students, short-term accommodation owners, newborns and people issued parking tickets in the Halifax Regional Municipality.

• On Friday, the province gave details on 94,574 of the records stolen in a cyberattack identified last week, and the total number of records stolen may climb.

• On Tuesday, the province’s Minister of Cyber Security and Digital Solutions, Colton LeBlanc, said current and past employees of Nova Scotia Health, the IWK Health Centre and the provincial civil service have also been impacted.

• The San Francisco 49ers agreed to settle a class action lawsuit stemming from a February 2022 ransomware attack on the team’s data servers that exposed personal information of over 20,000 employees, officials and fans. The plaintiffs filed settlement papers Thursday in California federal court.

• The proposed settlement, which covers 20,930 individuals, requires the team to create a new position — executive vice president of technology — to oversee IT operations, and hire a dedicated cyber-security IT professional.

• “Xplain, a Swiss provider of government software, has been the victim of a ransomware attack. After the stolen data had been encrypted and the company blackmailed, the attackers posted some of the stolen data on the darknet,” the government said in a statement.

• Sensitive personal data of Turkish citizens and residents of Turkey has been compromised, according to the Free Web Turkey, a platform dedicated to combating internet censorship in the country.

• On Friday, the platform exposed the existence of a website called Sorgu Paneli, which allows unrestricted access to personal data such as identification numbers, names, addresses, telephone numbers and even bank account details in exchange for a free membership. Paid members can obtain even more private information, including title deeds.

Integrity/Availability/Authenticity

• Copycat website asked users for login details and selfie video

• When a Harlem 20-something answered a Craigslist ad, he had no idea he was about to become a dealer of illegal ghost plates.

Privacy/Surveillance

• In today’s world, almost everyone needs access to everything.

• The Chinese public can provide their feedback on the proposed regulations until July 6.

• As it pushes to renew a cornerstone law that authorizes major surveillance programs, the Biden administration faces an American public that’s broadly skeptical of common intelligence practices and of the need to sacrifice civil liberties for security.

• A former ByteDance executive has declared in a legal filing that members of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) held ‘superuser’ permission to access American data on TikTok. Here’s the latest.  Yintao Yu served as Head of Engineering for ByteDance in the United States in 2018.

• Kaspersky is reporting a zero-click iOS exploit in the wild:

• Back in 2016 there was a minor scandal, by the standards of the time, when a rural grandee who was running a business unlawfully on a slab of government land refused to move off it, despite pleas from government officials who wished to use the plot for a public housing estate.

Defence/Aggression

• In the council’s inaugural meeting following Erdoğan’s win, they emphasized Syrian refugees’ safe and dignified return to their homes.

• Since the 15 April outbreak of hostilities in Sudan, the civilian population has been bearing the brunt. The Rapid Support Forces, led by General Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo (called Hemeti), are in conflict with the Sudanese Armed Forces, led by General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, Sudan’s de facto head of state.

• An attack on the UN Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA) resulted Friday in the death of one peacekeeper and the injury of eight other peacekeepers. MINUSMA reported that the attack involved an improvised explosive device (IED) and direct fire.

• The New York State Assembly and Senate passed legislation Thursday to establish a state commission on reparations for slavery.

• Sudan’s Foreign Ministry announced Thursday that the head of the UN Integrated Transition Assistance Mission in Sudan (UNITAMS) Volker Perthes would no longer be welcome in the country.

• The New York Times came under fire on Wednesday for running what critics characterized as “uncontested propaganda” in the form of an op-ed by notorious war profiteer and Blackwater founder Erik Prince. As in his other prominent op-eds that ran recently in the Wall Street Journal and USA Today,

• Of the thirty Syrian army and security officers in new leadership positions, only two are blacklisted. This indicates a significant gap.

• An outburst of ethnic hatreds has fractured an ancient kingdom and turned neighbors into enemies.

• There’s a growing trend for naval forces to acquire uncrewed surface vehicles (USVs) because of the potential advantages they offer, such as reduced risk and the ability to provide a persistent presence.

• General James E. Cartwright, Lieutenant Colonel Justin M. Conelli, and Clementine G. Starling advance a framework for operationalizing integrated deterrence.

• “The International Committee for the Red Cross facilitated the evacuation of the children and dozens of caretakers”

• Tens of thousands of people marched on June 9 in another anti-government protest in Belgrade criticizing the government’s response to two mass shootings last month in which 18 people died.

• A police officer who rushed inside a classroom building during the Parkland school shooting says he encountered a sheriff’s deputy outside who confirmed the shooter was upstairs. Coral Springs officer Richard Best testified Friday that Broward County Deputy Scot Peterson didn’t follow him inside. Peterson has insisted he couldn’t tell where the gunshots were coming from, and that he thought they may have been fired outside. The 60-year-old former deputy is on trial for charges that he failed to confront the school shooter who killed 17 people in 2018. If convicted, Peterson could be sentenced to nearly a century in prison.

War in Ukraine

• The new NATO defence plans for the Baltic states could be approved as early as next week, says Lithuania’s Chief of Defence Valdemaras Rupšys.

• Fourteen aircraft will take off and land simultaneously at Šiauliai Air Base in Lithuania as part of NATO’s largest air force drills.

Transparency/Investigative Reporting

Environment

• “The ocean is the foundation of life… is our planet’s greatest reservoir of biodiversity.”

• Half of the country’s principle coral atoll could be inundated by tidal waters by 2050.

• From July 1, shops in Lithuania will no longer be allowed to issue single-use plastic bags for free.

Energy/Transportation

• President Joe Biden signed an executive order aiming to bolster job opportunities for military and veteran spouses whose careers are often disrupted by their loved ones’ deployments. Biden used a visit to the recently renamed Fort Liberty in North Carolina to highlight the order. The order directs agencies to develop a federal government-wide plan on hiring and job retention for military spouses, bolster child care options, and take more than a dozen additional actions. Biden first visited a community college in Rocky Mount that is part of a coalition that received $23.7 million to train students for clean energy jobs. The money is from the Democratic president’s $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief package.

• The company said that it would no longer allow trades with U.S. dollars on its platform. Customers were urged to withdraw funds by Tuesday.

• Leaders in India have been pouring money into modernizing the country’s massive rail system. But as a recent accident in Odisha shows, modern doesn’t always equal safe.

• Use of the parking zones is mandatory for e-scooter renters in the heart of the city.

• Part of the wing of the Thai Airways plane looked to be broken.

• Next week, Lithuania’s seaport city Klaipėda will launch its first water bus route along the river Dangė.

• The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) has approved a $400m loan to support the development of the Chilean hydrogen industry.

• The global hydrogen market could more than double to $1.4trn per year by 2050, according to new Deloitte research.

• A Delaware bankruptcy judge says the names of individual customers of collapsed cryptocurrency exchange FTX Trading can be permanently shielded from public disclosure. The judge on Friday rejected challenges to the secrecy filed by lawyers for several media outlets and for the U.S. bankruptcy trustee, which serves as a government watchdog in Chapter 11 reorganization cases. Lawyers for FTX and its official committee of unsecured creditors say its customer list is both a valuable asset and confidential commercial information. They say secrecy is warranted to protect FTX customers from theft and potential scams, and to ensure that potential competitors do not “poach” them.

Wildlife/Nature

• Everywhere needs to be prepared for everything.

• Some foundation work for a public housing project under construction in Kai Tak has been suspended after the soil at nearby Sung Wong Toi MTR station was found to have compressed to a depth of 20 millimetres.

Finance

• Pakistan’s government will target a budget deficit of 6.54 percent of economic output in the fiscal year starting on July 1, the finance minister said on June 9.

• What we know about the Telegraph receivership, how the Barclay family got here, and what we can expect next.

• Press Gazette understands 23 jobs at Vice are at risk of redundancy.

AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics

• The Department of Justice on Friday unsealed the federal indictment against former President Trump on charges related to the investigation into his handling of classified documents after he left the White House.

• A commander in chief stands accused of endangering national security.

• The case, which concerns the former President’s handling of classified documents, raises complicated questions about intent and national security.

• The reported federal indictment of former President Trump is once again casting a light on the gulf between House and Senate Republicans, with GOP senators proving far more willing to break with the ex-president.

• Zoom in: Some senators are even praising the Justice Department or seizing on the indictment to boost Trump’s primary opponents.

• Former U.S. President Donald Trump faces 37 criminal counts that include charges of unauthorized retention of classified documents and conspiracy to obstruct justice after he left the White House in 2021, according to federal court documents made public on Friday.

• Donald Trump improperly stored in his Florida estate sensitive documents on nuclear capabilities, repeatedly enlisted aides and lawyers to help him hide records demanded by investigators and cavalierly showed off a Pentagon “plan of attack” and classified map. That’s according to a sweeping felony indictment that paints a damning portrait of Trump’s treatment of national security information. The first federal case against a former president cuts to the heart of any president’s responsibility to safeguard the government’s most valuable secrets. 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.

• The criminal indictment unsealed by the Justice Department against Donald Trump includes allegations that the former president stored classified documents in a bathroom and shower at his Florida club and suggested his lawyers conceal the presence of some documents. The indictment also accuses Trump of showing off the documents to people without security clearances and acknowledging that he didn’t have the ability to declassify documents after he left the White House. The indictment says Trump told his attorneys he was “an open book” on the same day that his valet secretly loaded several boxes of documents on an aircraft.

• Republicans are trying to gaslight America about the former president’s astounding recklessness.

• Here’s a link. I’ll update in a bit. There are 31 counts for withholding documents, each holding a 10 year sentencing, on top of the obstruction charges.

• Now, the Sumar-Podemos coalition has until June 19 to resolve any differences and present the lists of their candidates.

• The indictment details evidence that the former president placed national security secrets in jeopardy and schemed to thwart the investigation into the matter.

• Independent journalist and frequent OffG contributor joins Jesse Zurawell for another episode of Perspective. They discuss Russia’s relatinship with the WHO, their response to “Covid”, its reputation among Western alternative media, potential demographic crisis and more. You can read more of Riley’s work through his substack here.

• As the 2023 session ends, the State Legislature passed a bill sealing old criminal records, but failed to reach a deal on a housing package.

• Nate Paul, the real estate investor at the center of the impeachment case against the attorney general of Texas, Ken Paxton, has been jailed at the request of the F.B.I.

• Mr. Santos, a New York representative, said his relatives had helped guarantee his bail, but asked a judge to keep their names sealed out of privacy concerns.

• The former prime minister quit after getting a confidential report about whether he had lied to lawmakers about lockdown-breaking parties.

• A. G. Sulzberger on why—in this age of deep political divides—he went public in defense of traditional journalistic values. Plus, a conversation with the poet Paul Tran.

Misinformation/Disinformation/Propaganda

• Its existence is not strictly secret, although there has been no official announcement of its launch, let alone an explanation from DoD officials as to its raison d’être or modus operandi. Its budget likewise remains a mystery but purportedly runs into the “multimillions.”

Censorship/Free Speech

• DistroKid is officially facing a potential class-action lawsuit over its alleged mishandling of false Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) takedown requests.

• China’s Supreme People’s Court, Supreme People’s Procuratorate and Ministry of Public Security released a draft proposal to curb cyber abuse for public consultation on Friday. The draft, Guiding Opinions on Lawfully Punishing Cyber Violence and Crimes, provides directions on how to convict and punish individuals who commit “online violence” in accordance with Chinese Criminal Law.

• Steve Huffman said in an announcement that starting July 5, Reddit will “limit access to mature content via our Data API.”

• The Hong Kong government has condemned US politicians’ calls for a joint effort with the UK to prioritise the release of pro-democracy media mogul Jimmy Lai by sanctioning Hong Kong officials, prosecutors, and judges involved in national security law detentions.

• Sixteen pro-democracy figures currently on trial over an alleged conspiracy to commit subversion have a case to answer, a Hong Kong court has ruled.

• A heavy police presence all but thwarted attempts to mark the 34th anniversary of the Tiananmen crackdown in Hong Kong last Sunday. Since 2019, the city has not seen an official commemoration of victims of the crackdown, who died when the People’s Liberation Army was deployed to disperse protesters in Beijing on June 4, 1989.

Freedom of Information / Freedom of the Press

• Jailed Kazakh journalist Duman Mukhammedkarim, who has been on hunger strike for 10 days to protest against his 25-day jail term, has been charged with financing an extremist group, a crime punishable by up to 12 years in prison.

Civil Rights/Policing

• New York lawmakers passed a bill to establish a reparations commission to address the lasting effects of slavery. State Assemblywoman Michaelle Solages emphasizes the importance of healing communities. The bill now awaits consideration by the governor.

• The murder rate in big U.S. cities spiked in recent years. This year has so far seen a big decline. A change in policing could be contributing.

• Police and rescue units were called to an apartment in the eastern Finnish city on Thursday morning.

• The Chief Justice appeared impatient with the maximalist demands that partisans on the right are placing on a Court they seem to feel they own.

• Hungary on June 9 slammed as “unacceptable” a European Union agreement to revise the bloc’s rules on member states hosting asylum seekers and migrants.

• She was in her late 20s, with a broken leg, and she was not the only one.

• Shares plummeted to $126.99 when the market closed after eclipsing $161 just last month after a third Wall Street firm downgraded the shares on concerns over slowing sales.

• Motherboard reviewed a bevvy of bodycam footage and the search warrant that underpinned the raid on Afroman’s residence in August 2022.

• A 66-year-old Romanian woman died last month after setting herself on fire in a mountain resort near the central city of Brasov, Romanian media reported on June 9.

• The ethnic Rohingya was stabbed near a mosque in Myanmar’s Yangon city.

• ‘The United States cannot turn our back to those fleeing this persecution,’one sponsor says.

• Cambodia’s prime minister also offered pardons to any Sam Rainsy supporters who repudiate him.

• Lithuania would have to take in 158 migrants who have entered the EU irregularly or pay 3.18 million euros a year, the country’s Interior Ministry said on Friday. Earlier, the Council of the European Union reached a preliminary agreement on a new migration policy and the introduction of a mandatory solidarity mechanism.

• Four Hong Kong men have been jailed for up to four years and nine months, after they were convicted of rioting in connection with the police siege of Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) during the 2019 extradition bill protests.

• Hong Kong Baptist University (HKBU) has not responded to allegations that a representative threatened members of its students’ union cabinet, a former member of the cabinet has said.

• Quotes from Chinese leader Xi Jinping have been used as essay prompts in the country’s highly competitive university entrance exams, known as gaokao, for the first time.

• A crisis centre has again urged the government to lower the age threshold for suspected child abuse victims whose cases would be subject to a new, mandatory reporting mechanism for professionals. It said that knowledge of the requirements may lead to young victims feeling discouraged from speaking up.

• An appeals court rules that blasting Eminem and Too $hort in the workplace may constitute sexual discrimination. After Eminem’s “Stan” and Too $hort’s “Blowjob Betty” were played loudly in a warehouse during work hours in Reno, California, eight former employees filed a lawsuit against the company — a case previously dismissed by the overseeing judge.

• Skimming off the scum generally means getting rid of waste. Scraping off from the surface of useful material the rising of impurities and muck. Isn’t that the intention of the New World Order?

Monopolies

Copyrights

• The YouTube lawsuit that originally had creators on the edge of their seats is now losing its glamor. Plaintiff Maria Schneider, a Grammy-winning jazz musician, now faces the prospect of trying a case that will do little to move the needle on Content ID.

• Chaos at Twitch continues as the platform has banned CardboardCowboy. The only problem? He streams his own music on his channel exclusively.  Prominent creators are already calling for other creators to join them in a boycott of the platform. On June 6, Twitch revealed new guidelines that would ban ‘burned-in’ advertisements.

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