Everything is a Scam Our economy allows poor and working people to be shafted every day- does anyone care?

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Is Your Pasta Sauce Listening? Prego Debuts Recording Device for the Dinner Table Prego has debuted a dinner-table recording device that captures conversations, sparking privacy concerns and curiosity about the brand’s unusual tech pivot.

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The U.S. Should Fix Its GaN Problem Before Another Supply Chain Emergency

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Liquidating an "Empire": China's Strategy to Capitalise on US Hegemonic Strain | by Wu Xinbo "Whilst avoiding systemic conflict with the US, how can we employ an effective and precise negotiating strategy to harvest the strategic resources that the US is selling for the smallest cost?"

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Rusting Rivers: Alarm Grows Over Uptick in Acidic Arctic Waters Climate change has thawed permafrost and increased rainfall in the Far North, producing sulfuric acid that is turning rivers and lakes yellow or rusty orange. Scientists are scrambling to parse the im...

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Could the Oldest Human Story Really Be 100,000 Years Old? The oldest stories we tell might be older than humanity's exodus.

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For the love of all that is holy, NO!

US v. Russell, No. 24-4620 (4th Cir. 2026) A hospital employee discovered that someone had posted on social media a screenshot from the hospital’s internal system, revealing Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s name, dates of ten medica...

"My cat hacked those medical records" defense fails:
Russell insisted that he didn’t know how his credentials had been used to run the searches. But he theorized that “potentially his cat had run across the keyboard and typed in those letters.”

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My story about how 924 sailors died of influenza over the course of a month at Great Lakes Naval Training Station.

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Hi Wile
The first experimental evidence of global warming was woman's work.
Eunice Foote

Lufthansa to Scrub 20,000 Summer Flights to Save on Fuel Costs Deutsche Lufthansa AG will scrub 20,000 uneconomic short-haul flights from its European summer schedule to save on jet fuel, which has doubled in price since the start of the Iran war.

Lufthansa will scrub 20,000 uneconomic short-haul flights from its European summer schedule to save on jet fuel, which has doubled in price since the start of the Iran war.

News - Imported Silver and Medicinal Drink Identified in Etruscan Tomb - Archaeology Magazine BISENZIO, ITALY—New examination of artifacts recovered from a tomb discovered in 1927 near the Etruscan […]

Spiced fermented fruit juice for the Etruscan after life. #archaeology #foodhistory

Florida's On Fire, Montana Puts Up A Column, And Severe Drought Lingers On. 99% of Florida is in drought, and the west is about to say, "hold my beer."

From Hotshot Wake Up: "If this is what April looks like, I think it will be a summer to remember. There have already been 20,100 wildfires in the United States, with 1,710,000 acres burned. The 10-year average for this time is 13,597 fires and 875,957 acres burned. We are well ahead of schedule."

Some good history on the 1876-1878 El Niño, when “droughts were followed by famines in Asia, Africa and South America that in total killed up to 3 percent of the world population at the time. No deadlier environmental disaster has occurred since.”

Vought is a whore bought and paid for by the governments of Hungary and Russia. Project 2025 is a creation of the Russians and was first implemented in Hungary.

So true. I am 75 but first heard this criticism when I was in high school. A few people told me that my voice was very irritating. Even then, I knew it was done to undermine the self confidence I had.

Teva Pharmaceuticals International v. Eli Lilly & Co. (Fed. Cir. 2026) By Kevin E. Noonan – The Federal Circuit reversed a District Court grant of judgment as a matter of law (JMOL) that overturned a jury verdict that defendant Eli Lilly had not satisfied the clear-an…

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Hikma v. Amarin at the Supreme Court: The Parties’ Opening Briefs By Kevin E. Noonan – In recent years, the Federal Circuit has, with varying levels of agreement, considered what behavior by generic drugmakers constitutes inducement of infringement regarding so-c…

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Still Climbing: PTA Hits 318 Days, Back to 2015 Levels Patent Term Adjustment hits 318-day peak in April 2026, back to 2015 levels. Director Squires' oldest-cases-first push is part of the story.

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Well-Known Genus, Novel Method: A Post-Amgen Framework for Written Description & Enablement | Knobbe Martens Key Takeaways: Recent Federal Circuit decision draws a meaningful distinction between patents that claim a broad genus as the invention itself and those that claim a novel therapeutic method using...

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SEC Staff Carves Out a Path: Crypto Interface Providers May Not Be Broker-Dealers | Insights

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Supreme Court Confirms Narrowness of Contributory Copyright Liability

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What to make of the threats from AI that jeopardize software that we all rely upon? Recent news articles talk about instances where Anthropic’s Mythos AI is said to have found software flaws in pieces of software that have been around for a long time.  The pieces of software…

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EU General Court rejects opposition to Irish Grass Fed Beef PGI The IPKat blog reports on copyright, patent, trade mark, info-tech and confidentiality issues from a mainly UK and European perspective.

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Palantir's Manifesto Is as Subtle as a MAGA Hat Palantir's 22-point manifesto is nonsense, writes Dave Karpf. But it at least it is short enough to be clarifying, he says.

So much of Silicon Valley has reached the conclusion that there is money to be made from American authoritarianism, writes Dave Karpf. With its ‘manifesto,’ Palantir wants to remind you that it reached that conclusion first, he says.

Donald Trump tried to ‘use nuclear codes’ claims: what we know

Larry Johnson - a retired CIA analyst - claimed Trump tried to access nuclear codes but was stopped by the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

Secretary of War Pete Hegs... # © • 39m The War Department is once again restoring freedom to our Joint Force. We are discarding the mandatory flu vaccine requirement, effective immediately.

Make this make sense.

Lego is giving away free N-1 Starfighter models on Star Wars Day — how to claim yours Nothing gets the people going quite like free Star Wars Lego.

#Lego is giving away free N-1 Starfighter models on Star Wars Day — how to claim yours

Nothing gets the people going quite like free Star Wars Lego.

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