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Julian Assange's wife Stella and his lawyer, Jennifer Robinson, said that a plea deal was one option to end his incarceration in the way a negotiation led to the release of former Guantanamo Bay detainee David Hicks in 2007. “For Julian, this is a life and death situation. Julian has to be free and that is the primary priority,” Stella Assange said.

The Australian lawyer for Assange, Stephen Kenny, who also acted for Hicks before his release, said he was doubtful the US Department of Justice would be open to a plea deal. “My assessment of the American position is that they are quite content to see Julian suffer as long and as much as possible."

 

"The blockchain provides us with an amazing opportunity to track the flow of money", an agency head said in an AMA session on Reddit. The US Secret Service is a federal law enforcement agency primarily charged with protecting US political leaders, but it’s also tasked with safeguarding the financial system and fighting financial crime. The hosts also advised on how to keep transactions hidden from the authorities. The only viable way of securing secrecy in financial settlements turns out to be cash, they say.

 

The Hypha co-operative says that it’s now easier to set up DNS records across all supported protocols via a DNSLink specification and a newly built-in DNS server. Distributed.Press is an open source publishing tool that automates publishing and hosting content to the WWW that it seeds to IPFS and Holepunch. In the future, their APIs will support content verification and social messaging across DWeb ecosystems.

Here is another site: https://distributed.press

Here is the code: https://github.com/hyphacoop/api.distributed.press/pull/48

Here you may contribute: https://opencollective.com/distributed-press

 

CEOs say Brussels Data Act represents a huge risk to the continent’s competitiveness and resilience against hybrid threats. The text is far too open, leading to "potential misuse and risking data breaches." This will hurt smaller and medium-sized companies who focus on innovating the solutions of the future. The executives argue that access to data must be limited to clearly defined emergency situations and types of data.

 

Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva denounced the lack of concerted efforts to free WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, who has spent four years in Britain's Belmarsh Prison in London. "It is an embarrassment that a journalist who denounced trickery by one state against another is arrested, condemned to die in jail and we do nothing to free him. It's a crazy thing," Lula says after attending the coronation of King Charles.

 

The entire academic board of the journal 'Neuroimage', including professors from Oxford University, King’s College London and Cardiff University resigned after Elsevier refused to reduce publication charges. Academics around the world have applauded what many hope is the start of a rebellion against the huge profit margins in academic publishing, which outstrip those made by Apple, Google and Amazon.

 

For the first time in more than a decade, the leaders of Australia’s major political parties both publicly back a diplomatic intervention in the case of Julian Assange, an Australian citizen. PM Albanese told journalists in the UK, where he is attending King Charles’ coronation, that the matter needed to be brought to a conclusion.

And Julian Assange writes a letter to the new King Charles urges him to visit Belmarsh prison: https://www.theguardian.com/media/2023/may/06/julian-assange-writes-letter-to-king-charles-and-urges-him-to-visit-belmarsh-prison

 

Despite being charged with terrorism, three members of the Howeitat tribe were reportedly arrested for resisting forced evictions in the name of the NEOM project and the construction of a 170km linear city called The Line. Since January 2020, Saudi authorities have reportedly carried out a series of actions to evict members of the Howeitat tribe from their homes and traditional lands in three villages in the name of the NEOM project, a futuristic smart city development project of the Saudi Public Investment Fund.

 

Even though the intentions might have been good, the private pension fund, created in 1991 for a small number of politicians, was from the beginning financially unsustainable. “With almost criminal strength, a system was created that was doomed to fail,” says Daniel Freund, German Green MEP in the budget control committee.

 

Sex in space is a real possibility with the expected growth in space tourism over the next decade, says a Cranfield University-led paper. This appears to pose several risks that have not yet been considered, those of a biological nature such as embryo developmental risks and those of a commercial nature such as liability, litigation, and reputational damage.

 

April 8 is a day that lives in infamy for media in Iraq. 20 years ago, two American missiles hit the Al Jazeera offices in Baghdad, killing a reporter and wounding a cameraman. Shortly afterwards, American forces opened fire on the nearby office of Abu Dhabi TV, and a United States tank fired at the Palestine Hotel, a known base for foreign media, killing two cameramen and wounding three journalists.

 

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