Educational CyberPlayGround NetHappenings Newsletter 5-17-21

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NetHappenings Newsletter 5/17/2021

#Heroin’s Hidden Ingredient, Courtesy of a U.S. Company
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0_DXMRQDOw
A $324 jug of acetic anhydride made in Mexico by an American company was enough to produce 90,000 hits of high-grade heroin. The drug cartels can’t get enough of it. #Radnor, PA #Avantor #Kensington, PA
Radnor-based Avantor closes its IPO, which grows to $3.33B with options exercised

“These Start-Ups Could Make #Abortion One Click Away”
https://www.thedailybeast.com/these-start-ups-could-make-abortion-one-click-away

12 Influencers Are Behind Most #Anti-Vax Hoaxes On Social Media, Surprise Research Reveals
https://www.npr.org/2021/05/13/996570855/disinformation-dozen-test-facebooks-twitters-ability-to-curb-vaccine-hoaxes

Elliptic Follows the #Bitcoin Ransoms Paid by Colonial Pipeline and Other #DarkSide Ransomware Victims
https://www.elliptic.co/blog/elliptic-follows-bitcoin-ransoms-paid-by-darkside-ransomware-victims

Rock Me On The Water ~ Bob Lefsetz
https://lefsetz.com/wordpress/2021/05/16/rock-me-on-the-water/
“Rock Me on the Water: 1974 – The Year Los Angeles Transformed Movies, Music, Television, and Politics”: https://amzn.to/3fpmpDt
At first I loved this book.
Then it depressed me.
Ronald Brownstein posits that 1974 was the apotheosis in entertainment and it all emanated from Los Angeles. This is patently untrue. I hate when writers come up with a theory and shoehorn the facts to make their case. Didn’t David Hepworth write a whole book about how 1971 was the year music exploded, they even made an Apple TV+ series about it, as a matter of fact it’s going to launch this week! But Hepworth is a music journalist and Brownstein is a political writer and it makes all the difference. Brownstein is a better writer, but he’s got no innate feel for the landscape. But it all happened so long ago, a long long time ago as Don McLean sang, but that was in 1972.

 

Next Generation Internet initiative
Folks interested in European publicly funded internet R&D (in particular: the Next Generation Internet initiative) might want to tune in to NGI Forum 2021, an online event which will happen this Tuesday and Wednesday (May 18th/19th 2021).
NGI forum is the annual flagship event of the NGI initiative, with speakers such as Eurocommissioner Thierry Breton, prof. dr. Adrian Perrig (SCION), Klaas Wierenga (inventor of Eduroam and one of your Internet Hall of Fame colleagues), Mirja Kühlewind (IAB chair) and prof. dr. Roberto Di Cosmo (founder of Software Heritage). Keynote speaker is prof. dr. Andy Tanenbaum, who will deliver a talk on his “Vision of the future internet”. There should be some revelations about the new six year Horizon Europe R&D funding programme, which is to be announced any day now.
More info on NGI Forum 2021 (registration unfortunately required, but free): https://2021.ngiforum.eu

One particularly interesting session on a topic which is not discussed often enough will be a workshop on open hardware chip efforts, organised by NGI Zero (the project I lead). With global chip shortages and increasing policy attention going to the security aspects and the strategic dimension of chips (with the EC announcing over 100 billion euro of upcoming investments, and the USA and other countries pushing similar ambitions), open hardware efforts in this space are a truly exciting area to globally advance the state of the art and work towards more secure and more energy-friendly computing devices.

The workshop “Regaining control over our devices: Building open hardware chips in Europe” takes place on Tuesday afternoon from 15h to 17h CEST, and will be presented by Rob Taylor (LibreCores/FOSSI foundation). It will feature a global cast, a.o. Bunnie Huang (Betrusted), Charles Papon (SpinalHDL), David Lanzendoerfer (LibreSilicon), David Tester (Ensilica), Jana Nieder (INL.int), Maria M. Valado (IMEC) Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton (Libre-SOC), Olof Kindgren (FuseSoC/Edalize), Sally Ward-Foxton (EE Times), Staf Verhagen (Chips4makers), Thomas Kramer (LibrEDA, Free Silicon Foundation) and Xianjun Jiao (OpenWifi). Should be a lot of fun!

See: https://nlnet.nl/news/2021/20210507-NGI-Zero-workshop-open-hardware.html

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