Treklit has some great offerings. The Relaunch universe books in particular developed coherent serialized storylines and a group of strong authors. There is also a deep library of standalone books from across all eras of the franchise.

By contrast, serialized Star Trek is struggling onscreen. Of the current era, only Prodigy has excelled in serialized storytelling.

So, why not look to the books? Not just to lift an idea like Control or the end of the Borg, but to actually tell a coherent narrative across a season or season?

On Netflix, Prime and Apple, it’s become established that successful streaming shows are often based on novels and novel series. Those streamers have come to understand that novelists, not scriptwriters, excel in laying out long form storytelling, and resources are often better put in having the screenwriters adapt than create from the whole cloth.

Reading a recent interview with Mick Herron, author of the critically acclaimed and popular Slow Horses on Apple, with a second show based on his other books launching this fall, I was struck by the interviewer’s assertion of this truism.

I thought about several of the non franchise shows I enjoy and how many of them are more or less faithful adaptations of books.

I was also struck by the thought that both Skydance and Paramount are quite capable of producing excellent book adaptations for Netflix and Apple. Murderbot is a very current example.

So, what’s holding back Star Trek from exploiting the Vanguard series or the Starfleet Core of Engineers books?

Why insist on giving showrunners resources to keep retelling franchise stories with legacy characters and tropes?

Why not exploit that IP that Paramount already owns by adapting the best of decades of TrekLit?

Mahmoud, age 17, said that his Israeli abductors "began hurling insults, cursing at us, and accusing us of being with Hamas."

"They stripped us of our clothes and took us to Kerem Shalom, completely naked, with nothing," he continued. "There, the beatings and torture began."

"The Israeli women soldiers beat us. They stripped us and 'played' here, and here, and there," Mahmoud said, indicating his genitals. "They beat us with sticks. Got on us while we were lying on the ground. We were handcuffed like that and naked."

Mahmoud said his captors wanted to humiliate him and other teenage boys in custody, accusing the troops of taking nude photos of them and sending female soldiers to mock and touch his body—an especially shameful ordeal for Muslims.

Palestinian Boys Allege Sexual Assault, Torture by Israeli Jailers

"We are children," said one teen. "What have we done?"

^{brett-wilkins (Common Dreams)}

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Clicca per aprire/chiudere

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Besides issues of compensation and streaming monopoly, some musicians don’t want their music to ‘kill people.’

https://indianexpress.com/article/explained/explained-culture/musicians-removing-music-spotify-royalties-ai-daniel-ek-10208768/

Mastodon funziona come una federazione di server ed usa il protocollo Webfinger per risolvere gli indirizzi degli utenti. Puoi configurare una pagina sul tuo dominio che risponda alle richieste Webfinger rimandando al tuo indirizzo Mastodon originale. Creerai perciò un alias che potrai usare e far usare su Mastodon.

In poche parole se hai l’utente @pippo ed il tuo dominio è casa.com potrai essere cercato e menzionato su Mastodon anche come @pippo@casa.com .

La teoria è semplice, piazzare un file json di configurazione dentro una cartella con sottocartella sul tuo sito nel tuo dominio.

Siccome io ho una VPS linux-debian con YunoHost e wordpress installato, spiegherò come approciarsi utilizzando questa configurazione.

Prima di tutto bisogna creare un file index.php che contenga il seguente codice:

<?php

$res = @$_GET['resource'];

if ($res != 'acct:UtenteMastodon@MioDominio.com') {
    header('HTTP/1.0 404 Not Found');
    die();
}

header('Content-Type: application/json');

echo json_encode([
    'subject' => 'acct:UtenteMastodon@mastodon.social', 
    'aliases' => [
        'https://snowfan.masto.host/@UtenteMastodono',
        'https://snowfan.masto.host/users/UtenteMastodon'
    ],
    'links' => [
        [
            'rel' => 'http://webfinger.net/rel/profile-page',
            'type' => 'text/html',
            'href' => 'https://snowfan.masto.host/@UtenteMastodon'
        ],
        [
            'rel' => 'self',
            'type' => 'application/activity+json',
            'href' => 'https://snowfan.masto.host/users/UtenteMastodon'
        ]
    ]
]);

?>

Il file lo possiamo creare in locale e trasportarlo alla VPS con ftp, oppure collegarci con SSH e crearlo con nano.

Se siamo collegati con SSH alla VPS, digitare SU seguito dalla password di root. spostiamoci alla cartella di worpress o alla cartella root del dominio che ci interessa, nel caso di worpress dovrebbe essere “/var/www/wordpress” o nel caso di installazioni multiple potremo avere “/var/www/wordpress_2″.

In questa cartella dobbiamo creare una cartella .well-known ed una sottocartella al suo interno webfinger e dentro webfinger posizionare lo script-file index.php.

eseguire da root o tramite sudo il seguente comando:

chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/wordpress/.well-known

Questo comando cambia proprietario e ne permette la gestione ad apache/ngix

Digitare i seguenti comandi controllando che le cartelle siano corrette:

sudo find /var/www/wordpress/.well-known -type d -exec chmod 755 {} \;

sudo find /var/www/wordpress/.well-known -type f -exec chmod 644 {} \;

Questi comandi danno i corretti permessi alle cartelle ed al file.

A questo punto non ci rimane che testare che funzioni tutto, dal nostro browser preferito immettere questo url debitamente corretto col dominio giusto:

miodominio.com/.well-known/web…

Se tutto funziona dovremmo vedere a video uno script json.

Il passaggio successivo è andare su mastodon e digitare nel box di ricerca: @UtenteMastodon@MioDominio.com se anche questo passaggio funziona abbiamo fatto tutto correttamente. Se riceviamo una pagina 404 ci potrebbe essere un problema nello script che va verificato.

Il Gran Premio d’Ungheria 2025 ha visto per l’ennesima volta il dominio di Marc Marquez, che al Balaton Park ha conquistato la sua 14ª vittoria consecutiva, firmando la sesta doppietta stagionale tra Sprint e gara lunga. Sul podio, insieme al pilota della Ducati Lenovo, sono saliti Pedro Acosta con la KTM e Marco Bezzecchi con l’Aprilia, regalando tre marchi diversi nelle prime tre posizioni.

quotidianomotori.com/motogp/mo…

MotoGP Ungheria 2025: i risultati e l’ordine di arrivo della gara - Quotidiano Motori

Risultati MotoGP Ungheria 2025: ecco l’ordine di arrivo della gara al Balaton Park con tempi, distacchi e sorpassi decisivi.

^{Mario Roth (Quotidiano Motori)}

Dopo il successo della docuserie premiata con un Emmy, Brawn: The Impossible Formula 1 Story, Keanu Reeves torna con un nuovo progetto. L’attore e produttore sarà la voce narrante della serie che documenta la nascita e il debutto del Cadillac Formula 1 Team, il nuovo progetto americano targato TWG Motorsports e General Motors.

quotidianomotori.com/formula-1…

Keanu Reeves racconta la nascita del Cadillac Formula 1 Team - Quotidiano Motori

Keanu Reeves è il protagonista della docuserie sul debutto del Cadillac Formula 1 Team a Melbourne che avverrà nel 2026.

^{Caterina Di Iorgi (Quotidiano Motori)}

cross-posted from: programming.dev/post/36251461

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Source: zack_overflow on X/Twitter.

Brave Research.

Pro

2025-08-24 17:32:12

Comet AI browser can get prompt injected from any site, drain your bank account

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Source: zack_overflow on X/Twitter.

• Brave Research;
• Guardio Research.

"Scamlexity": When Agentic AI Browsers Get Scammed

We Put Agentic AI Browsers to the Test - They Clicked, They Paid, They Failed

^{Guardio Research Team (Guardio)}

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Source: zack_overflow on X/Twitter.

• Brave Research;
• Guardio Research.

"Scamlexity": When Agentic AI Browsers Get Scammed

We Put Agentic AI Browsers to the Test - They Clicked, They Paid, They Failed

^{Guardio Research Team (Guardio)}

La MotoGP ha fatto il suo debutto assoluto in Ungheria sul nuovo circuito del Balaton Park, con la prima gara Sprint della storia del GP ungherese. Una prova spettacolare, segnata da incidenti al primo giro e da un dominio incontrastato di Marc Marquez, al suo tredicesimo successo consecutivo.

quotidianomotori.com/motogp/mo…

MotoGP Ungheria 2025: i risultati della Gara Sprint - Quotidiano Motori

MotoGP Ungheria 2025: risultati e ordine di arrivo della Gara Sprint al Balaton Park. Distacchi, protagonisti e cronaca della corsa.

^{Mario Roth (Quotidiano Motori)}

cross-posted from: programming.dev/post/36242840

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Pro

2025-08-24 14:36:04

Writing with LLM is not a shame.

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Writing with LLM is not a shame. An essay about transparency on AI use.

Do we have to disclaim how we use AI ?

^reflexions

cross-posted from: programming.dev/post/36242572

Pro

2025-08-24 14:30:28

Chinese women exploited in Telegram voyeur rooms urge authorities to act

Chinese women exploited in Telegram voyeur rooms urge authorities to act

A stranger alerted Ms. D to an online chatroom where her private images were being shared. Now she and other angry Chinese women are pushing officials to punish the offenders.

^{Yuxuan Jiang (CNN)}

My boyfriend (20) and I (18) have been living together for 2 years in an urban apartment. For us, it usually goes like this:

1. Delivery
2. Eating out
3. Cooking at home

We visit our parents (and they visit us) often, and they give us lots of home-cooked food. We mostly cook at home just for fun.

I’m curious what it’s like for other people, especially in different age groups or family setups!

• Twitch's new anti-bot system caused viewer counts to nosedive across hundreds of channels, with some losing over half their displayed audience.
• Channels running 24/7 reruns saw the biggest drops, with Mira falling from 2,000+ to under 200 viewers overnight.
• The cleanup affects sponsorship deals and ad rates since brands have been paying premium prices for audiences that were partially fake.

Twitch launches anti-bot crackdown and viewership numbers plummet across the platform overnight

Twitch's anti-bot enforcement led to sharp drops in displayed viewership across many channels. The shift raises implications for rankings, ads, and sponsors.

^{Riley Fox (Spilled)}

• Raja Jackson attacked an unconscious wrestler with 20+ real punches after being fake-hit with a beer can during a wrestling show.
• The victim was reported as "barely breathing" and requiring emergency medical attention after the assault.
• Kick immediately terminated Jackson's channel and removed all footage of the attack.

Kick streamer Raja Jackson brutally attacks wrestler during live show

Raja Jackson attacked a wrestler during a live Kick stream, leaving the performer unconscious. His channel was terminated as police have yet to announce charges.

^{Riley Fox (Spilled)}

• Raja Jackson attacked an unconscious wrestler with 20+ real punches after being fake-hit with a beer can during a wrestling show.
• The victim was reported as "barely breathing" and requiring emergency medical attention after the assault.
• Kick immediately terminated Jackson's channel and removed all footage of the attack.

Kick streamer Raja Jackson brutally attacks wrestler during live show

Raja Jackson attacked a wrestler during a live Kick stream, leaving the performer unconscious. His channel was terminated as police have yet to announce charges.

^{Riley Fox (Spilled)}

• Raja Jackson attacked an unconscious wrestler with 20+ real punches after being fake-hit with a beer can during a wrestling show.
• The victim was reported as "barely breathing" and requiring emergency medical attention after the assault.
• Kick immediately terminated Jackson's channel and removed all footage of the attack.

Kick streamer Raja Jackson brutally attacks wrestler during live show

Raja Jackson attacked a wrestler during a live Kick stream, leaving the performer unconscious. His channel was terminated as police have yet to announce charges.

^{Riley Fox (Spilled)}

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• Source.
• Hugging Face.

xai-org/grok-2 · Hugging Face

We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.

^{huggingface.co}

cross-posted from: programming.dev/post/36236135

Pro

2025-08-24 11:31:12

Soft skin, sharp senses: New robotic ‘touch’ sees danger before it hits

Soft skin, sharp senses: New robotic ‘touch’ sees danger before it hits

Soft robots need advanced sensing to safely interact with humans, but combining multiple sensors in soft materials is difficult.

^EurekAlert!

cross-posted from: programming.dev/post/36236133

Pro

2025-08-24 11:30:37

AI can find cancer pathologists miss

AI can find cancer pathologists miss - Uppsala University

^www.uu.se