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Come fa Babbo Natale a consegnare tutti i regali in una sola notte? Una possibile risposta è che non ne esista uno solo, ma tantissimi, molti dei quali si allenano a Pont-Saint-Martin. I Santa Claus si ritrovano in Piazza 4 novembre, da dove partono per un giro assolutamente non competitivo per le strade cittadine.
Organizzata dall'associazione commercianti e artigiani di Pont-Saint-Martin e giunta alla quinta edizione, la corsa ha scopo benefico. In particolare quest'anno la quota verrà donata integralmente al Centro Donne contro la violenza di Aosta, per la quale sono stati raccolti in totale mille euro.
Interviste ad alcuni partecipanti e a Christian Bordet, presidente dell'Associazione commercianti e artigiani di Pont-Saint-Martin.
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I Babbi Natale che fanno del bene correndo
A Pont-Saint-Martin in più di duecento per la manifestazione, giunta alla quinta edizione. Il ricavato sarà devoluto al Centro donne contro la violenza di AostaRaiNews
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Atreju e l’odio messo in scena
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La derisione del dissenso, la ridicolizzazione del conflitto sociale, la svalutazione della memoria
L'articolo Atreju e l’odio messo in scena proviene da Articolo21.
Taking Electronics to a Different Level
One part wants 3.3V logic. Another wants 5V. What do you do? Over on the [Playduino] YouTube channel, there’s a recent video running us through a not-so-recent concern: various approaches to level-shifting.
In the video, the specific voltage domains of 3.3 volts and 5 volts are given, but you can apply the same principles to other voltage domains, such as 1.8 volts, 2.5 volts, or nearly any two levels. Various approaches are discussed depending on whether you are interfacing 5 V to 3.3 V or 3.3 V to 5 V.
The first way to convert 5 V into 3.3 V is to use a voltage divider, made from two resistors. This is a balancing act: if the resistors are too small, the circuit wastes power; if they are too large, they inhibit fast signals.
The second approach to converting 5 V into 3.3 V is to use a bare resistor of at least 10K. This is a controversial approach, but it may work in your situation. The trick is to rely on the voltage drop across the series resistor to either drop enough voltage or limit the current flowing through input protection diodes, which will clamp the voltage but also burn out with too much current flow.
The third approach to converting 5 V into 3.3 V is to use chips from the 74AHC series or 74LVC series, such as inverting or non-inverting buffers. These chips can do the level shifting for you.
The easiest approach for going in the other direction is to simply connect them directly and hope you get lucky! Needless to say, this approach is fraught with peril.
The second approach for converting 3.3 V into 5 V is to make your own inverting or non-inverting buffer using, in this case, an N-channel Enhancement-mode MOSFET. Use one MOSFET for an inverting buffer and two MOSFETs for a non-inverting buffer. Just make sure you pick N-MOSFETs with 3.3 V or 5 V gate drive voltage VGS. Alternatively, you can use a buffer from the 74HCT series.
The video provides a myriad of approaches to level shifting, but you still have to decide. Do you have a favorite approach that wasn’t listed? Have you had good or bad luck with any of the approaches? Let us know in the comments! For more info on level shifting, including things to watch out for, check out When Your Level Shifter Is Too Smart To Function.
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Dopo il tour mondiale, Carmen Consoli torna a teatro, nell’acustica calda e morbida delle sale, con la vicinanza affettuosa del pubblico. Il racconto del concerto al Teatro Splendor di Aosta, dove ha fatto tappa l'Amuri Luci Tour.
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Questa cosa dell'IA ci sta sfugge di di mano.
Leggo che potrebbero tornare gli smartphone android con 4 GB di RAM.
Perché sai, non sia mai che l'IA venga anche vagamente rallentata, meglio rallentare la vita delle persone.
#la #RAM #ramshortage
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@Dario Zanette ma volesse il cielo.
Un bel colpo secco, e via.
Il modello che è stato messo in atto (cioè, diamole risorse, risorse, sempre più risorse) è qualcosa che ovviamente non può stare in piedi, nemmeno con miliardi infiniti.
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Resoconto GNU/Linux Day 2024
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Segnalato dal LUG di Firenze e pubblicato sulla comunità Lemmy @GNU/Linux Italia
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Un altro giorno di GNU/Linux se n’è andato e io mi decido con ritardo mostruoso a scopiazzare da un messaggio di Leandro nella lista del FLUG, con l’obiettivo di fissare nella memoria
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Printing with PHA Filament as Potential Alternative to PLA
PLA (polylactic acid) has become the lowest common denominator in FDM 3D printing, offering decent performance while being not very demanding on the printer. That said, it’s often noted that the supposed biodegradability of PLA turned out to be somewhat dishonest, as it requires an industrial composting setup to break it down. Meanwhile, a potential alternative has been waiting in the wings for a while, in the form of PHA. Recently, [JanTec Engineering] took a shot at this filament type to see how it prints and tests its basic resistance to various forms of abuse.
PHA (polyhydroxyalkanoates) are polyesters that are produced by microorganisms, often through bacterial fermentation. Among their advantages are biodegradability without requiring hydrolysis as the first step, as well as UV-stability. There are also PLA-PHA blends that exhibit higher toughness, among other improvements, such as greater thermal stability. So far, PHA seems to have found many uses in medicine, especially for surgical applications where it’s helpful to have a support that dissolves over time.
As can be seen in the video, PHA by itself isn’t a slam-dunk replacement for PLA, if only due to the price. Finding a PHA preset in slicers is, at least today, uncommon. A comment by the CTO of EcoGenesis on the video further points out that PHA has a post-printing ‘curing time’, so that mechanical tests directly after printing aren’t quite representative. Either you can let the PHA fully crystallize by letting the part sit for ~48 hours, or you can speed up the process by putting it in an oven at 70 – 80°C for 6-8 hours.
Overall, it would seem that if your goal is to have truly biodegradable parts, PHA is hard to beat. Hopefully, once manufacturing capacity increases, prices will also come down. Looking for strange and wonderful printing filament? Here you go.
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Teardown of a 5th Generation Prius Inverter
The best part about BEV and hybrid cars is probably the bit where their electronics are taken out for a good teardown and comparison with previous generations and competing designs. Case in point: This [Denki Otaku] teardown of a fifth-generation Prius inverter and motor controller, which you can see in the video below. First released in 2022, this remains the current platform used in modern Prius hybrid cars.
Compared to the fourth-generation design from 2015, the fifth generation saw about half of its design changed or updated, including the stack-up and liquid cooling layout. Once [Otaku] popped open the big aluminium box containing the dual motor controller and inverters, we could see the controller card, which connects to the power cards that handle the heavy power conversion. These are directly coupled to a serious aluminium liquid-cooled heatsink.
At the bottom of the Prius sandwich is the 12VDC inverter board, which does pretty much what it says on the tin. With less severe cooling requirements, it couples its heat-producing parts into the aluminium enclosure from where the liquid cooling loop can pick up that bit of thermal waste. Overall, it looks like a very clean and modular design, which, as noted in the video, still leaves plenty of room inside the housing.
Regardless of what you think of the Prius on the road, you have to admit it’s fun to hack.
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ICYMI: The Tournament Ends Tomorrow
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On October 20th, the United States Pirate Party had begun the process of determining the location of the 2026 Pirate National Conference, marking 20 years of the United States Pirate Party.
This week was the finals week between finalist cities Boston, MA (1) and Vicksburg, MS (4).
Tomorrow, December 15th, we shall reveal the winner of the location tournament finals and find out once and for all where the Conference will take place.
Those of you who are disappointed in your city of choice not making it to the finals, fear not: all ten cities eliminated, including the eleventh city due to be eliminated tomorrow, will remain in consideration for future conferences. San Francisco, which was the host city for the 2024 Pirate National Conference, shall return to consideration as well.
Pirates: Will it be Boston or will it be Vicksburg?
We shall find out tomorrow.
Il cuore pulsante dell'economia informatica
L’informatica e la tecnologia non sono più semplici strumenti al servizio dell’uomo: sono diventate l’infrastruttura invisibile su cui poggia gran parte dell’economia globale. Ogni gesto quotidiano, dal pagamento con lo smartphone allo streaming di un contenuto, dall’invio di una mail all’uso di un assistente vocale, attraversa piattaforme digitali costruite, gestite e monetizzate da colossi dell’hi-tech. Dietro l’apparente semplicità dell’interfaccia si muove un ecosistema complesso fatto di software, hardware, dati, algoritmi e soprattutto di business. Un business enorme, stratificato, spesso opaco, ma incredibilmente efficiente.
Operazione Overload
Introduzione Era marzo 2024 quando in un nostro articolo segnalammo qualcosa che non ci tornava: BUTAC riceve quotidianamente messaggi per segnalare notizie che i nostri lettori ritengono che andrebbero verificate.maicolengel butac (Butac – Bufale Un Tanto Al Chilo)
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♲ @ilPost@flipboard.com:Sono stati condannati a un anno di carcere i quattro militanti di CasaPound che aggredirono il giornalista della Stampa Andrea Joly a Torino - Il Post
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Dalla caduta degli Sforza sino alla conquista napoleonica, il libro ripercorre la storia delle istituzioni e della società dello Stato di Milano in età moderna: una panoramica aggiornata che attraversa la dominazione degli Asburgo di Spagna, la riforma borromaica della Chiesa ambrosiana e il secolo dei Lumi. Un mosaico di conflitti, di ambizioni individuali e collettive, di stili di vita e di governo, che definirono i tratti salienti, l’identità, la vitalità economica e la capacità creativa dello spazio culturale e politico milanese.Attraverso un’argomentazione sintetica e innovativa, il volume connette e interpreta una lunga teoria di eventi e fenomeni, di temi e problemi, che misurarono la capacità degli Sforza, degli Asburgo di Spagna e degli Asburgo d’Austria di sperimentare strategie efficaci per conservare la sovranità sulla Lombardia, un territorio ricco di risorse e situato in una posizione strategica, e pertanto al centro della contesa tra potenze per l’egemonia nello spazio euro-mediterraneo lungo tutta la prima età moderna.
I saluti istituzionali di Paola Avallone, Direttrice del CNR-ISEM, apriranno i lavori. Seguiranno gli interventi di Isabella Cecchini (CNR-ISEM), Gaetano Sabatini (Università Roma Tre, Direttore Istituto Storico Italiano per l’Età Moderna e Contemporanea) e Michele Maria Rabà (CNR-ISEM), autore del volume.
L’evento si terrà in presenza – presso l’Aula Milone del Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici dell’Università di Ca’ Foscari (3° piano ala D, Palazzo Malcanton Marcorà, Dorsoduro 3246) – e da remoto, attraverso la piattaforma Microsoft Teams, al seguente URL
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Need For Speed Map IRL
When driving around in video games, whether racing games like Mario Kart or open-world games like GTA, the game often displays a mini map in the corner of the screen that shows where the vehicle is in relation to the rest of the playable area. This idea goes back well before the first in-vehicle GPS systems, and although these real-world mini maps are commonplace now, they don’t have the same feel as the mini maps from retro video games. [Garage Tinkering] set out to solve this problem, and do it on minimal hardware.
Before getting to the hardware, though, the map itself needed to be created. [Garage Tinkering] is modeling his mini map on Need For Speed: Underground 2, including layers and waypoints. Through a combination of various open information sources he was able to put together an entire map of the UK and code it for main roads, side roads, waterways, and woodlands, as well as adding in waypoints like car parks, gas/petrol stations, and train stations, and coding their colors and gradients to match that of his favorite retro racing game.
To get this huge and detailed map onto small hardware isn’t an easy task, though. He’s using an ESP32 with a built-in circular screen, which means it can’t store the whole map at once. Instead, the map is split into a grid, each associated with a latitude and longitude, and only the grids that are needed are loaded at any one time. The major concession made for the sake of the hardware was to forgo rotating the grid squares to keep the car icon pointed “up”. Rotating the grids took too much processing power and made the map updates jittery, so instead, the map stays pointed north, and the car icon rotates. This isn’t completely faithful to the game, but it looks much better on this hardware.
The last step was to actually wire it all up, get real GPS data from a receiver, and fit it into the car for real-world use. [Garage Tinkering] has a 350Z that this is going into, which is also period-correct to recreate the aesthetics of this video game. Everything works as expected and loads smoothly, which probably shouldn’t be a surprise given how much time he spent working on the programming. If you’d rather take real-world data into a video game instead of video game data into the real world, we have also seen builds that do things like take Open Street Map data into Minecraft.
Thanks to [Keith] for the tip!
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GhostFrame: il primo framework PhaaS interamente basato su iframe
Barracuda ha pubblicato i dettagli di un nuovo kit di phishing-as-a-service (PhaaS) elusivo e stealth che nasconde i contenuti dannosi all’interno di iframe di pagine web per eludere il rilevamento e massimizzare la flessibilità.
È la prima volta che Barracuda rileva un framework di phishing completo costruito attorno alla tecnica degli iframe.
Gli analisti delle minacce monitorano il nuovo PhaaS da settembre 2025 e lo hanno soprannominato GhostFrame. Ad oggi, a questo kit sono stati attribuiti oltre un milione di attacchi.
L’analisi tecnica di Barracuda dimostra che la funzionalità di GhostFrame è apparentemente semplice, ma molto efficace.
A differenza della maggior parte dei kit di phishing, GhostFrame utilizza un semplice file HTML apparentemente innocuo, in cui tutte le attività dannose si svolgono all’interno di un iframe, una piccola finestra all’interno di una pagina web che può visualizzare contenuti provenienti da un’altra fonte. Questo approccio fa apparire la pagina di phishing autentica, nascondendone però la vera origine e il vero scopo.
Le caratteristiche più importanti di GhostFrame includono:
- Un file HTML esterno dall’aspetto innocuo che non contiene alcun contenuto di phishing che potrebbe attivare il rilevamento e utilizza codice dinamico per generare e manipolare i nomi dei sottodomini, in modo che ne venga generato uno nuovo per ogni destinazione.
- Tuttavia, all’interno di questa pagina sono presenti dei puntatori incorporati che indirizzano gli utenti a una pagina di phishing secondaria tramite un iframe.
- La pagina iframe ospita i componenti di phishing veri e propri. Gli aggressori nascondono i moduli di acquisizione delle credenziali all’interno di una funzione di streaming di immagini progettata per file di grandi dimensioni, rendendo difficile per gli scanner statici, che in genere cercano moduli di phishing hardcoded, rilevare l’attacco.
- Il design dell’iframe consente agli aggressori di modificare facilmente il contenuto di phishing, testare nuovi trucchi o prendere di mira regioni specifiche, il tutto senza modificare la pagina web principale che distribuisce il kit. Semplicemente aggiornando la destinazione dell’iframe, il kit può eludere il rilevamento da parte degli strumenti di sicurezza che controllano solo la pagina esterna.
- Come altri kit di phishing di nuova generazione, GhostFrame impedisce e interrompe in modo aggressivo l’ispezione. Tra le altre cose, blocca il clic destro del mouse, blocca il tasto F12 (utilizzato per gli strumenti di sviluppo) e il tasto Invio, e impedisce l’uso di scorciatoie da tastiera comuni come Ctrl/Cmd e Ctrl/Cmd+Shift. Queste scorciatoie sono spesso utilizzate dagli analisti della sicurezza per visualizzare il codice sorgente, salvare pagine o aprire strumenti di sviluppo.
Le email di phishing di GhostFrame alternano temi tradizionali, come falsi accordi commerciali e falsi aggiornamenti delle risorse umane. Come altre email di phishing, sono progettate per indurre i destinatari a cliccare su link pericolosi o a scaricare file dannosi.
“La scoperta di GhostFrame evidenzia la rapidità e l’intelligenza con cui i kit di phishing si stanno evolvendo. GhostFrame è il primo esempio che abbiamo visto di una piattaforma di phishing basata quasi esclusivamente su iframe, e gli aggressori stanno sfruttando appieno questa funzionalità per aumentare la flessibilità ed eludere il rilevamento” , ha affermato Saravanan Mohankumar, direttore dell’analisi delle minacce di Barracuda.
“Per rimanere protette, le organizzazioni devono andare oltre le difese statiche e adottare strategie multilivello: formazione degli utenti, aggiornamenti regolari del browser, strumenti di sicurezza per rilevare iframe sospetti, monitoraggio continuo e condivisione di informazioni sulle minacce”.
L'articolo GhostFrame: il primo framework PhaaS interamente basato su iframe proviene da Red Hot Cyber.
SIRIA. Attacco dell’Isis: uccisi due soldati e un contractor americani
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L'agguato è avvenuto a Palmira (Tadmor) nell'Est del paese dove cellule dello Stato islamico continuano i loro raid
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Le industrie aerospaziali e della difesa europea sono in ottima salute. L’analisi di Braghini
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Performance positive e migliorate – e superiori agli USA – nel 2024 per il comparto AS&D europeo (Ue e non) per il quarto anno consecutivo, con una crescita annua dei ricavi (+10%) e degli addetti (+7%) andamenti differenziati, difesa
Venti sanità
@Politica interna, europea e internazionale
L'articolo Venti sanità proviene da Fondazione Luigi Einaudi.
I combattimenti fra Thailandia e Cambogia continuano
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Normally, it’s bad news to be next to an exploding star. But ancient supernovae may have aided the formation of our home world—and perhaps Earthlike planets elsewhere.#TheAbstract
Earth-Like Planets Are More Common Than We Thought, Study Says
Welcome back to the Abstract! These are the studies this week that got hosed with star spray, mounted a failed invasion, declined to comment, and achieved previously unknown levels of adorability.First, a study about how the solar system wasn’t destroyed 4.5 billion years ago (phew!). Then: a human touch on an ancient boat, the duality of posters and lurkers, and an important update on toadlets.
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Sink into a warm cosmic-ray bath
Earth was cosmically conceived in part by a massive shockwave from a nearby supernova, which seeded our home world and neighboring rocky planets with telltale radioactive signatures, according to a new study.
The solar system’s rocky planets contain short-lived radionuclides (SLRs), which are ancient elements that were likely barfed out from exploding stars. For this reason, scientists have long suspected that stars must’ve detonated next to the gassy disk that gave rise to the solar system. The heat generated from these radioactive elements helped the building blocks of the rocky planets—Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars—melt together so they could become whole worlds, which means we owe our existence to these ancient supernovas.
Now, a team has developed a new model to explain how the primordial pyrotechnics didn’t just blow up the nascent solar system. The results suggest that rocky Earth-like worlds may be common in the universe, with potential implications for the search for extraterrestrial life.
“A key question in astronomy is how ubiquitous Earth-like rocky planets are,” said researchers led by Ryo Sawada of the University of Tokyo. “The formation of terrestrial planets in our Solar System was strongly influenced by the radioactive decay heat of SLRs, particularly aluminum-26, likely delivered from nearby supernovae.”
“However, the supernova injection scenario faces an unresolved problem in that existing supernova models could not reproduce both the relative and absolute abundances of SLRs without disrupting the protosolar disk,” an event that “would likely prevent the Solar System formation altogether,” the team added.
In other words, it’s hard to explain how the solar system got its high abundance of SLRs without killing it in the cradle. Sawada and his colleagues propose a solution that involves at least one star exploding about three light years of the disk, sparking a shockwave that created a cosmic-ray “bath.”
Schematic picture of the system assumed in this study. Image: Sawada et al., Sci. Adv. 11, eadx7892
In this “immersion mechanism,” energetic cosmic rays trapped in the bath triggered SLR-producing reactions directly within the disk. This contrasts with the hypothesis that the SLRs were largely injected and then mixed up in the disk through some unknown process. This new solution can account both for the high abundance of certain SLRs, like aluminum-26, and the fact that the solar system was not destroyed, as evidenced by its apparent continued existence.“Our results suggest that Earth-like, water-poor rocky planets may be more prevalent in the
Galaxy than previously thought,” the team said, noting that many disks are rocked by similar supernova-shockwaves. “This challenges previous interpretations that classified the Solar System as an outlier with a particularly high [aluminum-26] abundance.”
In addition to offering a new hypothesis for an old astronomical problem, the study gets bonus points for its extremely poetic title: “Cosmic-ray bath in a past supernova gives birth to Earth-like planets.” If you say this enchanted phrase three times, somewhere an Earth-like world will be born.
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The biometrics of a Baltic boatsman
Stars aren’t the only things leaving their dirty fingerprints in unexpected places this week. Archeologists working on the mysterious Hjortspring boat, a 2,400-year-old Scandinavian vessel, discovered a tantalizing partial human fingerprint in its caulking, providing “a direct link to the ancient seafarers who used this boat,” according to the study.
Photo of caulking fragment showing fingerprint on the left and high-resolution x-ray tomography scan of fingerprint region on the right. Image: Photography by Erik Johansson, 3D model by Sahel Ganji
The ridges of the fingerprint “fall within average distributions for both adult male and females as well as for juvenile adults, making it difficult to say much about the individual who produced the print,” said researchers led by Mikael Fauvelle of Lund University. “The most likely interpretation, however, is that it was made during repairs by one of the crew members on the boat itself, providing a direct link to the seafarers of the ancient vessel.”Regardless of this person’s identity, their voyage didn’t end well. Researchers think the crew of the Hjortspring boat probably sailed from the eastern Baltic Sea to attack the Danish island of Als, where they were defeated. “The victors [deposited] the weapons of their vanquished foes together with one of their boats into the bog,” where they remained for millennia until they were rediscovered in the 1880s, the team said.
It’s a timeless reminder for would-be invaders: Don’t get caulky.
Long-time lurker, first-time poster
At last, scientists have investigated the most elusive online demographic: the humble lurker. A team recruited 520 Redditors in the U.S. to participate in small subreddits focused on a variety of political topics during the summer of 2024. The aim was to probe why some people became prolific “power-users” that post with voluminous confidence, while others remained wallflowers.
“Online political discussions are often dominated by a small group of active users, while most remain silent,” said researchers led by Lisa Oswalt of the Max Planck Institute for Human Development. “This visibility gap can distort perceptions of public opinion and fuel polarization.”
The team found that “lurking (posting nothing) was most common among users who perceived discussions as toxic, disrespectful, or unconstructive.” Lurkers were offered small payments to post in the experiment, which succeeded in motivating some to contribute to discussions. As a result, the study concluded that “future interventions may be able to make online political discussions more representative by offering more positive social rewards for lurkers to post.”
At last, an opportunity to unionize the lurkers of the world. Solidarity (in silence) forever.
It’s the great pumpkin toadlet, Charlie Brown
We will close, as we have before, with an impossibly cute toadlet. Scientists have discovered this new species of “pumpkin toadlet” in the “cloud forests” of Brazil, a sentence so twee that it’s practically its own fairy tale. The tiny toad Brachycephalus lulai, pictured below on a pencil tip, belongs to a family of “flea toads” that are among the smallest vertebrates on Earth.
Basically it is very smol: Brachycephalus lulai is a tiny pumpkin toadlet measuring less than 14 mm in length. Photo: Luiz Fernando Ribeiro. Image credit 1: Luiz Fernando Ribeiro, CC-BY 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/b…)
“Our team sought to better document the individual variation of all Brachycephalus species in southern Brazil, looking for them in the field over the past seven years,” said researchers led by Marcos R. Bornschein of São Paulo State University. “As a result of this work, we discovered and herein described a population collected on the eastern slope of Serra do Quiriri as a new species.”The team also reported that the toads are actively colonizing newly formed cloud forests, which are high-altitude woods shrouded in mist. The researchers propose making these unique habitats into refuges for the adorable anurans.
Thanks for reading! See you next week.
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GAZA. La tempesta fa 14 morti ma Israele blocca ancora gli aiuti
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La tempesta Byron causa la morte di 14 gazawi mentre le tendopoli sono sommerse da fango e liquami. L'assemblea dell'ONU vota una risoluzione per obbligare Israele a sbloccare gli aiuti ma Trump prepara altre sanzioni per l'UNRWA
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Jesus Gutiérrez told immigration agents he was a U.S. citizen. Only after they scanned his face, did the agents let him go.#ICE #Privacy
How a US Citizen Was Scanned With ICE's Facial Recognition Tech
This article is a partnership between Reveal and 404 Media.Jesus Gutiérrez, 23, was walking home one morning from a Chicago gym when he noticed a gray Cadillac SUV with no license plates. He kept walking, shrugging it off. Then the car pulled over and two men got out.
The federal immigration officials told him not to run. They then peppered Gutiérrez with questions: Where are you going? Where are you coming from? Do you have your ID on you?
Gutiérrez is a U.S. citizen. He told the officials this. He didn’t have any identification on him, but, panicking, he tried to find a copy on his phone. The agents put him into the car, where another two agents were waiting, and handcuffed him. Just sit there and be quiet, they said.
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“Umanità negata”. A Trieste un presidio per denunciare la tragedia di quattro migranti morti
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Di seguito il testo letto da don Paolo Iannacone a nome del costituendo Coordinamento regionale della
‘Io so’ con Elena Ruzza, a Borgaro Torinese. Un momento importante di ‘cucitura’ tra memoria e futur
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Alla vigilia dell’anniversario della strage del 12 dicembre 1969, piazza Fontana,
Stop the gatekeeping. The First Amendment is for all of us
Dear Friend of Press Freedom,
Rümeysa Öztürk has been facing deportation for 262 days for co-writing an op-ed the government didn’t like, and journalist Ya’akub Vijandre remains locked up by Immigration and Customs Enforcement over social media posts about issues he reported on. Read on for more on what we’re working on this week.
Stop the gatekeeping. The First Amendment’s for all of us
In the early days of the internet, online news confused analog-era judges, who pondered questions like, “If this is journalism then why are there no ink smudges on my fingers?” These days, First Amendment advocates tend to chuckle when thinking back on that era. But apparently it’s not quite over yet.
Freedom of the Press Foundation (FPF) Senior Adviser Caitlin Vogus wrote for the Sun-Sentinel about a judge in Florida’s unfortunate ruling that YouTube-based outlet Popcorned Planet can’t avail itself of the state’s reporter’s privilege to oppose a subpoena from actor Blake Lively. The court’s decision would “effectively exclude any independent journalist who publishes using online platforms from relying on the privilege to protect their sources.” If it stands, “vital information will stay buried,” she explained.
And FPF Executive Director Trevor Timm spoke to Columbia Journalism Review about another subpoena from Lively that’s testing whether celebrity blogger Perez Hilton can claim the privilege. “Hilton is gathering information, talking to sources, and publishing things in order to have the public consume them. That fits the definition of a journalist,” Timm explained. As CJR noted, FPF’s U.S. Press Freedom Tracker “was one of the few to highlight the Hilton case.”
It’s not a question of whether Popcorned Planet and Hilton are great journalists or if they pass some editorial purity test. It’s a question of whether the courts will allow litigants to chip away at First Amendment rights that protect all journalists, no matter what platform they use to report or what subjects they cover.
Administration is trolling America with its FOIA responses
As The New York Times reported this week, Immigration and Customs Enforcement claimed it has no body-worn camera footage from Operation Midway Blitz in Chicago, Illinois, despite a federal judge’s explicit order that agents wear and activate those cameras.
And as The Daily Beast reported, the Department of Homeland Security told FFP’s Daniel Ellsberg Chair on Government Secrecy Lauren Harper that Kristi Noem had no Truth Social Direct messages, despite her millions of followers. Harper requested cabinet officials’ messages in a Freedom of Information Act request after President Donald Trump accidentally publicly posted correspondence with Attorney General Pam Bondi.
As Harper told the Times, “They are trolling citizens and judges … ICE continues to feel increasing impunity and that it has the right to behave as a secret police that’s exempt from accountability.” FPF is, of course, appealing.
Don’t weaken Puerto Rico’s public records law
When the U.S. Navy quietly reactivated Roosevelt Roads Naval Station in Puerto Rico earlier this year, some residents saw the promise of new jobs, while others saw it as a painful reminder of past harms from the American military presence on the island.
Puerto Ricans — and Americans everywhere — deserve basic answers about what the military is up to as tensions escalate with Venezuela and whether Puerto Rico’s government is coordinating with the Pentagon and whether their concerns are being taken into account. And of course, there are countless local issues Puerto Ricans are entitled to be informed about.
But at the moment when transparency is most essential, lawmakers are trying to slam the door shut.
Don’t just take our word for it…
Throughout 2025 we’ve been hosting online events platforming journalists impacted by anti-press policies at the national and local levels, so you can hear directly from the people we hope will benefit from our work.
Read about three of our recent events. This week’s panel features journalists whose reporting is complicated by sources unwilling to come forward due to fear of retaliation. Last week we spoke with journalists about the difficulties of covering the immigration beat during Trump 2.0, and last month we talked about the immigration cases against journalists Sami Hamdi and Ya’akub Vijandre over their support for Palestinian rights (shoutout to our friends at The Dissenter for writing up that event). And there are even more past events on our YouTube channel.
WHAT WE'RE READING
Chokehold: Donald Trump’s war on free speech and the need for systemic resistance
Free Press
In a comprehensive new report, Free Press’s Nora Benavidez analyzes how Trump and his political enablers have sought to undermine and chill the most basic freedoms protected by the First Amendment.
Press freedom advocates sound alarm over Ya’akub Vijandre, stuck for over two months in ICE custody in Georgia
WABE
We cannot just accept that “every so often the administration is going to abduct some lawful resident who said something it doesn’t like about Israel or Palestine,” FPF’s Seth Stern told WABE.
Watched, tracked, and targeted: Life in Gaza under Israel’s all-encompassing surveillance regime
New York Magazine
A powerful essay by Palestinian journalist Mohammed Mhawish about life in Gaza “under Israel’s all-encompassing surveillance regime.”
ICEBlock creator sues Trump administration officials saying they pressured Apple to remove it from the app store
CNN
Threatening to punish app stores if they don’t remove apps the government dislikes is unconstitutional. This time it’s ICEBlock, but tomorrow it could be a news app.
Longtime LA radio exec Will Lewis dies; Went to prison in Hearst case
My News LA
Many heroes work behind the scenes on press freedom. Will Lewis was one of them. A radio executive who championed public media, he spent 15 days in prison to protect sources. RIP.
‘Heroic excavators of government secrets’
National Security Archive
Congratulations to the indefatigable National Security Archive on 40 years of clawing back the self-serving veil of government secrecy.
#Ucraina: l'Europa in trappola
Ucraina: l’Europa in trappola
La recente intervista di Trump alla testata on-line Politico ha fatto salire l’isteria dei governi europei a livelli senza precedenti, dal momento che il presidente americano ha ribadito per una platea decisamente più ampia la marginalità del vecchio…www.altrenotizie.org
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Spazio, Leonardo ambisce al mercato dei lanciatori? Ecco cosa lo fa pensare
@Notizie dall'Italia e dal mondo
Se l’Europa politica stenta ancora a dare segnali concreti di unità, l’industria, dal canto suo, sembra avere le idee chiare sul futuro. Anche più di quanto non racconti apertamente, almeno finora. Dal palco di Atreju, Roberto Cingolani ha rivelato ulteriori dettagli su
This week, we discuss conversational AI, a behind the scenes of the zine, and more.#BehindTheBlog
Behind the Blog: Is This Headline 'Clickbait'?
This is Behind the Blog, where we share our behind-the-scenes thoughts about how a few of our top stories of the week came together. This week, we discuss conversational AI, a behind the scenes of the zine, and more.EMANUEL: I made the terrible mistake of looking at some Hacker News comments this week for my story about a developer whose Google accounts were banned after he uploaded training data to Google Drive. Unbeknownst to him, the training data contained CSAM.
As we’ve explained in previous stories, CSAM is a subject we dread covering not only because it’s one of the most awful things one could think about, but because it’s extremely difficult and legally risky. For understandable reasons, the laws around viewing, let alone possessing CSAM, are strict and punishing, which makes verification for reporting reasons challenging. For similar reasons, it’s something we need to write about very carefully, making sure we don’t wrongfully associate or whitewash someone when it comes to such horrible behavior.
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floreana
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