Eyes Up's purpose is to "preserve evidence until it can be used in court." But it has been swept up in Apple's crackdown on ICE-spotting apps.
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Apple Banned an App That Simply Archived Videos of ICE Abuses
Apple removed an app for preserving TikToks, Instagram reels, news reports, and videos documenting abuses by ICE, 404 Media has learned. The app, called Eyes Up, differs from other banned apps such as ICEBlock which were designed to report sightings of ICE officials in real-time to warn local communities. Eyes Up, meanwhile, was more of an aggregation service pooling together information to preserve evidence in case the material is needed in the future in court.The news shows that Apple and Google’s crackdown on ICE-spotting apps, which started after pressure from the Department of Justice against Apple, is broader in scope than apps that report sightings of ICE officials. It has also impacted at least one app that was more about creating a historical record of ICE’s activity during its mass deportation effort.
“Our goal is government accountability, we aren’t even doing real-time tracking,” the administrator of Eyes Up, who said their name was Mark, told 404 Media. Mark asked 404 Media to only use his first name to protect him from retaliation. “I think the [Trump] admin is just embarrassed by how many incriminating videos we have.”
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Do you work at Apple or Google and know anything else about these app removals? I would love to hear from you. Using a non-work device, you can message me securely on Signal at joseph.404 or send me an email at joseph@404media.co.Mark said the app was removed on October 3. At the time of writing, the Apple App Store says “This app is currently not available in your country or region” when trying to download Eyes Up.
The website for Eyes Up which functions essentially the same way is still available. The site includes a map with dots that visitors can click on, which then plays a video from that location. Users are able to submit their own videos for inclusion. Mark said he manually reviews every video before it is uploaded to the service, to check its content and its location.
“I personally look at each submission to ensure that it's relevant, accurately described to the best I can tell, and appropriate to post. I actually look at the user submitted location and usually cross-reference with [Google] Street View to verify. We have an entire private app just for moderation of the submissions,” Mark said.
Screenshots of Eyes Up.
The videos available on Eyes Up are essentially the same you might see when scrolling through TikTok, Instagram, or X. They are a mix of professional media reports and user-generated clips of ICE arrests. Many of the videos are clearly just re-uploads of material taken from those social media apps, and still include TikTok or Instagram watermarks. Mark said the videos are also often taken from Reddit or the community- and crime-awareness app Citizen too.
Many of the videos from New York are footage of ICE officials aggressively detaining people inside the city’s courts, something ICE has been doing for months. Another is a video from the New York Immigration Coalition (NYIC), which represents more than 200 immigrant and refugee rights groups. Another is an Instagram video showing ICE taking “a mother as her child begs the officers not to take her,” according to a caption on the video. The map includes similar videos from San Diego, Los Angeles, and Portland, Oregon, which are clearly taken from TikTok or media reports, including NBC News.
“Our goal is to preserve evidence until it can be used in court, and we believe the mapping function will make it easier for litigants to find bystander footage in the future,” Mark said.
Aaron Reichlin-Melnick, senior fellow at the American Immigration Council, told 404 Media “Like any other government agency, DHS is required to follow the law. The collection of video evidence is a powerful tool of oversight to ensure that the government respects the rights of citizens and immigrants alike. People have a right to film interactions with law enforcement in public spaces and to share those videos with others.”
“If DHS is concerned that the actions of their own officers might inflame public opinion against the agency, they should work to increase oversight and accountability at the agency — rather than seek to have the evidence banned,” he added.
Apple removed ICEBlock, another much more prominent app, on Thursday from its App Store. The move came after direct pressure from Department of Justice officials acting at the direction of Attorney General Pam Bondi, according to Fox. A statement the Department of Justice provided to 404 Media said the agency reached out to Apple “demanding they remove the ICEBlock app from their App Store—and Apple did so.” Fox says authorities have claimed that Joshua Jahn, the suspected shooter of an ICE facility in September in which a detainee was killed, searched his phone for various tracking apps before attacking the facility.
Joshua Aaron, the developer of ICEBlock, told 404 Media “we are determined to fight this.”
ICEBlock allowed people to create an alert, based on their location, about ICE officials in their area. This then sent an alert to other users nearby.
Apple also removed another similar app called Red Dot, 404 Media reported. Google did the same thing, and described ICE officials as a vulnerable group. Apple also removed an app called DeICER.
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Yet, Eyes Up differs from those apps in that it does not function as a real-time location reporting app.Apple did not respond to a request for comment on Wednesday about Eyes Up’s removal.
Mark provided 404 Media with screenshots of the emails he received from Apple. In the emails, Apple says Eyes Up violates the company’s guidelines around objectionable content. That can include “Defamatory, discriminatory, or mean-spirited content, including references or commentary about religion, race, sexual orientation, gender, national/ethnic origin, or other targeted groups, particularly if the app is likely to humiliate, intimidate, or harm a targeted individual or group. Professional political satirists and humorists are generally exempt from this requirement.”
The emails also say that law enforcement have provided Apple with information that shows the purpose of the app is “to provide location information about law enforcement officers that can be used to harm such officers individually or as a group.”
The emails are essentially identical to those sent to the developer of ICEBlock which 404 Media previously reported on.
In an appeal to the app removal, Mark told Apple “the posts on this app are significantly delayed and subject to manual review, meaning the officers will be long gone from the location by the time the content is posted to be viewed by the public. This would make it impossible for our app to be used to harm such officers individually or as a group.”
“The sole purpose of Eyes Up is to document and preserve evidence of abuses of power by law enforcement, which is an important function of a free society and constitutionally protected,” Mark’s response adds.
Apple then replied and said the ban remains in place, according to another email Mark shared.
The app is available on Google's Play Store.
Update: this piece has been updated to include comment from Aaron Reichlin-Melnick.
SCOOP: Apple Quietly Made ICE Agents a Protected Class
Internal emails show tech giant used anti-hate-speech rules meant for minorities to block an app documenting immigration enforcement.Pablo Manríquez (Migrant Insider)
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Honoring the Legacy of Robert Murray-Smith
We at Hackaday are deeply saddened to learn of the passing of Robert Murray-Smith. The prolific experimenter had spent over a decade on YouTube, creating more than 2,500 videos where he gleefully demonstrated his seemingly endless collection of homemade contraptions. At least eighteen of which ended up on the pages of Hackaday since we first crossed paths with him back in 2013.
Like many of you, we were also shocked to find that Robert made the decision to end his own life. As cliché as it might sound, he simply didn’t seem like the type. His demeanor was always boisterous in his videos, exhibiting an almost child-like joy as showed off his latest creation with a laugh and smile.
We now know that simply getting up and walking around had become painful for Robert, a fact obscured by the fact that most of his videos saw him seated at his workbench or in the back garden. That he was able to continue making so many videos at all speaks not only to his passion for technology and engineering, but the great love he had for the community that he’d built.
From the video we also learned that Robert found it very difficult to discuss his declining mental and physical health with friends and family. For men of his generation, the “strong and silent type” was often the ideal. Given all that he was going through, nobody could fault him for experiencing a sense of hopelessness, and yet his brother explains that Robert would never admit to the difficulties he was facing. Whenever pushed to talk about his feelings, he’d respond with that phrase which we’ve all heard (and maybe used once or twice) — “I’m fine.”
Because of this, Robert’s family has partnered with the suicide prevention charity CALM (Campaign Against Living Miserably) to try and raise awareness about men’s mental health. They ask that anyone who wishes to honor Robert make a donation to CALM, in the hopes that they can help others who may find themselves in a similar situation.
It’s no great secret that many in the hacker and maker communities face their own daily struggles. Whether its from being neurodivergent, or the inability to fit in with mainstream society. Several of the staff here at Hackaday are from marginalized groups, and even among those who aren’t, let’s just say we have it on good authority that most of them didn’t get to sit with the “cool kids” back in high school. We also know that, just like Robert, many in the community find it difficult to communicate with others about how this impacts their mental health.
The lasting legacy of Robert Murray-Smith will of course be his incredible body of work, which will continue to inspire millions of viewers. But we can also honor him by making sure that we’re looking out for the well-being of friends, family, and even ourselves. There are resources available, and there’s no shame in asking for help when you need it.
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FLOSS Weekly Episode 850: One ROM to Rule Them All
This week Jonathan and Aaron chat with Piers Finlayson about One ROM! Why does the retro-computing world need a solution for replacement ROMs? How difficult was it to squeeze a MCU and layout into the original ROM footprint? And what’s next for the project? Listen to find out!
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Shadow Vibe Coding: la nuova minaccia nascosta nello sviluppo software con l’IA
Con la crescente integrazione dei modelli generativi nello sviluppo software, le aziende stanno aumentando le preoccupazioni, non tanto per le prestazioni, quanto per la sicurezza. Secondo un sondaggio di Dark Reading , solo il 25% degli sviluppatori ha dichiarato di aver implementato il vibe coding senza problemi significativi, mentre il resto ha riconosciuto che i rischi erano troppo elevati.
Il Vibe Coding si riferisce a un processo in cui un programmatore fornisce istruzioni a un modello come Google Gemini in linguaggio naturale, che genera codice senza l’intervento umano.
Dal punto di vista della velocità e della praticità, questo metodo è allettante, motivo per cui, quasi tutti i principali clienti utilizzano già strumenti di generazione di codice. Tuttavia, con l’aumento dell’efficienza arrivano nuove minacce.
Il principale è la qualità del codice prodotto. Gli algoritmi non sono in grado di valutare adeguatamente la sicurezza delle soluzioni e sono soggetti ad “allucinazioni”, ovvero errori logici imprevedibili. Il codice risultante contiene spesso vulnerabilità che gli sviluppatori notano solo dopo il rilascio. Pertanto, la maggior parte degli esperti consiglia di utilizzare gli assistenti AI come strumento ausiliario, ma di non consentire loro di pubblicare build finali senza la revisione umana.
Secondo un sondaggio condotto su quasi mille professionisti, solo il 24% degli intervistati ritiene che il vibe coding aiuti effettivamente a creare applicazioni sicure più velocemente. Il 41% dei partecipanti ha dichiarato di non implementare tali strumenti a causa dell’elevato livello di rischio, il 16% è disposto a prendere in considerazione questa pratica dopo aver apportato modifiche ai propri processi e il 19% non la utilizza attualmente, ma prevede di iniziare.
Tuttavia, il 76% che ha rifiutato l’utilizzo completo non significa necessariamente che le aziende stiano evitando l’argomento. Molte stanno sperimentando in ambienti di test o utilizzando alcune funzionalità di generazione di codice in modalità limitata. Come osserva Omdia, la quota effettiva di utenti potrebbe essere superiore ai dati ufficiali, poiché alcuni sviluppatori utilizzano tali strumenti senza avvisare il management, una pratica nota come “shadow vibe coding“.
Questa zona grigia è già diventata un problema serio. Gli sviluppatori, nel tentativo di accelerare il lavoro e aggirare la burocrazia delle approvazioni, stanno collegando servizi di intelligenza artificiale non autorizzati, non sottoposti a verifica o monitoraggio da parte dei servizi di sicurezza. Nel suo rapporto “Costo di una violazione dei dati nel 2025“, IBM ha rilevato che un intervistato su cinque ha subito un attacco correlato all’uso “ombra” dell’intelligenza artificialee che il danno derivante da tali incidenti è stato, in media, di 670.000 dollari superiore rispetto alle aziende che non hanno adottato tali pratiche.
Nonostante questi risultati allarmanti, non è più possibile arrestare completamente la diffusione del vibe coding. Gli strumenti basati su LLM stanno gradualmente diventando parte integrante dello sviluppo moderno, a volte anche all’insaputa dei team di sicurezza informatica. Pertanto, trasparenza e controllo rimangono fondamentali.
Il governo britannico ha già pubblicato le proprie linee guida per l’uso sicuro degli assistenti AI nello sviluppo software per le agenzie governative. In esse si sottolinea la necessità di comprendere i limiti della tecnologia, testare i risultati per individuare eventuali errori, condurre revisioni del codice e formare specialisti nell’utilizzo delle reti neurali. Solo questo approccio può bilanciare efficienza e sicurezza senza trasformare l’IA generativa in una fonte di nuove vulnerabilità.
Per ora, il settore sta imparando dai propri errori e ogni nuovo esempio dimostra che l’automazione senza responsabilità è sempre più costosa del vero lavoro manuale.
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Independent journalists must be protected from ICE attacks
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Press freedom advocates were pleasantly surprised when police in Broadview, Illinois, announced plans to investigate federal immigration officers’ shooting of a local CBS News journalist with pepper balls, and when the Illinois State Police offered help.
But the same advocates were alarmed by subsequent reports of local police assisting federal agents rather than reining them in. They also questioned why widely reported attacks on independent journalists — who have made up a significant majority of those victimized by federal officers while covering the protests — were not being similarly investigated.
Freedom of the Press Foundation (FPF) led a letter demanding answers today, signed by over 20 local and national press freedom and civil liberties groups that came together to demand protection and justice for independent journalists risking their safety to inform the public.
“ICE’s violent attacks on journalists and others exercising their First Amendment rights, in Broadview and nationwide, should all be thoroughly investigated by the local authorities whose states and municipalities ICE has invaded. Any local law enforcement presence should be solely focused on mitigating the harm ICE is causing to our neighborhoods, our free press, and our Constitution, not on enabling more of it,” said Seth Stern, director of advocacy at FPF.
“The violence and unlawful detainment of members of the press should concern us all. As demonstrations escalate, it’s imperative that authorities allow journalists to do their jobs of documenting what we are seeing on the ground. No one should have their First Amendment rights violated, especially journalists,” said Brandon Pope, president of NABJ-Chicago.
“The Chicago Journalists Association stands with journalists everywhere who are working to keep their communities informed,” the CJA board of directors said. “They should be free to exercise their First Amendment right to freedom of the press without intimidation, whether they’re fully employed by a news organization or practicing independently.”
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La strategia disperata dei governi occidentali per cercare di rimandare il tracollo definitivo del regime di Zelensky sembra basarsi nell’ultimo periodo su due nuovi progetti che, nelle intenzioni dei promotori, dovrebbero tenere imbrigliata ancora a…www.altrenotizie.org
OpenAI’s Sora 2 platform started just one week ago as an AI-generated copyright infringement free-for-all. Now, people say they’re struggling to generate anything without being hit with a violation error.#OpenAI #Sora #Sora2
People Are Crashing Out Over Sora 2’s New Guardrails
Sora, OpenAI’s new social media platform for its Sora 2 image generation model, launched eight days ago. In the first days of the app, users did what they always do with a new tool in their hands: generate endless chaos, in this case images of Spongebob Squarepants in a Nazi uniform and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman shoplifting or throwing Pikachus on the grill.In little over a week, Sora 2 and OpenAI have caught a lot of heat from journalists like ourselves stress-testing the app, but also, it seems, from rightsholders themselves. Now, Sora 2 refuses to generate all sorts of prompts, including characters that are in the public domain like Steamboat Willie and Winnie the Pooh. “This content may violate our guardrails concerning similarity to third-party content,” the app said when I tried to generate Dracula hanging out in Paris, for example.
When Sora 2 launched, it had an opt-out policy for copyright holders, meaning owners of intellectual property like Nintendo or Disney or any of the many, many massive corporations that own copyrighted characters and designs being directly copied and published on the Sora platform would need to contact OpenAI with instances of infringement to get them removed. Days after launch, and after hundreds of iterations of him grilling Pokemon or saying “I hope Nintendo doesn’t sue us!” flooded his platform, Altman backtracked that choice in a blog post, writing that he’d been listening to “feedback” from rightsholders. “First, we will give rightsholders more granular control over generation of characters, similar to the opt-in model for likeness but with additional controls,” Altman wrote on Saturday.
But generating copyrighted characters was a huge part of what people wanted to do on the app, and now that they can’t (and the guardrails are apparently so strict, they’re making it hard to get even non-copyrighted content generated), users are pissed. People started noticing the changes to guardrails on Saturday, immediately after Altman’s blog post. “Did they just change the content policy on Sora 2?” someone asked on the OpenAI subreddit. “Seems like everything now is violating the content policy.” Almost 300 people have replied in that thread so far to complain or crash out about the change. “It's flagging 90% of my requests now. Epic fail.. time to move on,” someone replied.“Moral policing and leftist ideology are destroying America's AI industry. I've cancelled my OpenAI PLUS subscription,” another replied, implying that copyright law is leftist.
A ton of the videos on Sora right now are of Martin Luther King, Jr. either giving brainrot versions of his iconic “I have a dream” speech and protesting OpenAI’s Sora guardrails. “I have a dream that Sora AI should stop being so strict,” AI MLK says in one video. Another popular prompt is for Bob Ross, who, in most of the videos featuring the deceased artist, is shown protesting getting a copyright violation on his own canvas. If you scroll Sora for even a few seconds today, you will see videos that are primarily about the content moderation on the platform. Immediately after the app launched, many popular videos featured famous characters; now some of the most popular videos are about how people are pissed that they can no longer make videos with those characters.
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Oddly enough, a lot of memes for whining about the guardrails and content violations on Sora right now are using LEGO minifigs — the little LEGO people-shaped figures that are not only a huge part of the brand’s physical toy sets, but also a massively popular movie franchise owned by Universal Pictures — to voice their complaints.
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Disney, Warner Bros., Universal Pictures Sue Chinese AI Company
In recent months, studios have started to sue AI companies that allow users to generate images and videos of copyrighted characters. They characterize the alleged theft of their content as an existential threat to Hollywood.Winston Cho (The Hollywood Reporter)
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Candidarsi e svignarsela. Il nuovo gioco di destra e sinistra: chi perde, fugge
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Ask Hackaday: Why is TTL 5 Volts?
The familiar five volts standard from back in the TTL days always struck me as odd. Back when I was just a poor kid trying to cobble together my first circuits from the Forrest Mims Engineer’s Notebook, TTL was always a problem. That narrow 4.75 V to 5.25 V spec for Vcc was hard to hit, thanks to being too poor to buy or build a dedicated 5 V power supply. Yes, I could have wired up four 1.5 V dry cells and used a series diode to drop it down into range, but that was awkward and went through batteries pretty fast once you got past more than a few chips.
As a hobbyist, the five volt TTL standard always seemed a little capricious, but I strongly suspected there had to be a solid reason behind it. To get some insights into the engineering rationale, I did what anyone living in the future would do: I asked ChatGPT. My question was simple: “How did five volts become the standard voltage for TTL logic chips?” And while overall the answers were plausible, like every other time I use the chatbot, they left me wanting more.
Circular Logic
The least satisfying of ChatGPT’s answers all had a tinge of circular reasoning to them: “IBM and other big computer makers adopted 5 V logic in their designs,” and thanks to their market power, everyone else fell in line with the five volt standard. ChatGPT also blamed “The Cascade Effect” of Texas Instruments’ standardization of five volts for their TTL chips in 1964, which “set the tone for decades” and forced designers to expect chips and power supplies to provide five volt rails. ChatGPT also cited “Compatibility with Existing Power Supplies” as a driver, and that regulated five volt supplies were common in computers and military electronics in the 1960s. It also cited the development of the 7805 linear regulator in the late 1960s as a driver.
All of this seems like nonsense, the equivalent of saying, “Five volts became the standard because the standard was five volts.” What I was after was an engineering reason for five volts, and luckily, an intriguing clue was buried in ChatGPT’s responses along with the drivel: the characteristics of BJT transistors, and the tradeoffs between power dissipation and speed.
The TTL family has been around for a surprisingly long time. Invented in 1961, TTL integrated circuits have been used commercially since 1963, with the popular 7400-series of logic chips being introduced in 1964. All this development occurred long before MOS technology, with its wider supply range, came into broad commercial use, so TTL — as well as all the precursor logic families, like diode-transistor logic (DTL) and resistor-transistor logic (RTL) — used BJTs in all their circuits. Logic circuits need to distinguish between a logical 1 and a logical 0, and using BJTs with a typical base-emitter voltage drop of 0.7 V or so meant that the supply voltage couldn’t be too low, with a five volt supply giving enough space between the high and low levels without being too susceptible to noise.
But, being able to tell your 1s and 0s apart really only sets a minimum for TTL’s supply rail. Why couldn’t it have been higher? It could have, and a higher Vcc, like the 10 V to 15 V used in emitter-coupled logic (ECL), might have improved the margins between logic levels and improved noise immunity. But higher voltage means more power, and power means heat, and heat is generally frowned upon in designs. So five volts must have seemed like a good compromise — enough wiggle room between logic levels, good noise immunity, but not too much power wasted.
I thought perhaps the original patent for TTL would shed some light on the rationale for five volts, but like most inventors, James Buie left things as broad and non-specific as possible in the patent. He refers only to “B+” and “B-” in the schematics and narrative, although he does calculate that the minimum for B+ would be 2.2 V. Later on, he states that “the absolute value of the supply voltage need be greater than the turn-on voltage of the coupling transistor and that of the output transistor,” and in the specific claims section, he refers to “a source of EMF” without specifying a magnitude. As far as I can see, nowhere in the patent does the five volt spec crop up.
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If I were to hazard a guess, the five volt spec might be a bit of a leftover from the tube era. A very common value for the heater circuit in vacuum tubes was 6.3 V, itself a somewhat odd figure that probably stems from the days when automobiles used 6 V electrical systems, which were really 6.3 V thanks to using three series-connected lead-acid cells with a nominal cell voltage of 2.1 V each.
Perhaps the early TTL pioneers looked at the supply rail as a bit like the heater circuit, but nudged it down to 5 V when 6.3 V proved a little too hot. There were also some popular tubes with heaters rated at five volts, such as the rectifier tubes found in guitar amplifiers like the classic Fender “Champ” and others. The cathodes on these tubes were often directly connected to a dedicated 5 V winding on the power transformer; granted, that was 5 V AC, but perhaps it served as a design cue once TTL came around.
This is, of course, all conjecture. I have no idea what was on the minds of TTL’s designers; I’m just throwing out a couple of ideas to stir discussion. But what about you? Where do you think the five volt TTL standard came from? Was it arrived at through a stringent engineering process designed to optimize performance? Or was it a leftover from an earlier era that just happened to be a good compromise? Was James Buie an electric guitarist with a thing for Fender? Or was it something else entirely? We’d love to hear your opinions, especially if you’ve got any inside information. Sound off in the comments section below.
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A Minicomputer Tape Drive Receives Some Love
Taking on a refrigerator-sized minicomputer is not for the faint-hearted, but [Usagi Electric] has done it with a DEC PDP-11/44. He’s not doing it in half measures either, for his machine is tricked out with an impressive array of upgrades. Among them however is no storage, and with two co-processors there’s a meager 3U of rack space left. The plan is to fit a period 8″ hard drive in the space alongside a TU50 tape dive, and it’s this final component that’s the subject of his latest video.
DEC never did anything by halves, and a DECTape II cartridge is more than a simple container for tape reels. Instead it has a capstan of its own that engages with one in the drive, and an internal drive belt that moves the reels. All the rubber parts in both tapes and drive are thoroughly perished, and it’s impressive that he manages to find inexpensive modern polymer alternatives. The original drive is probably intended for a VAX system, thus it has the interesting feature of a second drive mechanism out of sight to hold a tape containing microcode.
Having reconditioned the drive, it goes in behind a custom front panel, and though there’s no useful data to test it with on the tapes he has, it appears all working. You can see it all in the video below the break, and if you’re interested further we’ve covered this machine in the past.
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Mass. Pirate News: What did Trump give to get his TikTok deal?
Steve and James discuss The Black Response’s excellent Abolition and Alternatives Conference this weekend and Trump’s TikTok deal and what it could mean. We also discussed ICE and other TLAs attacking an apartment building in Chicago in the middle of the night where they seized and abused the people who lived in it. Finally, we followed up on HorizonMass/BINJ’s reporting on the Boston Police Department’s use of drones at two public events. youtube.com/embed/I-w5-TZR6v4?… Join us at the Boston Anarchist Bookfair Nov. 1-2. Sign up to our newsletter to get notified of new events or volunteer. Join us on:
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Some links we mentioned:
- The GOP’s Government Shutdown;
- Abolition and Alternatives Conference (AAC) Starts Today;
- TikTok’s algorithm will be overseen by Oracle in the US after the sale is completed;
- TikTok’s U.S. operations may be bought by Oracle, Andreessen Horowitz, Silver Lake and others;
- Trump Makes It Very Clear They’re Going To Turn TikTok Into A Right Wing Propaganda Machine;
- Why Do We Assume TrumpTok Will Succeed?
- Chicago And The End Of American Liberty;
- Boston Police Deployed 71 Drone Flights Over Caribbean Carnival;
- Did The BPD Fly A Surveillance Drone Over The Dominican Parade? They Won’t Tell Us.
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- Architettura: 64-bit
- Processore: AMD E2-3000M APU @1.8GHz (2 CPUs) with Radeon HD Graphics
- Memoria: 500 GB HDD SATA 5400rpm
- RAM: 8 GB DDR3-SDRAM (2 x 4 GB, espansa rispetto ai 4 GB originali)
- Scheda grafica (integrata): AMD Radeon HD 6380G (2 GB)
- Display: 15.6", 1366 x 768, 60Hz, 16:9
- Altoparlanti/Microfono: AMD High Definition Audio Device / IDT High Definition Audio CODEC
- Webcam: HP Webcam-101
- Tastiera: QWERTY Italian
- Dimensioni: 374 x 245 x 36 mm
- Peso: 2,55 kg
- Link specifiche tecniche
- Anno di acquisto: 2009
- Sistema operativo: Ufficio Zero Linux Minimal 5.1 64-bit (kernel Debian 6.1.0-40)
- Software aggiuntivi: abiword (documenti), gnumeric (fogli di calcolo)
- Batteria: sostituita a gennaio 2019. Durata con schermo attivo: 2 ore e 15
- Stato: a livello software le funzionalità di base (ambiente desktop, connessione a internet, browser e motore di ricerca, gestione file, modifica documenti) girano perfettamente. A livello hardware: alcuni graffi sulla scocca posteriore e vicino alla tastiera; leggermente lasco ma funzionante il tasto sinistro della touchpad; un po' scolorita la lettera "A". Con intenso uso della memoria ventola un po' rumorosa. Check-up completo svolto a gennaio 2021
- Prestazioni: avvio in 80s, primo avvio browser in 20s, apertura programma fogli di calcolo 15s
- Note: inclusi alimentatore funzionante comprato a novembre 2024, fodera contenitiva e panno in microfibra per pulizia e separazione schermo/tastiera
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Prezzo: 20 €
Vendo laptop Sony VAIO come da specifiche seguenti. Consegna brevi manu in zona Pavia (PV) o Udine (UD).
- Modello: Sony VAIO VPCEB3J1E
- Processore: Intel Core i3-370M @2.40GHz (2 CPUs)
- Architettura: 64-bit
- Memoria: 300 GB HDD SATA 5400rpm
- RAM: 4 GB DDR3-SDRAM PC3-8500
- Scheda grafica (integrata): Intel® HD Graphics 1751MB
- Display: 15.5", 1366 x 768, 16:9
- Altoparlanti/Microfono: Dolby Home Theater v3
- Webcam: Motion Eye 640x480 0.3MP
- Tastiera: QWERTY Italian
- Dimensioni: 370 x 248 x 31 mm
- Peso: 2,7 kg
- Link specifiche tecniche
- Sistema operativo: Ufficio Zero Linux Minimal 5.1 64-bit (kernel Debian 6.1.0-40-686)
- Software aggiuntivi: abiword (documenti), gnumeric (fogli di calcolo)
- Batteria: durata con schermo attivo 45 minuti con rapido scaricamento al di sotto del 50% di batteria
- Stato: a livello software le funzionalità di base (ambiente desktop, connessione a internet, browser e motore di ricerca, gestione file, modifica documenti) girano perfettamente. A livello hardware: ventola un po' rumorosa, qualche incrostazione nella parte inferiore della scocca a causa dell'applicazione in passato di piedini per il rialzo
- Prestazioni: avvio in 100s, primo avvio browser in 30s, apertura programma fogli di calcolo 10s
- Note: incluso alimentatore originale funzionante
Vendo laptop Toshiba SATELLITE PRO U500 - Questo è un post automatico da FediMercatino.it
Prezzo: 25 €
Vendo laptop Toshiba SATELLITE PRO U500 come da specifiche seguenti. Consegna brevi manu in zona Pavia (PV) o Udine (UD).
- Modello: Toshiba SATELLITE PRO U500-1EQ (PSU83E-00Q00JMC)
- Processore: Intel Core 2 Duo CPU P8700 @2.53GHz (2 CPUs)
- Architettura: 64-bit
- Memoria: 500 GB HDD
- RAM: 4 GB DDR2-SDRAM
- Scheda grafica (dedicata): Intel GMA 4500MHD
- Display: 13.3", 1280 x 800, 60Hz
- Altoparlanti/Microfono: High Definition Audio
- Webcam: USB2.0 UVC WebCam
- Tastiera: QWERTY Italian
- Dimensioni: 320 x 230 x 35 mm
- Peso: 2 kg
- Link specifiche tecniche (prodotto simile)
- Anno di acquisto: 2009
- Sistema operativo: Ufficio Zero Linux Minimal 5.1 64-bit (kernel Debian 6.1.0-40)
- Software aggiuntivi: abiword (documenti), gnumeric (fogli di calcolo)
- Batteria: durata con schermo attivo 2 ore e 30
- Stato: a livello software le funzionalità di base (ambiente desktop, connessione a internet, browser e motore di ricerca, gestione file, modifica documenti) girano perfettamente. A livello hardware: non funziona la cassa sinistra; lasco ma funzionante il tasto sinistro della touchpad; ventola rumorosa
- Prestazioni: avvio in 80s, primo avvio browser in 25s, apertura programma fogli di calcolo 10s
- Note: inclusi alimentatore originale funzionante e borsa a tracolla per il trasporto
Assemblea dell’Onu dei Popoli. Dal 9 al 12 ottobre a Perugia
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A 80 anni dalla fondazione dell’Onu A 10 anni dalla diffusione della Laudato sì di Papa Francesco A 800 anni dalla composizione del Cantico delle Creature di San Francesco Verso il 2030 per
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Al Senato si discute un incredibile disegno di legge (AS 1277) firmato dalla destra (Iannone, Cantalamessa, Gasparri, e così via) intitolato «Modifica alla legge 2 marzo 2023, n.22, in materia di conflitto di interesse
Vendo laptop Acer TravelMate 5730 - Questo è un post automatico da FediMercatino.it
Prezzo: 15 €
Vendo laptop Acer TravelMate 5730 come da specifiche seguenti. Consegna brevi manu in zona Pavia (PV) o Udine (UD).
- Modello: Acer TravelMate 5730-6B4G25MN
- Processore: Intel Core 2 Duo CPU T5870 @2.00GHz (2 CPUs)
- Architettura: 64-bit
- Memoria: 250 GB HDD SATA 5400rpm
- RAM: 4 GB DDR2-SDRAM (2 x 2 GB)
- Scheda grafica (dedicata): Intel GMA X4500HD
- Display: 15.4", 1280 x 800, 60Hz, 16:10
- Altoparlanti/Microfono: Realtek High Definition Audio
- Webcam: Acer Crystal Eye webcam
- Tastiera: QWERTY Italian
- Dimensioni: 360 x 267 x 43 mm
- Peso: 2,88 Kg
- Link specifiche tecniche: icecat.biz/it-ch/p/acer/lx.tqh…
- Anno di acquisto: 2008
- Sistema operativo: Ufficio Zero Linux Minimal 5.1 64-bit (kernel Debian 6.1.0-40)
- Software aggiuntivi: abiword (documenti), gnumeric (fogli di calcolo)
- Batteria: non tiene la carica, il computer può essere utilizzato solo con alimentazione. Su Amazon si trovano batterie per questo modello a 25 euro
- Stato: a livello software le funzionalità di base (ambiente desktop, connessione a internet, browser e motore di ricerca, gestione file, modifica documenti) girano perfettamente. A livello hardware: batteria non funzionante; qualche macchia poco visibile sulla scocca posteriore; qualche graffio leggero vicino alla touchpad
- Prestazioni: avvio in 90s, primo avvio browser in 20s, apertura programma fogli di calcolo 10/15s
- Note: inclusi alimentatore originale funzionante, borsa a tracolla per il trasporto e panno in microfibra per pulizia e separazione schermo/tastiera
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Piantedosi perde in Tribunale, a Trapani sospesa la detenzione di Mediterranea
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“Il ministro dell’Interno aveva voluto costruire una pesante speculazione politica sul nostro caso, ma questa volta il diritto è più forte
Parte da Milano il Nazra Festival. Cortometraggi che raccontano la Palestina
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Con 80 opere in concorso, 20 finalisti e 4 vincitori, il festival itinerante presenta un programma denso di eventi e ospiti in quattro giornate inaugurali, dal 9 al 12 ottobre
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Da mesi, nei corridoi di Bruxelles, si avverte la sensazione che qualcosa stia cambiando. Tra discussioni su bilanci, vincoli e priorità comuni, la difesa europea inizia a trasformarsi da esercizio diplomatico a progetto economico concreto. Oggi il Consiglio ha approvato la propria posizione sul pacchetto che incentiva gli
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We talk all about Sora 2, Apple and Google removing ICE-spotting apps, and a massive update to our Flock reporting.#Podcast
Podcast: The Final Boss of AI Slop
We start this week with a couple of our articles about Sora 2, OpenAI’s new AI slop app. People are already using tools to remove watermarks from its AI-generated videos. Great! After the break, we talk about Apple and Google removing various ICE-spotting apps from their app stores, with Apple doing it after direct pressure from the U.S. government. In the subscribers-only section, we have a substantial update to a story concerning Flock and a woman who self-administered an abortion.
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New leaked documents show how the FBI convinced a judge to let its partners collect a mass of encrypted messages from thousands of phones around the world.#News
Cocaine in Private Jets and Sex Toys: What the FBI Found on its Secretly Backdoored Chat App
Private jets loaded with cocaine landing at an airport in Germany. A trafficker stuffing a racing sail boat with drugs and entering a tournament to blend in with other racers before speeding off. Vacuum-sealed layers of methamphetamine inside solar panels. And nearly 60 kilograms of drugs hidden inside a shipment of sex toys.These are just some of the examples included in a cache of leaked U.S. Department of Justice documents the FBI used to convince a judge to let them continue harvesting messages from Anom. Anom was an encrypted phone and app the FBI secretly took over, backdoored, and ran for years as a tech company popular with organized crime around the world. The Anom operation, dubbed Trojan Shield, was the largest sting operation ever.
The documents provide more insight into the sorts of criminals swept up in the FBI’s investigation, and give behind-the-scenes detail on how exactly the FBI obtained legal approval for such a gigantic, and to some controversial, operation. The leaked documents include the original court orders from Lithuania, which assisted the FBI in collecting the data from Anom devices worldwide, and the FBI’s supporting documentation for those court orders. The documents were not supposed to be released publicly, but someone posted them anonymously online.
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Do you know anything else about Anom, Sky, Encrochat, or other encrypted phone companies? I would love to hear from you. Using a non-work device, you can message me securely on Signal at joseph.404 or send me an email at joseph@404media.co.“Like I said this Turbo crew are the Pablo Escobar of this time in that area and got full control there,” one message written by an alleged drug trafficker included in the documents reads.
404 Media showed sections of the documents to people with direct knowledge of the operation who said they appeared authentic. Finnish outlet Yle reported on some of their contents at the end of September, but 404 Media is publishing copies of the documents themselves.
In 2018 the FBI shut down an encrypted phone company called Phantom Secure. In the wake of that, a seller from Phantom Secure and another popular company called Sky offered U.S. authorities their own, in-development encrypted device: Anom. The FBI then took Anom under its wing and oversaw a backdoor placed into the app. This involved adding a “ghost” contact to every group chat and direct message across the platform. The operation started in Australia as a beta test, before expanding to Europe, South America, and other parts of the world, sweeping up messages from cartels to biker gangs to hitmen to money launderers.
A screenshot from the documents.
Some of the documents are formal requests for continued assistance from the U.S. to Lithuania and spell out the sort of criminal activity the FBI has seen on the Anom platform. Several sections name specific and well-known drug traffickers. One is Maximillian Rivkin, also known as “Microsoft.” As I chronicled in my book about Anom, Rivkin was a devilishly creative drug trafficker, constantly making new schemes to smuggle cocaine or other narcotics. The new documents say Rivkin’s Serbia-based organized crime group was involved in the trafficking of hundreds of kilograms of cocaine between South America and Spain. To move the drugs, the group sailed a boat during a November 2020 regatta, a sailing race, “where their travel will be obscured by other boats and sail to the Caribbean,” the documents say. Around two or three weeks later, the boat would then return to Europe with the cocaine, before being dropped off the coast of Spain where another member of the group would pick it up, the documents add.In another instance Rivkin’s group smuggled cocaine base within juice bottles from Colombia to Europe, according to the documents. In my book, I found Rivkin planned to do something similar with energy drinks.
These sorts of audacious, over-the-top drug smuggling operations were a common sight on Anom, according to my own review of hundreds of thousands of Anom text messages between drug traffickers I previously obtained. The new documents also specifically name Hakan Ayik, who was the head of the so-called Aussie Cartel, which controlled as much as a third of all drug importation into Australia, and who at one point was Australia’s most wanted criminal. Ayik discussed sending a massive 900 kilograms of cocaine through Malaysia to Australia concealed within shipments of scrap metal, according to the documents.
“Can you give me roughly the coordinates where’s the better place to meet outside Indonesian waters,” Ayik, using the moniker Oscar, said in one of the messages included in the documents.
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Both Rivkin and Ayik were later arrested by Turkish authorities. Ayik was also known as the “encryption king,” likely due to his prolific selling of encrypted communication devices to organized criminals.Other examples in the documents include a Dutch drug trafficking group involving a man called Guiliano Domenico Azzarito. That group smuggled cocaine between South America and Europe with private jet flights into small and medium sized airports the group controls, according to the documents. “Look we can move 20 tons easily every month from here in the future,” one message said.
Another describes Baris Tukel, a high-ranking Comanchero motorcycle gang member who was later charged by the U.S. for helping to spread Anom devices, discussing plans to hide methamphetamine and MDMA in marble tiles. In another case, a drug trafficker with the username RealG discussed smuggling drugs on a sailboat, inside shipments of bananas and hides, and cocaine base hidden inside fertilizer.
In September 2020, a drug trafficking group smuggled a shipment of cocaine and methamphetamine from the UK, through Singapore, to Australia, according to the documents. Authorities later searched the shipment, and found nearly 60 kilograms of drugs “concealed within 21 boxes of sex toys,” the documents say.
A screenshot from the documents.
The messages included in the document also detail some of the extreme violence Anom users engaged in. Simon Bekiri, a Comanchero member, discussed an assault against a rival gang, according to the documents. “I even pistol whipped him 3 times and blood was squirting out of his head almost a meter high in time with his heartbeat (That part was really funny),” one of the messages reads. “But when you say I pistol whipped him, shot him, bashed him and then took off in his car I’ll admit it does sound violent.”These examples were used to help convince a Lithuanian judge to allow local authorities to continue providing the FBI with Anom messages. In an unusual legal workaround, instead of running the Anom collection server in the U.S., which may have created more legal headaches, the Department of Justice arranged for it to be run in Lithuania. Lithuanian authorities then provided a regular stream of collected Anom messages to the FBI. In all, Anom grew to 12,000 devices and the FBI collected tens of millions of messages before shutting the network down in June 2021.
404 Media first revealed in September 2023 Lithuania was the so-called “third country” that harvested the messages for the FBI. The Department of Justice has never formally acknowledged Lithuania’s role despite the leaked documents further corroborating 404 Media’s reporting.
Revealed: The Country that Secretly Wiretapped the World for the FBI
For years the FBI ran its own encrypted phone company to intercept messages from thousands of people around the globe. One country was critical to that operation, whose identity was unknown to the public. Until now.Joseph Cox (404 Media)
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#NextGenAI, a Napoli da oggi fino a lunedì 13 ottobre!
La cerimonia di presentazione, del primo summit internazionale sull’Intelligenza Artificiale nella #scuola, si terrà oggi 8 ottobre, dalle ore 16.
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Digital Services Act: Wie Wikimedia es schafft, die Vorgaben der EU zu erfüllen
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Autarchia? Vi spiego il senso della scelta italiana sui blindati
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Ieri il Corriere della Sera, nell’annunciare la scelta di Krauss-Maffei di lasciare il progetto del carro franco-tedesco e di procedere in autonomia verso un Leopard 3, sottolineava in chiusura la scelta “autarchica” dell’Italia. In realtà, la scelta italiana circa l’indispensabile
San Francesco, Mattarella promulga la legge ma scrive alle Camere: servono correttivi
Il Capo dello Stato a La Russa e Fontana: 'La medesima giornata – il 4 ottobre - non può essere qualificata, al contempo, sia festività nazionale sia solennità civile. Chiarire se c'è anche Santa Caterina'Redazione Adnkronos (Adnkronos)
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Il Popolo sovrano è il vero vincitore
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L'articolo Il Popolo sovrano è il vero vincitore proviene da Fondazione Luigi Einaudi.
Fragilità
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Le democrazie non sono deboli, sono fragili. La loro fragilità è preziosità e delicatezza, rientrano fra le cose umane che devono essere volute – meglio se amate – ma non imposte. Si può fermare, anche con la forza, chi voglia aggredire la libertà, ma non si può imporla a chi non la desidera e non […]
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