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Ora il Ransomware arriva per posta ordinaria! L’innovazione si firma Bianlian. Scopri i retroscena


Negli Stati Uniti è stata individuata una nuova frode: i criminali inviano false richieste di riscatto via posta per conto del gruppo BianLian.

Le buste indicano che il mittente è “BIANLIAN GROUP” e che l’indirizzo del mittente è un edificio per uffici a Boston, Massachusetts. Le lettere venivano inviate ai dirigenti aziendali e recavano la dicitura “Urgente, leggere immediatamente”. Secondo i timbri postali, la spedizione è avvenuta il 25 febbraio 2025 dall’ufficio postale di Boston.

Il contenuto delle lettere è focalizzato sul campo di attività del destinatario. Le lettere inviate alle organizzazioni sanitarie affermano che i dati dei pazienti e dei dipendenti sono stati rubati e le aziende che gestiscono gli ordini dei clienti sono minacciate relativamente alla divulgazione di informazioni sensibili dei clienti.

Nel testo si sostiene che gli aggressori hanno ottenuto l’accesso ai sistemi aziendali e hanno presumibilmente rubato file riservati, tra cui bilanci, documenti fiscali e dati personali dei dipendenti.
Contenuto della lettera per una delle aziende (Guidepoint Security)
A differenza delle reali richieste di BianLian, le lettere affermano che non ci saranno ulteriori trattative con le vittime e danno loro 10 giorni di tempo per pagare il riscatto in Bitcoin.

Ogni lettera contiene un codice QR Code e un indirizzo di portafoglio Bitcoin per trasferire importi da 250.000 dollari a 500.000. Per le aziende mediche l’importo fisso è pari a 350.000 dollari.
Indirizzi wallet per il trasferimento di fondi in una lettera falsa (BleepingComputer)
Alcune e-mail contengono vere e proprie perdite di password per aumentare la credibilità minacce. Tuttavia, gli esperti non hanno trovato prove di veri e propri attacchi informatici. Secondo gli esperti di GuidePoint Security, le lettere non hanno alcun collegamento con il gruppo BianLian e rappresentano semplicemente un tentativo di intimidire i dirigenti aziendali affinché trasferiscano denaro ai truffatori.

Sebbene le e-mail non rappresentino una minaccia immediata, i reparti IT e di sicurezza dovrebbero avvisare i propri manager della nuova truffa. Questi messaggi sono un’evoluzione delle truffe un tempo diffuse tramite posta elettronica, ma ora prendono di mira i dirigenti di grandi aziende.

Intanto i rappresentanti del vero gruppo BianLian non hanno rilasciato dichiarazioni.

L'articolo Ora il Ransomware arriva per posta ordinaria! L’innovazione si firma Bianlian. Scopri i retroscena proviene da il blog della sicurezza informatica.

in reply to Cybersecurity & cyberwarfare

”rinnovamento nel solco della tradizione " Questo è ciò che si chiama Innovazione di Processo, meriterebbe un finanziamento FSE


Is This The Oldest HD Video Online?


Take a look at this video from [Reely Interesting], showing scenes from traditional Japanese festivals. It’s well filmed, and as with any HD video, you can see real detail. But as you watch, you may see something a little out of the ordinary. It’s got noise, a little bit of distortion, and looking closely at the surroundings, it’s clearly from the 1980s. Something doesn’t add up, as surely we’d expect a video like this to be shot in glorious 525 line NTSC. In fact, what we’re seeing is a very rare demo reel from 1985, and it’s showing off the first commercial HDTV system. This is analogue video in 1035i, and its background as listed below the video makes for a very interesting story.

Most of us think of HDTV arriving some time in the 2000s when Blu-ray and digital broadcasting supplanted the NTSC or PAL systems. But in fact the Japanese companies had been experimenting since the 1960s, and these recordings are their first fruits. It’s been digitized from a very rare still-working Sony HDV-1000 reel-to-reel video recorder, and is thus possibly the oldest HD video viewable online. They’re looking for any HDV-1000 parts, should you happen to have one lying around. Meanwhile, the tape represents a fascinating window into a broadcast history very few of us had a chance to see back in the day.

This isn’t the first time we’ve touched on vintage reel-to-reel video.

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Più fatti nella difesa di Europa e Ucraina. L’opinione di Zecchini

@Notizie dall'Italia e dal mondo

È stato sufficiente un mese al presidente Trump per sconvolgere l’ordine politico-istituzionale su entrambi gli scacchieri, interno ed internazionale, e per avviare il passaggio a uno nuovo dai contorni e rischi ancora non definiti. L’unica certezza ad oggi è che il nuovo sarà imperniato




Big Chemistry: Glass


Humans have been chemically modifying their world for far longer than you might think. Long before they had the slightest idea of what was happening chemically, they were turning clay into bricks, making cement from limestone, and figuring out how to mix metals in just the right proportions to make useful new alloys like bronze. The chemical principles behind all this could wait; there was a world to build, after all.

Among these early feats of chemical happenstance was the discovery that glass could be made from simple sand. The earliest glass, likely accidentally created by a big fire on a sandy surface, probably wasn’t good for much besides decorations. It wouldn’t have taken long to realize that this stuff was fantastically useful, both as a building material and a tool, and that a pinch of this and a little of that could greatly affect its properties. The chemistry of glass has been finely tuned since those early experiments, and the process has been scaled up to incredible proportions, enough to make glass production one of the largest chemical industries in the world today.

Sand++


When most of us use the word “glass,” we’ve got a pretty clear mental picture of what the term refers to. But from a solid-state chemistry viewpoint, glass means more than the stuff that fills the holes in your walls or makes up that beer bottle in your hand. Glasses, or more correctly glassy solids, are a class of amorphous solids that undergo a glass transition. Unpacking that, amorphous refers to the internal structure of the material, which lacks the long-range structural regularity characteristic of a crystalline solid. Long range in this context is a relative term, and refers to distances of more than a few nanometers.

As for the glass transition bit, that simply refers to the material changing from a brittle, hard solid state to a viscous liquid as it is heated past its glass transition temperature. Coupled together, these properties mean that many materials can be glassy solids, including plastics and metals. For our purposes, though, glass refers to glassy solids made primarily of silicates, with other materials added to change the properties of the finished material.

To understand the amorphous structure of glass, we need to look at the starting material for manufacturing glass: quartz. Quartz is a crystalline solid made from silicon dioxide (SiO2), or silica. Inside the crystal, each silicon atom is bonded to four oxygen atoms, each of which forms a bridge to a neighboring silicon. This results in a tetrahedral unit cell, giving both natural and synthetic quartz many of their useful properties.

When quartz sand is ground up finely and heated above its melting point of 1,700C, the rigidly ordered crystal structure is disrupted and a thick, syrupy liquid forms. Cooling that liquid slowly would allow the crystal structure to reform, with the silicon atoms connected by a regular grid of bridging oxygen atoms. Glass production, though, uses faster cooling, which makes it harder for all the oxygen atoms to form bridges between the silicon atoms. The result is a disrupted pattern, with some silicon atoms bonded to four oxygens and some bonded to only two or three. This disrupts the long-range ordering seen in the original quartz crystals and results in the properties we normally associate with glassy solids, such as brittleness, low electrical conductivity, and a high melting temperature.
The crystal structure of silicates is disrupted by sodium, calcium, and aluminum, lowering the melting point and viscosity of soda-lime glass. Source: Mrmw, CC0.
Glass made from pure silica sand is called fused quartz, and while it’s commercially valuable, especially in situations requiring extreme temperature resistance and transparency over a wide range of the optical spectrum, it also has some drawbacks. First, the extreme temperatures needed to melt pure quartz sand require a lot of energy, making fused quartz expensive to produce in bulk. Also, the liquid glass is extremely viscous, making it difficult.

Luckily, these properties can be altered by adding a few impurities to the melt. Adding about 13% sodium oxide (Na2O), 10% calcium oxide (CaO), and a percent or so of aluminum oxide (Al2O3) dramatically changes the physical and chemical properties of the mix. The sodium oxide generally comes from sodium carbonate (Na2CO3), which is known as soda, and the calcium carbonate comes from lime, which is limestone that has been heated. Together, the sodium and the calcium bind to some of the oxygen atoms in the silicates, blocking them from bridging to other silicates. This further disrupts any long-range interactions, lowering the melting point of the mix and decreasing its viscosity. The result is soda-lime glass, which accounts for about 90% of the 130 million tonnes of glass manufactured each year.

If You Can’t Stand the Heat…


Soda-lime glass is used for everything from food and beverage containers to window glass, with only slight adjustments to the mix of impurities to match the properties of the finished glass to the job. But if there’s one place where plain soda-lime glass falls short, it’s resistance to thermal shock. Thanks to the disruption of long-range interactions between silicates by sodium and calcium, soda-lime glass has a much higher coefficient of thermal expansion (CTE) than fused silica. This makes heating soda-lime glass risky, since the stress caused by expansion or contraction can cause the glass to shatter.

To lower the CTE of soda-lime glass, a small amount of boron trioxide (BO3) is added to the melt. The boron atoms bind to two oxygen atoms, which forms a bridge between adjacent silicates, albeit slightly longer than an oxygen-only bridge. This would seem to raise the CTE, but boron has another trick up its sleeve. Boron normally only accepts three bonds, but in the presence of alkali metals like sodium, it will accept one more. That means the sodium atoms will bond to the boron, keeping them from blocking more bridging oxygens. The result is borosilicate glass, which has a viscosity low enough to ease manufacturing and a low CTE to withstand thermal shock.

Borosilicate glass has been around for more than a century, most recognizably under the trade name Pyrex. It quickly became a fixture in kitchens around the world as the miracle cookware that could go from refrigerator to oven without shattering. Sadly, Corning no longer sells borosilicate glass cookware in the North American market, opting to sell tempered soda-lime glassware under the Pyrex brand since about 1998. True borosilicate Pyrex glass is most limited to the laboratory and industrial market now, although Pyrex cookware is still available in Europe.

The Glassworks


In a way, glass is a bit like electricity, which is largely consumed the instant it’s produced since there aren’t many practical ways to store it at a grid scale. Similarly, glass really can’t be manufactured and stored in bulk the way other materials like aluminum and steel can, and shipping tankers of molten glass from one factory to another is a practical impossibility. So a glasswork generally has a complete manufacturing process under one roof, with raw materials coming in one end and finished products going out the other. This also makes glassworks very large facilities, especially ones that make float glass.

Another way in which glass manufacturing is similar to electric generation is that both are generally continuous processes. Large base load generators are most efficient when they are kept rotating continuously, and spinning them up from a standing start is a long and tedious process. Similarly, glass furnaces, which are often classified by the number of metric tons of melt they can supply per day, can take days or weeks to get up to working temperature. That means the entire glass factory has to be geared around keeping the furnace fed with raw material and ensuring the output is formed into finished products immediately and continuously.

On the supply side of the glassworks is the batch house, which serves as a warehouse for raw material. Sand, soda, lime, and other bulk ingredients arrive by truck or rail and are stored in silos or piled onto the batch house floor. It’s vitally important that the raw ingredients stay clean and dry; the results of a wet mix being dumped into a furnace full of 1,500° molten glass don’t bear thinking. An important raw material is cullet, which is broken glass either from recycling or from the production process; adding cullet to the mix reduces the energy needed to melt the batch. Ingredients are weighed and mixed in the batch house and transported by conveyors to the dog house, an area directly adjacent to the inlet of the furnace where the mix is prewarmed to remove any remaining moisture before being pushed into the furnace by a pusher arm.

The furnace is made from refractory bricks and usually has a long and broad but fairly shallow pool covered by an arched roof. Most furnaces are heated with natural gas, although some electric arc furnaces are used. The furnace often has two zones, the melting tank and the working tank, which are separated by a wall with narrow openings. The temperatures of the two chambers are maintained at different levels, with the melting tank generally hotter than the working tank. The working tank also sometimes has chlorine gas bubbled through it to consolidate any impurities into a slag that floats to the surface of the melt, where it can be skimmed off and added to the cullet in the batch house.

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Float, Blow, Press, Repeat


After the furnace, the liquid glass enters the cold end of the glassworks. This is a relative term, of course, since the glass is still incandescent at this point. How it exits the furnace and is formed depends on the finished product. For sheet glass such as architectural glass, the float process is generally used. Liquid glass exiting the furnace is floated on top of a pool of molten tin, which is denser than the glass. The liquid glass spreads out over the surface of the tin, forming wide sheets of perfectly flat glass. The thickness and width of the sheet can be controlled by rollers at the edge of the tin pool, which grab the glass sheet and pull it along.

Float baths can be up to four meters wide and 50 meters or more long, over which length the temperature is gradually reduced from about 1,100° to 600°. At that point, the glass rolls off the tin bath onto rollers and enters a long annealing oven called a lehr, which drops the temperature over 100 meters or more before the sheets are cut. The edges, which were dimpled by the rollers in the float bath, are cut off by scoring with diamond wheels and snapping with rollers, with the off-cuts added to the cullet in the batch house. The glass ribbon is cut to length by a scoring wheel set at an angle matched to the speed of the conveyor to make straight scores across the sheet and snapped by a conveyor belt that raises up at just the right time to snap the sheet.

Float glass often goes through additional post-processing modifications, such as tempering. While it’s still quite hot, float glass can be rapidly cooled with jets of air from above and below. This creates thin layers on both faces that have solidified while the core of the sheet is still fluid, putting the faces into tension relative to the core, which is in compression. This dramatically toughens the glass compared to plain annealed glass, and when it does break, the opposed forces within the glass force it to shatter into small fragments rather than large shards.

For hollow glass products, the arrangement of the cold end forming machines is a bit different. Rather than flowing horizontally out of the furnace, melted glass drops through holes in the bottom of the tank. Large shears close at intervals to cut the stream of molten glass into precisely sized pieces called gobs, which drop into curved chutes. The chutes rotate to direct the gobs into an automatic molding machine.

Molding something like a bottle is a multistage process, with gobs first formed into a rough hollow shape called a parison. The parison can be formed either by pressing the gob into an upside-down mold with a plunger to form a cavity, or by blowing compressed air into the mold from below. Either way, the parisons are flipped rightside-up by the molding machine and moved to a second mold, where the final shape of the bottle is formed by compressed air before being pushed onto a conveyor that takes the bottles to an annealing lehr. The entire process from furnace to formed bottle only takes a few seconds, and never stops.

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Some glass hollowware products, such as pie plates, baking dishes, and laboratory beakers, do not need to be blown at all. Rather, these are press molded by dropping gob directly into one half of a mold and pressing it with a matching mold. The mold halves squeeze the molten glass into its final shape before the mold opens and the formed item is whisked away for annealing

No matter what the final form of the glass being produced, the degree of coordination required to keep a glass factory running smoothly is pretty amazing. The speed with which ingredients are added to the furnace has to match the speed of finished products being taken off the line at the end, and temperatures have to be rigidly controlled all along the way. Also, all the machinery has to be engineered to withstand lava-like temperatures without breaking down; imagine the mess that would result if a furnace broke down with a couple of tonnes of molten glass in it. Also, molding machines have to deal with the fact that molds only last a few shifts before they need to be resurfaced, lest imperfections creep into the finished products. This means taking individual molding stations out of service while the rest stay in production, all while maintaining overall throughput.


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A giudicare dalle parole di Trump, gli unici a cui gli USA vogliono fare guerra, non solo economica, sono gli europei loro alleati


Attacco Informatico a Generali España. Ancora un attacco alla Supply Chain


Generali España, filiale del gruppo assicurativo Assicurazioni Generali S.p.A., ha subito un accesso non autorizzato ai propri sistemi informatici. La notizia è stata diffusa da VenariX en Español, una piattaforma che monitora le minacce informatiche.

Generali, tra le più grandi compagnie assicurative al mondo, è presente in Spagna con una vasta gamma di prodotti assicurativi e finanziari. Secondo quanto riportato, la società sta lavorando per mitigare i rischi e proteggere i dati sensibili dei clienti. Non sono stati ancora diffusi dettagli su eventuali conseguenze o furti di informazioni.

Questo è quanto riportato all’interno della print screen presente nel tweet di VenariX: “siamo costretti a informarla che abbiamo rilevato un incidente di sicurezza informatica presso Generali Seguros y Reaseguros, S.A.IJ., che ha portato una terza parte ad accedere al nostro Sistema Informativo, sostituendo le credenziali di un utente autorizzato, e ha causato l’esposizione di parte delle informazioni relative alla polizza auto da lei sottoscritta e che conserviamo dal momento della sottoscrizione della polizza in conformità ai nostri obblighi legali e contrattuali.”

Ennesimo attacco alla supply chain


Pertanto, l’incidente si configura come un attacco alla supply chain, ovvero un attacco che prende di mira non solo un’azienda specifica, ma anche i suoi fornitori, partner e sistemi interconnessi. La supply chain rappresenta l’intero ecosistema di servizi, software e infrastrutture che un’organizzazione utilizza per operare. Colpire un singolo anello della catena può generare un effetto domino, compromettendo più soggetti e amplificando l’impatto della violazione.

La direttiva NIS2, adottata dall’Unione Europea, mira proprio a rafforzare la sicurezza della supply chain imponendo obblighi più stringenti per le aziende considerate “essenziali” e “importanti”. Tra le novità introdotte, vi sono requisiti di gestione del rischio più severi, maggiore responsabilità per i dirigenti e una sorveglianza rafforzata sugli incidenti che coinvolgono fornitori terzi.

Per proteggersi da questi attacchi, le aziende devono adottare una strategia di cyber resilience basata su tre pilastri: verifica rigorosa dei fornitori, monitoraggio continuo delle reti e implementazione di misure di sicurezza avanzate come la segmentazione della rete e l’adozione di soluzioni zero trust. Solo attraverso un approccio proattivo è possibile ridurre i rischi e mitigare gli effetti di eventuali violazioni.

Generali Spagna


Presente in Spagna dal 1834, GENERALI è uno dei principali attori del mercato assicurativo spagnolo. L’azienda conta circa 2.000 dipendenti e una delle reti di consulenti più grandi del Paese, con oltre 1.600 uffici di assistenza clienti e 10.000 professionisti.

GENERALI focalizza la propria strategia sull’offerta di un’esperienza eccellente ai propri clienti. Per raggiungere questo obiettivo, ha sviluppato il progetto pionieristico di sondaggi denominato TNPS, attraverso il quale ogni anno vengono effettuati più di 900.000 sondaggi per conoscere l’opinione dei clienti. Grazie alle informazioni raccolte, l’azienda è in grado di migliorare costantemente i propri processi e la qualità del servizio offerto.

Nel suo impegno verso l’innovazione come leva di crescita, GENERALI mette a disposizione dei propri clienti prodotti e servizi telematici all’avanguardia e spazi di gestione privati ​​come My GENERALI. Tutti questi sviluppi soddisfano i più elevati standard di usabilità, in modo che i clienti e i canali di distribuzione possano svolgere qualsiasi tipo di procedura in modo rapido e semplice.

Questo articolo è stato redatto attraverso l’utilizzo della piattaforma Recorded Future, partner strategico di Red Hot Cyber e leader nell’intelligence sulle minacce informatiche, che fornisce analisi avanzate per identificare e contrastare le attività malevole nel cyberspazio.

L'articolo Attacco Informatico a Generali España. Ancora un attacco alla Supply Chain proviene da il blog della sicurezza informatica.



The proliferation of AI through law enforcement tools already has civil liberties experts concerned. “When you have results from an AI, they are not transparent. Often you cannot trace back where a conclusion came from, or what information it is based on. AIs hallucinate," one said.#News #ArtificialIntelligence


Musica che amo da un (bel) po' [5/3/25]


Vorrei condividere con voi tre canzoni che porto nel cuore da più o meno tempo ma che ritengo assai interessanti e che forse nell'italia di oggi mancano di essere conosciute perché non molto condivise sui social ma abbastanza conosciute nel resto del mondo e apprezzate davveeo tanto. Ritengo che mancano ancora tanto artisti di questo livello in italia e che spesso manca l'ascolto dalle persone distratte da tutto questo intrattenimento e ci vorrebbe una pausa per l'ascolto, pausa che è sostanzialmente la stessa concezione che danno anche i buddisti/mindfuless ed affini quando si dovrebbe parlare di vita, prezenza, di ascolto di se stessi e del corpo/cuore.

Ho parlato/scritto troppo, vi lascio alle tre canzoni da ca(r)pire da soli, vado via! *sciò*

- Delilah Montagu - Version Of Me -

(canzone riflessiva su chi si è veramente e cosa si comunica davvero se stessi della stessa artista di cui fred again ha campionato la sua voce per un suo pezzo molto famoso)

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- Regina Spektor - Loveology -

(consiglio l'ascolto in cuffia con bassissime aspettative arrivando al finale che vi stupirà di sicuro...non demordete che è un pezzo davvero incredibile che ho in loop da ore)

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- Raphael Treza - We Are One -

(soundtrack favolosa con un testo poetico fantastico di un documentario di raphael treza trovabile facilmente free su youtube)
(raphaeltreza.com/)

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i "comunisti" italiani anti-ucraina (un regime corrotto dicono... senza guardarsi allo specchio) hanno sempre osteggiato gli stati uniti. peccato che senza la "protezione usa" sarà inevitabile spendere di più in difesa per armi vere... e visto che sono saltati tutti gli accordi internazionali probabilmente non vale neppure più quello che impedisce all'italia di detenere armi atomiche... se ognuno deve fare da solo, e dobbiamo diventare tutti dei carnivori, direi che ci sta... in questo nuovo "ordine" mondiale basato sulla forza e sulla virilità.


How to navigate Washington and Brussels: a tech policy guide


How to navigate Washington and Brussels: a tech policy guide
ANOTHER WEEK, ANOTHER DIGITAL POLITICS. I'm Mark Scott, and will be in Washington next week — come say hello at an event I'm co-hosting on March 11 with Katie Harbath (and her excellent Anchor Change newsletter.)

I'll also be in Geneva on March 24 for a discussion on tech sovereignty and data governance (sign up here) and will be co-hosting another tech policy gathering in London on March 27 (sign up for more upcoming details here.)

— Under the Trump 2.0 administration, tech policy is now inextricably tied to trade and foreign policy. That's not so different than from before.

— The European Commission is reassessing its focus on digital regulation. That change is almost exclusively down to internal, not external, pressures.

— Artificial intelligence companies are in an arms race to sign up as many publishers worldwide to feed their large language models.

Let's get started:


Washington: same message, different delivery


AFTER DONALD TRUMP'S MEETING WITH Volodymyr Zelenskyy in the Oval Office last week, tech policy is certainly not at the top of anyone's agenda when it comes to souring transatlantic relations. But as I get ready for a week in North America (Washington: March 10-12; Montréal: March 13-14), it's time to unpack what the first six weeks of the new Trump administration means, both for America and the rest of the world, when it comes to digital.

At first glance, there appears to be a significant shift. In repeated White House executive orders, directives and policy decisions, the US president has signaled his dislike for greater checks on (American) tech companies. Gone is United States support for the global tax revamp, negotiated by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). Gone is the support for greater content moderation on social media platforms — and the rise of threats if other countries follow that path. Gone is Washington's support for checks on artificial intelligence, including parts of an White House executive order from a Joe Biden-era. Gone is support for TikTok's ban within the US — a policy that Trump championed during his first term.

Taken as a whole, it feels like a upending of Washington's consensus that technology firms needed to be reined in; that cooperation with like-minded allies helped promote US economic interests; and that pushing back against foreign adversaries, in the online world, was a national security priority.

And yet, I'm not so sure.

It's sometimes easy to forget how past administrations acted when a new White House resident has his feet under the table. Dating back to Barack Obama's time in charge, consecutive US presidents have repeatedly pushed back against greater checks — from non-US countries — even when they promoted potential curbs at home. Obama, for instance, famously chided members of the European Parliament when they suggested that Google should be broken up. Let's leave aside the fact those lawmakers didn't have such powers. But fast forward a decade, and the European Union has never realistically considered forcing the split of these tech giants. But do you know who has? The US Department of Justice and its ongoing antitrust lawsuit against Alphabet and its dominance over search.

Let's look at other examples. Both Trump 1.0 and Biden's administrations, collectively, were never that excited about revamping the world's global tax regime — mostly because it would allow others to levy taxes against US tech firms. Washington would still come out net positive under those proposals, based on OECD calculations, as the US would earn additional revenue from taxing non-American firms, too. But the idea that pesky foreigners would impose levies on some of the most prominent US companies was something that garnered bipartisan anger.

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Here's what paid subscribers read in February:
— How changing geopolitics affects platform governance, digital competition, internet governance, trade and data protection. More here
— What happens when the US doesn't follow the game plan in combating 'hybrid warfare?;' What lessons to take from the Paris AI Action Summit?; Fact-checkers underpin crowdsourced 'community notes.' More here.
— Germany's federal election is reminder we don't know what happens on social media; The first transatlantic fight over digital won't come around social media rules; What the global tax overhaul would have meant for tech. More here.
— In the wake of the German election, we shouldn't claim 'mission accomplished' when it comes to fighting foreign interference. More here.

I can go on. Yes, the Trump administration has a longstanding opinion that all forms of online safety/content moderation regulation represent an illegitimate attack on free speech. I would disagree with that assessment, but that is the current White House's starting point. And yes, current US officials are open about their willingness to use trade sanctions against regions/countries (the EU and United Kingdom have been specifically name-checked for attention) that impose such regimes that Trump 2.0 believes represent unfair trading practices against US firms.

But as someone who had a front row seat to the crafting of the EU's Digital Services Act, I remember well that the former Biden administration equally pushed back hard against what it similarly believed was unfair practices from Brussels primarily targeted at Silicon Valley. Yes, these officials did it mostly behind closed doors and in support of some tech firms. But the message — while not as vocal or transactional as the current White House — was clear: these content moderation rules are bad, and the EU should cut it out.

Where I do get confused is how part of the Trump 2.0 team appears to be copying, almost word for word, the transparency and accountability parts of international online safety regimes. The same rules, it should be pointed out, that allegedly represent a fundamental threat to people's free speech. The US Federal Trade Commission's recent request for information "regarding technology platform censorship," for instance, includes language around how these firms made their content moderation decisions that would not be out of place in European-style legislation.

"Did the policies or other public-facing representations describe how, when, or under what circumstances the platform would deny or degrade users’ access to its services?," one of the FTC question asks. "Did the platform offer a meaningful opportunity to challenge or appeal adverse actions that deny, or degrade users’ access, consistent with its users’ reasonable expectations based on its representations?," says another. Those questions are equally at the center of what non-US officials want to understand, too.

I get the public differences between how Trump 2.0 and previous administrations have approached these issues. And on other aspects — particularly in relation to artificial intelligence and short-term equality issues on datasets — there are significant differences.

But when I peel back the rhetoric and look at the underlying policies, what are the differences in how the current White House approaches digital compared to its predecessors? In officials like Michael Kratsios, director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, and Gail Slater, the new head of the US Department of Justice's antitrust division, Trump 2.0 has picked well-qualified policymakers that aren't that different from who was in charge, only months ago, during Biden's time in charge.

One group I haven't mentioned is lawmakers in Congress. Sigh. The US House of Representatives and Senate certainly like to talk a good game on digital policy. (Anyone remember Chuck Schumer's AI Insight forums?) But I remain skeptical about any form of tech legislation making its way through Congress — mostly because it's not a high priority in the current political climate.

Some officials talk about renewed impetus for federal privacy rules (I've heard that before.) Others say more targeted legislation around online kids safety could win bipartisan support. Again, I have doubts.

But, if you take the recent US Inflation Reduction Act and US Chips Act — and their impact on the American domestic tech industry, as whole — then the view of Congress doesn't look too bad. Yes, the future of some of that legislation is in jeopardy under Trump 2.0. But, combined, the laws doubled down on US tech investment; provided federal subsidies to entice companies to spend locally; and positioned the country on a favorable footing in the increasingly geopolitical world that encompasses tech in 2025.

To me, that feels like a pretty familiar pitch no matter who currently resides in the White House.


Chart of the Week


TO COMPETE IN THE CUT-THROAT AI RACE, companies are rushing to pen deals with some of the largest newsletters and media outlets in the world.

The goal? To feed these firms' large language models with high-quality content that can make sophisticated systems more lifelike when they respond to real-world queries.

For publishers, it's a race for survival. Many have argued that AI companies have already scraped their sites — and the New York Times has sued OpenAI and Microsoft. But for others, these tech companies offer a new revenue opportunity to keep their legacy media businesses afloat.
How to navigate Washington and Brussels: a tech policy guideSource: Ezra Eeman — which publishers have signed partnerships with individual AI firms


Brussels: different message, same delivery


CONVENTIONAL WISDOMS DICTATES that Brussels is firing on all cylinders. The EU has its shiny online safety rules (the Digital Services Act) and digital antitrust legislation (the Digital Markets Act), as well as the upcoming Artificial Intelligence Act — the world's first comprehensive rulebook for the emerging technology. In Ursula von der Leyen, the returning German head of the European Commission, the EU's executive branch, the 27-country bloc has a leader who helped pass those rules. Now, she's ready to wield them aggressively.

That is outdated thinking.

Yes, the EU is in the midst of implementing new digital rules, many of which have never been tested before. The Digital Markets Act's shift to ex ante oversight, or allowing regulators to determine where market abuse may happen before it occurs, is a significant departure from decades of competition jurisprudence, for instance. The Digital Services Act's transparency and accountability provisions for social media companies and search engines — that do not require platforms to remove legal content, to be clear — are being watched by other countries eager to follow that approach.

And yet, the political and economic winds have significantly shifted in Brussels.

For now, let's leave aside the increasingly fraught relationship between the EU and US after decades of close ties. Within the bloc, ongoing sluggish economic output and a failure to capture the next generation of technology advances by European firms have fundamentally altered how EU officials now approach questions around digital policymaking. At the center of that switch is last year's report from Mario Draghi, the former head of the European Central Bank. In his analysis, the ex-Italian prime blamed overburdensome regulation — including the AI Act and the EU's General Data Protection Regulation, or comprehensive privacy regime — for hamstringing the bloc's economy compared to international rivals.

That ethos has taken hold at the top of the European Commission. I would disagree that all regulation/legislation leads to poor economic outcomes, especially in the digital space. Personally, a lack of coordination EU-wide capital markets and a failure to create a "digital single market" across the 27 countries is more to blame for Europe's lack of tech champions. For me, generations of tech regulation is a secondary issue when, say, a Swedish startup founder can not easily reach out to an Italian investor to back her company to sell into a unified online market from Finland to Greece. But hey, I'm not a former head of the European Central Bank.

This 'de-regulate at all costs!' mantra is now playing out in how Brussels approaches digital. When I saw Henna Virkkunen, the newly-appointed European Commission executive vice president in charge of tech, at the Paris AI Action Summit, the Finnish politician wanted to talk about the EU's Apply AI Strategy and AI Factories initiative — policies aimed at using public funds to jumpstart European companies' use of the emerging technology. In her 10 minute speech, I counted at least 10 references to "innovation," and only a couple of mentions of "regulation." It's not a perfect metaphor for what's happening. But it's pretty close.

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To a degree, this makes sense. The EU's economy remains sluggish, and Brussels can't realistically compete with Beijing and Washington on the global stage if it doesn't have a homegrown tech industry. That goes for everything from AI startups to industrial champions making electric vehicles. All the best (or worst?) digital rules in the world don't matter if non-EU countries look at how that legislation hasn't helped local businesses, and say 'no thanks.' Caveat: such legislation is also about protecting citizens' from harm, but I digress.

This change of focus — where even returning EU officials who helped to craft these rules in the previous European Commission's tenure are shifting their policymaking approach — will inevitably have an impact on how digital rules are created.

Already, Brussels has shelved its so-called AI Liability Directive over concerns it would harm growth. I have questions about how future investigations, under the Digital Services Act and Digital Markets Act, will be pushed if such probes signal to all countries (both EU and non-EU) that the bloc isn't open for business. The AI Act's full implementation is still about 18 months away, and I equally question what resources will be provided to make sure those rules are effective given the change in political priorities at the top of the European Commission.

Much of this nuance is getting lost in the EU-US diplomatic spat over Washington's aversion to Brussels' regulatory rulebook. European fears over American retaliatory tariffs are certainly worrying many within the EU — both inside the so-called Brussels Bubble and across national capitals.

But it's the 180-degree internally-focused turn within the 27-country bloc that's driving the wider change in the EU's mood music around digital regulation.

No, the existing rules aren't going away — and will lead to likely enforcement actions against (some) American firms, given the ongoing probes into Meta, Alphabet and X, among others. Yet the era of 'let them have more digital rules!' is over within the EU. And that shift is coming from within, not from outside.


What I'm reading


— The geopolitical race on AI is fundamentally reshaping international data flows and leading to regulatory fragmentation, argue Christopher Kuner and Gabriela Zanfir-Fortuna for the Future of Privacy Forum.

— Japan approved new AI legislation that represents a so-called 'light touch' approach to the technology, and will require companies to voluntarily cooperate with Tokyo's safety measures. More here and here.

— The European Union and India held their second Trade and Technology Council meeting in New Delhi on Feb 28. Here are the outcomes.

— OpenAI updated its analysis on how malign actors were using its technology for 'malicious uses.' More here.

— The European Fact-Checking Standards Network condemned a recent police raid on its Serbian member organization Istinomer.rs. More here.



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Orecchini in argento 925 e agata indiana fatti a mano


C'era una volta un filo d'argento, sottile e lucente, che giaceva silenzioso in un angolo del laboratorio. Non era un filo come tanti, era un filo speciale, scelto con cura per la sua purezza e la sua capacità di catturare la luce. Un filo che aspettava di prendere vita, di trasformarsi in qualcosa di unico e prezioso.

Specifiche e curiosità 👇

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Migranti, Piantedosi: “In Italia 5 nuovi Cpr e 3 centri come quelli albanesi”


@Politica interna, europea e internazionale
Il ministro degli Interni Matteo Piantedosi annuncia l’apertura in Italia di cinque nuovi Cpr, centri di permanenza per i rimpatri dei migranti privi dei requisiti per poter stare nel nostro Paese. “Abbiamo individuato ben cinque nuovi siti dove realizzare Cpr e per due di



James Lee Burke – Clete
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Questa storia della Lousiana è accaduta alla fine degli anni Novanta, prima di Katrina e prima delle Torri, quando io e il mio amico Dave Robicheaux ci dividevamo tra New Orleans e New Iberia, in pieno Golfo, nel cuore del Dixie, dove il giorno di Natale ci sono venti gradi e più. La Louisiana meridionale […]
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Questa storia della Lousiana è


difficile dire se sia possibile farlo o se davvero voglia farlo, ma comunque il fatto che noi siamo qua a chiedercelo non è un bel segno. fino a 1 mese fa sarebbe stato impensabile e sicuramente una fake news senza pensarci. che poi è quello che succede a eleggere pazzi da manicomio del tipo "il mondo è mio"... con tanto di deliri di onnipotenza.


Ho un passato miserando da giornalista di provincia. La mia carriera si chiuse un giorno di una ventina di anni fa, quando il direttore del quindicinale per cui scrivevo mi comunica che c’è da coprire la notizia di Bruno Pizzul a Ragusa.
Pizzul in quell’anno è da poco in pensione o, comunque, ha smesso di commentare la Nazionale. Il suo processo di monumentalizzazione è all’apice sostenuto dai rimpianti per le sue telecronache pastose, condotte come sorseggiando uno di quei vini di cui era intenditore, il culto di noi giovani per alcune espressioni che sono nel nostro gergo amicale ("è tutto molto bello” “giocano bene questi”), la simpatia umana per quegli anni di carriera che hanno accompagnato le più cocenti delusione dell’Italia calcistica, più volte a un passo da una vittoria mai condotta in porto.
In quell’anno Pizzul è a Ragusa come testimonial di un’iniziativa per la salute nello sport e ci aspetta per un’intervista al palazzetto. Mi accompagnano il direttore e mio fratello, che era una specie di capo redattore del giornale. La decisione, su cui sospetto qualche malizia, è che sia io a realizzare l’intervista. Fino a quel momento avevo maneggiato al massimo consiglieri comunali, centravanti di Promozione e l’opinione della gente della strada (allora si usava). Sono chiaramente nel panico.
Stranamente non penso alle domande da porre, ma coltivo il desiderio di essere all’altezza dei suoi aggettivi vaporosi, del ritmo seducente che riusciva a dare alle telecronache, delle sue espressioni rotonde da sommelier del giornalismo. Chissà se riuscirò a dirgli che l’ho sentito come un amico.
Al palazzetto dello sport un enorme striscione si srotola per metà tribuna con il motto: “LO SPORT E’ SALUTE, LA SALUTE E’ SPORT” o qualcosa di ugualmente dimenticabile. Chi non andrà mai via dalla mia memoria è, invece, l’uomo alto e rilassato, solidamente ancorato alla sua personalità. È impegnato in un’amabile conversazione con un organizzatore della manifestazione e in una dialettica tra labbra e dita con una sigaretta che solleva voluttuose spire impegnate in scartavetrate di precisione sulle ben note corde vocali. È un uomo al timone di sé stesso. È Bruno Pizzul.
A quel punto io sono completamente groggy (avrà mai commentato il pugilato, Bruno Pizzul?) e con l’aggressività involontaria che si impossessa spesso dei timidi, quando hanno bisogno di darsi coraggio, dopo rapide presentazioni gli sparo: “Ma come dottor Pizzul, è il testimonial di una campagna sulla salute e sta fumando?”
Sugli altri non ho un opinione precisa, ma il dio del giornalismo non esiste perché non arrivò nessuna folgore a incenerirmi all'istante.
Successe invece una cosa che oggi corregge in commozione il dispiacere per la sua morte. Tradendo un po’ di imbarazzo Bruno Pizzul, invece di mandarmi a quel paese, mi rispose che avevo ragione, confessò quella sua debolezza, quasi si scusò. Nel frattempo io mi ero rimpicciolito alle dimensioni di una Marlboro e di passare alla seconda domanda non se ne parlava. Mi ero bloccato per sempre sull’idea che avevo rimproverato Bruno Pizzul e fui incapace di formulare qualsiasi altro pensiero. Intervennero il direttore e mio fratello con le domande giuste: “Qual è stata la partita più bella che ha commentato, quella che avrebbe voluto commentare, il giocatore più simpatico, cosa ricorda di quando giocava al Catania etc..)
Ho quindi molti debiti d'affetto con Bruno Pizzul che mi consolò di un gol di Trezeguet all’ultimo minuto, che si prese la responsabilità di precipitare nello sconforto i tifosi di calcio nella sera dell’Heysel, che urlò: "Schillaci!" con milioni di connazionali in estati ormai lontane, per quanto magiche. E con garbo ed umiltà mi ha regalato anche un'ultima vanteria, perché è grazie a Bruno Pizzul che non sono diventato un giornalista.

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La gomma arabica di Coca-Cola e M&M’s è contrabbandata nel Sudan in guerra


@Notizie dall'Italia e dal mondo
Il Sudan è il principale produttore mondiale di gomma arabica e fornisce l'80% della produzione globale. La sostanza è fondamentale per stabilizzare e addensare ingredienti in una vasta gamma di prodotti, dai rossetti di L'Oréal agli alimenti per animali



Un libro importantissimo su un tema ancora sottovalutato.


Buongiorno a tutti!

Voglio suggerirvi un libro che a mio avviso è importantissimo, e lo dico anche da persona che lavora nell'informatica da trent'anni e usa computer da 44, da quando internet ancora non era diffuso.

Ci troviamo di fronte a quello che a mio avviso è un capolavoro per fare capire come il Cremlino manovri l'informazione - e soprattutto la cattiva informazione - con lo scopo di destabilizzare l'Europa.

Ora i più pruriginosi di voi mi diranno che anche gli Stati Uniti lo fanno, ma è proprio leggendo il testo che si comprende come il modo sia del tutto diverso: nel caso della Russia, l'obiettivo non è creare simpatia nei loro confronti (cosa difficile, del resto, per qualsiasi umano con 2 neuroni in fila), ma creare disordine.
Nel disordine, nel caos che non ti fa più capire cosa è vero e cosa è falso, è facilissimo cedere a sovranismi, secessioni, porcate varie.

E il loro scopo è già stato raggiunto.

A questo si sommano ovviamente gli attacchi informatici...ma è tutto nel libro.

Buona lettura e, se lo leggerete, fatemi sapere cosa ne pensate.

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BRASILE. Il processo a Bolsonaro per il golpe cambia le carte in tavola


@Notizie dall'Italia e dal mondo
La possibile condanna dell'ex presidente, accusato dalla Procura Generale assieme ad altre 33 persone di aver cercato di avvelenare Lula, è un fatto nuovo nel Paese. Abbiamo intervistato il sociologo Carlos Eduardo Martins, professore all'Università di San



Mettersi nei panni degli altri, a volte, aiuta.


Mi chiedo cosa ci sia di difficile da capire.

Eppure, a quanto pare c'è ancora chi è convinto che la pace si ottenga con la resa.

Il che, almeno temporaneamente, sarebbe anche vero ma senza dimenticare che pace non è uguale a giustizia.

Forse questo articolo può fare comprendere un concetto tanto semplice quanto ignorato.


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Barbera e champagne
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Il bar italiano è una terra di nessuno e di tutti, a metà tra il tempo libero e l’attività professionale: lo diceva sempre Umberto Eco. Forse non è l‘esatta frase ma non è possibile che non abbia detto nulla anche sui bar il tuttologo Eco. Comunque ogni pensiero di Eco è certamente una osservazione intelligente. […]
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Il bar italiano è una terra di


Attraverso una strada, attraverso un giardino, riempio la bottiglia d'acqua fresca, attraverso il ponte sul fiume, percorro un tratto di viale alberato e arrivo in studio. Tutte le mattine lo stesso percorso, tutte le mattine qualche dettaglio nuovo.


  • Nel futuro vedo che diventerai socievole e amerai la gente
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Da un piccolo paese a una città metropolitana

@Politica interna, europea e internazionale

Lunedì 10 marzo 2025, ore 18:00 presso la Fondazione Luigi Einaudi, Roma Interverranno GABRIELE ALBERTINI, già sindaco di Milano DAVIDE FERRARI, amministratore pagina “Se sei Sindaco” MATTEO GROSSI, Coordinatore Consulta Enti Locali FLE ROBERTO MANTOVANI alias ROBERTO RED SOX, Tassista Modera Massimiliano Lenzi, La




IFTAS shutting down most of its services following a lack of funding. Fediverse tumblr-like platform Wafrn has a native Bluesky integration.


Fediverse Report #106

IFTAS is shutting down most of their services following a lack of funding, and Tumblr-like platform Wafrn now has its own apps, and a Bluesky integration to boot.

The News


The fediverse trust and safety organisation IFTAS has announced it is shutting down most of its services, following a lack of funding. Last month the organisation said that they would soon run out of funding, and that they’d do a final effort at getting structural funds for the organisation. This has not happened, and now IFTAS will shut down most of their services. The biggest project to be shut down is IFTAS’ Content Classification Service, a service which handled CSAM scanning and reporting for fediverse servers. When fediverse server admins encounter CSAM, most countries have mandatory reporting requirements that admins are obliged to follow. Another project that is shutting down is FediCheck, which provides shared deny lists that server could use to build their own deny lists for their servers.

IFTAS shutting down their services is a double blow to the fediverse. The obvious one is that functions like IFTAS’ Content Classification Service were aiming to provide a service that filled an crucial gap in the operations of many fediverse servers. Scanning for CSAM, and handling the legal requirements on reporting to the relevant agencies is a challenging task for server admins to execute, and many fediverse servers do not have good procedures in place to handle this delicate process. IFTAS’ CCS would have provided a way for smaller fediverse server to handle the legal obligations they have regarding handling CSAM.

The second blow to the fediverse is in that IFTAS fills an important role in building a collaborative structure for moderation across fediverse servers. The fediverse is a network of independent places (servers), and while they are interconnected on a technical level via a protocol, building connections between servers for collaborations is proving to be much harder. Over the years there have been many suggestions and ideas on how fediverse servers could work together, for example regarding on sharing information on which servers to block. These conversations currently take place mainly via admin backchannels or via the #fediblock hashtag, and a more structural interface could help streamline this process. For such a process to work trust is needed between fediverse server admins to participate with such infrastructure. IFTAS, as a grassroots fediverse organisation, is one of the best-placed organisations to have build trust and provide a nexus around which such infrastructure could be build. IFTAS got pretty far with their rollout of FediCheck, which was building such a place for collaboration between server admins. Now that IFTAS will not be the center around which shared moderation infrastructure can be build, will there be another organisation in the future to do so? Especially when IFTAS found out that getting funding for such a project is so difficult?


Fediverse platform Wafrn has announced they now have apps for Android and iOS available in testing. I have not talked about Wafrn much, but it is one of the more interesting fediverse platforms that is currently being worked on. Wafrn is a Tumblr-inspired platform that clearly does not take itself too seriously: the name stands for “We Allow Female Representing Nipples“. It is a reference to a decision by Tumblr to ban adult content, and they used the phrase “Female-presenting Nipples” in their community guidelines which became a target of ridicule. Wafrn has a variety of unique features, such as a place to ask and answer questions for the Wafrn community. The most standout feature of Wafrn however is a native integration of both ActivityPub and ATProto. A Wafrn account allows you to have a full connection with the fediverse, as well as with Bluesky. On the fediverse, your account is visible as @name@app.wafrn.net, while on Bluesky your account is visible as @name.at.wafrn.net. Because this is not a bridge, and instead a native integration, a Wafrn account can interact with any Bluesky and fediverse account, other accounts are not required to opt-in in order to connect. In a real way, this means that Bluesky is now indeed federated, it just took an app called “We Allow Female Representing Nipples” to get there.


Link aggregator platform PieFed has added support for feeds. Feeds on PieFed are similar to how multi-reddits work on Reddit: it allows you to create a custom feed that displays posts from multiple communities. Feeds can also be shared, allowing people to follow a feed that others have created. Feeds on PieFed are somewhat similar to their Topics feature. Topics are also a collection of multiple fediverse communities around a certain theme. The main difference between topics and feeds is that topics are created by the server owner, and set for the entire server. With feeds, anyone can create and share one, and you can also follow feeds from other PieFed servers.

The Links


  • Timeline app Tapestry has gotten an investment by Tumblr.
  • WeDistribute writes about Funkwhale and their decision to filter out far-right music.
  • Ghost‘s weekly update on their ActivityPub implementation
  • Xenon is a new fediverse client app for iOS
  • Fireside Fedi is a interview series on PeerTube, and this week they’re talking with one of the people behind ActivityPods.
  • This week’s fediverse software updates.

That’s all for this week, thanks for reading! You can subscribe to my newsletter to get all my weekly updates via email, which gets you some interesting extra analysis as a bonus, that is not posted here on the website. You can subscribe below:

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la gente che pensa che la difesa nazionale ed europea si possa fare con le chiacchiere... che peraltro non vanno neppure bene per l'amato trump... o putin... per nessuno... ma abbiamo i nostri idoli che però non ascoltiamo neppure nei rari casi in cui dicono qualcosa di sensato. si spera di non dover mai usare le armi in guerra ma gente come trump o putin è chiaro che teme solo quelle... casomai fosse sfuggito l'ovvio.



Giuseppe Conte: “Il M5s non andrà in piazza il 15 marzo: no all’Ue del riarmo”


@Politica interna, europea e internazionale
“Il blu dell’Europa si tinge di verde militare, no alla follia di 800 miliardi in armi!”. Così l’ex premier e leader del Movimento 5 stelle, Giuseppe Conte, risponde al piano annunciato oggi dalla presidente della Commissione europea, Ursula von der Leyen, “per

in reply to Giovanni

@Giovanni senza entrare in nessun tipo di valutazione moralistica o politica, quella di Giuseppe Conte è una scelta intelligente, perché segna discontinuità rispetto a tutte le altre forze di opposizione che pescano dallo stesso elettorato. Quando sei al 5% dei sondaggi è fondamentale marcare le differenze
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comprensibile che per un partito piccolo passare dal 5 al 6 possa esser vitale. Però è il bastone tra le ruote del PD. finché ci sarà Conte, meloni dorme sonni tranquilli.


#Trump e #Ucraina, l'Europa nel caos


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Verso il Consiglio europeo, quanto costerà all’Ue difendersi senza gli Usa

@Notizie dall'Italia e dal mondo

Premessa: gli Usa sono un alleato dell’Ue, specifica il portavoce della Commissione europea prima del consiglio europeo. Sostanza: serve mobilitare livelli significativi di risorse per assistere “i nostri amici ucraini”, ovvero lo schema seguito da ReArm Europe. Nel mezzo



Elly Schlein boccia il piano di riarmo di von der Leyen: “Non è la strada giusta per l’Ue”


@Politica interna, europea e internazionale
Elly Schlein boccia il piano di riarmo da 800 miliardi di euro annunciato oggi dalla presidente della Commissione europea Ursula von der Leyen. “Non è la strada che serve all’Europa”, attacca la segretaria del Pd: “All’Unione europea – osserva – serve la difesa

in reply to Elezioni e Politica 2025

La difesa comune arriverà solo in un momento di crisi acuta, prima i paesi UE non credo riescano a mettersi d'accordo.




L'Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) del Regno Unito ha avviato un'indagine sulle piattaforme online TikTok, Reddit e Imgur per valutare le misure adottate per proteggere i bambini di età compresa tra 13 e 17 anni nel Paese.

L'organismo di controllo ha affermato che sta indagando sul modo in cui il servizio di condivisione video di proprietà di ByteDance utilizza i dati personali dei bambini in questa fascia di età per far emergere raccomandazioni e fornire contenuti suggeriti nei loro feed.

L'ICO ha dichiarato che sta esaminando se i servizi abbiano violato le leggi sulla protezione dei dati e che condividerà le prove scoperte, se presenti, con le aziende per ottenere le loro "rappresentanze" prima di giungere a una conclusione definitiva. John Edwards, Commissario per l'informazione del Regno Unito, ha affermato che:

"La responsabilità di garantire la sicurezza dei bambini online ricade fermamente sulle aziende che offrono questi servizi e il mio ufficio è fermo nel suo impegno a chieder loro conto"

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Il mammuth "partorisce" il topolino, ma stavolta è una cosa davvero figa: nel tentativo di far rivivere il mammut lanoso, la Colossal Biosciences ha creato un topo lanoso

Colossal Biosciences, nota per il suo obiettivo stravagante di resuscitare il mammut lanoso entro il 2028, afferma di aver fatto progressi costanti. La sua prova: topi geneticamente modificati per avere una pelliccia simile a quella del mammut.

Per progettare il topo lanoso, gli scienziati dell'azienda hanno trovato versioni di topi di geni di mammut e poi hanno utilizzato CRISPR per modificare gli embrioni di topi, ha detto a TechCrunch la dott. ssa Beth Shapiro, responsabile scientifico di Colossal. Quindi, quegli embrioni sono stati impiantati in madri topo surrogate.

L'azienda afferma che il colore, la consistenza e lo spessore della pelliccia dei topi lanosi ricordano i tratti del mammut.

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@Scienza e tecnologia

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Qatargate, chiesta la revoca dell’immunità per le due eurodeputate del Pd Moretti e Gualmini


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La Procura federale del Belgio ha chiesto al Parlamento europeo la revoca dell’immunità parlamentare per due eurodeputate italiane del gruppo del Partito Socialista europeo nell’ambito dell’indagine sul cosiddetto Qatargate. Secondo quanto



L’ultima proposta del ministro Lollobrigida: “Ridurre l’Iva sulle ostriche: non sono beni di lusso”


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“Abbassare l’Iva sulle ostriche”. L’ultima proposta del ministro dell’Agricoltura Francesco Lollobrigida, arrivata durante una degustazione di ostriche promossa al Senato dal compagno di partito di Fratelli d’Italia, Alberto Balboni, mira a “mettere più