Dodecahedron Speaker Is Biblically Accurate
Once upon a time, many radios and TVs only came with a single (mono) speaker. Then someone decided all audio hardware should have as many speakers as we have ears. That was until [Olivia] came along, and whipped up a dodecahedron speaker as an educational piece for workshops. Really, it shows us that twelve speakers should be the minimum standard going forward.
The speaker relies on a 3D-printed frame. The dodecahedron shell is assembled from 12 individual faces, each of which hosts a small individual speaker. Multichannel audio fans shouldn’t get too excited—all twelve speakers are wired to the same input in four groups of three, making this essentially an exceptionally complicated mono device. It might sound silly, but it’s actually a great way to deliver audio in many directions all at once. [Olivia] even went to the effort of running some sweep tests in anechoic and reverberation chambers to see how they performed, which is a fun bit of extra detail in the build log.
[Olivia] notes that these unique speakers are great as a beginner workshop build. They’re easy to modify in various ways to suit different ideas or levels of ability, and they can be made for less than $30 a pop. We’d love to see an advanced version that maybe packed in a lithium battery and a Bluetooth module to make them a standalone audio device. Video after the break.
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How A Failed Video Format Spawned A New Kind of Microscope
The video cassette tape was really the first successful home video format; discs just couldn’t compete back in the early days. That’s not to say nobody tried, however, with RCA’s VideoDisc a valiant effort that ultimately fell flat on its face. However, the forgotten format did have one benefit, in that it led to the development of an entirely new kind of microscope, as explained by IEEE Spectrum.
The full story is well worth the read; the short version is that it all comes down to capacitance. RCA’s VideoDisc format was unique in that it didn’t use reflective surfaces or magnetic states to represent data. Instead, the data was effectively stored as capacitance changes. As a conductive stylus rode through an undulating groove in a carbon-impregnated PVC disc, the capacitance between the stylus and the disc changed. This capacitance was effectively placed into a resonant circuit, where it would alter the frequency over time, delivering an FM signal that could be decoded into video and audio by the VideoDisc player.
The VideoDisc had a capacitance sensor that could detect such fine changes in capacitance, that it led to the development of the Scanning Capacitance Microscope (SCM). The same techniques used to read and inspect VideoDiscs for quality control could be put to good use in the field of semiconductors. The sensors were able to be used to detect tiny changes in capacitance from dopants in a semiconductor sample, and the SCM soon became an important tool in the industry.
It’s perhaps a more inspiring discovery than when cheeky troublemakers figured out you could use BluRay diodes to pop balloons. Still fun, though. An advertisement for the RCA VideoDisc is your video after the break.
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Build Your Own 6K Camera
[Curious Scientist] has been working with some image sensors. The latest project around it is a 6K camera. Of course, the sensor gives you a lot of it, but it also requires some off-the-shelf parts and, of course, some 3D printed components.
An off-the-shelf part of a case provides a reliable C mount. There’s also an IR filter in a 3D-printed bracket.
The processor gets hot, so he used different heat sinks and a fan, too. Overall, this isn’t much custom electronics, but this is an excellent example of assembling existing parts with high-quality 3D printed components.
Heat-set inserts provide a tripon mount. There’s also a custom HDMI monitor mount if you don’t want to use your phone as a viewfinder. One neat oddity that helps is a USB-A cable that splits into three USB-C connectors. Of course, only one of them has data lines. The other two feed power to different parts of the camera.
A good-looking build. At a glance, you could easily think this was a commercial product. We do like these digital camera builds, but we also find 3D printed film cameras fascinating. If 6K is too much for you, you can always downsize.
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Calculator Battery Mod Lets You Go the Distance
Disposable batteries seem so 1990s. Sure, it’s nice to be able to spend a couple of bucks at the drugstore and get a flashlight or TV remote back in the game, but when the device is a daily driver, rechargeable batteries sure seem to make more financial sense. Unfortunately, what makes sense to the end user doesn’t always make sense to manufacturers, so rolling your own rechargeable calculator battery pack might be your best option.
This slick hack comes to us from [Magmabow], who uses a Casio FXCG50 calculator, a known battery hog. With regular use, it goes through a set of four alkaline AA batteries every couple of months, which adds up quickly. In search of a visually clean build, [Magmabow] based the build around the biggest LiPo pillow-pack he could find that would fit inside the empty battery compartment, and planned to tap into the calculator’s existing USB port for charging. A custom PCB provides charging control and boosts the nominal 3.7-volt output of the battery to the 5-ish volts the calculator wants to see. The PCB design is quite clever; it spans across the battery compartment, with its output feeding directly into the spring contacts normally used for the AAs. A 3D-printed insert keeps the LiPo and the PCB in place inside the battery compartment.
Almost no modifications to the calculator are needed, other than a couple of bodge wires to connect the battery pack to the calculator’s USB port. The downside is that the calculator’s battery status indicator won’t work anymore since the controller will just shut the 5-volt output down when the LiPo is discharged. It seems like there might be a simple fix for that, but implementing it on such a small PCB could be quite a challenge, in which case a calculator with a little more room to work with might be nice.
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Automatic Feeder Keeps Fish Sated
[Noisy Electrons] is a maker who also likes to keep fish. He sometimes needs to travel and keep his fish fed in the meantime, so he created an automated solution to handle that for him.
The build is based around an STM32 microcontroller, paired with a MCP7940N real-time clock to keep time. The microcontroller is hooked up to a few buttons and a small display to serve as an interface, allowing the feeding times and dosage amounts to be configured right on the device. Food is distributed from a 3D printed drum with a hole in it, which is rotated via a stepper motor. Each time the drum rotates, some food falls through the hole and into the tank. Dosage amount is measured in rotations — the more times the drum rotates, the more food is delivered to the fish.
[Noisy Electron] built three of these devices for three separate tanks. Thus far, it’s been three weeks and all the fish are still alive, so we’ll take that as a vote of confidence in the build. We’ve featured some other great pet feeders over the years, too
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Lo striscione che campeggia davanti a Montecitorio è il risultato di una mobilitazione straordinaria.
A sostenerlo con noi i deputati Francesco Emilio Borrelli, Andrea Volpi e Filiberto Zaratti e la Consigliera regionale Alessandra Zeppieri. La prima giornata di presidio si è quindi conclusa così.
Domani proseguiamo per arrivare a una consegna della petizione e di tutte le firme a suo sostegno che si traduca in un impegno che onori, come merita, ognuna di quelle firme.
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AI slop is taking over workplaces. Workers said that they thought of their colleagues who filed low-quality AI work as "less creative, capable, and reliable than they did before receiving the output."#AISlop #AI
AI ‘Workslop’ Is Killing Productivity and Making Workers Miserable
A joint study by Stanford University researchers and a workplace performance consulting firm published in the Harvard Business Review details the plight of workers who have to fix their colleagues’ AI-generated “workslop,” which they describe as work content that “masquerades as good work, but lacks the substance to meaningfully advance a given task.” The research, based on a survey of 1,150 workers, is the latest analysis to suggest that the injection of AI tools into the workplace has not resulted in some magic productivity boom and instead has just increased the amount of time that workers say they spend fixing low-quality AI-generated “work.”The Harvard Business Review study came out the day after a Financial Times analysis of hundreds of earnings reports and shareholder meeting transcripts filed by S&P 500 companies that found huge firms are having trouble articulating the specific benefits of widespread AI adoption but have had no trouble explaining the risks and downsides the technology has posed to their businesses: “The biggest US-listed companies keep talking about artificial intelligence. But other than the ‘fear of missing out,’ few appear to be able to describe how the technology is changing their businesses for the better,” the Financial Times found. “Most of the anticipated benefits, such as increased productivity, were vaguely stated and harder to categorize than the risks.”
Other recent surveys and studies also paint a grim picture of AI in the workplace. The main story seems to be that there is widespread adoption of AI, but that it’s not proving to be that useful, has not resulted in widespread productivity gains, and often ends up creating messes that human beings have to clean up. Human workers see their colleagues who use AI as less competent, according to another study published in Harvard Business Review last month. A July MIT report found that “Despite $30–40 billion in enterprise investment into GenAI, this report uncovers a surprising result in that 95% of organizations are getting zero return … Despite high-profile investment, industry-level transformation remains limited.” A June Gallup poll found that AI use among workers doubled over the last two years, and that 40 percent of those polled have used AI at work in some capacity. But the poll found that “many employees are using AI at work without guardrails or guidance,” and that “The benefits of using AI in the workplace are not always obvious. According to employees, the most common AI adoption challenge is ‘unclear use case or value proposition.’”
These studies, anecdotes we have heard from workers, and the rise of industries like “vibe coding cleanup specialists” all suggest that workers are using AI, but that they may not be leading to actual productivity gains for companies. The Harvard Business Review study proposes a possible reason for this phenomenon: Workslop.
The authors of that study, who come from Stanford University and the workplace productivity consulting firm BetterUp, suggest that a growing number of workers are using AI tools to make presentations, reports, write emails, and do other work tasks that they then file to their colleagues or bosses; this work often appears useful but is not: “Workslop uniquely uses machines to offload cognitive work to another human being. When coworkers receive workslop, they are often required to take on the burden of decoding the content, inferring missed or false context. A cascade of effortful and complex decision-making processes may follow, including rework and uncomfortable exchanges with colleagues,” they write.
The researchers say that surveyed workers told them that they are now spending their time trying to figure out if any specific piece of work was created using AI tools, to identify possible hallucinations in the work, and then to manage the employee who turned in workslop. Surveyed workers reported spending time actually fixing the work, but the researchers found that “the most alarming cost may have been interpersonal.”
“Low effort, unhelpful AI generated work is having a significant impact on collaboration at work,” they wrote. “Approximately half of the people we surveyed viewed colleagues who sent workslop as less creative, capable, and reliable than they did before receiving the output. Forty-two percent saw them as less trustworthy, and 37% saw that colleague as less intelligent.”
No single study on AI in the workplace is going to be definitive, but evidence is mounting that AI is affecting people’s work in the same way it’s affecting everything else: It is making it easier to output low-quality slop that other people then have to wade through. Meanwhile, Microsoft researchers who spoke to nurses, financial advisers, and teachers who use AI found that the technology makes people “atrophied and unprepared” cognitively.
Each study I referenced above has several anecdotes about individual workers who have found specific uses of AI that improve their own productivity and several companies have found uses of AI that have helped automate specific tasks, but most of the studies find that the industry- and economy-wide productivity gains that have been promised by AI companies are not happening. The MIT report calls this the “GenAI Divide,” where many companies are pushing expensive AI tools on their workers (and even more workers are using AI without explicit permission), but that few are seeing any actual return from it.
Microsoft Study Finds AI Makes Human Cognition “Atrophied and Unprepared”
Researchers find that the more people use AI at their job, the less critical thinking they use.Emanuel Maiberg (404 Media)
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L’Italia si doti di una strategia di sicurezza nazionale. L’appello dall’Osservatorio UniPegaso
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Florida's attorney general claims Nutaku, Spicevids, and Segpay are in violation of the state's age verification law.
Floridax27;s attorney general claims Nutaku, Spicevids, and Segpay are in violation of the statex27;s age verification law.#ageverification
Florida Sues Hentai Site and High-Risk Payment Processor for Not Verifying Ages
Florida is suing massively popular anime and hentai games platform Nutaku, as well as the payment processor Segpay, in two complaints that allege the companies ignored the state’s age verification law.Nutaku is owned by Aylo, which is also the parent company of Pornhub and some of the biggest porn platforms on the internet. Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier said in a press release last week that his office is suing Aylo and Segpay—a high-risk merchant account that specializes in adult entertainment—and alleges that the companies are violating state law HB3, which requires websites to verify that visitors based in Florida are at least 18 years old.
Uthmeier’s complaint against Segpay and its parent companies claims that because Segpay provides payment processing services to the adult gaming site xh.lustyheroes.com, which is owned by Gethins Ltd., one of the other defendants in that complaint, it should be on the hook for the site not verifying ages in Florida. Segpay also has a business address in Florida, according to the complaint and Segpay’s site.
The complaints were first reported by AVN. Corey Silverstein, an attorney representing Segpay, told AVN last week: "Segpay has yet to be served with any formal complaint and maintains a policy of not commenting on pending or threatened litigation.” Silverman told 404 Media Segpay has no additional comment.
The separate complaint against Nutaku and Aylo also names Spicevids, a site that curates videos from a variety of adult studios. Nutaku has two sites: a safe-for-work game site at nutaku.com, and a “lewd” game site at nutaku.net. Aylo started blocking access to several of its other porn sites, including Pornhub, when Florida’s age verification went into effect in January, but Spicevids and Nutaku’s sites remained available, requiring users to click a box to agree that they’re 18 but not requiring ID.
Florida Sues Huge Porn Sites Including XVideos and Bang Bros Over Age Verification Law
The lawsuit alleges XVideos, Bang Bros, XNXX, Girls Gone Wild and TrafficFactory are in violation of Florida’s law that requires adult platforms to verify visitors are over 18.404 MediaSamantha Cole
“Aylo believes that Spicevids and Nutaku comply with Florida's age verification requirements. We intend to vigorously defend against these allegations in court,” a spokesperson for Aylo told 404 Media in a statement. “Spicevids has implemented age verification measures consistent with the law's requirements since it took effect on January 1. Nutaku's gaming platform operates within the law's parameters, as games containing sexually explicit content represent less than the statutory threshold. These platforms are committed to ongoing compliance with applicable state laws. We look forward to presenting the facts through the appropriate legal process.”Florida’s law applies to sites with a “substantial portion,” defined as more than 33.3 percent of total material on the website, of adult material.
Age Verification Laws Drag Us Back to the Dark Ages of the Internet
Invasive and ineffective age verification laws that require users show government-issued ID, like a driver’s license or passport, are passing like wildfire across the U.S.404 MediaEmanuel Maiberg
Both complaints start with the baseless claim: “Access to online pornography is a pervasive threat to the health and well-being of children and adolescents.”Florida brought a similar lawsuit against major porn sites outside of the Aylo umbrella last month, claiming that XVideos, Bang Bros, XNXX, Girls Gone Wild and TrafficFactory were all flaunting the state’s age verification law.
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Invasive and ineffective age verification laws that require users show government-issued ID, like a driver's license or passport, are passing like wildfire across the U.S.Emanuel Maiberg (404 Media)
The drone flight log data, which stretches from March 2024 to March 2025, shows CBP flying its drones to support ICE and other agencies. CBP maintains multiple Predator drones and flew them over the recent anti-ICE protests in Los Angeles.#FOIA
CBP Flew Drones to Help ICE 50 Times in Last Year
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This article was primarily reported using public records requests. We are making it available to all readers as a public service. FOIA reporting can be expensive, please consider subscribing to 404 Media to support this work. Or send us a one time donation via our tip jar here.Customs and Border Protection (CBP) flew its drones, which could include the agency’s MQ-9 Predator drones, at least 50 times last year in support of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), according to new data obtained by 404 Media.
The data shows that CBP continues to support not just ICE but other federal agencies, such as the FBI, with its fleet of drones. In June, 404 Media reported CBP flew two high-powered Predator drones above protests in Los Angeles, flights which CBP said were to provide “officer safety surveillance.”
“This is especially concerning, given ICE’s ongoing unlawful immigration sweeps and this administration’s concerted effort to suppress any dissent,” Jennifer Lynch, general counsel for activist organization the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), which has previously researched CBP’s use of drones, told 404 Media. “These records show that CBP has never stopped operating its drones on behalf of other federal, state, and local agencies, including ICE. In fact, the program has expanded exponentially since EFF first reported on it in 2012.”
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Do you know anything else about CBP’s drones or other technology? 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.The new data spans more than 3,100 flights between March 2024 and March 2025. It includes the date of each mission, its category such as whether the flight was for training or enforcement purposes, the mission type (such as reconnaissance against a target), the region the flight took place in, which branch was responsible, and a column that often mentions if the flight was in support of another agency.
For example, on October 22, 2024, CBP flew a drone as part of “investigative support” for ICE as part of its enforcement mission, according to the data. CBP also flew drones for ICE over the next four days, the data shows.
On November 7, 2024, CBP flew a drone to assist ICE with a “special security event,” according to the data.
On February 21, 2024, CBP helped ICE with “reconnaissance surveillance target acquisition,” the data shows.
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In all, CBP flew drones to assist ICE in some capacity a total of 50 times during the one year period the data relates to. 404 Media obtained the data through a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request with CBP. The majority of the data covers the Biden presidency, and shows that CBP collaborated regularly with ICE during that administration. But given Trump’s recent crackdowns on protests and the administration’s mass deportation effort, Lynch is concerned about that collaboration during the current presidency.The data also shows CBP flying drones to assist the U.S. Coast Guard; the DEA and FBI with investigative support; U.S. Southern Command (SOUTHCOM), a part of the military; and in one case the Office of the President of the United States. Other flights are listed as assisting “states” and “local,” indicating CBP assisted local and state agencies too. Some flights are for relocating the drones or for maintenance, the data shows.
The EFF previously obtained similar drone flight logs. Some of those records list more specific organizations CBP has flown drones for, including particular state bodies. In 2014, the EFF found CBP loaned its drones to other agencies more than 700 times in three years.
A screenshot from the data.
CBP’s fleet includes around ten drones, according to a presentation available online. They include the Predator B, which is essentially an unarmed version of the same drone the U.S. flies overseas as part of combat operations. The drones are typically loaded with cameras and other surveillance technology. After flying Predator drones during the recent Los Angeles protests, the official Department of Homeland Security X account posted footage collected by the drones.“CBP’s drones are equipped with many different types of surveillance technology, from thermal imaging to high definition cameras to tools that can track movement over time. Smaller drones can identify faces and license plates while larger drones like the MQ-9s used to surveil protestors in Los Angeles have extensive range and can stay in the air for 30 hours at a time,” Lynch said.
CBP told 404 Media drones are a critical part of the agency’s border security mission. The agency said this includes illicit border crossings, investigations, intelligence, and reconnaissance patrols. CBP said its drones are only equipped with electro-optical/infrared cameras and Vehicle and Dismount Exploitation Radar (VADER). This can detect vehicle and human movement, the agency said.
Lynch added “Drone surveillance, especially when combined with ICE’s unregulated access to sensitive data like millions of drivers’ license plate records, threatens the privacy and security of people all across the country.”
CBP Confirms It Is Flying Predator Drones Above Los Angeles To Support ICE
The confirmation follows 404 Media's reporting using flight data and air traffic control (ATC) audio that showed the agency was flying Predator drones above Los Angeles.Joseph Cox (404 Media)
Ecco l’F-47, il nuovo caccia Usa che cambia la supremazia dei cieli
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In un mondo attraversato da tensioni geopolitiche crescenti, dalla guerra in Ucraina alla competizione tra Stati Uniti e Cina, il controllo dello spazio aereo non è più solo questione di supremazia tecnica, ma di equilibrio strategico globale. Per questo la notizia che il primo F-47,
Scammers stole the crypto from a Latvian streamer battling cancer and the wider security community rallied to make him whole.#News #Crypto
Steam Hosted Malware Game that Stole $32,000 from a Cancer Patient Live on Stream
A cancer patient lost $32,000 in crypto after installing a Steam game on his computer containing malware that drained one of his crypto wallets. Raivo Plavnieks is a 26 year old self-described “crypto degen” from Latvia who streams on the site Pump.fun under the name Rastaland. After a seven hour stream on September 20, Plavnieks logged off and cashed out his earnings from the stream.. Literally seconds later, someone drained those earnings from his wallet, according to an archive of the livestream and blockchain records reviewed by 404 Media.Plavnieks had installed a game called BlockBlasters, a 2D platformer listed on Steam that launched July 31, 2025 to a small audience who’d given it positive reviews. But the game was a scam and an August patch injected malware into the game that was meant to scan a user’s hard drive for data and, ultimately, their crypto. BlockBlasters is no longer listed on Steam and has been flagged as malicious by the independent Steam archiving site SteamDB. Valve did not respond to 404 Media’s request for comment.
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The cyber security firm G Data CyberDefense dug into BlockBlasters and detailed how the software got access to user’s crypto. SteamDB’s archive of the game’s patches shows 3 files added in the August 30 patch: game2.bat, and two zip files. According to the G Data writeup, the batch file collected information on the user’s machine and then unpacked the zip files. “The two VBS scripts that ‘game2.bat’ executes are batch file loaders,” G Data said. As the scripts run, they inject more malware into the user’s machine and eventually go after the data and extensions of Chrome, Brave, and Microsoft Edge browsers, the company said.This is at least the third time this year Valve has pulled a game from Steam after it turned out to contain malware. In February, Valve pulled the survival game PirateFi after users discovered it contained password stealing malware. A month later, in March, people who tried to download a demo for Sniper: Phantom's Resolution were redirected from Steam to GitHub for the installer. Once again, it was malware.
Plavnieks' experience gave the BlockBlasters situation a higher profile than PirateFi and Sniper: Phantom’s Resolution. Footage of emaciated and exhausted Plavnieks sobbing on his livestream while one of his brothers attempted to soothe him struck a nerve with some in the crypto and security community online. The crypto space is full of rug pulls, burns, bad investments, and wild stunts, but stealing from a guy with cancer seemed like a bridge too far.
In addition to the G Data writeup, several other people have reverse-engineered BlockBusters code and, they believe, found the people responsible. “The shitty malware sent all the stolen data to a Telegram the scammers made,” vx-underground, a group of malware researchers, said in a post on X. “We connected to the Telegram channel using the same credentials that were inside of the shitty malware. Inside the channel was the scammer(s). We got their Telegram IDs.”
According to Plavnieks, he was able to get his creator rewards sent to a new (and safe) crypto wallet in the future. Cryptocurrency personality Alex Becker sent Plavnieks $32,000 to cover the cost of the losses. And a group of open-source intelligence hobbyists and interested tech folks dug into BlockBlasters code, figured out the scheme, built a list of alleged victims, and also found the people they think are responsible for the scam.
“I wanted to take a second and just thank you all from the bottom of my heart, me, my brothers, and my mom is completely left without words on all the support we have received past 24h after the hack happened,” Plavineks said in a post on X. “Seems like the whole [community] rallied together behind my story and is showing support one way or another.”
BlockBlasters update for 30 August 2025
List of changed files in BlockBlasters on Steam for build id 19799326.SteamDB
Giancarlo Siani, un Giornalista Giornalista
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Lui è Giancarlo. Giancarlo Siani, un “giornalista giornalista”. Un ragazzo, un Uomo, che 40 anni fa, quattro giorni dopo il suo compleanno, a soli 26 anni, venne ucciso dalla camorra, semplicemente purché scriveva e lo faceva senza guardare in
È la pace, bellezza
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Dal 2022 giro l’Italia, tra oratori, scuole, sale varie, spesso in piccoli centri, in posti a volte improbabili invitato, da chi dice NO alla guerra. MI é stato così chiaro sin da subito come l’Italia della Pace fosse maggioritaria ma senza voce sui media. Le manifestazioni di ieri confermano l’isolamento di tv e
Da Francesco a Leone XIV, Articolo21 incontra padre Antonio Spadaro
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Datenarbeiter:innen: Mit vereinten Kräften gegen die Ausbeutung durch Big Tech
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Abusate dai soldati Usa: le donne della Corea del Sud chiedono giustizia in tribunale
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Decenni dopo la Guerra di Corea, le donne denunciano abusi, coercizione e sfruttamento sessuale nelle basi militari degli Stati Uniti, chiedendo risarcimento e riconoscimento ufficiale.
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La fiducia sia nella giustizia
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Giustizia non è sinonimo di magistratura: sovrapporre i due concetti è un errore da cui discendono pericolose storture. Antefatto. Nei giorni scorsi, durante una puntata di Omnibus su La7, mi sono trovato a dibattere con Nicola Gratteri. Il conduttore, Gerardo Greco, mi ha chiesto cosa pensassi delle polemiche sulla sovraesposizione mediatica
GAZA. Nata nuova milizia mercenaria sul libro paga di Israele
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Frequentatore delle carceri palestinesi, allontanato anche dall'Anp, Husam al Astal sostiene di essere a capo di centinaia di uomini e di voler combattere Hamas assieme a Israele
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California journalists make secret police records public
A searchable public database known as the Police Records Access Project has made public for the first time more than 1.5 million pages of previously secret records about the use of force and misconduct by California police officers.
The California Reporting Project, a collaboration between news outlets, universities, and civil society organizations, began collecting and organizing the documents after the passage of SB 1421, a landmark law that made them public records. The law was expanded in 2021 to give the public even greater access.
Now, however, the California legislature is beginning to reverse course. This month, it passed AB 1178, a new bill that would make it harder for the public to access police misconduct records. The bill is awaiting Gov. Gavin Newsom’s signature or veto.
We spoke to journalist Lisa Pickoff-White, who is the director of research at the California Reporting Project, about what the CRP has accomplished so far and what AB 1178 could mean for transparency and accountability.
What are some of the most impactful stories journalists in the CRP have published using these records?
The project had impact from the beginning. A district attorney dropped charges against a woman who was wrongly arrested for allegedly misusing 911, after an investigation into one of the first cases released under SB 1421.
Reporters documented where departments failed to investigate police killings, found a homicide detective whose dishonesty upended criminal cases, and uncovered a pattern of excessive force at a state prison. We identified 22 people who died after officers held them face down, including two people who died after a state law banning the practice.
The governor is expected to sign a law barring agencies from using secret deals to conceal misconduct, prompted by an investigation exposing how 163 departments signed “clean-record agreements.”
What were some of the biggest challenges in collecting, reviewing, and standardizing these records and launching the database?
Obtaining records continues to be a major challenge. Just days before SB 1421 took effect, Inglewood destroyed records, for instance. In August, we sued San Joaquin County over the cost of autopsy reports related to deaths caused by law enforcement officers. We’ve made more than 3,500 record requests and maintain relationships with hundreds of agencies.
Once we have the records, assembling them is a challenge. There’s no standard police report, and we receive a great variety of files, from PDFs to surveillance video. We built tools to extract information, which researchers use to match files into a case. Then we reextract information from each case, some of which is published, and then also used to help us identify places where we need more records.
Now that the database is public, what should journalists know about using it? How has the public responded to the database since it launched?
So far, people have searched our archive more than 1 million times. We’ve heard from people who have lost loved ones to police violence that this database makes it easier to access records.
Expanding the search can help. Multiple agencies may have records about the same incident. If an officer shoots and kills someone, the police, the district attorney, and the medical examiner or coroner may hold records. A review board may have files. The state attorney general could investigate. Sometimes, agencies also investigate cases for each other; a local sheriff may investigate a shooting for a police department.
Officers can also appeal disciplinary charges. If you’re looking at a misconduct case, it might also be worth searching local administrative agencies or the state personnel board.
A new bill awaiting the signature or veto of Gov. Newsom, AB 1178, could lead to more redactions when officers claim their duties require anonymity. What would it mean for transparency and accountability if misconduct records become harder for the press and the public to obtain?
Without AB 1178, agencies can already redact the names of undercover officers. Our records show that agencies across the state continue to improperly redact the names of officers. Meanwhile, the bill’s authors have yet to cite any harm that’s come from releasing the names of officers involved in use-of-force and misconduct incidents.
Our reporting, and other investigations, revealed that agencies can and do hire officers who previously violated policies. These officers are more likely to receive complaints again. For instance, Derek Chauvin had 18 prior complaints in the Minneapolis Police Department, two of which led to discipline, before killing George Floyd.
What lessons can journalists and advocates in other states learn from CRP’s work?
There is a vast amount of work to do and collaboration is the key to doing it. More than 100 reporters have worked on the project for the last seven years, and we needed people with a wide range of expertise to make requests, build tools, and report.
That mix of skills allowed us to build tools to spot the gaps between what cases agencies disclose and incidents listed in other data sources about shootings and sustained complaints. We’ve gained thousands of cases through this kind of check. Having a group of people with request aptitude, coding ability, and domain knowledge allowed us to identify what we needed and the incremental steps to take to get it.
Noncitizen journalists face risk from ICE — here’s what newsrooms can do
Atlanta-based journalist Mario Guevara has been detained for nearly 100 days and is facing imminent deportation from the United States. His crime? Doing his job.
Guevara was detained first by local police and then by Immigration and Customs Enforcement, in what experts say was retaliation for his reporting on immigration raids and subsequent protests.
Guevara’s case is a disturbing example of how ICE can target non-American journalists, with or without legal status. Recently, Freedom of the Press Foundation (FPF) hosted a panel discussion featuring immigration lawyers, civil rights advocates, and journalists to talk about what to do when a journalist is detained by ICE — and what must happen before that day ever comes.
Here’s what we learned.
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Why are journalists being detained?
Non-American journalists in the United States—especially those covering immigration or working in vulnerable roles like freelancers or independent journalists—are at serious risk as a result of the Trump administration’s anti-immigrant and anti-press policies.
President Donald Trump’s campaign to retaliate against journalists who contradict the government’s preferred narrative, plus his administration’s promise to ramp up deportations, has created a “perfect storm for those, like immigrant reporters, who are on the front lines,” said Nora Benavidez of Free Press.
“This administration has made it very clear that it considers the public and press documenting immigration enforcement to be a threat,” explained American Civil Liberties Union’s Scarlet Kim, who is part of Guevara’s legal team.
What can be done? Advanced preparation is key.
The experts we spoke to agreed: Newsrooms can’t wait until a journalist is detained to act. Here are key steps newsrooms and reporters can take before it happens.
1. Create an action plan before you need it.
Journalist and Investigative Reporters and Editors board member Alejandra Cancino has been working with fellow reporters to create a checklist to help newsrooms prepare for the potential detention of one of their reporters by ICE.
The checklist includes steps like gathering key information ahead of time, such as about medical needs, emergency contacts, and immigration attorney contacts (more on that below).
Cancino also encouraged newsrooms to talk with non-American reporters about their concerns and how to mitigate them. “We obviously don’t want any reporter to be taken away from their beat,” she explained, but creative risk-mitigation measures can work, such as having a journalist facing heightened risks report from the newsroom based on information being provided from others in the field.
2. Get local immigration counsel — now.
Journalists at risk need an experienced immigration lawyer in place before they’re detained, experts said.
Newsrooms should consider keeping local immigration counsel on retainer. “Getting a roster of vetted attorneys together is the first important step,” explained Marium Uddin, legal director of the Muslim Legal Fund of America and a former immigration judge.
News outlets should also consider having non-American journalists they work with sign a retainer agreement with an immigration attorney in advance, paid for by the newsroom, so that representation of the journalist could be immediate if they were detained, Uddin said.
To build their rosters of immigration attorneys, newsroom lawyers should seek referrals from those in their networks who may already have strong reputations and experience with the local immigration courts. They can also seek referrals by contacting organizations like the American Immigration Lawyers Association, the Immigration Advocates Network, and local legal aid offices.
Unfortunately, asylum cases can be expensive to litigate. In Texas, where Uddin is based, they can cost $10,000 to $20,000. While some immigration attorneys may offer free or low-cost services, newsrooms should budget for the cost of legal defense of non-American journalists detained by immigration authorities. Protecting journalists “is the cost of doing business,” said Cancino.
3. Act immediately to locate the detained journalist.
If a journalist is detained, one of the first steps will be to locate them, a process that can be made difficult by an opaque detention system and strategic shuffling of people around detention facilities.
Newsrooms should first determine if a detained journalist is in local custody, said Samantha Hamilton of the Atlanta Community Press Collective and Asian Americans Advancing Justice-Atlanta, since people who are arrested are often taken first to the county jail before being transferred to ICE.
If they have been transferred to ICE, Hamilton recommended searching for them with the online ICE detainee locator, using the person’s alien registration number and country of birth. If you don’t have that information, you can also search using their last name and country of origin. Hamilton recommended using all variations of the name, especially if the person has multiple names or uses a nickname.
Once a newsroom locates the journalist, it will want to figure out how to contact them. Each facility can have different communication rules, explained Uddin, which can often be found on the facility’s official website or ICE’s general detention center directory. Legal visits may require special steps, like completing a legal notice of representation.
4. Consider all the legal options.
In addition to challenging the journalist’s detention and deportation in immigration court, a legal petition known as habeas corpus may present another way to challenge the detention in court if a journalist is detained in retaliation for their reporting, said ACLU attorney Kim. A habeas petition asks a federal judge for an order that a person in custody be brought before the court to determine if their detention is valid.
A successful habeas petition can free someone from immigration detention. However, it cannot resolve their immigration status or stop deportation proceedings altogether. Those legal issues must be addressed separately in immigration court.
Habeas is especially important in cases where immigration detention is being used to punish people for their speech or journalism. The ACLU has brought habeas petitions in Guevara’s case and also to challenge the detention of students by immigration officials based on their political speech.
One of the biggest challenges in bringing a habeas petition is timing. Kim warned that strategic transfers of detainees between ICE facilities without warning can make legal action harder, because petitions must usually be filed in the jurisdiction where the detainee is being held. That’s why it’s so important to have legal counsel lined up and to file a habeas petition as soon as possible, ideally before any transfer occurs.
The bigger picture
A recent court ruling in California reminded the public that “a camera and a notepad are not threats to the public,” said Uddin. Unfortunately, however, government retaliation against non-American journalists remains a real threat.
So it’s not enough for newsrooms and journalists to prepare. People outside the media industry need to see how detentions of non-American journalists and other attacks on the press impact us all and speak up against them, explained Benavidez. “Because if it is one of those other people today,” she said, “it could be one of us tomorrow.”
EGITTO. Scarcerato Alaa Abdel Fattah, simbolo della rivoluzione del 2011
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La liberazione segna la fine di un’odissea giudiziaria e umana durata quasi sei anni, contrassegnata da condizioni detentive durissime
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Quanto è fragile, quasi pericoloso, continuare a fare perno solo sul lavoro?
Cosa fare se si hanno problemi a lavoro.Lucia Antista (Marie Claire)
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