3D Printing A Cheap VR Headset
The modern era of virtual reality really kicked off in earnest just over a decade ago, when the Oculus Rift promised 3D worlds beyond your wildest dreams. Since then, nobody’s been able to come up with a killer app to convince even a mild fraction of consumers to engage with the technology. Still, if you’re keen to tinker, you might like to make your own headset like [CNCDan] has done.
The build is based almost entirely on 3D-printed components and parts sourced from AliExpress. It offers 2880x1440p resolution, thanks to a pair of square 1440×1440 LCD displays, one for each eye, paired with a couple of 34 mm lenses. The headset has adjustable interpupiliary distance so you can dial the view in to properly suit your eyes. The 3D-printed housing is designed to be compatible with headrest pads from the HTC Vive Pro for comfort’s sake. Head tracking is also available, with the inclusion of an IMU and an Arduino onboard. [CNCDan] apparently put the build together for under $150, which is not bad compared to the price of a commercial off-the-shelf unit. Files are on Github for the curious.
[CNCDan] reports good results with the DIY headset, using it primarily with his racing simulator setup. He has had some issues, however, with his LCD screens, which don’t properly run at a 90 Hz refresh rate at full resolution, which is frustrating. It’s an issue he’s still looking into. We’ve seen some other neat VR builds over the years, too. Video after the break.
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L’Italia riscopre passione e coraggio contro le bugie e le ipocrisie del governo
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La distanza abissale che esiste su volontà di pace, libertà e democrazia tra il popolo italiano e il governo e la maggioranza
L’AI che ci piace! Da anni a pochi mesi per la scoperta di una molecola contro il morbo di Crohn
Gli antibiotici per la malattia infiammatoria intestinale possono essere un’arma a doppio taglio. Pur sopprimendo l’infiammazione, uccidono anche i batteri benefici, non solo quelli nocivi. Questo spesso peggiora i sintomi. In questa situazione, i farmaci generici si rivelano uno strumento troppo poco efficace.
Scienziati del Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) e della McMaster University hanno segnalato la scoperta di una nuova molecola chiamata enterololina. Agisce selettivamente, sopprimendo i batteri associati alle riacutizzazioni del morbo di Crohn (MICI), lasciando il resto del microbioma intestinale sostanzialmente inalterato.
Per comprenderne il meccanismo d’azione, i ricercatori hanno utilizzato il modello di intelligenza artificiale generativa DiffDock, che ha ridotto il tempo dalla ricerca all’analisi a pochi mesi, anziché anni come di consueto.
Negli esperimenti sui topi, il farmaco ha soppresso selettivamente l’Escherichia coli, che aumenta l’infiammazione, e ha aiutato gli animali a riprendersi più rapidamente. Inoltre, il microbioma è rimasto significativamente più sano rispetto al trattamento con l’antibiotico standard vancomicina.
DiffDock ha previsto che la molecola si lega al complesso proteico LolCDE, responsabile del trasporto delle lipoproteine nei batteri. Questo indizio ha permesso ai ricercatori di testare la loro ipotesi in laboratorio: hanno allevato ceppi di E. coli resistenti all’enterololina, condotto il sequenziamento dell’RNA e utilizzato CRISPR per confermare il meccanismo d’azione.
Tutti gli esperimenti hanno dimostrato che il farmaco interrompe effettivamente le vie associate al trasporto delle lipoproteine, come previsto dall’IA.
Gli autori sottolineano che tradizionalmente la ricerca del meccanismo d’azione di nuovi antibiotici richiede fino a due anni e costa milioni di dollari. In questo caso, l’intelligenza artificiale ha ridotto i tempi a sei mesi, riducendo significativamente i costi.
Stoked Bio, fondata da uno degli autori dello studio, sta attualmente sviluppando ulteriormente l’enterololina e preparandola per la sperimentazione umana. Sono inoltre in corso ricerche su derivati della molecola contro altri patogeni pericolosi, tra cui Klebsiella pneumoniae.
La promessa di antibiotici mirati è particolarmente importante per i pazienti affetti da morbo di Crohn e altre malattie infiammatorie intestinali: nuovi farmaci potrebbero ridurre i sintomi senza alterare il microbioma. Su scala più ampia, tali sviluppi potrebbero fornire una risposta alla crescente minaccia della resistenza batterica agli antibiotici esistenti.
Gli scienziati sottolineano che non è importante solo una singola molecola. L’approccio in sé è cruciale: una combinazione di intelligenza artificiale e metodi di laboratorio consente di chiarire rapidamente il funzionamento di potenziali farmaci. Questo potrebbe trasformare il processo di scoperta di nuovi farmaci per molte malattie.
I ricercatori hanno pubblicato i dati del sequenziamento su repository pubblici e hanno reso il codice DiffDock-L open sourcesu GitHub.
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Etched from death-defying ledges 12 stories high, vast rock panels of camels and horses preserve the talents of Ice-Age artists in the Arabian desert.#TheAbstract
The Case for Alien Life on Saturn’s Moon Just Got a Boost
Welcome back to the Abstract! Here are the studies this week that defied death, cooked out, bulked up, and capped it off with an extraterrestrial spit-take.First, prehistoric peoples risked their lives to make art—and it was totally worth it. Then, what’s the best cut of a two-ton armadillo? Next, a funerary procession for a whale, a glow-up for a rogue planet, and a swim in an alien ocean.
Finally, I am so excited that my book First Contact: The Story of Our Obsession with Aliens is now officially out! If you are curious about aliens of the Hellenistic world, centuries-old UFO sightings, a guide to the most promising systems for alien life, and the creepiest solutions to the Fermi Paradox (and more), this book is for you.
This rock art rocks
Some 12,000 years ago, a group of desert artists tiptoed out onto dangerous cliff ledges to engrave the rock with enchanting depictions of camels, gazelles, ibex, wild horses, and other animals living in the shifting sands around them. One wrong step could have led to their deaths, but the artists persisted in an act of creative courage.
Now, archaeologists have discovered the monumental rock art left by this bygone culture in the Nafud desert of northern Saudi Arabia. One particularly dramatic scene was engraved from a tiny sloped ledge 12 storeys off the ground, and depicts 23 life-sized camels and horses in a line that stretches horizontally across 75 feet.
Rock art panels at Jebel Arnaan. Image: Maria Guagnin
“Some of these panels were etched onto cliff surfaces in inaccessible but highly visible locations,” said researchers led by Maria Gaugnin of the Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology. “The difficulty in getting to and engraving these rock surfaces, and their enhanced visibility by height, were clearly attractive for the engravers.”Though archeologists typically distinguish between rock art and modern graffiti as distinct traditions, there may be overlaps in their intent and execution—including, in this case, possible attraction to the challenges of accessing a dangerous site.
“The precarious nature of the engraving process is particularly evident in the largest recorded panel,” the team said, referring to the 75-footer described above. “This panel would have been accessed by climbing up a cliff and then engraved while standing on a downward sloping ledge, only ~30-50 centimeters in width,” which is roughly a foot across.
“Today the sandstone is too degraded to reach the ledge safely, and the panel was documented using a drone,” they added.” The friable nature of the substrate and the slope of the narrow ledges suggest the engravers likely risked their lives to create this art.”
The rock ledge where the main panel was engraved. Image: Monumental rock art panel at Jebel Misma (JMI18)
Talk about commitment to the craft. Given the high stakes and the spectacular scale of the panels, this art must have been a cherished touchstone to these early desert peoples. During the ice age, this region was extremely arid and virtually impenetrable, but as the glacial cover receded, oases and other pockets of habitability had opened up to nomads.The rock art proves that these wanderers were not only navigating the terrain, but imprinting their culture and worldview onto it. For countless generations, these grand visions welcomed peoples passing through the desert, serving as a landmark and a cultural heirloom, before they faded into obscurity.
“Freshly engraved against the varnish, the images would have had considerable visual impact,” the team concluded. “The engravings, which may have been created over a time span of millennia, would have reminded people of ancient symbolisms and beliefs of their group, which likely structured their highly seasonal lives and thus enhanced their ability to thrive in these marginal landscapes.”
In other news…
I’m so hungry, I could eat a giant ground sloth
At the same time that the desert artists were engraving cliff walls, people in South America were devouring giant sloths, giant armadillos, mastodons, and other megafauna that have since gone extinct—potentially because they were so tasty.
That’s the upshot of a new study of archaeological sites in Argentina and Chile that date back some 12,000 years to the late Pleistocene period. The results revealed a preference for mega-big game—like beefy ground sloths and car-sized armadillos—bolstering the case that humans may have played a significant role in their extinction.
Megafaunal species were preferred prey for humans in Southern South America. Image: Luciano Prates et al. Megafaunal reconstructions in the figure were provided and authorized by Megafauna 3D Project (megafauna3d.org)
“The late Pleistocene extinction of terrestrial megafauna… is one of the most spectacular changes in American mammal history, and its cause is one of the most hotly debated issues in archaeology and paleoecology,” said researchers led by Luciano Prates of Universidad Nacional de la Plata.“Here, we have shown… that extinct megafauna—at the apex of the prey ranking—were the main prey of early foragers, particularly in regions with high abundance and diversity, such as the Pampas, Patagonia, and central Chile,” the team concluded.
While climate and other factors certainly played a role in these extinctions, there may well be a more obvious culprit [looks at humanity; humanity belches; the belch smells like Pleistocene megafauna].
The world’s saddest version of “Baby Beluga”
“How do animals react to dead or dying conspecifics? Do they comprehend death? Do they grieve? These are the fundamental questions asked in the field of comparative thanatology, which focuses on how animals respond to death.”
Phew, what a heavy lead-in to a study. Nonetheless, a team has now explored these questions with drone observations of beluga whales responding to a dead beluga calf in Hudson Bay near Churchill, Manitoba. The baby may have been a stillborn or perhaps died shortly after birth, as there were no signs of trauma on its body.
Drone footage of the calf. Image: Hudson, Justine M. and Watt, Cortney A.
“We documented 15 instances where belugas from outside of the video frame swam directly towards the dead calf, including 4 mother-calf pairs and 11 individuals,” said Justine Hudson and Cortney Watt of Fisheries and Oceans Canada. “The dead calf was surrounded by free-swimming belugas for the entire duration of the video.”“The dead calf and surrounding belugas were recorded for ~4 min and 17 s before the depleted drone battery required us to land, and we were unable to relocate the calf after changing the batteries,” they added.
Even the battery was too bummed out to endure. But while loss of life is sad, it’s all in a day’s work for a comparative thanatologist.
Rogue planets grow up so fast
The record for most epic bulk-up has been broken by a rogue planet that is gaining an astonishing six billion tonnes of mass per second—an unprecedented rate of swole. The planet, named Cha 1107-7626, is about five to 10 times as massive as Jupiter and does not orbit any star. And why should it? Who needs a star when you’re radiant all by yourself?
Indeed, scientists discovered the world thanks to the light generated by its record growth-spurt, which peaked for at least two months this summer and was still glowing strong when observations stopped in August 2025, showing “the strongest accretion rates measured” in a planet, according to the study.
Artist concept of Cha 1107-7626. Image: ESO/L. Calçada/M. Kornmesser
“These kinds of accretion bursts are key events in the early evolution of stars,” said researchers led by Victor Almendros-Abad of the Astronomical Observatory of Palermo, National Institute for Astrophysics (INAF), Italy. “Our target is the lowest mass object observed thus far that is going through an accretion burst” and provides “a glimpse into the nature of accretion in planetary-mass objects.”A sneak peek of an alien ocean
Shout out to the Enceladus-heads: Scientists have discovered new chemicals in the sea spray of this Saturnian moon that hint at organic processes and hydrothermal activity within its interior ocean, boosting the case that it may be habitable.
In 2008, the NASA-ESA Cassini orbiter gulped some alien seawater as it flew through plumes that erupt from Enceladus’s south pole. Now, scientists have reanalyzed data from one particularly speedy run through the moon sprinkler—during which Cassini reached 40,000 miles per hour—exposing “previously unobserved molecular fragments,” according to a study.
The “freshly ejected” compounds included organic molecules like ethers, ethyls, and partial remnants of what might be larger compounds bearing nitrogen and oxygen, said researchers led by Nozair Khawaja of the University of Berlin. These chemicals hint at “a hydrothermal origin” and “the synthesis and evolution of organics.”
In other words, Enceladus likely has seafloor environments similar to hydrothermal vent systems on Earth, which are hotspots for life. Whether the moon’s vents also have weird creepy crawlies on them is a question that is keeping many of us up at night, so could someone please just send a scuba team there already?
With that, may you enter your weekend with a spritz of fresh organic moon mist.
Thanks for reading! See you next week.
First Contact
A narrative and visual exploration of humanity’s age-old search for and fixation with extraterrestrials.First Contact explores the ancient idea—and epic ...Hachette Book Group
Serial and UPDI Handled Together With One Convenient Circuit
Sometimes it’s nice when you can do everything you need to do with just one single port. In this vein, [Nicola Strappazzon] whipped up a circuit to combine serial and UPDI programming in a very convenient way.
As an example, [Nicola] demonstrates the concept using an AVR128DA28 microcontroller. It’s paired with a 4052 multiplexer IC and a CH340 USB-to-serial chip. Everything is wired up such that the 4052 acts as a switch for the signal coming from the CH340. When the RTS flow-control signal is set high, it switches the 4052 to hook up the CH340’s RX and TX pins to the UDPI interface on the AVR microcontroller. Conversely, when the RTS signal is set low, the CH340 is instead hooked up to the serial UART on the microcontroller. From there, it’s a simple matter of configuring avrdude to properly set the RTS pin when attempting to program the attached device.
If you’re working with UPDI devices and you want to be able to talk to them and program them with a minimum of fuss, this project might be useful for you. We’ve looked at dedicated UPDI programmers before, too. If you’re cooking up your own nifty microcontroller hacks, don’t hesitate to let us know on the tipsline.
In seicentomila a Roma. Una lunghissima bandiera della Palestina anima il corteo
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Quasi in seicentomila a Roma per il corteo proPalestina, la terza gigantesca manifestazione civile nel giro di 72 ore, animata anche
Dall’eccidio di Marzabotto a quello di Gaza
@Giornalismo e disordine informativo
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Ottantuno anni fa, 29 settembre – 5 ottobre, sull’Appennino bolognese, tra Marzabotto e Monte Sole, è stata compiuta la strage nazifascista più efferata nei confronti di civili, la maggior parte bambini, donne e anziani. Un vero e proprio
Hamas accetta parte dell’accordo. Trump chiede a Israele il cessate il fuoco
@Notizie dall'Italia e dal mondo
Nonostante il gruppo palestinese abbia accettato solo parte del piano statunitense, chiedendo di discutere il resto nel rispetto del diritto internazionale, il presidente Usa dichiara che "sono pronti alla pace".
L'articolo Hamas accetta parte
A Ilan Pappé il premio “Stefano Chiarini”
@Notizie dall'Italia e dal mondo
Il premio è un riconoscimento del lavoro svolto dallo storico e docente universitario in difesa del popolo palestinese e del rispetto del Diritto Internazionale
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Renato Altissimo [4 ottobre 1940 – 4 ottobre 2025]
@Politica interna, europea e internazionale
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Vorrei fosse solo polvere di giochi
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Riceviamo e volentieri pubblichiamo questa nota da Francesca, 14 anni Un giorno mio padre mi disse: “Spesso chi ha la pancia piena non lotta per chi non ha nulla, quindi fingi di non avere nulla e lotta per i più deboli”.Io non ho mai finto di non avere nulla e non
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“È una storia pericolosa che è passata di bocca in bocca, ma nessuno sa da dove cominciò”. Sono parole tratte da Cattive notizie (Bad news) canzone del cantautore bresciano Angelo Baiguera, protagonista di questa nuova puntata di The other side of sports; una storia che indubbiamente sembra nata per essere narrata su Free Zone, perché mescola […]
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“È una storia
Discord conferma attacco hacker: informazioni sensibili a rischio
Un fornitore di servizi clienti di terze parti è stato compromesso dagli hacker, che hanno avuto accesso a informazioni parziali sui pagamenti e a dati di identificazione personale relativi ad alcuni utenti di Discord. L’attacco, avvenuto il 20 settembre, ha interessato un numero limitato di utenti che avevano avuto contatti con l’assistenza clienti di Discord e/o con i team Trust and Safety.
La società di messaggistica, nella notifica inviata agli utenti coinvolti, precisa che il 20 settembre si è verificato l’attacco e che “un soggetto non autorizzato ha acquisito un accesso ristretto ad un sistema di supporto clienti di terza parte usato da Discord”.
Originariamente concepito come mezzo di comunicazione per appassionati di videogiochi, che costituiscono più del 90% degli utenti iscritti, Discord si è trasformato in una piattaforma versatile accogliente varie comunità, offrendo la possibilità di scambiare messaggi tramite testo, intrattenere conversazioni attraverso chat vocali e effettuare videochiamate.
Venerdì, Discord ha reso pubblico l’incidente, affermando di aver preso provvedimenti immediati per isolare il fornitore di supporto dal suo sistema di ticketing e di aver avviato un’indagine. “Ciò include la revoca dell’accesso del fornitore di assistenza clienti al nostro sistema di ticketing, l’avvio di un’indagine interna, l’assunzione di una società leader di informatica forense per supportare i nostri sforzi di indagine e bonifica e il coinvolgimento delle forze dell’ordine”.
L’attacco pare avere una natura finanziaria, visto che gli hacker hanno richiesto a Discord un pagamento per non divulgare le informazioni trafugate. Secondo le statistiche della piattaforma, più di 200 milioni di persone utilizzano Discord ogni mese.
Le informazioni trapelate comprendono dati personali identificativi, quali nomi effettivi e nomi utente, indirizzi e-mail e ulteriori informazioni di contatto fornite all’équipe di supporto. Il servizio di comunicazione sociale ha reso noto che sono stati violati anche indirizzi IP, messaggi e allegati scambiati con gli agenti del servizio clienti. Gli hacker hanno avuto accesso anche alle foto dei documenti di identità rilasciati dal governo (patente di guida, passaporto) di un numero limitato di utenti.
Ad oggi, resta incerto il numero di utenti Discord coinvolti e non è stato divulgato il nome del fornitore esterno o del vettore di accesso. E’ importante sottolineare che numerose aziende hanno subito violazioni delle loro istanze Salesforce in seguito all’intrusione del gruppo di estorsione ShinyHunters, i quali hanno sfruttato token OAuth rubati da Salesloft e Drift per ottenere l’accesso.
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How Do the Normal People Survive?
It was one of those weeks last week at Hackaday’s home office. My mother-in-law handed me her favorite power bank and said “it’s not charging”. She had every expectation that I’ll open it up, desolder the weary pouch inside, scrounge a LiPo out of some corner of the basement, and have it back up and running before the weekend. And of course that’s what happened, although maybe it looks a little worse for wear because it was hard to open the sealed case without excessive force. Sorry about that!
Then on the weekend, I finally got fed up with the decomposing foam on the face seal on my FPV goggles. It was leaking light all over the place. Of course I could have bought a new seal, but then I’d have to wait a week or so for delivery. So I pulled the velcro backing off, tossed it in the bed scanner, pulled the image up in Inkscape, converted it to Gcode, and cut out a couple seals out of EVA foam on the laser. Not only are they essentially indestructible, but I was able to customize them a little bit, and the fit is now better than ever.
And then, one of our neighbors bought a new garage door fob, flipped the DIP switches into the right configuration, and couldn’t figure out why it wouldn’t open the garage door. Knock knock knock. Using the tried-and-true RF probe that everyone with a scope probe has sitting around, namely hooking the ground pin to the tip and putting the radio device in the loop, it was clear that the sense of the DIP switches was inverted from what it said in the instructions. That was a fun little puzzle.
It was the garage door opener that triggered me to think about how normal people would handle any of these situations. “How do the normies even get by?” were the exact words that went through my head. And let’s face it: we’re not entirely normal. Normal people don’t have a soldering setup just sitting around ready to get hot 24/7, or a scope to diagnose a garage door RF transmitter at the drop of a hat. But these things seem to happen to me all the time. How do the normal people survive? Maybe they all know someone with a scope?
I take it as my service to the world to be “that guy” for most of our friends and family, and I pretty much do it without complaint. “With great power” and all that. My wife is just about as gracious when she’s stuck debugging a parent’s Windows setup, so I’m not saying I’m the only saint in the world, either. Surely you have similar stories.
But last week it made me reflect on how good we’ve got it, and that does make me want to pay it forward a little bit. If you’re one of the people who can, try to help out those who can’t.
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Meloni, la pace non arriva invocandola ma costruendola
è corretto, però bisognerebbe anche non compire genocidi. sennò quando arriva la pace è solo perché una delle 2 parti si è estinta.
Ecco 5 test per capire se il tuo cane è molto intelligente
Dai giochi olfattivi ai test di problem solving: così puoi capire se il tuo è un cane più intelligente della media e offrirgli gli stimoli giustiwww.libero.it
Fragen und Antworten: Warum ist Chatkontrolle so gefährlich für uns alle?
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ICE is on a rampage against the press
Dear Friend of Press Freedom,
After over 100 days in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody, Mario Guevara was deported today. Read on for more about this and other press freedom abuses, and take a minute to tell your lawmakers to stand up for journalists victimized by ICE.
ICE is on a violent rampage against the press
Federal immigration officers reportedly promised a “shitshow” last weekend in response to criticism from the mayor of Broadview, Illinois, who didn’t appreciate her city being invaded. They delivered, and journalists were well represented among their victims.
One journalist, Steve Held, was arrested. Others, including Held’s reporting partner at Unraveled Press, Raven Geary, were shot in the face with pepper ball rounds. According to lawyers on the scene, the protests the reporters were covering were peaceful and uneventful until ICE officers decided to unleash chaos.
A few days later at an immigration court in New York City, where ICE agents have been trying to intimidate journalists for months, agents assaulted at least three journalists, one of whom couldn’t get up and had to be hospitalized. You can read what we told Chicago’s The Triibe about the Broadview attacks and New York’s amNY about the New York ones.
More importantly, you can tell your lawmakers to speak out against ICE’s abuses using our new, easy-to-use action center. Take action here.
Journalist Mario Guevara deported to El Salvador
After months of hard-fought battles in both the court of law and the court of public opinion, the Trump administration deported journalist Mario Guevara today. This case wasn’t about immigration paperwork — Guevara had a work permit, and the administration argued in court that Guevara’s reporting on protests posed a national security risk.
“The only thing that journalists like Guevara threaten is the government’s chokehold on information it doesn’t want the public to know. That’s why he’s being deported and why federal agents are assaulting and arresting journalists around the country,” FPF’s Seth Stern said after Guevara’s family announced his deportation.
Guilty of journalism in Kentucky
Student journalist Lucas Griffith was convicted of one count of failure to disperse and fined $50 plus court costs after a jury trial on Thursday.
That’s unconstitutional — even the U.S. Department of Justice recognizes journalists’ right to cover how law enforcement disperses protesters.
But it also shows what a giant waste of taxpayer funds it is to prosecute journalists for doing their jobs. Before the trial, we led a coalition letter from press freedom advocates and journalism professors objecting to the charges. Read it here.
FPF and 404 Media sue DHS
FPF and 404 Media filed a lawsuit against multiple parts of the U.S. government, including the Department of Homeland Security, demanding they hand over a copy of an agreement that shares the personal data of nearly 80 million Medicaid patients with ICE.
It’s just one of several recent lawsuits we’ve filed under the Freedom of Information Act. We also surpassed 200 FOIAs filed in 2025 this week. Subscribe to The Classifieds newsletter for more on our FOIA work.
FCC censorship moves from prime time to prison
Federal Communications Commission Chair Brendan Carr has taken a lot of heat for his “mafioso”-style extortion of ABC over Jimmy Kimmel’s show. But his latest censorship effort is even more dangerous. It could strip those inside America’s most secretive institutions — its prisons — of a tool that has proved extremely effective in exposing abuses.
We partnered with The Intercept to publish incarcerated journalist and FPF columnist Jeremy Busby’s response to the FCC’s efforts to allow prisons to “jam” cell phones. Busby used a contraband phone to expose and force reform of horrific conditions in Texas prisons during the pandemic. Read his article here.
Photography is not a hate crime
The arrest of Alexa Wilkinson on hate crime charges for photographing vandalism at The New York Times building has prompted hair splitting about whether they’re a journalist. It’s giving us flashbacks to the pointless obsession over whether Julian Assange was a journalist, and not whether his prosecution endangered press freedom.
Stern explains that regardless of how we categorize Wilkinson’s work, the charges set dangerous precedents that threaten the constitutional protections journalists depend on to do their jobs. Read more here.
What we’re reading
DC Circuit rejects Fox News reporter effort to duck subpoena over anonymous source (Courthouse News). “This decision does real damage to bedrock principles of press freedom, and we urge the Court of Appeals to re-hear this case with a full panel of judges,” FPF’s Trevor Timm said.
Can the US government ban apps that track ICE agents? (BBC). “That somebody might use the app to break the law doesn’t mean the app can be banned,” Stern told BBC. After the interview, news broke that the administration successfully pressured Apple to pull the app.
Reporter’s suit over access to Utah Capitol dismissed (U.S. Press Freedom Tracker). This dismissal is nonsense. FPF’s Caitlin Vogus explained why in the Salt Lake Tribune earlier this year.
Israel illegally boards humanitarian flotilla heading to Gaza (Dropsite). A U.S. journalist was on board. The U.S. Department of State should be all over this and it should be headline news. Neither is likely, because the government considers critics of Israel terrorists and the media often shuns reporters who oppose slaughtering their Palestinian colleagues.
FPF welcomes Adam Rose to bolster local advocacy
FPF is excited to welcome Adam Rose as the new deputy director of our advocacy team. Adam will primarily focus on protecting press freedom at the local level, where we have seen a sharp increase in arrests and assaults of journalists all around the country — many of which have not made national headlines.
Adam comes to FPF after serving as the chief operating officer of Starling Lab for Data Integrity and as the press rights chair of the Los Angeles Press Club, where he has been a tireless advocate for the press freedom rights of journalists in the LA area. He successfully lobbied for a California law that prohibits police from arresting or intentionally interfering with journalists as they cover protests. Most recently, as a plaintiff in multiple press freedom-related lawsuits, his efforts have resulted in landmark federal court orders against both the Department of Homeland Security and Los Angeles Police Department for violating the rights of the press. Read more here.
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404 Media and Freedom of the Press Foundation Sue DHS
Last week Freedom of the Press Foundation and 404 Media filed a lawsuit against the multiple parts of the U.S. government demanding they hand over a copy of an agreement that shares the personal data of nearly 80 million Medicaid patients with ICE. The data sharing marked a watershed moment for ICE and its access to highly sensitive data that is ordinarily siloed off from the agency. We believe it’s important for the public to see this unprecedented data sharing agreement for themselves.As the Associated Press wrote when it first reported on the data sharing agreement between the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), the agreement will give ICE the ability to find “the location of aliens.” The data shared includes home addresses and ethnicities, according to the Associated Press.
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Do you know anything else about this data sharing agreement? 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.Both Freedom of the Press Foundation and 404 Media filed similar Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests with DHS and CMS seeking a copy of the agreement. Neither agency provided the requested records in time, so we have now filed the lawsuit. In 404 Media’s case, CMS acknowledged the request but has not provided the records, and DHS did not even acknowledge the request at all.
404 Media’s request asked for a copy of the specific agreement, and if the agencies were unable to locate it, to alternatively provide copies of all agreements between DHS and CMS from this year.
“Despite having received the FOIA requests, and despite their obligations under the law, Defendants have failed to notify Plaintiffs of the scope of documents that they will produce or the scope of documents that they plan to withhold in response to the FOIA requests,” the lawsuit reads.
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Freedom of the Press Foundation is a non-profit organization that monitors press freedom issues in the U.S. and trains journalists on how to keep themselves and their sources safe. It regularly sues the U.S. government for access to records.The data sharing agreement is just one of a growing list of ways that ICE is sourcing highly sensitive, and sometimes legally protected, information as part of the Trump administration’s mass deportation effort. ProPublica reported on the vast system the IRS is building to share millions of taxpayers’ data with ICE. 404 Media previously reported ICE has gained access to ISO Claimsearch, a massive insurance and medical bill database to find deportation targets. The database is nearly all encompassing and contains details on more than 1.8 billion insurance claims and 58 million medical bills.
Separately, 404 Media filed a lawsuit against ICE in September for access to the agency’s $2 million spyware contract.
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Hanno la forza non hanno la ragione di Danilo de Biasio
Hanno la forza, non hanno la ragione
Su quanto è successo alla Global Sumud Flottilla e sui crimini di guerra che Israele continua a compiere a Gaza non servono molte parole, bastano due foto prese dai social in queste ore.Danilo De Biasio (Rights Now)
Journalist or not, photography isn’t a hate crime
The arrest of Alexa Wilkinson on felony hate crime charges for photographing vandalism at the New York Times building has prompted hairsplitting about whether they’re a journalist. The New York Times explained that Wilkinson’s “lawyers described them as a journalist, but did not name any publications for which Mx. Wilkinson works.”
Wilkinson certainly has a track record as a journalist. Whether the content they were charged for is journalism or PR is, I suppose, up for debate. But should we even bother debating it? Regardless of how we categorize Wilkinson’s work, the charges set dangerous precedents that threaten the constitutional protections journalists depend on to do their jobs.
As we all learned — or should have learned — from the Julian Assange prosecution, obsessing over whether a particular defendant meets someone’s arbitrary definition of journalism is a waste of time. What that case left us with at the end of the day is a Trump administration armed with a bipartisan consensus that routine journalistic acts, like talking to sources, obtaining government secrets, and publishing them, can be prosecuted as a felony under the Espionage Act. Those who change their tune when the next defendant is someone they like better than Assange will be easily discredited by their hypocrisy.
The same dangers apply when Wilkinson’s photography is treated as a hate crime. Wilkinson’s case stems from a July protest in which activists doused the Times headquarters in red paint and spray-painted “NYT lies, Gaza dies” on its windows. In addition to charging the vandals, New York prosecutors charged Wilkinson, who photographed the scene, with aggravated harassment as a hate crime.
New York authorities should be combating these cynical attempts to use antisemitism to justify authoritarianism. Instead, they’re fueling the trend.
But there was no hate crime. Vandalizing a building to protest perceived pro-Israel bias in news coverage is a political statement, not an antisemitic one. The vandalism may well be illegal, and we condemn it, as news outlets large and small are under increased threat in this charged political environment. We even documented the vandalism itself in our U.S. Press Freedom Tracker.
But labeling actions that criticize a newspaper’s editorial decisions as a hate crime conflates political views with bigotry. Many journalists object to Israel’s slaughter of their peers in Gaza — and the U.S. media’s relative silence about it — for reasons having nothing to do with anyone’s religion. And many Jews themselves oppose Israel’s actions in Gaza and object to coverage they view as excusing or normalizing Israel’s conduct.
I’m one of those Jews, and I think what’s antisemitic is to assume that we monolithically share the politics of Benjamin Netanyahu and his ilk, who I consider the worst thing to happen to Judaism since the 1940s. As the saying goes, one day everyone will have been against this. When that time comes, efforts to conflate anti-Israel or anti-genocide views with antisemitism will leave Jews holding the bag for Israel’s reprehensible actions, America’s role in supporting them, and whatever blowback follows. That’s when the real antisemitism will start.
New York authorities should be combating these cynical attempts to use antisemitism to justify authoritarianism. Instead, they’re fueling the trend. Wilkinson’s case, in a blue state, legitimizes the Trump administration’s un-American actions, like its efforts to deport Mahmoud Khalil over his criticisms of Israel and Rümeysa Öztürk for co-writing an op-ed arguing for boycotts of Israeli products. The administration baselessly argues that their constitutionally protected speech constitutes support for Hamas and threatens national security. And several Republican attorneys general have floated the idea that reporting critical of Israel could be punished as support for terrorism. Wilkinson’s case only gives cover to those advancing these absurd arguments.
Israel showed us exactly where conflating speech with violence leads. Last month, Israel killed 31 journalists in airstrikes on newspaper offices in Yemen — the deadliest single attack on the press in 16 years, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists. Israel has justified the strikes by characterizing the targeted outlets as publishing “terrorist” propaganda.
Should we debate whether those massacred in Yemen (or Gaza) followed the Associated Press Stylebook or strictly adhered to journalistic codes of ethics? Or should we just acknowledge that militaries shouldn’t blow people to bits over what they say and write, regardless of whether it’s bad journalism or even propaganda?
Even setting aside the hate crime charge, Wilkinson’s case has broader implications for the press that don’t hinge on whether they’re a card-carrying member. The complaint against Wilkinson reportedly emphasizes not just the photographs they took but also social media posts criticizing Times staff and alleged foreknowledge of the vandalism. This suggests prosecutors view Wilkinson as complicit because of proximity or sympathy to those who committed it and awareness of their plans.
But objectivity is not a precondition for constitutional protection. It’s a relatively recently developed journalistic norm — with its share of critics — that would have been seen as ridiculous when the First Amendment was written.
Should we debate whether those massacred in Yemen (or Gaza)...adhered to journalistic codes of ethics? Or should we just acknowledge that militaries shouldn’t blow people to bits over what they write?
As for embedding and foreknowledge, journalists routinely embed with groups whose members commit illegal acts. For example, the Israeli army, which, according to the United Nations, is committing genocide. Domestically, police reporters ride along with officers who may use excessive force. Investigative journalists cultivate sources involved in criminal activity. If foreknowledge of illegal acts or presence when they occur makes one legally complicit, journalism as we know it becomes impossible.
And for those concerned about journalistic ethics and objectivity, what impact do you think it’ll have if reporters are allowed to embed with government-approved lawbreakers, like soldiers and police, but not dissidents? Will that result in “fair and balanced” coverage?
Your opinion about Wilkinson’s work won’t change the trajectory of our democracy. But prosecutors in America’s biggest city validating the Trump administration’s criminalization of dissent very well might. Every journalist — and everyone who depends on journalism to hold power to account — should be alarmed.
The Christian Hedges report, del 3/10/2025
The National Press Club of Australia, caving to the Israeli lobby, Cancels My Talk on Our Betrayal of Palestinian Journalists
The National Press Club of Australia cancelled my talk on how the media, by amplifying Israeli lies, have betrayed Palestinian journalists, 278 of whom have been assassinated by Israel.Chris Hedges (The Chris Hedges Report)
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Ora è ufficiale: il governo Meloni è stato denunciato alla Corte penale internazionale per complicità in genocidio.
Non è uno slogan né un titolo di giornale, ma un atto formale. Secondo quanto depositato dall’avvocato Fabio Marcelli, dirigente del Cnr – Istituto di studi giuridici internazionali, il governo italiano è stato denunciato davanti alla Corte Penale Internazionale dell’Aja per presunta complicità nel genocidio in corso a Gaza.
L’esposto, stando a quanto reso pubblico, cita direttamente i nomi della Presidente del Consiglio Giorgia Meloni, del ministro degli Esteri Antonio Tajani, del ministro della Difesa Guido Crosetto e dell’amministratore delegato di Leonardo, Roberto Cingolani. Nell’atto si sostiene che, mentre nella Striscia di Gaza la Commissione internazionale d’inchiesta dell’ONU parla di “genocidio”, l’Italia avrebbe continuato a intrattenere rapporti politici e commerciali con il governo di Benjamin Netanyahu, fornendo di fatto un sostegno indiretto alla prosecuzione delle ostilità.
La denuncia non proviene da un partito o da un gruppo politico, ma da un giurista di lungo corso. Marcelli, nella sua nota, spiega che l’obiettivo è chiamare a rispondere non solo chi compie materialmente i crimini, ma anche chi – secondo la legge internazionale e la legge italiana sul genocidio del 1967 – li favorisce, li sostiene o non interviene per impedirli.
Se la Corte dell’Aja valuterà ammissibile il fascicolo, l’Italia sarà chiamata a fornire spiegazioni. In ogni caso, questo atto resterà come documento storico: nel pieno della devastazione di Gaza, c’è chi ha chiesto formalmente di verificare le responsabilità anche del governo italiano.
La Storia, quando verrà scritta, non dimenticherà questi passaggi. E allora resterà anche questo: che l’Italia, sotto il governo Meloni, è stata chiamata in giudizio per non aver fatto abbastanza per fermare la tragedia palestinese.
Paolo Consiglio
Fonti principali:
– Adnkronos – Denuncia alla Corte Penale Internazionale contro esponenti del governo italiano (settembre 2025).
– Il Fatto Quotidiano – Fabio Marcelli deposita esposto per complicità in genocidio (settembre 2025).
– Commissione internazionale d’inchiesta ONU – Rapporto 2025 su Gaza.
Nota editoriale
Questo articolo rappresenta un’opinione critica e argomentata, fondata su fonti giornalistiche e istituzionali. Le dichiarazioni e i nomi citati sono riportati esclusivamente come contenuto dell’esposto depositato alla CPI e non come accuse formulate dall’autore. Ogni riflessione si colloca nell’ambito della libertà di stampa e di pensiero, principi essenziali in una società democratica.
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In piazza per la Flotilla: un migliaio di manifestanti e disagi al traffico a Lugano
Da piazza Dante allo svincolo autostradale, tante persone hanno partecipato al corteo scandendo slogan a sostegno della Global Sumud Flotilla - Traffico bloccato in entrata e uscita a causa di un'ora di sit-in ai semafori di Lugano Sud - FOTO E VIDEOValentina Coda (Corriere del Ticino)
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