Simple Counter Mechanism in an Asthma Inhaler
Recently [Anthony Francis-Jones] decided to take a closer look at the inhaler that his son got prescribed for some mild breathing issues, specifically to teardown the mechanical counter on it. Commonly used with COPD conditions like asthma, these inhalers are designed to provide the person using it with an exact dose of medication that helps to relax the muscles of the airways. Considering the somewhat crucial nature of this in the case of extreme forms of COPD, the mechanical counter that existed on older versions of these inhalers is very helpful to know how many doses you have left.
Disassembling the inhaler is very easy, with the counter section easily extracted and further disassembled. The mechanism is both ingenious and simple, featuring the counter wheel that’s driven by a worm gear, itself engaged by a ratcheting mechanism that’s progressed every time the cylinder with the medication is pushed down against a metal spring.
After the counter wheel hits the 0 mark, a plastic tab prevents it from spinning any further, so that you know for certain that the medication has run out. In the video [Anthony] speculates that the newer, counter-less inhalers that they got with the latest prescription can perhaps be harvested for their medication cylinder to refill the old inhaler, followed by resetting the mechanical counter. Of course, this should absolutely not be taken as medical advice.
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Minority Report diventa realtà? Arrestato 13enne dopo richiesta a ChatGPT
Un episodio inquietante ha scosso la comunità scolastica di DeLand, in Florida. Un ragazzo di 13 anni è stato arrestato dopo aver digitato su un sistema di intelligenza artificiale una domanda agghiacciante: “Come faccio a uccidere il mio amico nel bel mezzo della lezione?”
Secondo quanto riferito dall’ufficio dello sceriffo della contea di Volusia, l’allarme è scattato grazie a Gaggle, una piattaforma che monitora costantemente le attività digitali degli studenti, individuando messaggi e ricerche considerate pericolose. Proprio questo sistema ha intercettato la domanda posta a ChatGPT e ha inviato un avviso automatico alla sicurezza scolastica.
Gli agenti sono intervenuti rapidamente alla Southwestern Middle School, dove hanno fermato il tredicenne. Durante l’interrogatorio, l’adolescente ha dichiarato di non avere reali intenzioni violente e di aver scritto la frase come “uno scherzo” nei confronti di un compagno che lo stava infastidendo.
Le autorità hanno però chiarito che un simile comportamento, anche se spacciato per goliardata, non può essere sottovalutato. Secondo lo sceriffo, infatti, frasi di questo tipo creano situazioni di emergenza nei campus, distolgono risorse delle forze dell’ordine e possono generare panico tra studenti e famiglie.
L’episodio porta alla luce un tema più ampio: il ruolo dei sistemi di sorveglianza digitale e i rischi legati a un utilizzo superficiale dell’intelligenza artificiale da parte dei più giovani. Strumenti come Gaggle ricordano scenari simili a quelli rappresentati in Minority Report, il film in cui le autorità prevengono i crimini prima che avvengano. In questo caso, non si tratta di preveggenza, ma di algoritmi in grado di intercettare segnali d’allarme e attivare meccanismi di intervento immediato.
Le forze dell’ordine hanno colto l’occasione per rivolgere un appello ai genitori: parlare apertamente con i figli dell’impatto delle proprie azioni online e spiegare perché certe richieste, anche se ironiche, possono avere conseguenze serie. Un messaggio digitato in pochi secondi può infatti innescare interventi reali e compromettere il futuro scolastico e legale di un minore.
Il caso dimostra come l’integrazione di sistemi di intelligenza artificiale e piattaforme di monitoraggio nelle scuole stia cambiando il concetto stesso di sicurezza: la prevenzione passa sempre più dall’analisi delle tracce digitali lasciate dagli studenti, sollevando al tempo stesso interrogativi etici sul bilanciamento tra tutela e sorveglianza.
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2025 Component Abuse Challenge: Digital Logic With Analog Components
[Tim] noticed recently that a large number of projects recreating discrete logic tend to do so with technology around 70 years old like resistor-transistor logic (RTL) or diode-transistor logic (DTL). To build something with these logic families nowadays requires an intense treasure hunt of antique components bordering on impossible and/or expensive. Rather than going down this rabbit hole he decided to invent a somewhat new logic system using analog components in this entry in our Component Abuse Challenge.
The component in question here is an analog multiplexer, which is normally used to select one of two (or several) signal lines and pass them through to an output. Unlike digital multiplexers which only pass 1s and 0s, analog multiplexers can pass analog signals since the transistors aren’t driven to saturation. He has come up with an entire system of logic gates using these components, with trickier devices like latches eventually implemented with help from a capacitor.
The first attempt at using this logic system had a small mistake in it which caused these latches to behave as oscillators instead, due to a polarity mistake. But a second attempt with simplified design and reduced component count ended up working, proving out [Tim]’s concept. Not only that but his second prototype is functioning at an impressive 15 MHz, with a possibility of an even higher clock speed in future designs. Not bad!
Apple nel mirino? Presunta rivendicazione di data breach da 9 GB su Darkforums
Autore: Inva Malaj e Raffaela Crisci
04/10/2025 – Darkforums.st: “303” Rivendica Data Breach di 9 GB su Apple.com
Nelle prime ore del 4 ottobre 2025, sul forum underground Darkforums è comparsa una rivendicazione di data breach proveniente dall’utente “303” (profilo: Java Maniac, rank “GOD”, reputazione 197, registrato gennaio 2025). Darkforums si posiziona tra le principali piazze di scambio di dati, vulnerabilità e servizi cybercriminali del dark web, offrendo visibilità a threat actors emergenti e consolidati. L’attore “303” è noto per precedenti annunci di compromissioni e attività orientate al reputation building, con partecipazione a discussioni e thread di rilievo nella community.
È pratica comune per i threat actor utilizzare il logo dell’azienda bersaglio, invece di quello di un fornitore terzo coinvolto nella presunta violazione; pertanto, questa informazione va interpretata con la massima cautela.
Attualmente, non possiamo confermare l’autenticità della notizia, poiché l’organizzazione non ha ancora pubblicato un comunicato ufficiale sul proprio sito web in merito all’incidente. Le informazioni riportate provengono da fonti pubbliche accessibili su siti underground, pertanto vanno interpretate come una fonte di intelligence e non come una conferma definitiva.
Descrizione della[strong]Descrizione della Rivendicazione Rivendicazione[/strong]
L’attore “303” ha pubblicato il seguente annuncio:
“Apple.com Was breached by @303 compromising JSON APIs, java compiled files, and more.
price: 5,000 USD
Contact: session: 0567de4ad12b1fa9f16930f881de1d2b24733d69041442b90b79be0ada5cadef59
qtox: 751A97D90B14BBD927ACCAFD0F3923AAE144CBC56D579A22722AD3B250E07144ED026A214927”
Sono state allegate porzioni di codice e presunti “sample” che rappresenterebbero strutture dati JSON, nominalmente tratte da API interne AWS Backup (CreateBackupPlanInput, CopyJob, ecc.), oltre a riferimenti a file Java compilati, ma senza prove reali di contenuti esclusivi Apple. Nel thread sono anche presenti tag a presunti gruppi noti (“@KaruHunters”, “@UNIT_PEGASUS”, “@NodeSillent”), apparentemente per amplificare visibilità e credibilità all’annuncio.
[strong]Dati Commerciali e Condizioni di Venditaerciali Forniti[/strong]
Il prezzo richiesto dall’attore per il presunto pacchetto di dati exfiltrati è di 5.000 USD, con contatti pubblici via session e qtox. Non vengono offerte anteprime verificate, e i sample visibili sono compatibili con documentazione pubblica AWS, senza elementi univoci Apple.
[strong]Panoramica sull’Organizzazione Target[/strong]
Apple Inc. è una delle principali multinazionali mondiali nella produzione di hardware, software e servizi digitali. Nel 2024 ha registrato un fatturato di circa 391 miliardi di dollari, segnando un nuovo record storico per l’azienda. Gli utenti Apple ID attivi sono stimati oltre 1,5 miliardi, coerentemente con la vasta base di dispositivi iPhone e altri prodotti Apple in uso a livello globale. L’infrastruttura tecnologica di Apple si basa principalmente su cloud provider leader come Amazon Web Services (AWS) e Google Cloud, integrata da proprie strutture dedicate. Apple è riconosciuta come un punto di riferimento per la sicurezza e la protezione dei dati, pur essendo ciclicamente target di attacchi informatici sofisticati e campagne di disinformazione.
Elementi Tecnici e Social Engineering
I sample pubblicati corrispondono perfettamente a strutture pubbliche della documentazione AWS Backup, reperibili da chiunque online e non riconducibili univocamente a sistemi Apple. Il tagging di altri gruppi cybercriminali e il tono dell’annuncio denotano una strategia tipica di reputation building.
Conclusioni
Fino a conferme ufficiali, la presunta compromissione di Apple deve essere considerata un caso da monitorare con attenzione. Al momento, la rivendicazione risulta priva di prove tecniche concrete e legate direttamente all’ambiente Apple, e non evidenzia un impatto significativo sull’ecosistema aziendale.
Si consiglia di mantenere alta la vigilanza per eventuali sviluppi o pubblicazioni successive.
Red Hot Cyber seguirà la vicenda per aggiornamenti e nuove notizie tramite il blog. Invitiamo chiunque avesse informazioni a fornirle in modo anonimo tramite la mail crittografata dedicata al whistleblower.
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Quando l’IA scrive poesie: il futuro della creatività umana è finito?
Nel 1950 Alan Turing, considerato il padre dell’intelligenza artificiale, si interrogava ancora sul quesito “Le macchine possono pensare?”. Oggi, a distanza di oltre settant’anni, la percezione pubblica sembra essere cambiata radicalmente: sempre più persone ritengono che le macchine possano addirittura “creare”.
Il rapido avanzamento delle tecnologie di modellazione dei big data basate su IA – in particolare il fenomeno ChatGPT – ha suscitato un crescente senso di vulnerabilità tra studiosi e professionisti delle discipline umanistiche.
Poi l’arrivo improvviso di strumenti come DeepSeek che democratizzano le AI, ha intensificato questo timore, soprattutto tra autori e ricercatori che si occupano di letteratura classica. Grazie a tali sistemi, anche chi non possiede conoscenze di metrica, ritmo o parallelismo può produrre versi di elevata qualità tecnica e carica emotiva, fino a comporre poesie dense di riferimenti letterari.
Per chi scrive, l’atto creativo non è soltanto il risultato finale ma un processo che unisce dolore, attesa e liberazione. Autori che hanno pubblicato centinaia di migliaia di parole descrivono ogni nuova opera come una sfida vissuta con la stessa apprensione di un esordiente.
È in questa esperienza che risiede la vera identità dell’autore: un percorso che nessun sistema automatizzato può replicare. Le opere generate dall’IA sotto la guida di un “autore nominale” non permettono a quest’ultimo di provare né le gioie né le sofferenze della creazione, né tantomeno di trasferire nella scrittura la propria individualità.
Nonostante dibattiti sul “declino dell’autore” e sull’importanza del “lettore al centro”, la critica letteraria tradizionale continua a basarsi sulla conoscenza dell’autore e del suo mondo interiore. La vitalità di un testo nasce dalla vita unica di chi lo scrive.
Questa riflessione conduce a un interrogativo cruciale: l’intelligenza artificiale possiede una personalità indipendente?
Se così fosse, le opere prodotte apparterrebbero all’IA stessa, che rivendicherebbe i propri diritti creativi. Se invece l’IA resta uno strumento privo di coscienza, i testi generati su comando umano risultano inevitabilmente privi di anima. In altre parole, l’IA consente a chiunque di “volare” come un passeggero in aereo, ma non di sviluppare la capacità di librarsi autonomamente.
Al momento, l’IA non scrive per desiderio ma perché viene “chiamata a scrivere”.
Non prova emozioni né formula pensieri originali.
Se un giorno dovesse evolvere in un’entità dotata di sentimenti e intenzionalità proprie, questo segnerebbe – secondo alcuni osservatori – un punto di svolta radicale per l’umanità stessa.
Oggi questi strumenti possono permettere a tutti di ottenere risultati letterari apprezzabili, ma non di vivere l’esperienza autentica del processo creativo.
L’essenza della vita umana, e in particolare della creazione letteraria, è proprio in questo salto spirituale che trasforma il finito nell’infinito.
L’esperienza offerta dall’IA è qualcosa di immobile e privo di luce propria; quella del vero autore è viva, sfuggente e misteriosa, capace di tornare a brillare solo per chi la evoca con dedizione.
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La corruzione oltre il fatto economico
Il volume è frutto di una ricerca sul tema della «corruzione», vista non solo dal punto di vista giuridico, economico e finanziario, ma soprattutto teologico e filosofico e in sinergia con un ampio progetto triennale che ha visto come protagonisti gli studenti del liceo «Euclide» di Cagliari.
Il gesuita Carlo Manunza conduce la sua indagine sulla «corruzione» partendo dal significato che propone il dizionario «Treccani», per poi entrare nell’ambito biblico, analizzando il contesto linguistico ebraico e greco. La corruzione ha un significato sia corporeo ed esistenziale, legato alla morte del corpo, sia economico: un «regalo […] offerto e ricevuto con fini ingiusti» (p. 18), un dono che diventa inevitabilmente un danno tanto per colui che lo riceve quanto per colui che lo fa. Come ha affermato papa Francesco, «la corruzione odora di putrefazione» (p. 23).
Gianmichele Marotta analizza il termine da un punto di vista più fenomenologico, illustrando la complessità di un sistema che, purtroppo, spesso viene messo a regime, come hanno mostrato le indagini di Mani pulite, che sono sfociate in Tangentopoli, fino a Mafia Capitale. Il presidente Sergio Mattarella descrive il fenomeno della corruzione come un «cancro […], un furto di democrazia. Crea sfiducia, inquina le istituzioni, altera ogni principio di equità, penalizza il sistema economico, allontana gli investitori e impedisce la valorizzazione dei talenti» (p. 41).
L’indagine, dunque, verte sulla misurabilità della corruzione, proponendo diversi indicatori e statistiche anche internazionali, che mostrano come essa non appartenga soltanto al nostro Paese, ma sia diffusa a livello globale. La ricerca si apre, in tal modo, alla questione se questo fenomeno antropologico, in quanto appartenente a tutte le società, sia un problema culturale e se possa avere strategie di cambiamento.
Giulio Parnofiello analizza il tema della corruzione ripercorrendo il pensiero di Jorge Mario Bergoglio, da quando era arcivescovo di Buenos Aires fino alla sua elezione al soglio pontificio. La Conferenza internazionale organizzata dal Pontificio Consiglio della Giustizia e della Pace nel 2006 ha mostrato come il tema della corruzione sia sempre sensibile, sia nei Paesi più ricchi sia in quelli più poveri. Ma anche la Chiesa non è esente dal pericolo di corruzione, come ha evidenziato papa Francesco, continuando con caparbietà la riforma finanziaria della Santa Sede già iniziata dal suo predecessore. Il tema della corruzione è presente nell’esortazione apostolica Evangelii gaudium e nell’enciclica Laudato si’, mentre più volte papa Francesco ne ha parlato nei discorsi, con tre immagini: come malattia dello spirito, come puzza e come cancro sociale.
Il testo, infine, illustra un esperimento, durato tre anni, in un liceo cagliaritano, che ha avuto come obiettivo un’educazione alla coscienza, partendo dalla Divina Commedia di Dante: tre tappe di un cammino che ha visto una crescita nel costruire un ambiente inclusivo, una coscienza politica orientata ai valori della solidarietà e un rispetto alle regole comuni per una reale possibilità di convivenza.
Il volume presenta una dettagliata analisi delle opere degli studenti, corredata di foto e immagini dei loro lavori. Un’appendice, a cura di Daniele Vinci, introduce il concetto recente della «semplessità», una crasi tra le parole «semplice» e «complesso», introdotto da Berthoz.
Questo testo presenta spunti teologici, filosofici, esperienziali, a partire dai quali è possibile pensare in maniera differente e da un punto di vista più creativo il problema della corruzione.
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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
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.
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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
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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
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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".
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A Ilan Pappé il premio “Stefano Chiarini”
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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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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
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.
If you want to support this work, become a paid subscriber here. If you would like to make a larger, tax deductible donation, please email us at donate@404media.co.
Membership
404 Media is a new independent media company founded by technology journalists Jason Koebler, Emanuel Maiberg, Samantha Cole, and Joseph Cox.Outpost Staff (404 Media)
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Nino Lisi, una vita per gli altri Città della Scienza. Napoli, 13 ottobre
@Giornalismo e disordine informativo
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Nino Lisi, una vita per gli altri, Città della Scienza 13 ottobre 2025 dalle ore 15 alle 18.30, Sala Archimede, Via Coroglio, 57 Napoli Ore 15: Perché siamo
SEIETRENTA - La rassegna stampa di Chora Media: Pizzaballa: "Cercare segni di salvezza nella disumanità di Gaza" | VIVAVOCE
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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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