“The more I listened to it, the more I’m like, something doesn’t sound right,” a person who was briefed on the pilot plans told 404 Media.#ICE #bountyhunters
Contractor Paying Random People $300 to Physically Track Immigrants for ICE
A current pilot project aims to pay former law enforcement and military officers to physically track immigrants and verify their addresses to give to ICE for $300 each. There is no indication that the pilot involves licensed private investigators, and appears to be open to people who are now essentially members of the general public, 404 Media has learned.The pilot is a dramatic, and potentially dangerous, escalation in the Trump administration’s mass deportation campaign. People without any official role in government would be tasked with tracking down targets for ICE. It appears to be part of ICE’s broader plan to use bounty hunters or skip tracers to confirm immigrant’s addresses through data and physical surveillance. Some potential candidates for the pilot were recruited on LinkedIn and were told they would be given vehicles to monitor the targets.
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Humane Mousetrap Lets You Know It’s Caught Something
“Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door,” so goes the saying, but VHS beat Betamax and the world hasn’t been the same since. In any case, you might not get rich building a better mousetrap, but you can certainly create something more humane than the ol’ spring’n’snap, as [nightcustard] demonstrates.
The concept is the same as many humane mousetraps on the market. The mouse is lured into a confined cavity with the use of bait, and once inside, a door closes to keep the mouse inside without injuring it. [nightcustard] achieved this by building a plastic enclosure with plenty of air holes, which is fitted with a spring-loaded door. When a mouse walks through an infra-red break beam sensor, a Raspberry Pi Pico W triggers a solenoid which releases the door, trapping the mouse inside. This design was chosen over a passive mechanical solution, because [nightcustard] noted that mice in the attic were avoiding other humane traps with obvious mechanical trigger mechanisms.
As a bonus, the wireless connectivity of the Pi Pico W allows the trap to send a notification via email when it has fired. Thus, you can wake up in the morning and check your emails to see if you need to go and release a poor beleaguered mouse back into the wild. This is critical, as otherwise, if you forget to check your humane trap… it stops being humane pretty quickly.
If you’re looking for more inspiration to tackle your mouse problems, we can help. We’ve featured other traps of this type before, too. Meanwhile, if you’ve got your own friendly homebrew solutions to pesky pest problems, don’t hesitate to hit up the tipsline.
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"Defendants have indicated that some video between October 19, 2025 and October 31, 2025 has been irretrievably destroyed and therefore cannot be produced on an expedited basis or at all."#ICE
Two Weeks of Surveillance Footage From ICE Detention Center ‘Irretrievably Destroyed’
The Department of Homeland Security claimed in court proceedings that nearly two weeks worth of surveillance footage from ICE’s Broadview Detention Center in suburban Chicago has been “irretrievably destroyed” and may not be able to be recovered, according to court records reviewed by 404 Media.The filing was made as part of a class action lawsuit against the Department of Homeland Security by people being held at Broadview, which has become the site of widespread protests against ICE. The lawsuit says that people detained at the facility are being held in abhorrent, “inhumane” conditions. The complaint describes a facility where detainees are “confined at Broadview inside overcrowded holding cells containing dozens of people at a time. People are forced to attempt to sleep for days or sometimes weeks on plastic chairs or on the filthy concrete floor. They are denied sufficient food and water […] the temperatures are extreme and uncomfortable […] the physical conditions are filthy, with poor sanitation, clogged toilets, and blood, human fluids, and insects in the sinks and the floor […] federal officers who patrol Broadview under Defendants’ authority are abusive and cruel. Putative class members are routinely degraded, mistreated, and humiliated by these officers.”
As part of discovery in the case, the plaintiffs’ lawyers requested surveillance footage from the facility starting from mid September, which is when ICE stepped up its mass deportation campaign in Chicago. In a status report submitted by lawyers from both the plaintiffs and the Department of Homeland Security, lawyers said that nearly two weeks of footage has been “irretrievably destroyed.”
“Defendants have agreed to produce. Video from September 28, 2025 to October 19, 2025, and also from October 31, 2025 to November, 7 2025,” the filing states. “Defendants have indicated that some video between October 19, 2025 and October 31, 2025 has been irretrievably destroyed and therefore cannot be produced on an expedited basis or at all.” Law & Crime first reported on the filing.
A screenshot from the court filing
The filing adds that the plaintiffs, who are being represented by lawyers from the American Civil Liberties Union of Illinois, the MacArthur Justice Center, and the Eimer Stahl law firm, hired an IT contractor to work with the government “to attempt to work through issues concerning the missing video, including whether any content is able to be retrieved.”Surveillance footage from inside the detention center would presumably be critical in a case about the alleged abusive treatment of detainees and inhumane living conditions. The filing states that the plaintiffs' attorneys have “communicated to Defendants that they are most concerned with obtaining the available surveillance videos as quickly as possible.”
ICE did not respond to a request for comment from 404 Media. A spokesperson for the ACLU of Illinois told 404 Media “we don’t have any insight on this. Hoping DHS can explain.”
Trump admin says video footage inside ICE facility at center of lawsuit 'cannot be produced'
"Plaintiffs intend to explore the issue of missing footage," a recent filing reads.Law & Crime
Casting Metal Tools With Kitchen Appliances
Perhaps the biggest hurdle to starting a home blacksmithing operating is the forge. There’s really no way around having a forge; somehow the metal has to get hot enough to work. Although we might be imagining huge charcoal- or gas-fired monstrosities, [Shake the Future] has figured out how to use an unmodified, standard microwave oven to get iron hot enough to melt and is using it in his latest video to cast real, working tools with it.
In the past, [Shake the Future] has made a few other things with this setup like an aluminum pencil with a graphite core. This time, though, he’s stepping up the complexity a bit with a working tool. He’s decided to build a miniature bench vice, which uses a screw to move the jaws. He didn’t cast the screw, instead using a standard size screw and nut, but did cast the two other parts of the vice. He first 3D prints the parts in order to make a mold that will withstand the high temperatures of the molten metal. With the mold made he can heat up the iron in the microwave and then pour it, and then with some finish work he has a working tool on his hands.
A microwave isn’t the only kitchen appliance [Shake the Future] has repurposed for his small metalworking shop. He also uses a standard air fryer in order to dry parts quickly. He works almost entirely from the balcony of his apartment so he needs to keep his neighbors in mind while working, and occasionally goes to a nearby parking garage when he has to do something noisy. It’s impressive to see what can be built in such a small space, though. For some of his other work be sure to check out how he makes the crucibles meant for his microwave.
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Cheap VHF Antenna? Can Do!
The magnetic loop antenna is a familiar sight in radio amateur circles as a means to pack a high performance HF antenna into a small space. It takes the form of a large single-turn coil made into a tuned circuit with a variable capacitor, and it provides the benefits of good directionality and narrow bandwidth at the cost of some scary RF voltages and the need for constant retuning. As [VK3YE] shows us though, magnetic loops are not limited to HF — he’s made a compact VHF magnetic loop using a tin can.
It’s a pretty simple design; a section from the can it cut out and made into a C shape, with a small variable capacitor at the gap. The feed comes in at the bottom, with the feed point about 20 % of the way round the loop for matching. The bandwidth is about 100 MHz starting from the bottom of the FM broadcast band, and he shows us it receiving broadcast, Airband, and 2 meter signals. It can be used for transmitting too and we see it on 2 meter WSPR, but we would have to wonder whether the voltages induced by higher power levels might be a little much for that small capacitor.
He’s at pains to point out that there are many better VHF antennas as this one has no gain to speak of, but we can see a place for it. It’s tiny, if you’re prepared to fiddle with the tuning its high Q gets rid of interference, and its strong side null means it can also reduce unwanted signals on the same frequency. We rather like it, and we hope you will too after watching the video below.
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Congratulations to the 2025 Component Abuse Challenge Winners
For the Component Abuse Challenge, we asked you to do the wrong thing with electrical parts, but nonetheless come out with the right result. It’s probably the most Hackaday challenge we have run in a long time, and you all delivered! The judging was tight, but in the end three projects rose up to the top, and will each be taking home a $150 DigiKey gift certificate, but that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t give all of the projects a look.
So without further ado, let’s check out the winners and all the others that tickled the hacky regions of our judges’ brains.
Prize Winners
The component misuse is an old favorite: the diode’s forward voltage drop depends on the temperature, and if you measure the voltage across the current-limiting resistor, you can read this voltage and determine when someone is setting fire to your LED. A bonus of the single-LED configuration is that if you touch the LED’s leads, your finger shunts some of the current, and you can “snuff” the LEDs out. And while we’ve seen similar LED hacks before, the addition of actual fire to this one seems to have warmed our judges’ hearts.
[Luke J. Barker]’s Need an Electrical Slip Ring? is simplicity itself, and appears to have been born of the mother of invention. [Luke] was making a VertiBird helicopter toy, which spins around on the desk and rises and falls with joystick control. And for that, he needed a slip ring. Enter the humble audio jack, which fills the job nicely, transmitting power to the rotating helicopter without twisting up wires in the process. There’s not much magic here, but it’s a fantastic idea when you need something to spin.
On the other end of the spectrum, [Craig D]’s Boosting voltage with a cable looks like it shouldn’t work at first, but it does. In most step-up-voltage setups, you’re storing the energy in either a capacitor or inductor, and switching it in and out of the circuit to hop the voltage up. Here, the energy isn’t ever really “stored” as much as it’s “in flight”.
A circuit sends a pulse down a long length of coaxial cable that is left open at the other end. The pulse reflects off the open end and heads back toward the voltage driver, which then fires off another pulse at just the right time to make the travelling wave a little bit bigger, and this continues. It’s like pushing a swing – adding a little extra oomph at just the right time can build up. There’s a lot of cool physics here, a nice simulation that actually ends up corresponding very well with reality, and in the end the pulse timing isn’t rocket science, but rather figuring out the resonant frequency along the coax. And it works well enough to light up two neon bulbs in series (~140 V) off of a 15 V power supply.
Honorable Mentions
We got way more cool entries than we have prizes, so we try to round them up into categories and give them a little time in the sun.
Out of Spec
Normally, a 555 timer oscillator circuit relies on filling up a capacitor with a current that’s throttled through a resistor. How can you make it go faster? Make the capacitor smaller and the resistor less resistive. What happens when you get rid of them both entirely, relying on stray capacitance and the resistance of whatever wire you’re using? That’s what [MagicWolfi] aimed to find out with his Ludicrous 555 project.
The IC-Abusing Diode Tester is an absolutely horrible circuit. Nothing in it works like it should. The only reason the IC doesn’t burn up is that it’s more robust than the datasheet promises, and the battery used has such a high internal resistance that it can’t source that much current anyway. Parts are powered by leakage current, and below their minimum voltage. [Joseph Eoff] counts seven values that are out of spec in this single historical circuit, so that’s gotta count for something.
Junk Box Substitutions
Or maybe you’re working on self-assembling robots and you need some magic glue to hold different modules together. [Miana]’s Low-melt-solder connected robots is half research project, and half hack. Resistors are used to melt solder, magnets align the parts together, and when it all cools down, it’s as if two modules are brazed together. This one’s a lot more than a hack, but we’re honored to have it entered in the contest anyway!
Bizarro World
We honestly thought we’d get more entries that made use of the duality of most sensors / emitters. Instead, we got two. [Nick]’s Better Than Bluetooth does the LED-as-photosensor trick, and concludes that it’s better than Bluetooth if expense, limited range, and frustration are what you’re looking for in a data link. Meanwhile, [Kauz] proves that electromagnets are also pickups by building a guitar pickup out of six relays.
Side Effects
Most old op-amps oscillate out of control when given feedback, unless you damp it down a bit with a capacitor. [Adrian Freed] found an op-amp lousy enough that would do this at audio frequencies, and used it to reimagine a classic noisemaker.
Finally, while you should probably avoid the metastable middle-zones between digital one and zero, [SHAOS] combines unbuffered NAND and NOR gates to tease out a third logic state. [Bob Widlar] would be proud.
Thanks All!
As always, we had more great entries that we could feature here, so head on over to Hackaday.io and check them out. And thanks again to DigiKey for providing our top three with $150 gift certificates. If you’re looking for your chance to show off a project that you’re working on, hang on for a while because we’ll be starting up a new contest in early 2026.
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A Quick Primer On TinkerCAD’s New Features
TinkerCAD had its first release all the way back in 2011 and it has come a long way since then. The latest release has introduced a raft of new, interesting features, and [HL ModTech] has been nice enough to sum them up in a recent video.
He starts out by explaining some of the basics before quickly jumping into the new gear. There are two headline features: intersect groups and smooth curves. Where the old union group tool simply merged two pieces of geometry, intersect group allows you to create a shape only featuring the geometry where two individual blocks intersect. It’s a neat addition that allows the creation of complex geometry more quickly. [HL ModTech] demonstrates it with a sphere and a pyramid and his enthusiasm is contagious.
As for smooth curves, it’s an addition to the existing straight line and Bézier curve sketch tools. If you’ve ever struggled making decent curves with Bézier techniques, you might appreciate the ease of working with the smooth curve tool, which avoids any nasty jagged points as a matter of course.
While it’s been gaining new features at an impressive rate, ultimately TinkerCAD is still a pretty basic tool — it’s not the sort of thing you’d expect to see in the aerospace world or anything. ut it’s a great way to start whipping up custom stuff on your 3D printer.
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Journalists’ cameras become targets at Oregon protests
You’ve probably seen the inflatable frogs, the dance parties, the naked bike ride. Maybe you’ve also seen the darker images: a federal officer aiming a weapon at protesters, or federal agents hurling tear gas and flash bangs into peaceful demonstrations at a Portland, Oregon, immigration facility.
Local journalists have been attacked for bringing images like these to the world. They’re being tear-gassed and shot with crowd-control munitions by federal agents simply for doing their jobs.
Photojournalist John Rudoff is among them. He’s been covering these protests since June, photographing both peaceful marches and violent responses from federal officers that often follow.
On Oct. 11, while documenting a protest, Rudoff was struck by a stinger grenade, even though he was clearly identifiable as press. He was bruised, but not deterred.
“If you cover protests, you’re going to have discomfort and hazard. Period. That’s just the way it is,” Rudoff told us. “They shoot 20-year-old girls, and they shoot 70-year-old men, and they shoot people in wheelchairs, and they shoot blind people,” he added, referring to federal agents using crowd-control munitions. “The word impunity seems to be coined for them.”
Despite the danger, Rudoff refuses to stop documenting. “The entire media ecosystem has been covered with the administration’s rantings about the war-ravaged hellscape of Portland, and the city is burning down, and ICE officers are being attacked, and on and on and on,” he said. “I feel some obligation to try and counter this frankly preposterous narrative that the city’s burning down. It isn’t.”
Independent journalist Kevin Foster, who has also been covering the Portland protests, shares that sense of duty and outrage. “It’s clear the Trump administration wants to paint Portland as a war zone to seize more control, but it’s a lot harder to do that when I’m showing you all the dancing inflatable frogs,” he told us. “At the end of the day, someone needs to be there to document abuses of power.”
Foster has felt the danger up close while reporting from protests. “I’ve seen other press members shot with pepper balls, I’ve had flash bangs go off at my feet, and tear gas canisters explode above my head,” he said. But he continues to work to keep the public informed, reporting on federal agents’ heavy use of force and escalatory tactics at the protests.
For Foster, the concerns go beyond federal agents at protests. “Right-wing influencers and agitators have reportedly doxxed people,” Foster said. “With the state of the presidency and the history of authoritarianism, I do sometimes worry about persecution as well, especially given that a lot of my coverage subverts the narrative produced by right-wing media.”
The incident in Portland that got the most attention involved Katie Daviscourt, a reporter for the conservative news site The Post Millennial. She reported being hit in the face by someone swinging a flagpole at a protest, blackening her eye. Police let the suspect go, prompting feigned outrage from the White House.
Holding federal agents accountable
Violence against the press, from any direction, is an attack on the First Amendment itself, especially when enabled by law enforcement. Unfortunately, those purportedly appalled by the Daviscourt incident have not shown similar concern over federal law enforcement attacks on journalists who don’t further their preferred political narratives.
Since the Portland protests began in June, for instance, photojournalist Mason Lake has been struck by crowd-control munitions twice, pepper-sprayed, and had a rifle aimed at him. Yet federal officials haven’t condemned these attacks, or the attack on Rudoff.
“It’s very disconcerting to see how free press has been trampled,” Lake told the U.S. Press Freedom Tracker, a project of Freedom of the Press Foundation (FPF). “The best we can do is push back and make sure the truth isn’t run over.”
In other cities, like Chicago, Illinois, and Los Angeles, California, federal court orders protect journalists from such assaults. But Portland currently has no such order. Legal precedent from 2020 protests in Portland recognized reporters’ First Amendment right to cover protests and shielded them from dispersal orders. But it has done little to rein in federal agents today.
“They have to be sued, and they have to be enjoined, and they have to be criminally prosecuted until they stop doing it,” suggested Rudoff.
Until that happens, however, journalists must keep speaking up, not just about what they see, but also for being attacked for witnessing it. “Most attacks on journalists aren’t reported,” explained Rudoff. But, he added, “I don’t know a single journalist out there who hasn’t been shot or hit or knocked over or tear-gassed or pepper-sprayed. It’s everybody.”
Foster put it even more bluntly: “Many Americans seem to have this impression that brutalizing protesters and targeting the press only happens in other countries. If that notion hasn’t shattered for you yet, wait until your ears are ringing from flash bangs and you’re enveloped in a cloud of tear gas so thick you can’t see 15 feet.”
This isn’t some distant dictatorship. It’s the city of Portland. And the First Amendment is under siege.
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#Ucraina: l'utopia e la realtà
Ucraina: l’utopia e la realtà
La realtà dei fatti, da una parte, e il comportamento del regime ucraino e dei suoi sponsor europei, dall’altra, continuano a muoversi su strade totalmente divergenti, con decisioni, prese da parte di questi ultimi, che non hanno nessuna giustificazi…www.altrenotizie.org
Paolo Berizzi: “Vi racconto misteri e legami di CasaPound”
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Da poco in libreria con un testo che sta facendo particolarmente discutere (“Il libro segreto di CasaPound”, Fuoriscena editore), Paolo Berizzi ha deciso di devolvere alla nostra associazione una parte
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"I.A. BASTA!”: l’appello dei docenti contro l’intelligenza artificiale a scuola - L'INDIPENDENTE
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Un appello, una mozione e un questionario per dire “basta” all’intelligenza artificiale nella scuola. È questo il cuore della mobilitazione lanciata dal gruppo auto-organizzato di lavoratrici e lavoratori della scuola, che vede la partecipazione di docenti, personale ATA, rappresentanti del sindacal
La militarizzazione dell’AI è già iniziata. Ma dove arriverà?
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Molti analisti parlano ormai dell’uso bellico dell’Intelligenza Artificiale in guerra come del vero “momento Oppenheimer” della nostra epoca. Un termine che indica l’idea che, come accadde con il nucleare a metà Novecento, stiamo varcando una soglia dalla quale sarà difficile tornare indietro. Un
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Il direttore del Parlamento Ue in Italia a TPI: “Senza rafforzare l’Europa la nostra indipendenza è a rischio”
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Caselli torna in antimafia e spazza il campo dalla falsa valanga di “mafia appalti”
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Lo “spazza-neve” Caselli torna in Antimafia e finisce il lavoro: sgombrato completamente il campo dalla falsa valanga di “mafia
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Dal dominio cognitivo a quello cibernetico. L’Italia sotto attacco ibrido nel dossier Crosetto
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Presentato durante la riunione del Consiglio Supremo di Difesa, il “Non-paper sul contrasto alla guerra ibrida” del ministro della Difesa, Guido Crosetto, parla chiaro: l’Italia è già in un conflitto sottosoglia, quotidiano, mutevole
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ma perché? le donne devono occuparsi dolo di fare figli e crescere la prole... sono sicura che c'è un sacco di gente (più uomini) che concorderebbe infatti con questa affermazione. questa è una donna santa....
Ucci ucci, è in vendita la villa di Angelo Balducci
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Perché non posso scrivere di tutto (anche se mi sta a cuore.)
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Perché non posso scrivere di tutto (anche se mi sta a cuore.)
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Spesso sui social capita che, se parli sempre e solo di una certa causa (per esempio la #Palestina) qualcuno ti accusi di non interessarti ad altri drammi, come quelli che succedono in #Sudan o in altri luoghi del mondo.Questa è una questione che merita un po’ di chiarezza, perché il punto vero è un altro: nessuno di noi è un’agenzia di stampa, e non parlare di una cosa non significa affatto fregarsene. La verità è che tutti noi abbiamo dei limiti: di tempo, di energie, ma anche di capacità emotiva.
Non possiamo essere costantemente presenti su ogni emergenza, su ogni ingiustizia, su ogni tragedia che si presenta nel mondo. E, sinceramente, provarci significherebbe anche rischiare di annullare noi stessi, perdendo quella sensibilità che ci spinge a interessarci davvero di alcune questioni.
La partecipazione emotiva è inevitabilmente selettiva: ci sentiamo più vicini e coinvolti in certe storie perché le conosciamo meglio, le capiamo, o semplicemente perché in quel momento sentiamo di poter fare qualcosa di più concreto.
Non è una questione di indifferenza verso le altre cause, ma una scelta, consapevole o meno, di dove concentrare le nostre forze, anche per proteggere la nostra salute mentale. E poi, diciamolo: sui #socialmedia la pressione è fortissima. Se non ti vedi parlare di tutto, c’è chi pensa che non ti importi. Ma questa è una falsa aspettativa.
La responsabilità di dare voce a ogni singola emergenza non spetta a noi singoli individui, ma a un sistema di informazione ben più complesso.Noi partecipiamo con ciò che possiamo, con quello che sappiamo, con quello che ci muove davvero.
Quando vedi qualcuno che si concentra spesso su una sola causa, non darla per scontata: può significare un impegno profondo, non una mancanza di interesse per il resto. E chi ti conosce sa che dietro quel silenzio ci sono comunque solidarietà, preoccupazione e rispetto. Non serve parlare di tutto per esserci davvero.
In fondo, la vera indifferenza è un’altra cosa: è non provarci nemmeno, è non farsi toccare da niente, è voltare le spalle senza nemmeno chiedersi come si potrebbe fare la differenza. La partecipazione selettiva, invece, è umana, corretta e spesso necessaria. Insomma, non siamo agenzie di stampa, ma persone. E va bene così.
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Processo al leader di Do.Ra. per la diffamazione di Berizzi, il pm aggiunge altre accuse
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L'imputato si è presentato in udienza con una maglietta nera recante la scritta “Spiriti Armati”
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Brasile: leader guarani ucciso in un attacco alla sua comunità
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Mentre alla COP30 si discute di tutela climatica e diritti dei popoli originari, l’assalto armato contro la comunità di Pyelito Kue rivela la realtà quotidiana dei Guarani Kaiowá: terre usurpate, demarcazioni bloccate e violenze sistematiche nell’impunità dello Stato brasiliano.
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Riceviamo e pubblichiamo: Comunicato stampa
Con il continuo peggioramento del maltempo e della crisi umanitaria nella Striscia di Gaza, centinaia di migliaia di famiglie Gazawi vivono in tende logore che non offrono alcuna protezione dal freddo e dalle piogge, causando una situazione catastrofica che colpisce soprattutto bambini, donne e anziani.
Riteniamo la comunità internazionale responsabile del proprio silenzio e sottolineiamo che il persistente divieto di far entrare gli aiuti essenziali – in particolare tende adeguate, caravan e materiali di riparo – rappresenta una grave violazione degli obblighi umanitari e una minaccia diretta alla vita di centinaia di migliaia di sfollati.
Chiediamo alle Nazioni Unite, alle organizzazioni internazionali e all’UNRWA di intervenire immediatamente e di esercitare una pressione concreta per garantire l’ingresso immediato degli aiuti e l’avvio della ricostruzione, ponendo fine alle restrizioni che aggravano la sofferenza e spingono Gaza verso un inverno disastroso.
La situazione è ormai insostenibile: ogni ritardo vuol dire mettere a rischio altre vite.
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Riceviamo e pubblichiamo: Comunicato stampa Con il continuo peggioramento del maltempo e della crisi umanitaria nella Striscia di Gaza, centinaia di migliaia di famiglie Gazawi vivono in tende logore che non offrono alcuna protezione dal freddo e da…Telegram
Usa, il Pentagono vuole accelerare sulle tecnologie disruptive. Ecco come
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Gli Stati Uniti definiscono la loro prossima agenda tecnologica militare. Emil Michael, sottosegretario alla Ricerca e Ingegneria del Dipartimento della Difesa, ha presentato le sei aree che guideranno gli investimenti e lo sviluppo dei sistemi d’arma nei prossimi anni, con
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La rotta nascosta di Israele per l’«emigrazione volontaria» da Gaza
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I segreti dell'arrivo in Sud Africa di 153 gazawi organizzato da una misteriosa organizzazione, Al Majd, con sedi in Germania e a Gerusalemme
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Gaza, l’Onu approva il piano Trump: una pace sotto tutela americana
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Il Consiglio di sicurezza adotta la risoluzione Usa e affida a Washington la gestione della Striscia: nessuna garanzia sulla fine dell’occupazione, sulla ricostruzione e sull’autodeterminazione palestinese.
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Un Cile stanco e indebitato sceglie la destra: Jara fatica a invertire la rotta
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L’alleanza tra ultradestra e neoliberisti mette in ombra la candidata progressista, isolata e tiepida. Paura, securitarismo e tensioni migratorie: così l’estrema destra ha ricostruito la sua egemonia.
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Buio su Gaza. E sull’umanità
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Trump e Netanyahu non hanno vinto, hanno stravinto. Il mondo ha perso, l’umanità ha perso, è sprofondata in un buco nero di cui solo la storia chiederà il conto. La finta tregua a Gaza ha dato il risultato che il presidente americano e il governo israeliano volevano: il silenzio su Gaza. E
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“Nella foresta c’è una radura inaspettata che può essere trovata solo da chi si è perso”. È uno dei versi più celebri del grande poeta premio nobel Tomas Tranströmer, vero e proprio manifesto della sua poetica, volta alla ricerca dell’essenza dell’esperienza umana. Mi è venuto in mente questo passo del poeta svedese, leggendo la nuova […]
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Quando il corpo di una giovane donna viene ritrovato in circostanze misteriose, la polizia di Oxford si ritrova davanti a un caso complesso e pieno di contraddizioni. A guidare l’indagine è l’improbabile duo formato da Ray Wilkins, giovane promessa dalla mente analitica e dalla condotta impeccabile, e Ryan Wilkins, il suo quasi-omonimo opposto: istintivo, insofferente […]
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Tensione alta tra Cina e Giappone, la lady di ferro nipponica soffia sul fuoco
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La premier del Giappone, la nazionalista di destra Sanae Takaichi, minaccia un intervento militare al fianco di Taiwan contro Pechino e intanto aumenta la spesa militare e rafforza l'esercito
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Siete pronti a farvi travolgere da un'ondata di open source che nemmeno un'alluvione di bit potrebbe fermare?
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Aggiornamenti release di Friendica
@Signor Amministratore ⁂ ciao Super Admin, volevo sapere come mai non ci sono nuove versioni del software di friendica... ? Anche la release installata su poliverso.org è di dicembre 2024. Ho visto au GitHub che negli anni precedenti c'erano sempre varie release durante l'anno, ma nel 2025 nessuna! Ho visto che c'è un branch di luglio 2025, ho anche visto una sua preview su friendica.world e devo dire che è molto buona... Molto più usabile, accessibile e ottimizzata per smartphone. Resto in attesa ciao
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Una premessa: su questo server non vedrai mai una Release Candidate.
Il nostro server deve utilizzare una Release stabile e non una Release sperimentale, perché gli utenti di questo server non devono fare i Beta Tester, ma devono essere lasciati liberi di usare Friendica come (appunto) utenti
Al momento non abbiamo né voglia, né soprattutto soldi da spendere per un server secondario su cui lasciar fare test tagli utenti.
Il fatto che molti server Friendica installino le Release candidate è un gesto sicuramente molto gentile verso gli sviluppatori, che in questo modo possono Testare le loro ultime modifiche, ma riteniamo che sia un gesto Poco rispettoso nei confronti degli utenti.
Purtroppo hai ragione sul fatto che nell'ultimo anno non ci sono stati rilasci stabili del software, con una inversione di tendenza rispetto a tutti gli ultimi anni. C'è anche da dire che con l'ultima release, friendica ha finalmente raggiunto una stabilità e una velocità (sì, non è una battuta) mai avuta prima d'ora. Posso quindi capire che gli sviluppatori abbiano deciso di prendersi un anno Prima di tirare fuori una nuova release. Ricordo Poi che lo staff di sviluppo di Friendica è ridotto all'osso e quando c'è da mettere mano sul sistema, le righe di codice che si sono accumulate in questi dieci anni sono davvero tante.
Speriamo quindi che venga pubblicata prima della fine dell'anno la nuova release, ma anche in questo caso temo di deluderti: a seguito di alcune esperienze non proprio positive, non aggiorniamo mai il sistema alla nuova release prima di avere fatto un test su un nostro piccolo server personale di test e prima di avere verificato che non ci siano problemi che rendono necessario il rilascio di qualche patch. Pertanto, se la nuova Release verrà pubblicata a dicembre molto probabilmente qui la installeremo nel 2026 😅
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A Researcher Made an AI That Completely Breaks the Online Surveys Scientists Rely On#News #study #AI
A Researcher Made an AI That Completely Breaks the Online Surveys Scientists Rely On
Online survey research, a fundamental method for data collection in many scientific studies, is facing an existential threat because of large language models, according to new research published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). The author of the paper, associate professor of government at Dartmouth and director of the Polarization Research Lab Sean Westwood, created an AI tool he calls "an autonomous synthetic respondent,” which can answer survey questions and “demonstrated a near-flawless ability to bypass the full range” of “state-of-the-art” methods for detecting bots.According to the paper, the AI agent evaded detection 99.8 percent of the time.
"We can no longer trust that survey responses are coming from real people," Westwood said in a press release. "With survey data tainted by bots, AI can poison the entire knowledge ecosystem.”
Survey research relies on attention check questions (ACQs), behavioral flags, and response pattern analysis to detect inattentive humans or automated bots. Westwood said these methods are now obsolete after his AI agent bypassed the full range of standard ACQs and other detection methods outlined in prominent papers, including one paper designed to detect AI responses. The AI agent also successfully avoided “reverse shibboleth” questions designed to detect nonhuman actors by presenting tasks that an LLM could complete easily, but are nearly impossible for a human.
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Are you a researcher who is dealing with the problem of AI-generated survey data? I would love to hear from you. Using a non-work device, you can message me securely on Signal at (609) 678-3204. Otherwise, send me an email at emanuel@404media.co.“Once the reasoning engine decides on a response, the first layer executes the action with a focus on human mimicry,” the paper, titled “The potential existential threat of large language models to online survey research,” says. “To evade automated detection, it simulates realistic reading times calibrated to the persona’s education level, generates human-like mouse movements, and types open-ended responses keystroke by-keystroke, complete with plausible typos and corrections. The system is also designed to accommodate tools for bypassing antibot measures like reCAPTCHA, a common barrier for automated systems.”
The AI, according to the paper, is able to model “a coherent demographic persona,” meaning that in theory someone could sway any online research survey to produce any result they want based on an AI-generated demographic. And it would not take that many fake answers to impact survey results. As the press release for the paper notes, for the seven major national polls before the 2024 election, adding as few as 10 to 52 fake AI responses would have flipped the predicted outcome. Generating these responses would also be incredibly cheap at five cents each. According to the paper, human respondents typically earn $1.50 for completing a survey.
Westwood’s AI agent is a model-agnostic program built in Python, meaning it can be deployed with APIs from big AI companies like OpenAI, Anthropic, or Google, but can also be hosted locally with open-weight models like LLama. The paper used OpenAI’s o4-mini in its testing, but some tasks were also completed with DeepSeek R1, Mistral Large, Claude 3.7 Sonnet, Grok3, Gemini 2.5 Preview, and others, to prove the method works with various LLMs. The agent is given one prompt of about 500 words which tells it what kind of persona to emulate and to answer questions like a human.
The paper says that there are several ways researchers can deal with the threat of AI agents corrupting survey data, but they come with trade-offs. For example, researchers could do more identity validation on survey participants, but this raises privacy concerns. Meanwhile, the paper says, researchers should be more transparent about how they collect survey data and consider more controlled methods for recruiting participants, like address-based sampling or voter files.
“Ensuring the continued validity of polling and social science research will require exploring and innovating research designs that are resilient to the challenges of an era defined by rapidly evolving artificial intelligence,” the paper said.
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Dal 18 al 20 novembre il #MIM sarà presente al Salone Dello Studente di #Roma con un info point per l'orientamento, spazi per conoscere gli ITS Academy e un'area dedicata al progetto #MadeinMIM. All’evento parteciperà il Ministro Giuseppe Valditara.Telegram
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Il “piano di pace” per Gaza di Donald Trump, che sta per essere oggetto di voto al Consiglio di Sicurezza delle Nazioni Unite, rimane un documento che non migliora di una virgola le prospettive di emancipazione del popolo palestinese, né tantomeno pr…www.altrenotizie.org
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In Italia nei decenni passati se si era abbastanza potenti era la prassi.
Ovviamente la mia è solo un'ipotesi. Però hanno tentato di fare passare il ponte come spesa militare, assolutamente ridicolo, quindi cos'è che non tenterebbero?
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