Apple aggiorna due bug 0day critici in iOS, presumibilmente abusati dagli spyware
In seguito alla scoperta di due vulnerabilità zero-day estremamente critiche nel motore del browser WebKit, Apple ha pubblicato urgentemente degli aggiornamenti di sicurezza per gli utenti di iPhone e iPad.
Entrambe le vulnerabilità risiedono in WebKit, il motore che alimenta Safari e visualizza i contenuti web nell’ecosistema iOS.
Catalogate come CVE-2025-43529 e CVE-2025-14174, permettono agli attaccanti di attivare codice malevolo attraverso l’inganno della vittima che viene portata a visitare una specifica pagina web.
Per attivare l’exploit, non è necessario che un aggressore abbia un accesso fisico al dispositivo; è sufficiente che venga elaborato un contenuto web creato in modo dannoso, ad esempio un sito web compromesso o una pubblicità dannosa.
L’avviso di Apple riporta quanto segue: “Apple è a conoscenza di una segnalazione secondo cui questo problema potrebbe essere stato sfruttato in un attacco estremamente sofisticato contro individui specifici nelle versioni di iOS precedenti a iOS 26″.
Questa formulazione è solitamente riservata alle campagne di spyware mercenarie sponsorizzate dallo Stato, in cui vengono presi di mira obiettivi di alto valore come giornalisti, diplomatici e dissidenti.
Le due falle sfruttano debolezze diverse nel modo in cui il browser gestisce la memoria:
CVE-2025-43529 (Use-After-Free): scoperta dal Google Threat Analysis Group (TAG), questa vulnerabilità comporta un errore “use-after-free”. In parole povere, il programma tenta di utilizzare la memoria dopo che è stata liberata, consentendo agli hacker di manipolarla per eseguire codice arbitrario. Apple ha risolto questo problema migliorando la gestione della memoria (WebKit Bugzilla: 302502).
CVE-2025-14174 (Corruzione della memoria): attribuito sia ad Apple che a Google TAG, questo problema consente la corruzione della memoria, una condizione che può causare il crash di un sistema o aprire una backdoor per gli aggressori. È stato corretto con una convalida dell’input migliorata (WebKit Bugzilla: 303614).
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Jesus Gutiérrez told immigration agents he was a U.S. citizen. Only after they scanned his face, did the agents let him go.#ICE #Privacy
How a US Citizen Was Scanned With ICE's Facial Recognition Tech
This article is a partnership between Reveal and 404 Media.Jesus Gutiérrez, 23, was walking home one morning from a Chicago gym when he noticed a gray Cadillac SUV with no license plates. He kept walking, shrugging it off. Then the car pulled over and two men got out.
The federal immigration officials told him not to run. They then peppered Gutiérrez with questions: Where are you going? Where are you coming from? Do you have your ID on you?
Gutiérrez is a U.S. citizen. He told the officials this. He didn’t have any identification on him, but, panicking, he tried to find a copy on his phone. The agents put him into the car, where another two agents were waiting, and handcuffed him. Just sit there and be quiet, they said.
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Has this happened to you or someone you know? Do you have any videos of ICE or CBP scanning people's faces? Do you work for either agency? 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.Without Gutiérrez’s ID, the agents resorted to another approach. They took a photo of his face. A short while later, the agents got their answer: “Oh yeah, he’s right. He’s saying the right thing. He does got papers,” Gutiérrez recalled the agents saying.
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Presto un Weekend di tre giorni? Il futuro del lavoro spiegato da un Premio Nobel
La prospettiva di una settimana lavorativa di quattro giorni, con conseguente weekend lungo di tre, potrebbe non essere lontana. A sostenerlo è Christopher A. Pissarides, economista britannico-cipriota e Premio Nobel, che in una recente intervista ha illustrato come la trasformazione tecnologica stia ridisegnando tempi e modalità del lavoro.
Osservando due secoli di industrializzazione, ha spiegato che la riduzione degli orari è una costante storica: dai sette giorni lavorativi della prima era industriale si è passati agli attuali cinque, e il prossimo passo – afferma – è una settimana lavorativa di quattro giorni.
Professore alla London School of Economics e all’Istituto Europeo dell’Università di Cipro, Pissarides è considerato uno dei principali esperti mondiali di economia del lavoro e della teoria dell’attrito nel mercato occupazionale. È stato insignito del Nobel nel 2010 insieme a Dale Mortensen e Peter Diamond per i loro studi sull’impatto delle politiche pubbliche su disoccupazione, posti vacanti e salari. Nel 2013 ha ricevuto il titolo di cavaliere da Elisabetta II.
Il 9 dicembre il suo intervento è stato protagonista della conferenza inaugurale del “Taiwan Bridge Project”, organizzata alla National Cheng Kung University (NCKU). L’auditorium era gremito di studenti, molti dei quali preoccupati dal rischio di essere sostituiti dall’intelligenza artificiale. Pissarides ha dialogato con loro rispondendo a domande raccolte dall’ateneo, affrontando temi che spaziano dalla trasformazione del lavoro alle prospettive dell’industria tecnologica di Taiwan.
Il presidente della NCKU, Shen Meng-ru, ha incontrato il Nobel al termine dell’evento, ringraziandolo per aver portato nuovi spunti in un momento in cui l’università sta ottenendo rilevanti riconoscimenti internazionali, tra cui la 35ª posizione globale nella classifica interdisciplinare del Times Higher Education 2026.
Originario di Cipro, Pissarides si trasferì nel Regno Unito a 17 anni per gli studi. Inizialmente orientato verso l’architettura, si avvicinò poi all’economia, ambito in cui ha sviluppato una lunga ricerca sulle dinamiche tra qualità del lavoro, salute psicofisica e impatto dell’automazione. È cofondatore dell’Institute for the Future of Work di Londra e autore del volume The Theory of Equilibrium Unemployment, ritenuto un riferimento nel settore.
Nel suo intervento, il professore ha descritto un panorama tecnologico segnato da visioni contrapposte sul futuro dell’IA. Geoffrey Hinton, premio Nobel per la fisica 2024, ritiene che i sistemi intelligenti possano sfuggire al controllo umano; al contrario, Demis Hassabis – Nobel per la chimica 2024 e CEO di Google DeepMind – sostiene che nei prossimi dieci anni l’IA potrebbe portare a soluzioni decisive per molte malattie. Sia Hassabis sia Sam Altman, CEO di OpenAI, prevedono l’arrivo dell’AGI nell’arco di 5-10 anni, capace di svolgere la maggior parte delle mansioni svolte oggi dagli esseri umani.
Pissarides prende però le distanze da chi, come Elon Musk, sostiene che l’IA eliminerà ogni tipo di lavoro umano. Secondo il Nobel, ogni rivoluzione tecnologica comporta la scomparsa di alcune professioni e la nascita di nuove, come già avvenuto in passato. Ha citato l’esperienza della Cina tra gli anni ’80 e i primi 2000, quando milioni di lavoratori si spostarono dall’agricoltura all’industria manifatturiera, in quella che definisce la più grande migrazione occupazionale della storia recente.
La sfida attuale, ha spiegato, è rendere più fluido questo passaggio tra settori. A ostacolarlo sono soprattutto la carenza di competenze aggiornate e le asimmetrie informative nel mercato del lavoro. Per questo, ribadisce, l’apprendimento continuo è centrale nell’era dell’IA: la capacità più importante è “imparare a imparare”, con solide basi STEM e formazione costante. Un’indagine del McKinsey Global Institute, ha ricordato, segnala che le aziende che investono almeno 75 ore annue di formazione per dipendente ottengono risultati migliori.
Tra le competenze più richieste ai giovani, Pissarides include la capacità di analizzare dati, comunicare in modo efficace, prendere decisioni consapevoli e possedere abilità trasversali, come empatia e collaborazione.
Il Nobel ha citato anche un episodio personale: suo figlio ha chiesto a ChatGPT se il padre potesse diventare Cancelliere dello Scacchiere nel Regno Unito. L’IA ha risposto che Pissarides sarebbe un eccellente membro del Parlamento, ma non aveva elementi sufficienti per giudicare la sua idoneità al ruolo ministeriale. Il professore racconta l’aneddoto con ironia: “Dopo quella risposta, non ho presentato la candidatura”.
Sul rapporto tra lavoratori e futuro dell’occupazione, ha richiamato un sondaggio dell’American Psychological Association: flessibilità, attenzione alla salute mentale, possibilità di lavorare da remoto e un weekend di tre giorni sono oggi tra i fattori più valutati dalle persone nella scelta del proprio impiego.
Ripercorrendo due secoli di sviluppo economico, Pissarides ritiene plausibile che la settimana lavorativa a quattro giorni diventi gradualmente la norma. Alla domanda su quale modello preferirebbero i lavoratori – sei mezze giornate con un solo giorno di riposo oppure tre giorni di lavoro e quattro liberi – osserva che la maggior parte sceglierebbe la seconda opzione.
Pur lavorando attualmente sei giorni a settimana, Pissarides afferma di attendere con favore un futuro weekend lungo: “Spero che la settimana corta arrivi presto”, ha commentato sorridendo. Nel Regno Unito alcune aziende hanno già introdotto questo modello, anche se non rappresenta ancora uno standard nazionale. A suo avviso, la tendenza è destinata a diffondersi su scala globale, con l’eccezione degli Stati Uniti, dove molte categorie ad alto reddito mantengono ritmi intensi.
Infine, parlando dell’economia taiwanese, ha elogiato la crescita dell’industria dei semiconduttori, ricordando però i rischi di un’eccessiva concentrazione settoriale. Ha citato Cipro e Grecia come esempi di economie dipendenti dal turismo, duramente colpite da eventi esterni come conflitti o pandemie: “Non è prudente basare un’economia su un solo settore”, ha avvertito, invitando a diversificare per ridurre la vulnerabilità.
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The Near Space Adventures of Bradfield the Bear
Admit it or not, you probably have a teddy bear somewhere in your past that you were — or maybe are — fond of. Not to disparage your bear, but we think Bradfield might have had a bigger adventure than yours has. Bradfield was launched in November on a high-altitude balloon by Year 7 and 8 students at Walhampton School in the UK in connection with Southampton University. Dressed in a school uniform, he was supposed to ride to near space, but ran into some turbulence. The BBC reported that poor Bradfield couldn’t hold on any longer and fell from around 17 miles up. The poor bear looked fairly calm for being so high up.
A camera recorded the unfortunate stuffed animal’s plight. Apparently, a companion plushie, Bill the Badger (the Badger being the Southampton mascot), successfully completed the journey, returning to Earth with a parachute.
There have been some news reports that Bradfield may have been recovered, but we haven’t seen anything definitive yet. Of course, there are plenty of things you can launch on a balloon, but what a great idea to let kids send a mascot aloft with your serious science payloads and radio gear. Because we know you are launching a balloon for a serious purpose, right? Sure, we won’t tell you just want the cool pictures.
No offense to Bradfield, but sending humans aloft on balloons requires a little more care. We aren’t as well-equipped to drop 17 miles. The Hackaday Supercon has even been the site of an uncrewed (and unbeared) balloon launch. Meanwhile, if you are around Reading and spot Bradfield, be sure to give him a cookie and call the Walhampton school.
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Super-Sizing Insects and the Benefits of Bones
Have you ever found yourself looking at the insects of the Paleozoic era, including the dragonfly Meganeuropsis permiana with its 71 cm wingspan and wondered what it would be like to have one as a pet? If so, you’re in luck because the mad lads over at [The Thought Emporium] have done a lot of the legwork already to grow your own raven-sized moths and more. As it turns out, all it takes is hijacking the chemical signals that control the development phases, to grow positively humongous mealworms and friends.
The growth process of the juveniles, such as mealworms – the larval form of the yellow mealworm beetle – goes through a number of molting stages (instars), with the insect juvenile hormone levels staying high until it is time for the final molt and transformation into a pupa from which the adult form emerges. The pyriproxyfen insecticide is a juvenile hormone analog that prevents this event. Although at high doses larvae perish, the video demonstrates that lower doses work to merely inhibit the final molt.
That proof-of-concept is nice of course if you really want to grow larger grubs, but doesn’t ultimately really affect the final form as they simply go through the same number of instars. Changing this requires another hormone/insecticide, called ecdysone, which regulates the number of instars before the final molt and pupal stage.
Amusingly, this hormone is expressed by plants to mess with larvae as they predate on their tissues, with spinach expressing a very significant amount of this phyto-ecdysone. For humans this incidentally interacts with the estrogen receptor beta, which helps with building muscle. Ergo bodybuilding supplies provide a ready to use source of this hormone as ‘beta ecdysterone’ to make swol insects with.
Unfortunately, this hormone turned out to be very tricky to apply, as adding it to their feed like with pyriproxyfen merely resulted in the test subjects losing weight or outright dying. For the next step it would seem that a more controlled exposure method is needed, which may or may not involve some DNA editing. Clearly creating Mothra is a lot harder than just blasting a hapless insect with some random ionizing radiation or toxic chemicals.
A common myth with insect size is that the only reason why they got so big during the Paleozoic was due to the high CO2 content in the atmosphere. This is in fact completely untrue. There is nothing in insect physiology that prevents them from growing much larger, as they even have primitive lungs, as well as a respiratory and circulatory system to support this additional growth. Consequently, even today we got some pretty large insects for this reason, including some humongous flies, like the 7 cm long and 10 cm wingspan Gauromydas heros.
The real reasons appears to be the curse of exoskeletons, which require constant stressful molting and periods of complete vulnerability. In comparison, us endoskeleton-equipped animals have bones that grow along with the muscles and other tissues around them, which ultimately seems to be just the better strategy if you want to grow big. Evolutionary speaking this makes it more attractive for insects and other critters with exoskeletons to stay small and fly under the proverbial radar.
The positive upshot of this is of course that this means that we can totally have dog-sized moths as pets, which surely is what the goal of the upcoming video will be.
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Liberating AirPods with Bluetooth Spoofing
Apple’s AirPods can pair with their competitors’ devices and work as basic Bluetooth earbuds, but to no one’s surprise most of their really interesting features are reserved for Apple devices. What is surprising, though, is that simple Bluetooth device ID spoofing unlocks these features, a fact which [Kavish Devar] took advantage of to write LibrePods, an AirPods controller app for Android and Linux.
In particular, LibrePods lets you control noise reduction modes, use ear detection to pause and unpause audio, detect head gestures, reduce volume when the AirPods detect you’re speaking, work as configurable hearing aids, connect to two devices simultaneously, and configure a few other settings. The app needs an audiogram to let them work as hearing aids, and you’ll need an existing audiogram – creating an audiogram requires too much precision. Of particular interest to hackers, the app has a debug mode to send raw Bluetooth packets to the AirPods. Unfortunately, a bug in the Android Bluetooth stack means that LibrePods requires root on most devices.
This isn’t the first time we’ve seen a hack enable hearing aid functionality without official Apple approval. However, while we have some people alter the hardware, AirPorts can’t really be called hacker- or repair-friendly.
Thanks to [spiralbrain] for the tip!
“Umanità negata”. A Trieste un presidio per denunciare la tragedia di quattro migranti morti
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‘Io so’ con Elena Ruzza, a Borgaro Torinese. Un momento importante di ‘cucitura’ tra memoria e futur
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Alla vigilia dell’anniversario della strage del 12 dicembre 1969, piazza Fontana,
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Il caso Ispettorato Nazionale del Lavoro:, la priorità dei vertici dell’ente è la gestione del potere
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Dopo l’annuncio, in data 25.11.2025, di smantellamento dell’Ispettorato
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Usigrai e CdR Approfondimento: a rischio “il Fattore Umano”
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‘Il fattore Umano’, programma Rai d’inchiesta che si occupa di diritti umani violati, è “a rischio”. Lo dicono in una nota congiunta Usigrai e CdR Approfondimento dove si ricorda che la trasmissione,
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Stop the gatekeeping. The First Amendment is for all of us
Dear Friend of Press Freedom,
Rümeysa Öztürk has been facing deportation for 262 days for co-writing an op-ed the government didn’t like, and journalist Ya’akub Vijandre remains locked up by Immigration and Customs Enforcement over social media posts about issues he reported on. Read on for more on what we’re working on this week.
Stop the gatekeeping. The First Amendment’s for all of us
In the early days of the internet, online news confused analog-era judges, who pondered questions like, “If this is journalism then why are there no ink smudges on my fingers?” These days, First Amendment advocates tend to chuckle when thinking back on that era. But apparently it’s not quite over yet.
Freedom of the Press Foundation (FPF) Senior Adviser Caitlin Vogus wrote for the Sun-Sentinel about a judge in Florida’s unfortunate ruling that YouTube-based outlet Popcorned Planet can’t avail itself of the state’s reporter’s privilege to oppose a subpoena from actor Blake Lively. The court’s decision would “effectively exclude any independent journalist who publishes using online platforms from relying on the privilege to protect their sources.” If it stands, “vital information will stay buried,” she explained.
And FPF Executive Director Trevor Timm spoke to Columbia Journalism Review about another subpoena from Lively that’s testing whether celebrity blogger Perez Hilton can claim the privilege. “Hilton is gathering information, talking to sources, and publishing things in order to have the public consume them. That fits the definition of a journalist,” Timm explained. As CJR noted, FPF’s U.S. Press Freedom Tracker “was one of the few to highlight the Hilton case.”
It’s not a question of whether Popcorned Planet and Hilton are great journalists or if they pass some editorial purity test. It’s a question of whether the courts will allow litigants to chip away at First Amendment rights that protect all journalists, no matter what platform they use to report or what subjects they cover.
Administration is trolling America with its FOIA responses
As The New York Times reported this week, Immigration and Customs Enforcement claimed it has no body-worn camera footage from Operation Midway Blitz in Chicago, Illinois, despite a federal judge’s explicit order that agents wear and activate those cameras.
And as The Daily Beast reported, the Department of Homeland Security told FFP’s Daniel Ellsberg Chair on Government Secrecy Lauren Harper that Kristi Noem had no Truth Social Direct messages, despite her millions of followers. Harper requested cabinet officials’ messages in a Freedom of Information Act request after President Donald Trump accidentally publicly posted correspondence with Attorney General Pam Bondi.
As Harper told the Times, “They are trolling citizens and judges … ICE continues to feel increasing impunity and that it has the right to behave as a secret police that’s exempt from accountability.” FPF is, of course, appealing.
Don’t weaken Puerto Rico’s public records law
When the U.S. Navy quietly reactivated Roosevelt Roads Naval Station in Puerto Rico earlier this year, some residents saw the promise of new jobs, while others saw it as a painful reminder of past harms from the American military presence on the island.
Puerto Ricans — and Americans everywhere — deserve basic answers about what the military is up to as tensions escalate with Venezuela and whether Puerto Rico’s government is coordinating with the Pentagon and whether their concerns are being taken into account. And of course, there are countless local issues Puerto Ricans are entitled to be informed about.
But at the moment when transparency is most essential, lawmakers are trying to slam the door shut.
Don’t just take our word for it…
Throughout 2025 we’ve been hosting online events platforming journalists impacted by anti-press policies at the national and local levels, so you can hear directly from the people we hope will benefit from our work.
Read about three of our recent events. This week’s panel features journalists whose reporting is complicated by sources unwilling to come forward due to fear of retaliation. Last week we spoke with journalists about the difficulties of covering the immigration beat during Trump 2.0, and last month we talked about the immigration cases against journalists Sami Hamdi and Ya’akub Vijandre over their support for Palestinian rights (shoutout to our friends at The Dissenter for writing up that event). And there are even more past events on our YouTube channel.
WHAT WE'RE READING
Chokehold: Donald Trump’s war on free speech and the need for systemic resistance
Free Press
In a comprehensive new report, Free Press’s Nora Benavidez analyzes how Trump and his political enablers have sought to undermine and chill the most basic freedoms protected by the First Amendment.
Press freedom advocates sound alarm over Ya’akub Vijandre, stuck for over two months in ICE custody in Georgia
WABE
We cannot just accept that “every so often the administration is going to abduct some lawful resident who said something it doesn’t like about Israel or Palestine,” FPF’s Seth Stern told WABE.
Watched, tracked, and targeted: Life in Gaza under Israel’s all-encompassing surveillance regime
New York Magazine
A powerful essay by Palestinian journalist Mohammed Mhawish about life in Gaza “under Israel’s all-encompassing surveillance regime.”
ICEBlock creator sues Trump administration officials saying they pressured Apple to remove it from the app store
CNN
Threatening to punish app stores if they don’t remove apps the government dislikes is unconstitutional. This time it’s ICEBlock, but tomorrow it could be a news app.
Longtime LA radio exec Will Lewis dies; Went to prison in Hearst case
My News LA
Many heroes work behind the scenes on press freedom. Will Lewis was one of them. A radio executive who championed public media, he spent 15 days in prison to protect sources. RIP.
‘Heroic excavators of government secrets’
National Security Archive
Congratulations to the indefatigable National Security Archive on 40 years of clawing back the self-serving veil of government secrecy.
#Ucraina: l'Europa in trappola
Ucraina: l’Europa in trappola
La recente intervista di Trump alla testata on-line Politico ha fatto salire l’isteria dei governi europei a livelli senza precedenti, dal momento che il presidente americano ha ribadito per una platea decisamente più ampia la marginalità del vecchio…www.altrenotizie.org
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"È proprio perché vuole la pace che Kyjiv non può accettare le condizioni imposte dai russi (al chiaro scopo di riprendere la guerra),"
non avrei saputo dirlo meglio.
"Dunque, per tradurre la discussione in termini più comprensibili, dovremmo dire che la proposta di pace russa è questa: noi smettiamo di assediarvi e tentare di entrare dentro casa vostra, a condizione che da domani voi lasciate la porta aperta, anzi la porta la dovete proprio togliere dai cardini, in cambio della nostra parola di gentiluomini che non ne approfitteremo in alcun modo. Se a questo aggiungiamo pure le richieste sul ridimensionamento dell’esercito e degli armamenti ucraini, il gioco dovrebbe essere piuttosto chiaro a chiunque non sia completamente scemo."
Spazio, Leonardo ambisce al mercato dei lanciatori? Ecco cosa lo fa pensare
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Se l’Europa politica stenta ancora a dare segnali concreti di unità, l’industria, dal canto suo, sembra avere le idee chiare sul futuro. Anche più di quanto non racconti apertamente, almeno finora. Dal palco di Atreju, Roberto Cingolani ha rivelato ulteriori dettagli su
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Behind the Blog: Is This Headline 'Clickbait'?
This is Behind the Blog, where we share our behind-the-scenes thoughts about how a few of our top stories of the week came together. This week, we discuss conversational AI, a behind the scenes of the zine, and more.EMANUEL: I made the terrible mistake of looking at some Hacker News comments this week for my story about a developer whose Google accounts were banned after he uploaded training data to Google Drive. Unbeknownst to him, the training data contained CSAM.
As we’ve explained in previous stories, CSAM is a subject we dread covering not only because it’s one of the most awful things one could think about, but because it’s extremely difficult and legally risky. For understandable reasons, the laws around viewing, let alone possessing CSAM, are strict and punishing, which makes verification for reporting reasons challenging. For similar reasons, it’s something we need to write about very carefully, making sure we don’t wrongfully associate or whitewash someone when it comes to such horrible behavior.
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""Pensavo fossimo molto vicini ad un accordo con la Russia e pensavo fossimo vicini ad un accordo con l'Ucraina. Al di là del presidente Zelensky, la sua gente apprezza l'idea dell'accordo"
trump non sa neppure cosa pensa la parte politica non propria negli stati uniti (e pure su quella ci sarebbe da discutere) e non rappresenta tutti i cittadini usa. figurarsi se può sapere meglio di zelensky cosa pensano gli ucraini. è improbabile. al massimo saprà cosa pensa quell'1 su 100'000 che per legge dei grandi numeri sono già fascistoni...
Dati, reti e deterrenza. Cosa emerge dall’esercitazione Cyber eagle
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Si è chiusa una delle principali esercitazioni italiane dedicate alla difesa digitale, un appuntamento che restituisce una fotografia concreta di come il dominio cibernetico sia ormai parte integrante della sicurezza nazionale. L’Aeronautica militare ha presentato i risultati di
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BOLIVIA. Arrestato l’ex presidente Luis Arce, timori per Evo Morales
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In Bolivia la procura ha arrestato l'ex presidente di centrosinistra Luis Arce per malversazione di fondi pubblici. I sostenitori di Evo Morales temono che il prossimo ad essere arrestato sia l'ex leader del Movimento al Socialismo
L'articolo BOLIVIA. Arrestato l’ex
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Ministero dell'Istruzione
#ScuolaFutura, dal 12 al 15 dicembre, il campus itinerante sull’innovazione didattica promosso dal #MIM farà tappa a #Sanremo con i laboratori nazionali di orientamento dedicati alla musica e alle #STEM.Telegram
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Componenti cinesi nelle auto americane? L’allarme del Congresso per la sicurezza nazionale
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La catena globale della produzione automobilistica è ormai diventata un fronte della competizione strategica tra Stati Uniti e Cina. E il messaggio è emerso con chiarezza durante un’audizione della House Select Committee on China, in cui i vertici della
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FinTech und Datenschutz: PayPal sammelt die sexuellen Vorlieben von Kunden
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56 anni fa, la strage di piazza Fontana a Milano. Strage fascista, dove morirono 17 persone e ne vennero ferite 88. Lo stato accusò gli anarchici, arrestarono il ferroviere Giuseppe Pinelli, che guarda caso morì cadendo dalla finestra della questura di Milano. Dissero che si era buttato... Una preghiera per le vittime della stage e per Pinelli, vittima innocente di un omicidio di stato.
La storia della strage di Piazza Fontana: perché cambiò l’Italia
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strage di Piazza Fontana, strage di Stato, strage fascista
12 dicembre, Piazza Fontana, strage di stato: non dimentichiamo
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BENIN. Il golpe sventato grazie all’intervento della Francia e dell’Ecowas
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Per sventare il tentato golpe in Benin sono intervenute le truppe dell'Ecowas, un'alleanza regionale fedele a Parigi. La Francia non vuole perdere la sua residua influenza in Africa dopo l'avvicinamento a Mosca di Burkina Faso, Mali e Niger
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OSINT nell'Indagine sull'assalto al Campidoglio degli Stati Uniti
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Dopo il grande pezzo sugli ecoceronti, Claudia torna a noi per regalarci una nuova perla dedicata all'OSINT. Non è roba da nerd, anzi, è qualcosa che ci appartiene culturalmente e che abbiamo imparato fin dai tempi dell'asilo.
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Quando il talento incontra lo studio e la passione, allora nascono percorsi artistici dall’alto potenziale di sviluppo. Questo è il caso di Sara Gioielli, pianista e diplomata in canto jazz in quel Sancta Sanctorum che è il conservatorio di San Pietro a Majella di Napoli, straordinaria fucina di artisti e compositori fin dalla sua fondazione […]
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STATI UNITI. L’ICE perseguita i lavoratori. Datori di lavoro e sindacati reagiscono
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Quali sono le tattiche che aziende agricole, fabbriche, ristoranti e altri luoghi di lavoro utilizzano per proteggere i dipendenti immigrati dalle incursioni dell'ICE?
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Ministero dell'Istruzione
Ieri, al #MIM, con l’accensione dell’albero di #Natale, alla presenza del Ministro Giuseppe Valditara e del Sottosegretario Paola Frassinetti, si sono conclusi i laboratori di #NextGenArt.Telegram
Digital Fights: Digital Lights: Wir kämpfen gegen Handydurchsuchungen bei Geflüchteten
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Ma com'è sta storia che il petrolio scende di prezzo e i carburanti aumentano? 🤨🧐😠
Il petrolio chiude in calo a New York a 57,60 dollari al barile - Ultima ora - Ansa.it
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Journalists warn of silenced sources
From national outlets to college newspapers, reporters are running into the same troubling trend: sources who are afraid to speak to journalists because they worry about retaliation from the federal government.
This fear, and how journalists can respond to it, was the focus of a recent panel discussion hosted by Freedom of the Press Foundation (FPF), the Association of Health Care Journalists, and the Society of Environmental Journalists. Reporters from a range of beats described how the second Trump administration has changed the way people talk to the press, and what journalists do to reassure sources and keep them safe.
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For journalist Grace Hussain, a solutions correspondent at Sentient Media, this shift became unmistakable when sources who relied on federal funding suddenly backed out of participating in her reporting. “Their concerns were very legitimate,” Hussain said, “It was possible that their funding could get retracted or withdrawn” for speaking to the press.
When Hussain reached out to other reporters, she found that sources’ reluctance to speak to the press for fear of federal retaliation is an increasingly widespread issue that’s already harming news coverage. “There are a lot of stories that are under-covered, and it’s just getting more difficult at this point to do that sort of coverage with the climate that we’re in,” she said.
Lizzy Lawrence, who covers the Food and Drug Administration for Stat, has seen a different but equally unsettling pattern. Lawrence has found that more government sources want to talk about what’s happening in their agencies, but often only if they’re not named. Since Trump returned to office, she said, many sources “would request only to speak on the condition of anonymity, because of fears of being fired.” As a result, her newsroom is relying more on confidential sources, with strict guardrails, like requiring multiple sources to corroborate information.
For ProPublica reporter Sharon Lerner, who’s covered health and the environment across multiple administrations, the heightened fear is impossible to miss. Some longtime sources have cut off communication with her, including one who told her they were falsely suspected of leaking.
And yet, she added, speaking to the press may be one of the last options left for employees trying to expose wrongdoing. “So many of the avenues for federal employees to seek justice or address retaliation have been shut down,” Lerner said.
This chilling effect extends beyond federal agencies. Emily Spatz, editor-in-chief of Northeastern’s independent student newspaper The Huntington News, described how fear spread among international students after federal agents detained Mahmoud Kahlil and Rümeysa Öztürk. Visa revocations of students at Northeastern only deepened the concern.
Students started asking the newspaper to take down previously published op-eds they worried could put them at risk, a step Spatz took after careful consideration. The newsroom ultimately removed six op-eds but posted a public website documenting each removal to preserve transparency.
Even as the paper worked hard to protect sources, many became reluctant to participate in their reporting. One student, for instance, insisted the newspaper remove a photo showing the back of their head, a method the paper had used specifically to avoid identifying sources.
Harlo Holmes, the chief information security officer and director of digital security at FPF, said these patterns mirror what journalists usually experience under authoritarian regimes, but — until now — have not been seen in the United States. Whistleblowing is a “humongously heroic act,” Holmes said, “and it is not always without its repercussions.”
She urged reporters to adopt rigorous threat-modeling practices and to be transparent with sources about the tools and techniques they use to keep them safe. Whether using SecureDrop, Signal, or other encrypted channels, she said journalists should make it easy for sources to find out how to contact them securely. “A little bit of education goes a long way,” she said.
For more on how journalists are working harder than ever to protect vulnerable sources, watch the full event recording here.
Tempesta e freddo su 850mila sfollati vittime dello stato genocida di israele.
Rahaf, bimba di otto mesi, morta di freddo a Kahn Younis
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gli USA intendono passare ai raggi x i social di chiunque entri nel loro territorio
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un'opera di Leonora Carrington
March Sunday / Leonora Carrington. 1990
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‘Architects of AI’ Wins Time Person of the Year, Sends Gambling Markets Into a Meltdown#TimePersonoftheYear
‘Architects of AI’ Wins Time Person of the Year, Sends Gambling Markets Into a Meltdown
The degenerate gamblers of Polymarket and Kalshi who bet that “AI” would win the Time Person of the Year are upset because the magazine has named the “Architects of AI” the person of the year. The people who make AI tools and AI infrastructure are, notably, not “AI” themselves, and thus both Kalshi and Polymarket have decided that people who bet “AI” do not win the bet. On Polymarket alone, people spent more than $6 million betting on AI gracing the cover of Time.As writer Parker Molloy pointed out, people who bet on AI are pissed. “ITS THE ARCHITECTS OF AI THISNIS [sic] LITERALLY THE BET FUCK KALSHI,” one Kalshi better said.
“This pretty clearly should’ve resolved to yes. If you bought AI, reach out to Kalshi support because ‘AI’ is literally on the cover and in the title ‘Architects of AI.’ They’re not going to change anything unless they hear from people,” said another.
“ThE aRcHiTeCtS oF AI fuck you pay me,” said a third.
“Another misleading bet by Kalshi,” said another gambler. “Polymarket had fair rules and Kalshi did not. They need to fix this.”
But bag holders on Polymarket are also pissed. “This is a scam. It should be resolved to a cancellation and a full refund to everyone,” said a gambler who’d put money down on Jensen Huang and lost. Notably, on Kalshi, anyone who bet on any of the “Architects of AI,” won the bet (meaning Sam Altman, Elon Musk, Jensen Huang, Dario Amodei, Mark Zuckerberg, Lisa Su, and Demis Hassabis), while anyone who bet their products—“ChatGPT” and “OpenAI” did not win. On Polymarket, the rules were even more strict, i.e. people who bet “Jensen Huang” lost but people who bet “Other” won.
“FUCK YOU FUCKING FUCK Shayne Coplan [CEO of Polymarket],” said someone who lost about $50 betting on AI to make the cover.
Polymarket made its reasoning clear in a note of “additional context” on the market.
“This market is about the person/thing named as TIME's Person of the Year for 2025, not what is depicted on the cover. Per the rules, “If the Person of the Year is ‘Donald Trump and the MAGA movement,’ this would qualify to resolve this market to ‘Trump.’ However if the Person of the Year is ‘The MAGA movement,’ this would not qualify to resolve this market to ‘Trump’ regardless of whether Trump is depicted on the cover,” it said.
“Accordingly, a Time cover which lists ‘Architects of AI’ as the person of the year will not qualify for ‘AI’ even if the letters ‘AI’ are depicted on the cover, as AI itself is not specifically named.”
It should be noted how incredibly stupid all of this is, which is perhaps appropriate for the year 2025, in which most of the economy consists of reckless gambling on AI. People spent more than $55 million betting on the Time Person of the Year on Polymarket, and more than $19 million betting on the Time Person of the Year on Kalshi. It also presents one of the many downsides of spending money to bet on random things that happen in the world. One of the most common and dumbest things that people continue to do to this day despite much urging otherwise is anthropomorphize AI, which is distinctly not a person and is not sentient.
Time almost always actually picks a “person” for its Person of the Year cover, but it does sometimes get conceptual with it, at times selecting groups of people (“The Silence Breakers” of the #MeToo movement, the “Whistleblowers,” the “Good Samaritans,” “You,” and the “Ebola Fighters,” for example). In 1982 it selected “The Computer” as its “Machine of the Year,” and in 1988 it selected “The Endangered Earth” as “Planet of the Year.”
Polymarket’s users have been upset several times over the resolution of bets in the past few weeks and their concerns highlight how easy it is to manipulate the system. In November, an unauthorized edit of a live map of the Ukraine War allowed gamblers to cash in on a battle that hadn’t happened. Earlier this month, a trader made $1 million in 24 hours betting on the results of Google’s 2025 Year In Search Rankings and other users accused him of having inside knowledge of the process. Over the summer, Polymarket fought a war over whether or not President Zelenskyy had worn a suit. Surely all of this will continue to go well and be totally normal moving forward, especially as these prediction markets begin to integrate themselves with places such as CNN.
Kalshi to become CNN’s official prediction market partner
Kalshi’s data will serve as a powerful complement to CNN’s reporting.Kalshi
With OpenAI investment, Disney will officially begin putting AI slop into its flagship streaming product.#AIPorn #OpenAI #Disney
Disney Invests $1 Billion in the AI Slopification of Its Brand
The first thing I saw this morning when I opened X was an AI-generated trailer for Avengers: Doomsday. Robert Downey Jr’s Doctor Doom stood in a shapeless void alongside Captain America and Reed Richards. It was obvious slop but it was also close in tone and feel of the last five years of Disney’s Marvel movies. As media empires consolidate, nostalgia intensifies, and AI tools spread, Disney’s blockbusters feel more like an excuse to slam recognizable characters together in a contextless morass.So of course Disney has announced it signed a deal with OpenAI today that will soon allow fans to make their own officially licensed Disney slop using Sora 2. The house that mouse built, and which has been notoriously protective of its intellectual property, opened up the video generator, saw the videos featuring Nazi Spongebob and criminal Pikachu, and decided: We want in.
According to a press release, the deal is a 3 year licensing agreement that will allow the AI company’s short form video platform Sora to generate slop videos using characters like Mickey Mouse and Iron Man. As part of the agreement, Disney is investing $1 billion of equity into OpenAI, said it will become a major customer of the company, and promised that fan and corporate AI-generated content would soon come to Disney+, meaning that Disney will officially begin putting AI slop into its flagship streaming product.
The deal extends to ChatGPT as well and, starting in early 2026, users will be able to crank out officially approved Disney slop on multiple platforms. When Sora 2 launched in October, it had little to no content moderation or copyright guidelines and videos of famous franchise characters doing horrible things flooded the platform. Pikachu stole diapers from a CVS, Rick and Morty pushed crypto currencies, and Disney characters shouted slurs in the aisles of Wal-Mart.
It is worth mentioning that, although Disney has traditionally been extremely protective of its intellectual property, the company’s princesses have become one of the most common fictional subjects of AI porn on the internet; 404 Media has found at least three different large subreddits dedicated to making AI porn of characters like Elsa, Snow White, Rapunzel, and Tinkerbell. In this case, Disney is fundamentally throwing its clout behind a technology that has thus far most commonly been used to make porn of its iconic characters.
After the hype of the launch, OpenAI added an “opt-in” policy to Sora that was meant to prevent users from violating the rights of copyright holders. It’s trivial to break this policy however, and circumvent the guardrails preventing a user from making a lewd Mickey Mouse cartoon or episode of The Simpsons. The original sin of Sora and other AI systems is that the training data is full of copyrighted material and the models cannot be retrained without great cost, if at all.
If you can’t beat the slop, become the slop.
“The rapid advancement of artificial intelligence marks an important moment for our industry, and through this collaboration with OpenAI we will thoughtfully and responsibly extend the reach of our storytelling through generative AI, while respecting and protecting creators and their works,” Bob Iger, CEO of Disney, said in the press release about the agreement.
The press release explained that Sora users will soon have “official” access to 200 characters in the Disney stable, including Loki, Thanos, Darth Vader, and Minnie Mouse. In exchange, Disney will begin to use OpenAI’s APIs to “build new products” and it will deploy “ChatGPT for its employees.”
I’m imagining a future where AI-generated fan trailers of famous characters standing next to each other in banal liminal spaces is the norm. People have used Sora 2 to generate some truly horrifying videos, but the guardrails have become more aggressive. As Disney enters the picture, I imagine the platform will become even more anodyne. Persistent people will slip through and generate videos of Goofy and Iron Man sucking and fucking, sure, but the vast majority of what’s coming will be safe corporate gruel that resembles a Marvel movie.
OpenAI’s Sora 2 Copyright Infringement Machine Features Nazi SpongeBobs and Criminal Pikachus
The main use of Sora appears to generate brainrot of major beloved copyrighted characters, to say nothing of the millions of articles, images, and videos OpenAI has scraped.Jason Koebler (404 Media)
Il Portogallo paralizzato dal primo sciopero generale dopo 12 anni
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I sindacati portoghesi hanno proclamato lo sciopero contro un piano del governo che faciliterà i licenziamenti ed estenderà la precarietà nel mondo del lavoro
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