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.

Read the statement here.

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.

Read more from 404 Media.

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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Both Freedom of the Press Foundation and 404 Media filed similar Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests with DHS and CMS seeking a copy of the agreement. Neither agency provided the requested records in time, so we have now filed the lawsuit. In 404 Media’s case, CMS acknowledged the request but has not provided the records, and DHS did not even acknowledge the request at all.

404 Media’s request asked for a copy of the specific agreement, and if the agencies were unable to locate it, to alternatively provide copies of all agreements between DHS and CMS from this year.

“Despite having received the FOIA requests, and despite their obligations under the law, Defendants have failed to notify Plaintiffs of the scope of documents that they will produce or the scope of documents that they plan to withhold in response to the FOIA requests,” the lawsuit reads.
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Freedom of the Press Foundation is a non-profit organization that monitors press freedom issues in the U.S. and trains journalists on how to keep themselves and their sources safe. It regularly sues the U.S. government for access to records.

The data sharing agreement is just one of a growing list of ways that ICE is sourcing highly sensitive, and sometimes legally protected, information as part of the Trump administration’s mass deportation effort. ProPublica reported on the vast system the IRS is building to share millions of taxpayers’ data with ICE. 404 Media previously reported ICE has gained access to ISO Claimsearch, a massive insurance and medical bill database to find deportation targets. The database is nearly all encompassing and contains details on more than 1.8 billion insurance claims and 58 million medical bills.

Separately, 404 Media filed a lawsuit against ICE in September for access to the agency’s $2 million spyware contract.

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When taking pictures of the night sky, any noise picked up by the sensor can obscure the desired result. One major cause of noise in CMOS sensors is heat—even small amounts can degrade the final image. To combat this, [Francisco C] of Deep SkyLab retrofitted an old Canon T1i DSLR with an external cooler to reduce thermal noise, which introduces random pixel variations that can hide faint stars.

While dedicated astrophotography cameras exist—and [Francisco C] even owns one—he wanted to see if he could improve an old DSLR by actively cooling its image sensor. He began with minor surgery, removing the rear panel and screen to expose the back of the sensor. Using a sub-$20 Peltier cooler (also called a TEC, or Thermoelectric Cooler), he placed its cold side against the sensor, creating a path to draw heat away.

Reassembling the camera required some compromises, such as leaving off the LCD screen due to space constraints. To prevent light leaks, [Francisco C] covered the exposed PCBs and viewfinder with tape. He then tested the setup, taking photos with the TEC disabled and enabled. Without cooling, the sensor started at 67°F but quickly rose to 88°F in sequential shots. With the TEC enabled, the sensor remained steady at 67°F across all shots, yielding a 2.8x improvement in the signal-to-noise ratio. Thanks to [Francisco C] for sharing this project! Check out his project page for more details, and explore our other astrophotography hacks for inspiration.

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The tides! Such a unique thing, because on Earth, we don’t just have oceans full of liquid water—we also have a big ol’ moon called Moon to pull them around. You might like to keep track of the tides; if so, this tide clock from [rabbitcreek] could come in handy.

The motions of the tides are moderately complex; it was in the late 19th century that Sir William Thomson figured out a reasonable method to predict the tides mathematically and with a mechanical contrivance of his own design. These days, though, you don’t need pulleys and ropes to build a tide clock; you can just use electronics for display and the NOAA API to get the information you need.

[rabbitcreek’s] build is based around the Xiao ESP32 S3, which is charged with using its Wi-Fi connection to query NOAA up-to-date tide height data. It then uses this information to drive the position of a servo, installed inside a 3D-printed housing. The servo rotates a little red Moon indicator around a central Earth, with our home planet surrounded by a stretched blue marker indicating the swelling of the tides as influenced by the Moon’s gravity.

If you’re a surfer or beach driver that’s always wanting to know the tidal state at a glance, this clock is for you. We’ve featured other tide clocks before, but never any projects that can actually influence the tides themselves. If you’ve figured out how to mess with gravity on a planetary scale, consider applying for a Nobel Prize—but do notify the tipsline before you do.

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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.

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Le Nazioni Unite si affidano sempre più all’intelligenza artificiale nella produzione di testi ufficiali. Secondo un recente studio, il 13% dei comunicati stampa delle Nazioni Unite mostra già segni di generazione automatica.

Un’analisi delle pubblicazioni aziendali e governative ha rivelato un quadro ancora più ampio: circa il 17% di tali materiali, dagli annunci di lavoro alle dichiarazioni ufficiali, avrebbe potuto essere redatto con l’ausilio di modelli linguistici.

Ma sappiamo che l’intelligenza artificiale è utilizzata attivamente anche dai cittadini comuni.

Secondo gli autori, circa il 18% dei reclami presentati al Consumer Financial Protection Bureau degli Stati Uniti tra il 2022 e il 2024 è stato generato utilizzando reti neurali. Questo risultato sembra prevedibile: più della metà degli adulti americani (52%), che ha già ammesso di utilizzare modelli linguistici.

Vengono utilizzati più spesso per l’auto apprendimento o per le attività quotidiane, ma il loro utilizzo anche in ambito aziendale sta diventando sempre più evidente.

La percentuale di testo generato automaticamente è particolarmente elevata nei comunicati stampa aziendali. I ricercatori hanno scoperto che quasi un quarto delle pubblicazioni pubblicate sulle tre principali piattaforme di comunicati stampa è stato creato con l’ausilio dell’intelligenza artificiale. La più alta concentrazione di tali materiali è stata riscontrata nel settore scientifico e tecnologico.

Gli autori hanno studiato separatamente gli annunci di lavoro su LinkedIn. È emerso che le grandi aziende sono meno propense ad affidarsi a strumenti generativi nella scrittura degli annunci di lavoro, mentre circa il 10% degli annunci di lavoro delle piccole imprese, al contrario, mostra segni di apprendimento automatico.

Nel frattempo, gli stessi candidati esprimono sempre più insoddisfazione: il reclutamento automatizzato è percepito come una semplificazione ingiusta e i candidati vogliono che le aziende dichiarino apertamente il loro utilizzo dell’intelligenza artificiale.

È evidente anche il crescente utilizzo di algoritmi nel lavoro delle Nazioni Unite: mentre all’inizio del 2023, i segnali di generazione automatica erano registrati solo nel 3% dei comunicati stampa in lingua inglese dell’organizzazione, alla fine del 2024 questa cifra ha superato il 13%. Ciò è particolarmente significativo se si considera che le Nazioni Unite stesse hanno ripetutamente avvertito che l’automazione basata sulle reti neurali minaccia una professione su quattro, con le donne nei paesi sviluppati, dove molte mansioni lavorative possono essere esternalizzate agli algoritmi, che sono le più a rischio.

Negli Stati Uniti, la comunicazione e le pubbliche relazioni sono tra le professioni con una predominanza femminile. Secondo i dati del 2024, le donne rappresentano il 67,8% dei professionisti delle relazioni pubbliche e il 70,1% dei responsabili delle pubbliche relazioni e della raccolta fondi. Questi settori sono già attivamente saturi di testi basati sull’intelligenza artificiale.

Nel complesso, i ricercatori hanno registrato un rapido aumento. Prima del rilascio di ChatGPT nel novembre 2022, solo l’1,5% dei materiali analizzati poteva essere classificato come scritto automaticamente, ma ad agosto 2023 questa quota superava il 15%. La crescita successiva ha rallentato e ad agosto 2024 la cifra si è stabilizzata al 17%.

Gli autori hanno utilizzato il loro rilevatore di testo automatico per il loro lavoro. Tuttavia, riconoscono che il programma non è in grado di distinguere accuratamente i materiali che sono stati pesantemente modificati dagli esseri umani dopo la generazione. Questa lacuna è in linea con i risultati precedenti riguardanti i punti deboli di strumenti simili. Già nel 2023, uno studio separato ha dimostrato che nessuno dei sistemi disponibili ha dimostrato un’accuratezza superiore all’80% e, in alcuni casi, il testo generato è stato rilevato come testo umano. I risultati sono stati ancora peggiori con l’editing manuale, la parafrasi automatica o la traduzione.

Un altro studio ha rilevato un livello ancora più basso: l’accuratezza del riconoscimento in condizioni di sostituzione potrebbe scendere al 17,4%. L’autore principale dello studio attuale, il professore James Zou della Stanford University, spiega che tali strumenti funzionano in modo più efficace con articoli di grandi dimensioni, ma non sono in grado di determinare in modo affidabile se un particolare materiale sia stato scritto utilizzando l’intelligenza artificiale. Osserva che, come qualsiasi nuova tecnologia, i modelli generativi non possono essere ridotti a una valutazione netta, positiva o negativa. Commettono inevitabilmente errori e affidarsi esclusivamente a essi per la preparazione del testo senza verificare il risultato finale porterà inevitabilmente a inesattezze fattuali.

L'articolo ONU: un lavoratore su quattro è minacciato dalle AI. Ma anche i loro comunicati sono scritti dagli LLM proviene da il blog della sicurezza informatica.

If you need to create a high vacuum, there are basically two options: turbomolecular pumps and diffusion pumps. Turbomolecular pumps require rotors spinning at many thousands of rotations per minute and must be carefully balanced to avoid a violent self-disassembly, but diffusion pumps aren’t without danger either, particularly if, like [Advanced Tinkering], you use mercury as your working fluid. Between the high vacuum, boiling mercury, and the previous two being contained in fragile glassware, this is a project that takes steady nerves to attempt – and could considerably unsteady those nerves if something were to go wrong.

A diffusion pump works by boiling a some working fluid – usually silicone oil – and creating a directed stream of vapor. The vapor molecules collide with air molecules and impart momentum to them, drawing them along with the vapor stream into a condenser. The condenser liquefies the working fluid, while a backing vacuum pump just past the condenser removes the entrained air molecules. The working fluid then flows back into the heating chamber to begin the cycle again. The earliest diffusion pumps did use mercury as a working fluid, a practice which has almost completely died out, but which did have one significant advantage: if, for some reason, air did flood back into the vacuum chamber, there was no risk of setting hot oil vapor on fire.

[Advanced Tinkering]’s diffusion pump is made of glass, which gives a good view of the internal process; It’s in equal parts fascinating and disquieting to see droplets of metal condensing on the glass parts. A Dewar flask of liquid nitrogen holds two cold traps to condense any mercury vapors leaving the pump: one on the line between the diffusion pump and the backing pump, and one between the diffusion pump and a vacuum gauge to make sure that mercury’s vapor pressure isn’t throwing off measurements. Another vacuum gauge is connected to the backing pump’s inlet, which lets the diffusion pump’s performance be measured. After a few hours of running, the pressure at the diffusion pump’s inlet was two orders of magnitude lower than at its outlet, and more vacuum-tight connections could probably have brought it even lower.

This isn’t [Advanced Tinkering]’s first time working with dangerous liquid metals, nor his first time building equipment for high vacuum. If you’re still looking for a safer vacuum, check out this budget diffusion pump.

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Elliot Williams and Al Williams got together to share their favorite hacks of the week with you. If you listen in, you’ll hear exciting news about the upcoming SuperCon and the rare occurrence of Al winning the What’s That Sound game.

For hacks, the guys talk about the IEEE’s take on the “best” programming languages of 2025 and how they think AI is going to fundamentally transform the job of a programmer. On a lighter note, there’s an industrial robot who retired to bartending, a minimal drum machine, a high-powered laser, and a Fortran flight simulator reborn with Unity 3D.

In the “can’t miss” category, you’ll learn how not to switch Linux distributions and what to expect when you need surgery while on your next mission to outer space.

There’s lots more. Want to follow along? Check out the links below. As always, tell us what you think about this episode in the comments!

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Episode 340 Show Notes:

News:

• 2025 Hackaday Speakers, Round One! And Spoilers

What’s that Sound?

• Al made short work of the sound again this week, racking up an uncharacteristic streak of two. Congrats to [Absolutely the Best Podcast: A Work in Progress] for getting the printing press right too!

Interesting Hacks of the Week:

• Ask Hackaday: What’s The Top Programming Language Of 2025
• Robot Bartender Is The Life Of The Party
• The Making Of A Minimalist Analog Drum Machine
  
  • Logic Noise: Sweet, Sweet Oscillator Sounds

  
  

• Improved 3D Printer Cannibalizes Two Older Printers
• Driving A Laser At 200 Volts For Nanoseconds
  
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• Porting A Fortran Flight Simulator To Unity3D

Quick Hacks:

• Elliot’s Picks:
  
  • 3D Print Smoothing, With Lasers
  • Segger’s Awkward USB-C Issue With The J-Link Compact Debugger
  • YouTube… Over Dial Up
  • Kinethreads: A Low Cost Haptic Exo-Suit

  
  

• Al’s Picks:
  
  • An FPGA-Based Mechanical Keyboard
  • Creating Python GUIs With GIMP
  • NTRON Plays Games, Music

  
  

Can’t-Miss Articles:

• Ask Hackaday: How Do You Distro Hop?
  
  • Distrobox

  
  

• A Cut Above: Surgery In Space, Now And In The Future

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In piazza per la Flotilla: un migliaio di manifestanti e disagi al traffico a Lugano

Da piazza Dante allo svincolo autostradale, tante persone hanno partecipato al corteo scandendo slogan a sostegno della Global Sumud Flotilla - Traffico bloccato in entrata e uscita a causa di un'ora di sit-in ai semafori di Lugano Sud - FOTO E VIDEO

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Negli ultimi mesi, le autorità di pubblica sicurezza di Hainan hanno avviato indagini e applicato sanzioni amministrative nei confronti di diversi utenti di internet responsabili della diffusione di informazioni false che hanno turbato l’ordine pubblico.

Voci su veicoli a nuova energia e turismo a Hainan

Un utente identificato come Su Moumou ha pubblicato online affermazioni secondo cui i veicoli a nuova energia non sarebbero in grado di attraversare il mare verso Hainan senza un biglietto, aggiungendo che “nessuno verrà a Hainan quest’inverno”. L’indagine delle autorità ha accertato che le informazioni erano distorte e diffuse con l’intento di attirare l’attenzione, creando allarme tra i residenti e i turisti.

Falsi annunci sul casinò di Sanya

L’utente Song ha scattato fotografie del nuovo edificio del Sanya International Duty Free City e ha diffuso online la notizia falsa secondo cui l’edificio sarebbe diventato un hotel con casinò legale entro il 2028. Anche in questo caso, le autorità hanno stabilito che la diffusione delle informazioni aveva causato preoccupazione pubblica e disturbo dell’ordine sociale.

Disinformazione su incidenti con animali

Shi Moumou ha diffuso una notizia infondata su un incidente tra un’auto e un gatto con rimorchio ad Haikou, descrivendolo come “maltrattamento di gatti”. La pubblicazione, accompagnata da dati personali della persona coinvolta, ha turbato la comunità locale e ha portato le autorità a intervenire con sanzioni amministrative.

Voci su normative sui veicoli elettrici

L’utente Liang Moumou ha pubblicato online un articolo inventato riguardo nuove normative sui veicoli elettrici a Hainan. La diffusione del contenuto ha generato confusione tra i residenti e scatenato discussioni online, inducendo le autorità a intervenire con misure legali.

Allarmi falsi su eventi locali

Diversi utenti hanno diffuso informazioni inesatte relative a eventi e situazioni locali:

• Pan Moumou ha caricato un video dal ponte Yongming sul fiume Changhua, sostenendo falsamente che metà della contea di Ledong fosse mobilitata per recuperare un cadavere, causando panico tra la popolazione.
• Xiao ha pubblicato che “Sanya si stava svuotando, diventando una città fantasma a causa dell’imminente guerra”, suscitando allarme e discussioni online.
• Li Moumou ha diffuso notizie infondate secondo cui tutti i voli per Sanya sarebbero stati cancellati, generando panico tra turisti e residenti.

In tutti i casi, le autorità di pubblica sicurezza hanno applicato le sanzioni amministrative previste dalla legge per la diffusione di informazioni false e il turbamento dell’ordine pubblico.

Promemoria della polizia di Internet cinese

La polizia invita gli utenti a rispettare le leggi e i regolamenti nella navigazione online, evitando di diffondere, credere o rilanciare voci infondate. Le autorità hanno sottolineato che chi crea e diffonde disinformazione sarà perseguito senza indulgenza, a tutela di un ambiente online sicuro e trasparente.

L'articolo Cina sotto controllo: utenti sanzionati per la diffusione su internet di false notizie online proviene da il blog della sicurezza informatica.

Lunedì scorso, Asahi Group, il più grande produttore giapponese di birra, whisky e bevande analcoliche, ha sospeso temporaneamente le sue operazioni in Giappone a seguito di un attacco informatico che ha compromesso i sistemi aziendali, inclusi elaborazione degli ordini, spedizioni e call center. L’azienda è conosciuta per prodotti come la birra Super Dry e il whisky Nikka.

Mercoledì, i dipendenti hanno iniziato a gestire manualmente gli ordini, recandosi di persona presso i clienti e registrando le richieste su carta. Per concentrare risorse sulla spedizione degli ordini esistenti, Asahi ha temporaneamente sospeso l’accettazione di nuovi ordini di alcolici, continuando invece a ricevere richieste di cibi e bevande analcoliche. Il primo lotto di ordini manuali è stato spedito venerdì.

“Al momento non è previsto un ripristino immediato del nostro sistema. Le consegne regolari rimangono sospese, e non è previsto un ripristino del sistema a breve”, ha riportato il portavoce di Asahi Group Holdings. “Abbiamo agito immediatamente per contenere e rispondere all’incidente”, si legge in un comunicato dell’azienda.

Nella serata di venerdì, l’azienda ha confermato di essere stata vittima di un attacco ransomware. La ripresa completa delle attività del call center clienti è prevista per la prossima settimana. Per il ripristino dei sistemi informatici, Asahi ha coinvolto specialisti esterni, ma i tempi necessari per il ritorno alla piena operatività rimangono incerti. L’azienda sta anche valutando l’impatto finanziario dell’incidente.

Le conseguenze dell’attacco si riflettono in tutto il Paese. Un ristorante di Tokyo, normalmente rifornito esclusivamente di birra Asahi, sta esaurendo l’ultimo barile di Super Dry e ha dovuto acquistare birra da concorrenti come Sapporo per far fronte alla carenza.

“Desidero scusarmi sinceramente per le difficoltà causate ai nostri stakeholder dalla recente interruzione del sistema”, ha dichiarato il CEO Atsushi Katsuki. ‘Stiamo continuando le nostre indagini per determinare la natura e la portata del potenziale trasferimento non autorizzato di dati, stiamo facendo tutto il possibile per ripristinare il sistema il piu’ rapidamente possibile: apprezziamo la vostra comprensione e il vostro supporto”, ha concluso.

Questo episodio si inserisce in un contesto di crescente vulnerabilità informatica. Solo il mese scorso, la casa automobilistica di lusso Jaguar Land Rover ha dovuto chiudere i suoi stabilimenti nel Regno Unito a causa di un attacco hacker.

L'articolo Quando l’hacker si ferma al pub! Tokyo a secco di birra Asahi per un attacco informatico proviene da il blog della sicurezza informatica.

Finding, collecting, and restoring vintage tech is the rewarding pastime of many a Hackaday reader. Working with old-school gear can be tough, though, when documentation or supporting resources are hard to find. If you’re in need of an old manual or a little scrap of software, you might find the Vintage Technology Digital Archive (VTDA) a useful destination.

The VTDA is a simple website. There is no search function, or fancy graphical way to browse the resources on offer. Instead, it’s merely a collection of files in a well-ordered directory tree. Click through /pics/DiskSleeves/VTDA/ and you’ll find a collection of high-resolution scans of various old diskettes and their packaging. /docs/computing/Centronics/ will give you all kinds of useful documentation, from press releases to datasheets for printers long forgotten. You can even find Heathkit schematics and old Windows bootdisk images if you dive into the depths.

While it doesn’t have everything, by any means, the VTDA has lots of interesting little bits and pieces that you might not find anywhere else. It’s a great counterpart to other archival efforts out on the web, particularly if you’re a member of the retrocomputing massive.

Thanks to [Itay] for the tip!

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È stato bello ieri sera. La #manifestazione spontanea, organizzata in poche ore.
Dopo il lavoro sono corsa a casa a prendere la mia kefiah e la bandiera, poi un’altra corsa per prendere il treno e arrivare a #Lugano in tempo!
Ho rivisto tante belle persone e una delle mie sorelle. Alcune persone erano lì con i figli, che tenevano orgogliosamente dei cartelloni con le angurie disegnate. Belli ❤

Poi un mio conoscente, regista, vedendomi tra la folla, mi ha chiesto una testimonianza per il documentario che sta producendo. Mi ha detto: “Come ti senti dopo quello che è successo ieri sera alla #SumudFlotilla?” Io ho risposto: “Affranta.” E pronunciando quella parola, sono scese lacrime incontrollate. Ho pianto perché ci speravo davvero che almeno una barca della flotilla arrivasse a Gaza. Lo so che era impossibile, ma io ci speravo lo stesso.
Ma anche perché sento troppa indifferenza intorno a me, anche tra le persone che amo. Al lavoro, c’è troppa gente fascista e non voglio interagire con loro. Gli altri amici, conoscenti, colleghi di volontariato ecc. fanno finta di niente. Palestina/Gaza = taboo.
Questo mi fa soffrire moltissimo.

Ora dovrei terminare, cioè iniziare, i compiti per la lezione di domani.. ma non riesco a concentrami