What color do you like your microcontroller boards? Blue? Red? Maybe white or black? Sadly, all of those are about to look old hat. Why? Well, as shared by [JLCPCB], this transparent Arduino looks amazing.

The board house produced this marvel using its transparent flexible printed circuit (FPC) material. Basically, the stuff they use for ribbon cables and flex PCBs, just made slightly differently to be see-through instead of vaguely brown.

The circuit in question is a Flexduino, an Arduino clone specifically designed to work on flexible substrates. It looks particularly good on this transparent material, with the LEDs glowing and the white silkscreen for contrast. If you like what you see, you can order your own circuits using this material directly from JLCPCB’s regular old order form.

Most of all, this project reminds us of the 1990s. Back then, you could get all kinds of games consoles and other electronics with transparent housings. There was the beloved PlayStation Crystal, while Nintendo did something similar with the N64 while adding a whole line of tinted color and charcoal versions too. Somehow seeing a bit of the inside of things is just cool. Even if, in some cases, it’s just to avoid smuggling in prisons.

It took decades before you could get custom PCBs quickly and easily. Now, board houses are competing for the enthusiast (consumer?) market, and competition is spurring development of crazy stuff like transparent and even glow in the dark PCBs. What next? We’re thinking edible, ROHS and WEEE be damned. Drop your thoughts in the comments.

Thanks to [George Graves] for the tip!

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Le falsificazioni generate dall’intelligenza artificiale hanno ormai varcato la soglia tra realtà e fantasia. Sempre piùcredibili e insidiose, queste contraffazioni video e audio stanno assumendo una pericolosità crescente. Le loro potenzialità di nuocere sono evidenti: dalle campagne diffamatorie a sfondo politico alle imitazioni di personaggi famosi, senza tralasciare le truffe ai danni di imprese e singoli individui, tali tecnologie sono in grado di minare la credibilità delle informazioni che percepiamo sui canali online.

I legislatori danesi hanno compiuto un passo importante introducendo una normativa che si occupa direttamente di questa minaccia in aumento. La recente normativa concede agli individui il diritto di proprietà legale sul proprio volto e sulla propria voce, dichiarando illegale la creazione di deepfake dannosi. Questo provvedimento segna un progresso importante, stabilendo un modello per altri paesi dell’Unione Europea e mettendo in evidenza l’indispensabile esigenza di una strategia legale unificata per contrastare l’utilizzo distorto dell’Intelligenza Artificiale.

Anna Collard, Senior Vice President of Content Strategy ed Evangelist di KnowBe4, ha dichiarato: “I legislatori danesi stanno dando il buon esempio: è urgentemente necessaria una protezione legale contro i deepfake. Restituendo alle persone la proprietà del proprio volto e della propria voce, la Danimarca sta compiendo un passo importante nella lotta contro l’abuso dell’IA. Ma la legislazione da sola non basta. Le persone devono imparare a riconoscere i segnali dei deepfake. Oltre ai governi, anche gli istituti scolastici e le aziende tecnologiche devono investire nella resilienza digitale”.

La natura del problema è estremamente individuale e riguarda l’identità personale. Tecnologie come il deepfake sono ormai in grado di replicare in modo credibile caratteristiche distintive come la tua voce e il tuo viso, che sono unici quanto le impronte digitali.

In assenza di adeguate misure di sicurezza, il rischio è che chiunque possa essere oggetto di imitazioni digitali a scopo fraudolento, ad esempio attraverso false chiamate telefoniche attribuite al CEO per truffare le aziende, o ancora diffondendo messaggi politici falsi. La legge danese riconosce questo rischio trattando la voce e l’aspetto del volto come beni personali, legalmente protetti dallo sfruttamento. Si tratta di un limite giuridico indispensabile in un panorama in rapida evoluzione, in cui i contenuti generati dall’intelligenza artificiale stanno diventando quasi indistinguibili dalle registrazioni autentiche.

Secondo Collard, la legislazione, pur essendo fondamentale, rappresenta solo una parte della soluzione. Infatti, le tecnologie per rilevare i falsi sono ancora in via di sviluppo e non tutti posseggono le risorse o le competenze adeguate per riconoscere i contenuti contraffatti. Di conseguenza, man mano che i deepfake si fanno più accessibili e credibili, è il pubblico a dover sostenere il peso di distinguere tra realtà e finzione.

Ecco perché l’istruzione è fondamentale quanto la regolamentazione. Campagne di sensibilizzazione, programmi di alfabetizzazione digitale nelle scuole e sessioni di formazione sul posto di lavoro svolgono tutti un ruolo chiave nel rafforzare la resilienza, ha continuato. “Si tratta di insegnare alle persone a riconoscere l’inganno narrativo e a sviluppare la capacità di riconoscere la manipolazione quando si verifica”.

In definitiva, la lotta ai deepfake (come quella del phishing, persa alla grande) richiederà un approccio articolato. I governi devono definire i quadri giuridici, le aziende tecnologiche devono sviluppare strumenti di rilevamento più efficaci e dare priorità allo sviluppo responsabile dell’intelligenza artificiale, e i cittadini devono essere messi in grado di orientarsi in un mondo online in cui vedere non significa più necessariamente credere.

La Danimarca ha fatto una prima mossa coraggiosa. Ora vediamo se l’Europa seguirà l’esempio, integrando le tutele legali con gli strumenti, la formazione e la consapevolezza necessari per difendersi da questo inganno digitale.

L'articolo Deepfake: ogni cittadino ha il copyright del proprio volto e della propria voce proviene da il blog della sicurezza informatica.

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Neha Madhira grew up in North Texas with the TV constantly buzzing with world news. Madhira, now 24, recognized that journalism was key to keeping her family informed on the happenings back home in India. But with state-sanctioned violence limiting journalists on the ground from reporting, and few legacy media outlets with reporters that looked like her left to report on it, Madhira also knew there were gaps to be filled.

Nearly a decade later, Madhira is bridging the gaps in Western media’s health and education coverage of the Middle East-North Africa region, South Asia, and their diasporas. The contacts she’s built have allowed her to expand her reporting focus — she recently collaborated with Freedom of the Press Foundation (FPF) on an article for The Intercept featuring testimonials from journalists targeted by the Israeli military.

“In a time where press freedom is definitely in question in the U.S. right now, and censorship on social media and in newsroom settings is even becoming more and more common, it’s really important for me that I stay true to my values of why I started reporting,” Madhira said. “I use freelancing to try my best to cover that gap in reporting when it comes to Western media, and try to cover the communities that I know deserve a platform.”

Madhira first spent years covering breaking news, the COVID-19 pandemic, and the social movements of 2020 for local newsrooms in Austin, Texas, while studying journalism and women’s and gender issues. But with activism movements roaring overseas, coupled with the lack of coverage on the impacts of the pandemic in India, she saw freelancing as an opportunity to cover issues happening in countries that face extreme press censorship for audiences overseas and in the U.S.

“A big part of my job during the pandemic, and even now, is reaching out to health care officials, regardless of what’s happening, to actually see who it’s affecting, why it’s affecting them, and what resources people need,” Madhira said. “If there’s a possibility that that information is being withheld from the public, that becomes a problem. How are we supposed to continue to inform and educate the public on how to stay safe during a pandemic or epidemic if we don’t even have that information to begin with?”

She has built close relationships with journalists on the ground in Iran, Afghanistan, India, Gaza, and the West Bank, relying on their reporting to reach audiences in the U.S. and abroad. Recognizing the privilege she holds, Madhira does her best to ensure their perspectives are reflected in her writing.

“I covered the Woman, Life, Freedom movement in Iran very extensively,” she said. “Two journalists who I really looked up to were arrested around this time last year. I wrote a story on that, and I noticed that a lot of Iranian and Iranian American activists were reaching out to me, appreciating the fact that the story was written, because even writing about their release and the details of how they are doing and how journalism and activism is continuing within the country is a privilege.”

Over the past year and a half, Madhira has covered the medical and humanitarian infrastructure collapses in Gaza and the West Bank, as well as the campus encampments in protest of Israel’s actions, and the shadowy organizations collaborating with the government to identify and persecute students and others who are critical of Israel.

“As we see less and less news coming out of Gaza, I urge people to not look away.”

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With more than 180 journalists killed by Israel to date, media blackouts, and censorship on social media, Madhira writes to amplify the voices of her colleagues remaining on the ground, including those whose stories she wrote about in The Intercept.

“I have advocated for Palestine since I was a child, and at the beginning of October 2023, I was horrified at the language being used to dehumanize Palestinians,” she said. “As a journalist, I was seeing the gaps in Western media coverage and its support of Israel, and I wanted to help change this narrative in any way I could. As we see less and less news coming out of Gaza, I urge people to not look away and to pay closer attention to passive voice being used to describe the atrocities Palestinians continue to face every day.”

While the stories that Madhira tells are urgent and deserving of immediate attention, communicating with people on the ground in Gaza is a slow, challenging process. “Most of the people I’ve interviewed, whether that be journalists, or medical workers, or humanitarian workers, there is a small gap every single day that they have access to the internet, and we have used that to communicate with each other every single day,” she said. “I continue to do that because their voices are the most important and the most pertinent.”

Reporting from the U.S. on Palestine has not come without its own battles against censorship. Having experienced “shadow banning” that has limited visibility of her social media posts, she said the public must pay attention to the ways social media platforms moderate content to censor certain news, and she calls for users to consume content carefully. By amplifying journalists’ content on social media, independent reporting can reach wider audiences and fight against algorithmic suppression, Madhira added.

“There are a lot more people who are in the dark about what is happening than you would think,” she said. “There are so many nonprofit, independent newsrooms, not only in the U.S., but around the world who do incredible reporting for very little money, and it’s important to pay attention, because these journalists are some of the most skilled and experienced within their field.”

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