Roberto Natale (cda Rai): subito una legge che rispetti l’Emfa
@Giornalismo e disordine informativo
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Buying Large LiFePO4 Batteries: How Cheap is Too Cheap?
It’s a well-known factoid that batteries keep getting cheaper while capacity increases. That said, as with any market that is full of people who are hunting for that ‘great deal’, there are also many shady sellers who will happily sell you a product that could be very dangerous. Especially in the case of large LiFePO4 (LFP) batteries, considering the sheer amount of energy they can contain. Recently [Will Prowse] nabbed such a $125, 100 Ah battery off Amazon that carries no recognizable manufacturer or brand name.
If this battery works well, it could be an amazing deal for off-grid and solar-powered applications. Running a battery of tests on the battery, [Will] found that the unit’s BMS featured no over-current protection, happily surging to 400 A, with only over-temperature protection keeping it from melting down during a discharge scenario. Interestingly, under-temperature charge protection also worked on the unit.
After a (safe) teardown of the battery the real discoveries began, with a row of missing cells, the other cells being re-sleeved and thus likely salvaged or rejects. Fascinatingly, another YouTuber did a similar test and found that their (even cheaper) unit was of a much lower capacity (88.9 Ah) than [Will]’s with 98 Ah and featured a completely different BMS to boot. Their unit did however feature something of a brand name, though it’s much more likely that these are all just generic LFP batteries that get re-branded by resellers.
What this means is that these LFP batteries may be cheap, but they come with cells that are likely to be of questionable quality, featuring a BMS that plays it fast and loose with safety. Although [Will] doesn’t outright say that you shouldn’t use these batteries, he does recommend that you install a fuse on it to provide some semblance of over-current protection. Keeping a fire extinguisher at hand might also be a good idea.
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More than 130,000 Claude, Grok, ChatGPT, and Other LLM Chats Readable on Archive.org#News
More than 130,000 Claude, Grok, ChatGPT, and Other LLM Chats Readable on Archive.org
A researcher has found that more than 130,000 conversations with AI chatbots including Claude, Grok, ChatGPT, and others are discoverable on the Internet Archive, highlighting how peoples’ interactions with LLMs may be publicly archived if users are not careful with the sharing settings they may enable.The news follows earlier findings that Google was indexing ChatGPT conversations that users had set to share, despite potentially not understanding that these chats were now viewable by anyone, and not just those they intended to share the chats with. OpenAI had also not taken steps to ensure these conversations could be indexed by Google.
“I obtained URLs for: Grok, Mistral, Qwen, Claude, and Copilot,” the researcher, who goes by the handle dead1nfluence, told 404 Media. They also found material related to ChatGPT, but said “OpenAI has had the ChatGPT[.]com/share links removed it seems.” Searching on the Internet Archive now for ChatGPT share links does not return any results, while Grok results, for example, are still available.
Dead1nfluence wrote a blog post about some of their findings on Sunday and shared the list of more than 130,000 archived LLM chat links with 404 Media. They also shared some of the contents of those chats that they had scraped. Dead1nfluence wrote that they found API keys and other exposed information that could be useful to a hacker.
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“While these providers do tell their users that the shared links are public to anyone, I think that most who have used this feature would not have expected that these links could be findable by anyone, and certainly not indexed and readily available for others to view,” dead1nfluence wrote in their blog post. “This could prove to be a very valuable data source for attackers and red teamers alike. With this, I can now search the dataset at any time for target companies to see if employees may have disclosed sensitive information by accident.”404 Media verified some of dead1influence’s findings by discovering specific material they flagged in the dataset, then going to the still-public LLM link and checking the content.
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Do you know anything else about this? 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.Most of the companies whose AI tools are included in the dataset did not respond to a request for comment. Microsoft which owns Copilot acknowledged a request for comment but didn't provide a response in time for publication. A spokesperson for Anthrophic, which owns Claude, told 404 Media: “We give people control over sharing their Claude conversations publicly, and in keeping with our privacy principles, we do not share chat directories or sitemaps with search engines like Google. These shareable links are not guessable or discoverable unless people choose to publicize them themselves. When someone shares a conversation, they are making that content publicly accessible, and like other public web content, it may be archived by third-party services. In our review of the sample archived conversations shared with us, these were either manually requested to be indexed by a person with access to the link or submitted by independent archivist organizations who discovered the URLs after they were published elsewhere across the internet first.” 404 Media only shared a small sample of the Claude links with Anthrophic, not the entire list.
Fast Company first reported that Google was indexing some ChatGPT conversations on July 30. This was because of a sharing feature ChatGPT had that allowed users to send a link to a ChatGPT conversation to someone else. OpenAI disabled the sharing feature in response. OpenAI CISO Dane Stuckey said in a previous statement sent to 404 Media: “This was a short-lived experiment to help people discover useful conversations. This feature required users to opt-in, first by picking a chat to share, then by clicking a checkbox for it to be shared with search engines.”
A researcher who requested anonymity gave 404 Media access to a dataset of nearly 100,000 ChatGPT conversations indexed on Google. 404 Media found those included the alleged texts of non-disclosure agreements, discussions of confidential contracts, and people trying to use ChatGPT for relationship issues.
Others also found that the Internet Archive contained archived LLM chats.
The ChatGPT confession files
Digital Digging investigation: how your AI conversation could end your careerHenk van Ess (Digital Digging with Henk van Ess)
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La fiducia degli americani nell’AI sta diminuendo ed è una questione di sicurezza nazionale
La fiducia degli americani nell’intelligenza artificiale sta diminuendo, nonostante l’accelerazione dei progressi globali in questo campo. Ciò indica un potenziale problema di sicurezza nazionale: legislatori di ogni partito, leader del settore, think tank e altri hanno avvertito che rimanere indietro rispetto alla Cina in materia di intelligenza artificiale metterebbe gli Stati Uniti in una posizione di svantaggio. Un sentimento pubblico negativo potrebbe minare il sostegno del Congresso e finanziario alla ricerca e allo sviluppo in questo campo.
Ma alcune aziende di intelligenza artificiale stanno modificando i loro prodotti per dare ai clienti governativi un maggiore controllo sul comportamento dei modelli, sull’input dei dati e persino sulla fonte di energia che alimenta il sistema.
Questo potrebbe placare l’opinione pubblica?
Un recente accordo dimostra fino a che punto le aziende siano disposte a spingersi per soddisfare le esigenze del governo. Per miliardi di persone, ChatGPT è un’astrazione visualizzata tramite il browser web. Ma all’inizio di questo mese, il chatbot basato sull’intelligenza artificiale ha assunto una forma fisica quando OpenAI ha consegnato diversi hard disk contenenti i pesi del modello o3 al Los Alamos National Laboratory. Il laboratorio mira a utilizzarli per esaminare dati classificati alla ricerca di informazioni sulla fisica delle particelle che potrebbero rimodellare la ricerca di energia e lo sviluppo di armi nucleari.
Quei dischi rigidi erano i “più preziosi” sulla Terra, l’incarnazione fisica della valutazione di 300 miliardi di dollari di OpenAI, ha detto a Defense One Katrina Mulligan, responsabile governativa dell’azienda, in occasione di un recente evento sull’intelligenza artificiale a Washington, DC. “Stiamo perdendo soldi con il nostro accordo con i laboratori nazionali”, ha detto Mulligan.
Pochi giorni dopo, OpenAI ha annunciato un contratto da 200 milioni di dollari con il Pentagono per “prototipare come l’intelligenza artificiale di frontiera possa trasformare le sue operazioni amministrative, dal miglioramento del modo in cui i militari e le loro famiglie ricevono assistenza sanitaria, alla semplificazione del modo in cui analizzano i dati di programma e acquisizione, fino al supporto alla difesa informatica proattiva. Tutti i casi d’uso devono essere coerenti con le politiche e le linee guida di OpenAI”.
All’AI Expo dello Special Competitive Studies Project a Washington, DC, un rappresentante di OpenAI ha dimostrato come gli strumenti dell’azienda possano essere utili per compiti di sicurezza nazionale: geolocalizzazione di immagini senza indizi evidenti, scansione dei registri di Telegram alla ricerca di indicatori di attività informatica o identificazione dell’origine di parti di droni recuperate dal campo di battaglia.
Il responsabile della demo ha affermato che i più recenti modelli di ragionamento dell’azienda non solo superano le versioni precedenti, ma ora consentono anche l’inserimento sicuro di dati classificati in conformità con le linee guida del Dipartimento della Difesa. A differenza di ChatGPT, rivolto al pubblico, la versione governativa mostra anche agli utenti come il modello prioritizza le fonti di dati, offrendo una trasparenza che consente agli analisti di perfezionare la logica e comprendere come il programma sia giunto alle conclusioni a cui è giunto.
Questa visibilità è essenziale per l’uso ai fini della sicurezza nazionale, ha affermato Mulligan, molto più che per i consumatori che vogliono risposte e raramente chiedono come vengono realizzati.
“Produce una catena di pensiero piuttosto dettagliata che ti dice come è arrivato alla sua conclusione, quali informazioni ha preso in considerazione che non erano possibili nel paradigma precedente”, ha detto, aggiungendo che le persone hanno creduto a lungo che tali modelli semplicemente non potessero essere spiegati, pensando che “questi modelli sarebbero sempre stati una scatola nera”.
La spiegabilità, la portabilità dei dati e il controllo delle infrastrutture locali, che consentono ai laboratori di eseguire modelli sui propri supercomputer, stanno emergendo come requisiti di base per l’uso dell’intelligenza artificiale nella pubblica amministrazione. Dare agli utenti maggiore autonomia crea fiducia.
OpenAI non è l’unica. Amazon Web Services sta silenziosamente diventando un attore fondamentale nell’intelligenza artificiale per la difesa. Ha recentemente rilasciato una versione del suo servizio Bedrock, che consente agli utenti di creare applicazioni di intelligenza artificiale generativa con un menu di modelli fondamentali, con sicurezza di livello classificato per i clienti del Dipartimento della Difesa.
Ma mentre la fiducia tra governo e Silicon Valley si sta rafforzando attorno all’obiettivo comune di progredire nell’implementazione dell’intelligenza artificiale, l’opinione pubblica si sta muovendo nella direzione opposta.
Un sondaggio condotto da Edelman a marzo ha mostrato che la fiducia nell’IA è scesa dal 50% al 35% dal 2019. E la sfiducia attraversa tutti gli schieramenti politici: solo il 38% dei democratici si fida dell’IA, rispetto al 25% degli indipendenti e al 24% dei repubblicani. Questo segue altri sondaggi che hanno mostrato un sentimento pubblico sempre più negativo nei confronti dell’IA, nonostante i professionisti che hanno integrato l’IA nel loro lavoro segnalino livelli di prestazioni più elevati.
Ma la vera divergenza è geopolitica. “La fiducia nell’intelligenza artificiale negli Stati Uniti e in tutto il mondo occidentale è bassa, mentre in Cina e nel resto del mondo in via di sviluppo si attesta intorno al 75%.”, ha affermato Mulligan.
Teme che queste disparità si traducano in reali divari nell’adozione, con la Cina in vantaggio in termini di produttività, crescita economica e qualità della vita.
L'articolo La fiducia degli americani nell’AI sta diminuendo ed è una questione di sicurezza nazionale proviene da il blog della sicurezza informatica.
Emfa inattuato in Italia, rivolta di associazioni e opposizione
@Giornalismo e disordine informativo
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“Da domani l’Italia entrerà ufficialmente in procedura d’infrazione per violazione dell’European Media Freedom Act (EMFA), la normativa europea che tutela l’indipendenza e il pluralismo
Di Trapani: da domani l’Italia è formalmente un Paese a libertà di stampa limitata
@Giornalismo e disordine informativo
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“Da domani l’Italia è formalmente fuori dalle norme europee. Lo era già da mesi sul tema delle fonti giornalistiche”. E’ quanto
Dire Wolf e SNOWFANG: la nuova minaccia ransomware scritta in Go
@Informatica (Italy e non Italy 😁)
Negli ultimi mesi, il gruppo ransomware Dire Wolf ha fatto la sua comparsa nel panorama cybercriminale, distinguendosi per l’uso di un malware chiamato SNOWFANG, sviluppato in linguaggio Go. Questo ransomware, attivo da maggio 2025, ha già colpito numerose organizzazioni in settori
VRML and the Dream of Bringing 3D to the World Wide Web
You don’t have to be a Snow Crash or Tron fan to be familiar with the 3D craze that characterized the rise of the Internet and the World Wide Web in particular. From phrases like ‘surfing the information highway’ to sectioning websites as if to represent 3D real-life equivalents or sorting them by virtual streets like Geocities did, there has always been a strong push to make the Internet a more three-dimensional experience.
This is perhaps not so strange considering that we humans are ourselves 3D beings used to interacting in a 3D world. Surely we could make this fancy new ‘Internet’ technology do something more futuristic than connect us to text-based BBSes and serve HTML pages with heavily dithered images?
Enter VRML, the Virtual Reality Modelling Language, whose 3D worlds would surely herald the arrival of a new Internet era. Though neither VRML nor its successor X3D became a hit, they did leave their marks and are arguably the reason why we have technologies like WebGL today.
Inspired By Wheels
With an internet-based virtual reality a highly topic concept, David Raggett from Hewlett Packard Laboratories submitted a paper back in 1994 titled Extending WWW to support Platform Independent Virtual Reality. This imagined a virtual reality layer to the WWW by the end of the millennium featuring head-mounted displays (HMDs) and tracking of a user’s limbs to fully integrate them into this virtual world with potentially realistic physics, sound, etc.
Describing these virtual worlds would be at the core of this VR push, with SGML (standardized general markup language) forming the basis of such world definitions, much like how HTML is a specialized form of SGML to define the structure and layout of a document. The newly minted VRML would thus merely define 3D worlds rather than 2D documents, with both defining elements and their positioning.
Although nothing revolutionary by itself – with games and 3D modeling software by then having done something similar with their own file formats to define 3D models and worlds for years already – VRML would provide a cross-platform, fully open and independent format that was specifically made for the purpose of this online VR experience.
All Starts With Polygons
The interesting thing about VRML is perhaps that it was pushing for a shared online 3D experience years before the first commercially successful MMORPG came onto the scene in 1999 in the form of EverCra^WEverQuest. VRML was pitched in 1994 and by 1995 the very RPG-like MMO experience called Colony City (later CyberTown) was launched. This created a virtual world in which members could hold jobs, earn virtual currency and purchase 3D homes and items that were all defined in VRML.
CyberTown endured until 2012 when the company behind it shut down, but there’s an ongoing push to revive CyberTown, with the revival project‘s GitHub project giving a glimpse at the preserved VRML-based worlds such as the home world. These .wrl files (short for ‘world’) use the VRML version 2.0 standard, which was the 1997 version of VRML that got turned into an ISO standard as ISO/IEC 14772:1997, with the specification itself being readily available over at the Web3D website.
As defined in part 1 of the specification, each VRML file:
- implicitly establishes a world coordinate space for all objects defined in the file, as well as all objects included by the file;
- explicitly defines and composes a set of 3D and multimedia objects;
- can specify hyperlinks to other files and applications;
- can define object behaviors.
VRML got combined with the Humanoid Animation (HAnim) standard to make realistic humanoid articulation and movement possible. Much like HTML documents, it are often the external resources like textures that determines the final look, but basic materials can be defined in VRML as well.
A very basic example of VRML is provided on the Wikipedia entry for a simple triangle:
#VRML V2.0 utf8
Shape {
geometry IndexedFaceSet {
coordIndex [ 0, 1, 2 ]
coord Coordinate {
point [ 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0.5, 1, 0 ]
}
}
}
The interesting part comes when the material and texture appearance properties are set for a shape, albeit with basic lighting, no shaders and similar advanced features. All of these would see major improvements by the late 90s as consumer graphic cards became commonplace, especially during 1999 when we saw not only NVidia’s impressive RIVA TNT2, but especially its revolutionary Geforce 256 GPU with its hardware transform and lighting engine.
At this point video games began to look ever more realistic – even on PC – and with the release of new MMORPGs like 2004’s World of Warcraft and EverQuest II, the quirky and very dated look of VRML-based worlds made it clear that the ‘3D WWW’ dream in the browser was effectively dead and the future was these MMORPGs and kin.
It also seems fair to say that the fact that these games came with all of the assets on installation discs was a major boon over downloading hundreds of megabytes worth of assets via an anemic dial-up or crippled cable internet connection of the late 90s and early 2000s.
A Solution In Search Of A Problem
One could argue that science-fiction like Snow Crash provides us with the most ideal perspective of a VR layer on top of the Internet, where its Metaverse provides a tangible addition to reality. This same concept of a metaverse where the mind is no longer constrained by the limitations of the body is found in animated features like Ghost in the Shell and Serial Experiments Lain, each of which feature digitalized, virtual worlds that unchain the characters while creating whole new worlds previously considered impossible.
In these worlds characters can find information much faster, move through digital currents like fish in water, inhibit the digital brains of Internet-connected devices, and so on. Meanwhile back in reality the way we humans interact with virtual worlds has barely changed from the 1980s when NASA and others were experimenting with VR interface technologies.
Why move clumsily through a faux 3D environment with cumbersome input devices strapped to your body and perhaps a display pushed up to your noggin when you can just use mouse and keyboard to tappity-tap in some commands, click a hyperlink or two and observe the result on your very much 2D monitor?
As around 2003 the latest web-based VR world hype came in the form of Second Life, it followed mostly the same trajectory as CyberTown before it, while foregoing anything like VRML. After some companies briefly had a presence in Second Life before leaving, it became a ghost town just in time for Facebook to rename itself into Meta and try its hand at the very creatively named Metaverse. Despite throwing billions of dollars at trying to become at least as popular as CyberTown, it mostly left people with the feeling of what the point of such a ‘metaverse’ is.
Never Stop Dreaming
The Web3D Consortium was set up in 1997 along with the standardization of VRML, when it was called the VRML Consortium. Its stated goal is to develop and promote open standards for 3D content and services on the web. It currently pushes the somewhat newer X3D standard, which among other things supports multiple syntax types ranging from XML to classical VRML. It also supports modern physically based rendering (PBR), which puts it at least somewhat in the same ballpark as modern 3D graphic renderers.
Meanwhile there is the much more significant WebGL, which was originally created by Mozilla, but has since found a loving home at Khronos. This uses the canvas feature of HTML 5 to render 2D and 3D graphics using OpenGL ES, including support for shaders. The proposed WebGPU would merge the web browser and GPUs tighter still, albeit with its own shader language instead of the standard OpenGL ES one.
With these new technologies it would seem that rendering prettier 3D worlds in browsers has become easier than ever, even as the dream of bringing 3D worlds to the WWW seems as distant as the prospect of VR games taking the world of gaming by storm. Barring major human-computer interface advances, the WWW will remain at its optimum with keyboard and mouse, to browse through 2D documents. This alongside 3D game worlds controlled with the same keyboard and mouse, with said worlds rendered on a very much 2D surface.
Here’s to dreaming that maybe some of those exciting aspects of sci-fi will one day become science-fact, and to those who strive to make those dreams reality, in lieu of simply being given a nanotech-based Primer as a shortcut.
Verwaltungsdigitalisierung: Bundesrechnungshof fordert messbare Ziele
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Vulnerabilità critiche in Trend Micro Apex One: aggiornamento urgente
Un bollettino di sicurezza urgente è stato diramato da Trend Micro al fine di informare i propri clienti circa delle vulnerabilità critiche, sfruttate attivamente dai malintenzionati, riguardanti l’esecuzione di codice remoto nella console di gestione Apex One on-premise.
Le falle di sicurezza, identificate come CVE-2025-54948 e CVE-2025-54987, interessano la Trend Micro Apex One Management Console in esecuzione sui sistemi Windows. Entrambe le vulnerabilità derivano da debolezze nell’iniezione di comandi che consentono ad aggressori remoti pre-autenticati di caricare codice dannoso ed eseguire comandi arbitrari sulle installazioni interessate.
L’azienda ha confermato che è stato osservato almeno un caso di sfruttamento attivo, il che rende urgente l’adozione di misure di protezione immediate. Queste vulnerabilità prendono di mira specificamente Trend Micro Apex One 2019 Management Server versione 14039 e precedenti.
| ID CVE | Punteggio CVSS | Tipo di debolezza | Riferimento ZDI | Vettore di attacco |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CVE-2025-54948 | 9.4 (Critico) | CWE-78: Iniezione di comandi del sistema operativo | ZDI-CAN-27834 | Basato sulla rete, nessuna autenticazione richiesta |
| CVE-2025-54987 | 9.4 (Critico) | CWE-78: Iniezione di comandi del sistema operativo | ZDI-CAN-27855 | Basato sulla rete, diversa architettura della CPU |
Il secondo CVE rappresenta essenzialmente la stessa vulnerabilità, ma prende di mira un’architettura di CPU diversa, ampliando la potenziale superficie di attacco per gli autori di attacchi dannosi che cercano di compromettere l’infrastruttura di sicurezza aziendale.
Riconoscendo la natura critica di queste falle, Trend Micro ha rilasciato uno strumento di mitigazione di emergenza denominato “FixTool_Aug2025” per fornire una protezione immediata contro gli exploit noti.
Tuttavia, questa soluzione a breve termine presenta un compromesso operativo significativo: disabilita la funzione Remote Install Agent, impedendo agli amministratori di distribuire gli agenti direttamente dalla console di gestione .
I metodi di distribuzione alternativi, come il percorso UNC o i pacchetti agent, rimangono inalterati.
L’azienda ha sottolineato che, sebbene lo strumento di correzione fornisca una protezione completa contro gli exploit noti, è prevista una patch critica completa verso la metà di agosto 2025.
L'articolo Vulnerabilità critiche in Trend Micro Apex One: aggiornamento urgente proviene da il blog della sicurezza informatica.
Dopo il mio articolo sulla formazione sistemica, un intervento di Wolfgang Ulrich che dice la sua sull'argomento. C'è una affinità interessante fra clinici che perseguono il progetto di una connessione fra il sé professionale e quello, diciamo, privato, in un modo lontano e alternativo alle logiche della cosiddetta "integrazione".
Dal mio blog (che mi procura tante soddisfazioni).
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Chi è il terapeuta sistemico e come deve essere formato? (di Wolfgang Ullrich) - Corpi che parlano, il blog
Il teatro ha molto in comune con la psicoterapia: entrambi sfruttano il medium del “gioco” che chiamo la rappresentazione giocosa...Corpi che parlano (Corpi che parlano, il blog)
L’uomo che da 30 anni cerca il mostro di Loch Ness
Ora... ognuno può pensarla come vuole e in molti penseranno che quest'uomo è un pazzo.
Ma metti che domani 'sto mostro esce dall'acqua e si fa un giretto sulla terraferma a favore di fotografi.
Steve Feltham potrà sparare un "VE L'AVEVO DETTO, STRONZI!" da cento megatoni.
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L’uomo che da 30 anni cerca il mostro di Loch Ness
Steve Feltham è arrivato sul lago scozzese nel 1991 e da allora passa le sue giornate scrutando l'acqua, invanoIl Post
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SIRIA. Suwayda sotto assedio. Diario da una provincia in ginocchio
@Notizie dall'Italia e dal mondo
Dopo le aggressioni delle scorse settimane, mai cessate del tutto, più di 170.000 sfollati sono arrivati a Suwayda da aree rurali devastate. Oltre 32 villaggi sono stati bruciati, saccheggiati e resi inabitabili
L'articolo SIRIA. Suwayda sotto assedio. Diario da una
Cotton Farming in 2025
What is Cotton?
Cotton is a soft, fluffy natural fiber that grows around the seeds of the Gossypium plant. It’s used worldwide to manufacture clothing, bedding, industrial fabrics, and even paper products. Beyond fiber, cottonseeds are processed into oil and livestock feed, making it a multi-utility crop with immense commercial value.
Major Cotton-Growing Countries
As of 2025, the top cotton-producing nations include:
• India – World's largest cotton cultivator and consumer
• China – Heavy focus on high-yield, mechanized cotton
• United States – Known for exporting premium quality lint
• Pakistan – Major grower of short-staple cotton
• Brazil – Emerging leader in sustainable cotton exports
These countries benefit from suitable climates, advanced genetics, and extensive research infrastructure.
Suitable Conditions for Cotton
Cotton is a warm-season crop that demands specific conditions:
Factor Ideal Range
Temperature 21°C to 30°C
Rainfall 600 mm to 1,200 mm annually
Soil Type Sandy loam or black cotton soils
Soil pH 6.0 – 7.5
Growing Period 150–180 days (depends on variety)
It cannot tolerate frost and grows best in sunny, dry weather with low humidity during boll opening.
Preparing the Farm for Cotton
Effective land preparation sets the stage for a productive crop. Here’s how:
• Soil testing: Identifies pH, nutrient levels, and deficiencies
• Primary tillage: Deep plowing helps break hardpan and increase root penetration
• Secondary tillage: Harrowing and leveling using laser tools improve irrigation efficiency
• Organic additions: Apply farmyard manure or compost 2–3 weeks before sowing
Modern farmers also use biochar or vermicompost to enhance soil microbial activity and moisture retention.
Selecting Cotton Varieties
Choosing the right variety can significantly affect your yield and pest resistance. In 2025, the popular categories include:
• Bt Cotton: Genetically engineered to fight bollworms
• Hybrid Cotton: High-yielding but requires more inputs
• Desi Varieties: Hardy, pest-tolerant, and ideal for organic farming
• High-Density Varieties: Used in HDPS systems for closer spacing and better land utilization
• Drought-tolerant Strains: Designed for water-scarce areas
Seed Treatment Before Sowing
Treated seeds germinate better and resist early pests and diseases:
• Fungicides: Prevent damping-off, Fusarium wilt, and seed rot
• Insecticides: Protect from soil-borne insects
• Bio-stimulants: Enhance root development
• Rhizobium or Azospirillum: Inoculants for nitrogen fixation (used in organic farming)
Sowing Cotton Seeds
Sowing Cotton Seeds
Sowing cotton seeds is a crucial step in cotton farming, directly influencing germination, plant spacing, and eventual yield. The ideal time for sowing depends on the region April to June in North India and June to July in the South. Before sowing, seeds should be treated with fungicides or biostimulants to protect against early pests and diseases.
Farmers can use manual methods like dibbling or adopt mechanized sowing with seed drills for precision. The recommended sowing depth is about 4–5 cm, ensuring seeds are neither too shallow nor too deep. Spacing varies with variety Bt and hybrid cotton usually need 75 × 30 cm, while high-density planting systems (HDPS) use 60 × 15 cm.
When to sow cotton?
• North India: April–June
• South/Central India: June–July
Growth Stages: From Flower to Boll
Cotton has distinct growth stages:
1. Vegetative (0–35 days) – root and leaf development
2. Square formation (35–50 days) – flower buds appear
3. Flowering (50–75 days) – needs optimal nutrition
4. Boll development (75–120 days) – water-sensitive period
5. Boll opening (120–160 days) – maturity, prepare for harvest
#PrivacyCamp25: The draft programme is out now
PrivacyCamp25 will take place on 30 September, 2025 online and at La Tricoterie, Brussels. Curious about what we have planned? Check out the draft programme.
The post #PrivacyCamp25: The draft programme is out now appeared first on European Digital Rights (EDRi).
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Ancora sulla strage di Bologna. Il diritto alla ricerca e all’informazione
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Hiroshima, Mattarella: 'liberare il mondo dalle armi nucleari'
(intanto, per dare il buon esempio, potremmo cominciare a liberare il territorio italiano dalle atomiche Usa)
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Hiroshima, Mattarella: 'liberare il mondo dalle armi nucleari' • Imola Oggi
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Dazi e backdoor nei microchip: ecco cosa agita Nvidia
L'articolo proviene da #StartMag e viene ricondiviso sulla comunità Lemmy @Informatica (Italy e non Italy 😁)
Sono giornate intense per Nvidia. L'azienda deve respingere le pressioni per l'inserimento di backdoor nei suoi microchip (è già stata convocata in Cina). E deve fare i conti con i nuovi dazi sui semiconduttori annunciati da Trump. Tutti i dettagli.
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A Martano (LE) Matteo Mainardi in un dibattito pubblico sul fine vita – nell’ambito del festival Epame 2025
Lunedì 12 agosto, alle ore 20:30, Matteo Mainardi, consigliere generale dell’Associazione Luca Coscioni e responsabile delle campagne sul fine vita, sarà ospite al Palazzo Ducale di Martano (LE) per un dibattito pubblico dedicato al diritto di scelta sul fine vita.
L’appuntamento è per lunedì 12 agosto 2025 alle ore 20:30, presso il Palazzo Ducale di Martano (LE), in Viale Savoia, a Martano.
L’incontro si svolge nell’ambito del festival Epame 2025 e vedrà la partecipazione anche di Andrea Mariano, medico e attivista del Laboratorio Salute Popolare, e Simona Zaminga, medico Ant.
A seguire si terrà una cena sociale e un dj set.
L'articolo A Martano (LE) Matteo Mainardi in un dibattito pubblico sul fine vita proviene da Associazione Luca Coscioni.
One year of the AI Act: What’s the political and legal landscape now?
The EU Artificial Intelligence (AI) Act came into force on August 1, 2024. This blog takes stock of the political and legal landscape facing its implementation and enforcement one year on, especially efforts to delay or even gut the law which would have far-reaching effects on people’s rights, especially when it comes to migration and law enforcement use of AI.
The post One year of the AI Act: What’s the political and legal landscape now? appeared first on European Digital Rights (EDRi).
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L'amministrazione Trump vorrebbe distruggere un satellite per la rilevazione delle emissioni di anidride carbonica e non solo
Secondo quanto riportato in alcune indiscrezioni, l'amministrazione Trump avrebbe richiesto di terminare le missioni degli Orbiting Carbon Observatories (OCO-2 e OCO-3) per la rilevazione delle emissioni di anidride carbonica.Hardware Upgrade
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Abbiamo scoperto cosa ha ucciso miliardi di stelle marine negli ultimi 15 anni
È stato un batterio dello stesso genere di quello del colera: ora che lo sappiamo forse sarà possibile risolvere una grossa crisi ecologicaIl Post
sondaggio noyb: solo il 7% degli utenti vuole che Meta utilizzi i propri dati personali per l'IA Mentre quasi il 75% degli utenti ha sentito parlare dei piani di Meta, solo il 7% vuole effettivamente che i propri dati vengano utilizzati per l'addestramento dell'intelligenza artificiale mickey07 August 2025
MORIS and I.R.I.S. was designed for Sheriff's Offices to identify known persons with their iris. Now ICE says it plans to buy the tech.
MORIS and I.R.I.S. was designed for Sheriffx27;s Offices to identify known persons with their iris. Now ICE says it plans to buy the tech.#News #ICE
ICE Is Buying Mobile Iris Scanning Tech for Its Deportation Arm
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is looking to buy iris scanning technology that its manufacturer says can identify known persons “in seconds from virtually anywhere,” according to newly published procurement documents.Originally designed to be used by sheriff departments to identify inmates or other known persons, ICE is now likely buying the technology specifically for its Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) section, which focuses on deportations.
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MORIS and I.R.I.S. was designed for Sheriff's Offices to identify known persons with their iris. Now ICE says it plans to buy the tech.Joseph Cox (404 Media)
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America’s scandalous president is teaming up with its most disreputable AI company to make a search engine.#News
Trump Is Launching an AI Search Engine Powered by Perplexity
Donald Trump’s media company is teaming up with Perplexity to bring AI search to Truth Social, the President’s X.com alternative.Truth announced the endeavor in a press release on Wednesday. Anyone using the browser version of Truth can now use Perplexity to search the web. “We’re proud to partner with Perplexity to launch our public Beta testing of Truth Social AI, which will make Truth Social an even more vital element in the Patriot Economy,” Devin Nunes, Trump Media's CEO and Chair of the President's Intelligence Advisory Board, said in the press release.
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“We’re excited to partner with Truth Social to bring powerful AI to an audience with important questions. Curiosity is the engine of change, and Perplexity’s AI is developed to empower curiosity by delivering direct, reliable answers with transparent citations that allow anyone to dig deeper,” Perplexity’s chief business officer Dmitry Shevelenko said in the press release.According to the announcement, “the mission of Trump Media is to end Big Tech’s assault on free speech by opening up the Internet and giving people their voices back.” Which is a funny thing to put in an announcement about Trump partnering with a company whose investors include Jeff Bezos, Nvidia, and the former CEO of GitHub.
Perplexity’s Truth Social search engine will be powered by stolen content. Earlier this week, Cloudflare reported Perplexity used stealth and undeclared crawlers to evade websites that explicitly set themselves up to avoid being catalogued by LLMs. Perplexity has a long history of using scrapers that ignore the Robots Exclusion Protocol. Perplexity started as a demo that scraped Twitter with fake academic accounts backed by AI-generated research proposals.
Forbes, the New York Times, New York Post, and the Dow Jones have all accused Perplexity of plagiarism. News Corp‘s Dow Jones & Co., publisher of the Wall Street Journal, and the New York Post sued Perplexity in 2024 for copyright infringement, claiming in the federal lawsuit that Perplexity is “engaging in a massive amount of illegal copying of publishers’ copyrighted works and diverting customers and critical revenues away from those copyright holders.” In 2024, WIRED reported on the accusations of Perplexity’s plagiarism and Perplexity almost immediately plagiarized the story. When New York Times tech workers went on strike last year, Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas offered to help the Times keep the paper going.
Big Tech has aligned itself with the Trump administration since before the election, seeing an alliance of opportunity for deregulation of AI in particular.
But is the Perplexity-powered AI aggregation machine “woke?” I asked a few questions to find out. I wanted to know: Is Trump in the Epstein files?“There is no evidence in the recently reviewed and released government ‘Epstein Files’ of a ‘client list” or documentation placing Donald Trump as implicated in Jeffrey Epstein's criminal actions,” it said. “While Trump’s name, like many other prominent individuals, appears in public records of Epstein’s social and business contacts (such as guest lists or flight logs, widely reported over the years), there is no mention in current official documents or filings that directly implicates Trump as a criminal participant in Epstein’s sex trafficking activities.”
How does Truth Social’s search engine think the American economy is doing?
“The American economy is currently facing significant headwinds, with signs of slowdown—most notably by a contraction in GDP, rising inflation, and softening labor market conditions—though some leaders still emphasize areas of resilience,” Truth Search AI said.
Are the tariffs to blame?“Recent tariff increases in the United States have generally had a negative effect on economic growth and employment, raising costs for businesses and consumers while providing only limited benefits to some manufacturing sectors,” Truth Search AI said.
Damn. It’s woke as hell.
Big Tech Backed Trump for Acceleration. They Got a Decel President Instead
Effective accelerationists didn’t just accidentally shoot themselves in the foot. They methodically blew off each of their toes with a .50 caliber sniper rifle.Emanuel Maiberg (404 Media)
Part of Article I Section 8, and all of Sections 9 and 10, which address things like habeas corpus, nobility, and militias, are gone from Congress's website for the Constitution.
Part of Article I Section 8, and all of Sections 9 and 10, which address things like habeas corpus, nobility, and militias, are gone from Congressx27;s website for the Constitution.#archiving #websites #Trumpadministration
Constitution Sections on Due Process and Foreign Gifts Just Vanished from Congress' Website
Congress’ website for the U.S. Constitution was changed to delete the last two sections of Article I, which include provisions such as habeas corpus, forbidding the naming of titles of nobility, and forbidding foreign emoluments for U.S. officials.The last full version of the webpage, archived by the Internet Archive on July 17, still included the now-deleted sections. Parts of Section 8 of Article I, as well as all of Sections 9 and 10 of Article I are now gone from the live site. The deletions, as of August 6, are also archived here. The change was spotted by users on Lemmy, an open-source aggregation platform and forum.
This webpage, maintained by the U.S. government, hasn’t changed significantly in the entire time it’s been saved by the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine—since 2019. The page for the Constitution on the National Archives website remains unchanged, and shows the entire document.
The removed portion begins halfway through Section 8. It includes:
To provide and maintain a Navy;
To make Rules for the Government and Regulation of the land and naval Forces;
To provide for calling forth the Militia to execute the Laws of the Union, suppress Insurrections and repel Invasions;
To provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining, the Militia, and for governing such Part of them as may be employed in the Service of the United States, reserving to the States respectively, the Appointment of the Officers, and the Authority of training the Militia according to the discipline prescribed by Congress;
To exercise exclusive Legislation in all Cases whatsoever, over such District (not exceeding ten Miles square) as may, by Cession of particular States, and the Acceptance of Congress, become the Seat of Government of the United States, and to exercise like Authority over all Places purchased by the Consent of the Legislature of the State in which the Same shall be, for the Erection of Forts, Magazines, Arsenals, dock-Yards, and other needful Buildings;–And
To make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution the foregoing Powers, and all other Powers vested by this Constitution in the Government of the United States, or in any Department or Officer thereof.
Section 9
The Migration or Importation of such Persons as any of the States now existing shall think proper to admit, shall not be prohibited by the Congress prior to the Year one thousand eight hundred and eight, but a Tax or duty may be imposed on such Importation, not exceeding ten dollars for each Person.The Privilege of the Writ of Habeas Corpus shall not be suspended, unless when in Cases of Rebellion or Invasion the public Safety may require it.
No Bill of Attainder or ex post facto Law shall be passed.
No Capitation, or other direct, Tax shall be laid, unless in Proportion to the Census or enumeration herein before directed to be taken.
No Tax or Duty shall be laid on Articles exported from any State.
No Preference shall be given by any Regulation of Commerce or Revenue to the Ports of one State over those of another: nor shall Vessels bound to, or from, one State, be obliged to enter, clear, or pay Duties in another.
No Money shall be drawn from the Treasury, but in Consequence of Appropriations made by Law; and a regular Statement and Account of the Receipts and Expenditures of all public Money shall be published from time to time.
No Title of Nobility shall be granted by the United States: And no Person holding any Office of Profit or Trust under them, shall, without the Consent of the Congress, accept of any present, Emolument, Office, or Title, of any kind whatever, from any King, Prince, or foreign State.
Section 10
No State shall enter into any Treaty, Alliance, or Confederation; grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal; coin Money; emit Bills of Credit; make any Thing but gold and silver Coin a Tender in Payment of Debts; pass any Bill of Attainder, ex post facto Law, or Law impairing the Obligation of Contracts, or grant any Title of Nobility.No State shall, without the Consent of the Congress, lay any Imposts or Duties on Imports or Exports, except what may be absolutely necessary for executing it's inspection Laws: and the net Produce of all Duties and Imposts, laid by any State on Imports or Exports, shall be for the Use of the Treasury of the United States; and all such Laws shall be subject to the Revision and Controul of the Congress.
No State shall, without the Consent of Congress, lay any Duty of Tonnage, keep Troops, or Ships of War in time of Peace, enter into any Agreement or Compact with another State, or with a foreign Power, or engage in War, unless actually invaded, or in such imminent Danger as will not admit of delay.
As people in the Lemmy forum conversation note, this could be a glitch, or some kind of error with the site. But considering the page doesn’t include many dynamic elements, and is mainly a text reprinting of the Constitution, a nearly 240-year-old document that hasn’t changed since the addition of the 27th Amendment in 1992—and that the page itself has barely changed at all in the six years it’s been archived—it’s a noteworthy and sudden move.
The Trump administration does not have any control over Congressional websites, but the sudden disappearance of important parts of the Constitution is happening in the context of a broader government war on information.
Since the Trump administration took office, official federal government websites with public information have come under attack, being taken offline entirely or altered to reflect this administration’s values. This has included critical information promoting vaccines, HIV care, reproductive health options including abortion, and trans and gender confirmation healthcare being purged from the CDC’s live website, thousands of datasets disappearing from Data.gov, and the scrubbing of various documents, employee handbooks, Slack bots, and job listings across government agencies. Some deleted pages across the government were restored following a court order, but the administration then added a note rejecting “gender ideology” to some of them.
Habeas corpus, which is among the now-deleted provisions on the Constitution webpage, allows people to challenge their imprisonment before a judge. In May, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said before a congressional committee that Trump can remove the Constitutional provision of habeas corpus, calling it “a constitutional right that the president has to be able to remove people from this country and suspend their rights.” Trump has said he’s considering suspending habeas corpus for people detained by ICE.
“That’s incorrect,” Democratic Sen. Maggie Hassan replied to Noem, calling habeas corpus “the foundational right that separates free societies like America from police states like North Korea.”
Trump Admin Adds Note Rejecting ‘Gender Ideology’ on Sites Court Ordered Them to Restore
FDA and HHS sites now note that “The Trump Administration rejects gender ideology and condemns the harms it causes to children.”Emanuel Maiberg (404 Media)
L'immagine mostra la pagina di sommario di un numero del "Notiziario Storico dell'Arma dei Carabinieri" n. 4, anno X. La pagina è suddivisa in nove quadrati, ciascuno con un'immagine e un numero, che rappresentano diverse storie e temi storici.
- Quadrato 4: Mostra un ufficiale in uniforme con un cappello ornato, probabilmente un Carabiniere, con il numero 4.
- Quadrato 20: Presenta una mappa storica con dettagli geografici, indicando la regione ligure, con il numero 20.
- Quadrato 36: Raffigura un gruppo di soldati in uniforme, con il numero 36.
- Quadrato 44: Mostra un gruppo di uomini in uniforme, con il numero 44.
- Quadrato 50: Presenta un emblema circolare con un uccello e una foglia d'ulivo, con il numero 50.
- Quadrato 58: Raffigura una statua con un fucile, con il numero 58.
- Quadrato 62: Mostra un giovane in uniforme, con il numero 62.
- Quadrato 70: Presenta un uomo in uniforme con medaglie, con il numero 70.
- Quadrato 72: Mostra un documento storico, con il numero 72.
Il testo sottostante descrive brevemente i contenuti del numero, menzionando la ferrea opposizione dei Carabinieri alla protervia nazifascista, l'annessione del Regno di Sardegna in Liguria, l'arresto e la morte dei capi banditi, l'indagine sull'uffernata rapina, il servizio di venti anni, e un giovane erede combattente per la libertà.
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Avs denuncia il silenzio sul Media Freedom Act
@Giornalismo e disordine informativo
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Ieri Alleanza Verdi-Sinistra ha lanciato una pietra nello stagno, alzando il sipario dell’European Media Freedom Act, approvato il 13 marzo del 2024 ed entrato già in vigore in molte sue parti nella disattenzione generale. Il prossimo
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Con l’adesione al Safe l’Italia si allinea agli impegni con la Nato. L’analisi di Marrone (Iai)
@Notizie dall'Italia e dal mondo
La conferma si è fatta attendere ma è decisiva: l’Italia aderirà al Safe – Security Action for Europe – il fondo Ue per la difesa da 150 miliardi. Con l’aggiunta di Roma, sono diciotto gli Stati membri dell’Ue che hanno deciso di ricorrere ai prestiti comunitari per finanziare spese
Difesa e industria, così il governo pensa a una regia nazionale per la sicurezza
@Notizie dall'Italia e dal mondo
Secondo Milano Finanza il governo Meloni starebbe puntando a costruire un vero e proprio consorzio nazionale della difesa a guida pubblica. L’obiettivo? Integrare capacità industriali, attrarre fondi europei e generare occupazione, sviluppando tecnologie dual-use che abbiano ricadute anche civili,
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in reply to Adriano Bono • • •L'immagine è un poster promozionale per un tour musicale intitolato "Ingaggiateci Stronzì Tour" di Adriano Bono, con il sottotitolo "The Reggae Circus". Il poster presenta un uomo con barba e baffi, indossando un abito di gala rosso con decorazioni dorate, un papillon rosso e un cappello a cilindro nero. L'uomo tiene una chitarra e sorride, con uno sguardo diretto verso l'osservatore. Sullo sfondo, c'è un'illustrazione di un circo con acrobati e artisti, che contribuisce a creare un'atmosfera festosa e vivace.
Il testo principale "INGAGGIATECI STRONZI TOUR" è scritto in caratteri grandi e bianchi, posizionato in alto. Sotto, in caratteri più piccoli, si legge "THE REGGAE CIRCUS di Adriano Bono". In basso, sono elencate le date e i luoghi dei concerti: sabato 9 agosto a Yumara, Maratea PZ; domenica 10 agosto a Azzurro Beach Praia a Mare, CS; lunedì 11 agosto a Cerasi Serata Strapagata!; e martedì 12 agosto a Colliano (SA).
Il poster utilizza un design vintage con sfumature di rosso e giallo, che richiama l'atmosfera di un circo storico. L'immagine e il testo insieme creano un'atmosfera di divertimento e spettacolo, promuovendo l'evento musicale.
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