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Whonix 17.4 è fuori! Solo un exploit 0day può minacciare il tuo anonimato
È stata rilasciata la versione 17.4 della distribuzione Whonix, creata per garantire maggiore anonimato in rete. Il sistema è basato su Debian GNU/Linux e trasmette tutto il traffico tramite Tor. Il codice sorgente è pubblico rilasciato sotto licenza GPLv3.
Sono disponibili per il download delle nuove immagini di macchine virtuali in formato OVA per VirtualBox : con Xfce (2,3 GB) e console (1,5 GB).
Whonix si basa su uno schema a due componenti. Whonix-Gateway funge da gateway di rete, consentendo il passaggio delle connessioni solo tramite Tor, mentre Whonix-Workstation funge da ambiente di lavoro isolato.
Entrambi i sistemi sono inclusi nella stessa immagine, ma vengono eseguiti su macchine virtuali diverse. Grazie a ciò, la workstation non ha accesso diretto alla rete e i suoi parametri di rete sono sempre fittizi. Anche se il browser viene hackerato o l’aggressore ottiene l’accesso root, il vero indirizzo IP rimane nascosto.
Se Whonix-Workstation viene compromesso, l’aggressore vedrà solo indirizzi falsi, poiché dati reali e richieste DNS passano attraverso il gateway. Gli sviluppatori avvertono che, poiché Whonix è progettato per essere eseguito all’interno di hypervisor, esiste il rischio di exploit 0-day nelle piattaforme di virtualizzazione che possono fornire accesso al sistema host. Pertanto, si sconsiglia di mantenere Gateway e Workstation sullo stesso computer.
Di default, Whonix-Workstation utilizza Xfce e include applicazioni preinstallate : VLC, Tor Browser, Pidgin e altre.
Whonix-Gateway è dotato di software server, inclusi server Apache httpd, nginx e IRC, e supporta anche l’inoltro di connessioni tramite Tor per Freenet, i2p, JonDonym, SSH e VPN . Se lo si desidera, è possibile utilizzare solo il gateway, connettendovi le workstation esistenti, incluse quelle Windows, per l’accesso anonimo a Internet.
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Steampunk Copper PC is as Cool as it Runs
Copper! The only thing it does better than conduct heat is conduct a great steampunk vibe. [Billet Labs]’ latest video is an artfully done wall PC that makes full use of both of those properties.
The parts are what you’d expect in a high-end workstation PC: a Ryzen 9 and an 3090Ti with oodles of RAM. It’s the cooling loop where all the magic happens: from the copper block on the CPU, to the plumbing fixtures that give the whole thing a beautiful brewery-chiq shine when polished up. Hopefully the water-block in the GPU is equally cupriferous too, but given the attention to detail in the rest of the build, we cannot imagine [Billet Labs] making such a rookie mistake as to invite Mr. Galvanic Corrosion to the party.
There’s almost no visible plastic or paint; the GPU and PSU are hidden by a brass plates, and even the back panel everything mounts to is shiny metal. Even the fans on the radiator are metal, and customized to look like a quad throttle body or four-barreled carburetor on an old race car. (Though they sound more like a jet takeoff.)
The analog gauges are a particular treat, which push this build firmly into “steampunk” territory. Unfortunately the temperature gauge glued onto the GPU only measures the external temperature of the GPU, not the temperature at the die or even the water-block. On the other hand, given how well this cooling setup seems to work later in the video, GPU temps are likely to stay pretty stable. The other gauges do exactly what you’d expect, measuring the pressure and temperature of the water in the coolant loop and voltage on the twelve volt rail.
Honestly, once it gets mounted on the wall, this build looks more like an art piece than any kind of computer— only the power and I/O cables do anything to give the game away. Now that he has the case, perhaps some artful peripherals are in order?
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Thanks to prolific tipster [Keith Olson] for cluing us into this one. If you see a project you take a shine to, why not drop us a tip?
Backdoor in xz Utils: 35 immagini Docker Hub ancora infette
Gli analisti di Binarly hanno trovato almeno 35 immagini su Docker Hub ancora infette da una backdoor che ha penetrato xz Utils l’anno scorso. I ricercatori hanno avvertito che questo potrebbe potenzialmente mettere a rischio utenti, organizzazioni e i loro dati.
Binarly spiega che molte pipeline CI/CD, sviluppatori e sistemi di produzione estraggono le immagini direttamente da Docker Hub, utilizzandole come base per i propri container. Se queste immagini vengono compromesse, ogni nuova build erediterà la vulnerabilità o il codice dannoso.
Ricordiamo che una backdoor nel popolare pacchetto xz Utils fu scoperta accidentalmente nel 2024 e l’incidente ricevette molta attenzione. Di conseguenza, al problema fu assegnato l’identificatore CVE-2024-3094 e ottenne 10 punti su 10 possibili sulla scala CVSS.
Poiché xz Utils e la sua libreria liblzma sono molto popolari e inclusi nella maggior parte delle distribuzioni Linux (e sono utilizzati anche da molte applicazioni Linux e macOS), la scoperta del malware ha scatenato l’intera comunità open source.
Un’indagine condotta l’anno scorso ha rivelato che l’operazione backdoor era stata pianificata con cura ed era durata diversi anni; gli aggressori avevano pianificato l’attacco per molto tempo e si erano guadagnati la fiducia del responsabile della manutenzione di xz Utils, Lasse Collin (alias Larhzu).
La backdoor intercettava e reindirizzava le operazioni di decrittazione della chiave RSA SSH (la funzione RSA_public_decrypt ) a OpenSSH tramite il meccanismo IFUNC della libreria glibc. Di conseguenza, se un aggressore con una chiave privata speciale si connetteva tramite SSH a un sistema infetto, era in grado di bypassare l’autenticazione ed eseguire comandi da remoto con privilegi di root.
Poiché il malware è stato infine distribuito nei pacchetti ufficiali della distribuzione Linux (come Debian, Fedora, OpenSUSE e Red Hat), l’infezione xz Utils è stata una delle compromissioni più gravi dell’anno scorso.
Come riportato da Binarly questa settimana, i problemi alla supply chain causati dall’infezione xz Utils sono ancora in corso, con decine di immagini infette ancora presenti su Docker Hub.
“Abbiamo scoperto che alcune di queste immagini compromesse [da xz Utils] sono ancora pubblicamente disponibili su Docker Hub. Quel che è peggio è che altre immagini sono state create su queste immagini di base infette, dando origine a infezioni a cascata”, hanno affermato i ricercatori.
In totale, gli esperti hanno trovato 35 immagini di questo tipo ancora disponibili per il download. Allo stesso tempo, gli analisti sottolineano che questo numero riflette solo parzialmente la reale portata del problema, poiché non hanno effettuato una scansione completa della piattaforma.
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Un malware ibrido creato con le AI colpisce le organizzazioni russe
Nel secondo trimestre del 2025, gli specialisti del dipartimento di threat intelligence del centro di esperti di sicurezza Positive Technologies hanno registrato un aumento delle attività di gruppi di criminali informatici e hacktivisti contro organizzazioni russe. Il principale vettore di attacco è rimasto il phishing via e-mail, sia secondo scenari comuni che sfruttando vulnerabilità zero-day.
È stato rilevato un aumento dei file dannosi, il cui codice era in parte generato da reti neurali: utilizzando i servizi di intelligenza artificiale disponibili, gli aggressori hanno rapidamente modificato i moduli per aggirare i sistemi di sicurezza.
Il gruppo TA Tolik ha inviato archivi contenenti un file dannoso camuffato da documento ufficiale o notifica di agenzie governative. Una volta aperto sul dispositivo della vittima, è stato avviato un set di script che si mascherava da software legittimo, creava attività nello scheduler e aggiungeva codice al registro di Windows. Il malware si attivava solo durante l’esecuzione, rendendolo difficile da rilevare.
Il gruppo Sapphire Werewolf utilizzava un servizio legittimo gratuito per inviare file di grandi dimensioni. Il loro malware verificava se si trovava in una sandbox e smetteva di funzionare se rilevava di essere in esecuzione in un ambiente isolato. PhaseShifters utilizzava una tecnica simile: prima dell’esecuzione, il virus valutava la disponibilità di strumenti di protezione sulla vittima e adattava le azioni successive, diffondendosi tramite e-mail per conto del Ministero dell’Istruzione e della Scienza.
Anche gli hacktivisti hanno intensificato la loro attività. La comunità Black Owl ha condotto una campagna contro un forum dedicato ai trasporti e alla logistica, distribuendo malware attraverso siti web falsi che imitavano le pagine degli organizzatori.
Come sottolinea l’azienda, gli hacktivisti attaccano più spesso siti web di piccole dimensioni, come negozi online, blog e media regionali. Pubblicano propaganda su tali risorse, reindirizzano il traffico verso pagine di phishing o incorporano codice dannoso per ulteriori attacchi. Alcuni gruppi APT utilizzano questi siti in campagne multifase e alcuni aggressori vendono l’accesso sul mercato nero.
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Huawei presenta un algoritmo che riduce la dipendenza dai chip stranieri
Huawei ha presentato un nuovo strumento software che velocizza i modelli di intelligenza artificiale di grandi dimensioni distribuendo i dati in modo più efficiente tra diversi tipi di memoria. Potrebbe aiutare la Cina a ridurre la sua dipendenza dai costosi chip di memoria ad alta larghezza di banda, ora quasi interamente controllati da fornitori stranieri.
Lo sviluppo si chiama Unified Cache Manager (UCM). Si tratta di un algoritmo che posiziona i dati tenendo conto della latenza di diversi livelli di memoria, dall’HBM ad alta velocità alla RAM standard e all’SSD. Secondo Zhou Yuefeng, vicepresidente di Huawei per i sistemi di storage, la tecnologia ha ridotto la latenza di inferenza del 90% e aumentato la produttività del sistema di 22 volte. Questi risultati sono stati ottenuti durante i test di cui l’azienda ha parlato al forum sulle applicazioni industriali dell’intelligenza artificiale a Shanghai.
Con un accesso limitato all’hardware moderno, le aziende cinesi stanno ricorrendo sempre più a soluzioni software alternative. L’approccio di Huawei è in gran parte simile a quanto dimostrato in precedenza dalla startup DeepSeek : ha addestrato modelli di intelligenza artificiale su larga scala con risorse di calcolo limitate, ottenendo risultati competitivi.
Huawei ha promesso di rendere open source l’UCM già a settembre, prima alla sua comunità di sviluppatori online e poi all’intero settore. L’iniziativa mira a ridurre la dipendenza della Cina dai chip stranieri, in particolare quelli di SK Hynix, Samsung e Micron, che attualmente dominano il mercato HBM.
La tecnologia HBM è una memoria multistrato con elevata larghezza di banda e bassa latenza, fondamentale per i moderni chip di intelligenza artificiale. Secondo la società di consulenza Yole Group, il mercato globale HBM raggiungerà i 34 miliardi di dollari nel 2025 e potrebbe crescere fino a 98 miliardi di dollari entro il 2030. La rapida crescita è spiegata dal boom nel campo dell’intelligenza artificiale generativa.
Dallo scorso anno, gli Stati Uniti hanno limitato le esportazioni di chip HBM avanzati verso la Cina nel tentativo di rallentare lo sviluppo dell’industria dei semiconduttori del Paese. Questa decisione rientra in una strategia più ampia perseguita dall’amministrazione Biden. In risposta, Pechino ha accelerato la sua spinta verso l’indipendenza tecnologica e ha iniziato a sviluppare attivamente la propria produzione di memorie. Tra i principali attori figurano Yangtze Memory, Changxin Memory e Tongfu Microelectronics.
Tuttavia, i produttori cinesi faticano ancora a tenere il passo con i concorrenti stranieri. Mentre il Paese sta ancora predisponendo l’infrastruttura per la produzione della seconda generazione di HBM (HBM2), SK Hynix sta già commercializzando l’HBM4, un chip con velocità ancora più elevate.
Anche le restrizioni all’esportazione delle apparecchiature necessarie per la produzione di microcircuiti moderni continuano a rappresentare un ostacolo significativo, ostacolando seriamente lo sviluppo della microelettronica cinese.
In questo contesto, il destino dell’H20, un chip AI di Nvidia semplificato progettato specificamente per il mercato cinese, è diventato cruciale. Secondo il Financial Times, Pechino si è offerta di allentare le barriere all’esportazione per l’HBM nell’ambito di un potenziale accordo commerciale con gli Stati Uniti, ma non ci sono segnali di riavvicinamento tra le due parti.
Nonostante le sanzioni, Huawei rimane un attore chiave nel mercato cinese dei chip per l’intelligenza artificiale grazie alla sua linea Ascend. All’inizio di quest’anno, l’azienda ha presentato CloudMatrix 384, un sistema di elaborazione “supernodo” in grado di competere con i sistemi GB200 NVL72 di Nvidia.
All’inizio di agosto, Huawei ha anche annunciato l’intenzione di rendere open source il suo framework CANN (Compute Architecture for Neural Networks), incentrato sui processori Ascend. Questa rappresenta una sfida diretta all’ecosistema CUDA di Nvidia , che da tempo rappresenta lo standard de facto per l’addestramento e l’esecuzione di modelli di intelligenza artificiale.
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Musk vuole portare in tribunale Apple (a causa di OpenAI)
L'articolo proviene da #StartMag e viene ricondiviso sulla comunità Lemmy @Informatica (Italy e non Italy 😁)
Elon Musk starebbe per procedere legalmente nei confronti di Apple, che accusa di favorire solo OpenAI nel suo App Store, violando le norme antitrust. Ma anche Sam Altman ha qualcosa da ridire su X e poi in ballo ci
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La favola dell’anonimato online. Il post di F-Norm Society sull'attacco degli Stati ai diritti dei cittadini
Si racconta la favola dell’anonimato online come la causa di tutti i mali. Il problema è che qualcuno ci crede. Non solo. Il problema è anche che chi ci crede è anche una politica che pensa così di soddisfare un finto problema con una proposta di soluzione stupida. Così stupida che viene addirittura giustificata con l’intenzione di rendere Internet e gli ecosistemi digitali “più sicuri” rendendoli praticamente ad accesso controllato.
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Quando ci si imbatte in una lettura sui massimi sistemi si sa che il percorso è in salita e per niente facile ma il segno che lascia in questo caso è davvero rivoluzionario e avvincente. Federico Faggin è uno scienziato che ha lavorato dal 1968 alla Silicon Valley inventando quel microprocessore che ha cambiato lo […]
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Esercizi perché per certi aspetti assomigliano agli esercizi che facevamo a scuola. Scritti per distinguerli dagli esercizi solo pensati, che sono la maggior parte. Seguire delle regole (dopo essersele date) è un buon modo di sperimentare soluzioni nuove, proprio come fanno i bizzarri consigli di Natalie Goldberg in #Scrivere zen. Quindi ho deciso di fare […]
The Department of Energy said it will close FOIA requests from last year unless the requester emails the agency to say they are still interested. Experts say it's an "attempt to close out as many FOIA requests as possible."
The Department of Energy said it will close FOIA requests from last year unless the requester emails the agency to say they are still interested. Experts say itx27;s an "attempt to close out as many FOIA requests as possible."#FOIA #FOIAForum
Trump Administration Outlines Plan to Throw Out an Agency's FOIA Requests En Masse
The Department of Energy (DOE) said in a public notice scheduled to be published Thursday that it will throw out all Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests sent to the agency before October 1, 2024 unless the requester proactively emails the agency to tell it they are still interested in the documents they requested. This will result in the improper closure of likely thousands of FOIA requests if not more; government transparency experts told 404 Media that the move is “insane,” “ludicrous,” a “Pandora’s Box,” and “an underhanded attempt to close out as many FOIA requests as possible.”The DOE notice says “requesters who submitted a FOIA request to DOE HQ at any time prior to October 1, 2024 (FY25), that is still open and is not under active litigation with DOE (or another Federal agency) shall email StillInterestedFOIA@hq.doe.gov to continue processing of the FOIA request […] If DOE HQ does not receive a response from requesters within the 30-day time-period with a DOE control number, no further action will be taken on the open FOIA request(s), and the file may be administratively closed.” A note at the top of the notice says it is scheduled to be formally published in the Federal Register on Thursday.
The agency will send out what are known as “still interested” letters, which federal agencies have used over the years to see if a requester wants to withdraw their request after a certain period of inactivity. These types of letters are controversial and perhaps not legal, and previous administrations have said that they should be used rarely and that requests should only be closed after an agency made multiple attempts to contact a requester over multiple methods of communication. What the DOE is doing now is sending these letters to submitters of all requests prior to October 1, 2024, which is not really that long ago; it also said it will close the requests of people who do not respond in a specific way to a specific email address.
FOIA requests—especially complicated ones—can often take months or years to process. I have outstanding FOIA requests with numerous federal agencies that I filed years ago, and am still interested in getting back, and I have gotten useful documents from federal agencies after years of waiting. The notion that large numbers of people who filed FOIA requests as recently as September 2024, which is less than a year ago, are suddenly uninterested in getting the documents they requested is absurd and should be seen as an attack on public transparency, experts told 404 Media. The DOE’s own reports show that it often does not respond to FOIA requests within a year, and, of course, a backlog exists in part because agencies are not terribly responsive to FOIA.
“If a requester proactively reaches out and says I am withdrawing my request, then no problem, they don’t have to process it,” Adam Marshall, senior staff attorney at the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, told me. “The agency can’t say we’ve decided we’ve gotten a lot of requests and we don’t want to do them so we’re throwing them out.”
“I was pretty shocked when I saw this to be honest,” Marshall added. “I’ve never seen anything like this in 10 years of doing FOIA work, and it’s egregious for a few reasons. I don’t think agencies have the authority to close a FOIA request if they don’t get a response to a ‘still interested’ letter. The statute doesn’t provide for that authority, and the amount of time the agency is giving people to respond—30 days—it sounds like a long time but if you happen to miss that email or aren’t digging through your backlogs, it’s not a lot of time. The notion that FOIA requesters should keep an eye out in the Federal Register for this kind of notice is ludicrous.”
The DOE notice essentially claims that the agency believes it gets too many FOIA requests and doesn’t feel like answering them. “DOE’s incoming FOIA requests have more than tripled in the past four years, with over 4,000 requests received in FY24, and an expected 5,000 or more requests in FY25. DOE has limited resources to process the burgeoning number of FOIA requests,” the notice says. “Therefore, DOE is undertaking this endeavor as an attempt to free up government resources to better serve the American people and focus its efforts on more efficiently connecting the citizenry with the work of its government.”
Lauren Harper of the Freedom of the Press Foundation told me in an email that she also has not seen any sort of precedent for this and that “it is an underhanded attempt to close out as many FOIA requests as possible, because who in their right mind checks the federal register regularly, and it should be challenged in court. (On that note, I am filing a FOIA request about this proposal.)”
“The use of still interested letters isn't explicitly allowed in the FOIA statute at all, and, as far as I know, there is absolutely zero case law that would support the department sending a mass ‘still interested’ letter via the federal register,” she added. “That they are also sending emails is not a saving grace; these types of letters are supposed to be used sparingly—not as a flagrant attempt to reduce their backlog by any means necessary. I also worry it will open a Pandora's Box—if other agencies see this, some are sure to follow.”
Marshall said that FOIA response times have been getting worse for years across multiple administrations (which has also been my experience). The Trump administration and the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) have cut a large number of jobs in many agencies across the government, which may have further degraded response times. But until this, there hadn’t been major proactive attempts taken by the self-defined “most transparent administration in history” to destroy FOIA.
“This is of a different nature than what we have seen so far, this affirmative, large-scale effort to purport to cancel a large number of pending FOIA requests,” Marshall said.
The LAPD attacked reporters, despite a court order. Then it lied about it
Last Friday, officers from the Los Angeles Police Department beat, shoved, detained, and jailed journalists covering a protest over the previous detention of a community activist who had been documenting immigration officers.
It was a brutal and shocking attack on the press, even by the LAPD’s standards. Even before scores of journalists were attacked and detained at recent immigration raid protests, the force had one of the most atrocious track records when it comes to press freedom. The LAPD is also subject to a court order prohibiting it from interfering with journalists covering protests, which it appears to have wantonly violated.
What’s almost as shocking is how little attention these recent attacks have drawn from the mainstream media. Even five days later, the hometown Los Angeles Times, for instance, hadn’t yet written about Friday’s attack on the press. Thankfully, an out-of-town columnist, Will Bunch at the Philadelphia Inquirer, published an article strongly condemning the LAPD’s actions.
But even worse than ignoring the attacks on the press is reporting false information about them spread by the LAPD. Unfortunately, California station KABC-TV appears to have done just that, by reporting uncritically on claims by the LAPD that two people were detained at the protest for “pretending to be media.”
The two were, in fact, journalists, according to reporter Mel Buer, who was at the protest and was also detained, and Adam Rose, who’s been exhaustively tracking the recent attacks for the Los Angeles Press Club. Rose’s tracking spreadsheet identifies the detained journalists as Nate Gowdy and Carrie Schreck.
The U.S. Press Freedom Tracker reported that LAPD officers detained Gowdy and Schreck, who were working together to report on the protest, because they didn’t have physical press badges.
A lack of physical press credentials isn’t a good enough reason to stop a journalist from reporting under the First Amendment, and it certainly isn’t a good enough reason under the order entered by a federal judge in response to a lawsuit by the Los Angeles Press Club restraining the LAPD’s mistreatment of journalists covering protests. Even guidance from the LAPD’s chief of police says that a lack of credentials isn’t enough to justify a detention.
Instead, officers should have considered all the evidence that Gowdy and Schreck were at the protest to gather the news, like the statements from other credentialed reporters who vouched for them, their camera equipment, and Gowdy’s offer to show digital credentials or prove through a quick Google search that he and Schreck were journalists. And if they were still in doubt, officers were required to grant Gowdy and Schreck’s requests to speak to a supervisor.
KABC-TV, which calls itself the “West Coast flagship” of Disney’s ABC-owned TV station group, also should have known better than to simply repeat a statement from the LAPD that people were arrested for “pretending” to be press.
The government often makes this claim and uses it as a justification for why it “can’t” respect the First Amendment rights of journalists and simply must continue to beat and terrorize them along with protesters. But research has shown that protesters or others claiming to be press is rare. Any time government officials make this claim, journalists should be skeptical and investigate it before reporting it.
Journalists must bring a healthy dose of skepticism to any statements by the LAPD about its treatment of the press. The LAPD knows that it violates the First Amendment and California law to detain or otherwise interfere with journalists covering protests, but it continues to do so anyway.
It seems to prefer to risk contempt of court or massive settlements rather than respect the First Amendment, and it apparently has no compunction about making false statements to the press about its actions.
The only response available to journalists — other than suing to enforce their rights — is to report, accurately, on every single First Amendment violation by the LAPD. If they do, perhaps the citizens of Los Angeles will make clear to elected officials and law enforcement leaders that they won’t tolerate their police force acting in such a lawless manner.
Strage a Lampedusa: 30 morti e decine di dispersi, tra loro tre neonati
@Giornalismo e disordine informativo
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Sono già 30 le vittime accertate, tra cui tre neonati, ma i dispersi si contano a decine.La presidente Meloni maledice gli scafisti e invita alla pietà. Certo, questa è l’ora della pietà e della solidarietà, ma sono
Monte Sole, un appello per fermare il massacro di Gaza
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Le iniziative per la Pace in Medio Oriente non si fermano. Domani 14 agosto a Monte Sole, terra di stragi e di Resistenza dove è nata la scuola di Pace voluta da don Dossetti, in questo luogo simbolo dove morirono 770 civili innocenti per
Rete criminale organizzata albanese smantellata
Una serie di perquisizioni in Albania, nei giorni scorsi, ha portato all'arresto di 10 presunti membri di una rete criminale organizzata albanese coinvolta nel traffico di cocaina e nel riciclaggio di denaro. La rete, che aveva legami con organizzazioni internazionali, è stata presa di mira dalle forze dell'ordine albanesi in coordinamento con Belgio, Francia, Germania, Italia e Paesi Bassi.
Durante l'operazione, le autorità hanno sequestrato ingenti beni, tra cui immobili, veicoli e azioni di società per un valore di diversi milioni di euro. L'indagine ha inoltre portato alla luce una serie di prove fisiche e digitali, inclusi i dati della piattaforma di comunicazione criptata Sky ECC, che è stata disattivata nel 2021 ma ha comunque prodotto risultati operativi.
Il capo della rete era coinvolto nell'organizzazione di spedizioni e nell'investimento in grandi quantità di cocaina, ed era ricercato per una condanna a 21 anni di carcere emessa da un tribunale italiano per omicidio e altri reati. L'operazione ha segnato un successo basato sui dati: gli investigatori hanno ricostruito consegne di tonnellate di cocaina verso i porti dell'UE e sequestrato milioni di euro di beni.
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l genocidio va fermato, i governi devono interrompere i rapporti con Israele e soprattutto smettere di vendere armi a uno stato che sta compiendo un genocidio sotto gli occhi del mondo. Finché Israele non affronterà nessuna conseguenza, nemmeno sui campi di gioco internazionali, tanti,
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A DHS sizzle reel that used "Public Service Announcement" got hit with a copyright takedown request and has been deleted off of X.#Immigration #ICE
ICE Propaganda Video That Used Jay-Z Song Hit With Copyright Takedown
A Department of Homeland Security (DHS) propaganda video that featured Jay-Z’s music was hit with a copyright takedown request on X, and appears to have been hit with copyright violations on both Instagram and Facebook as well.The video features footage of Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents training and doing immigration raids set to Jay-Z’s 2003 song “Public Service Announcement,” which has recently been used in at least two DHS videos. DHS tweeted the video alongside the caption “Hunt Cartels. Save America. JOIN.ICE.GOV.” The original tweet, from August 10, has 2.9 million views on X; the video has been replaced with the message “This media has been disabled in response to a report by the copyright owner.”
DHS also posted the video on Instagram and Facebook. On both platforms, the video has stayed up but Jay-Z’s music has been removed, suggesting that it got hit with a copyright notice on those platforms too. On Instagram, where it has nearly a million views, a message that says “This audio is no longer available” plays if you try to unmute the video. The sound on the video has been removed on Facebook as well, but a quirk of the platform allowed me to check what the removed audio was by clicking the name of the “sound” in the bottom left corner of the Reel, which showed it was indeed Jay-Z’s “Public Service Announcement. A Facebook user ripped and reposted the video, which still has the sound, and can be found here at the time of publication.Neither Meta nor X responded to a request for comment. The Recording Industry Association of America, which files a huge number of copyright takedown requests across the internet for major artists, declined to comment to 404 Media. DHS also did not respond to a request for comment. Jay-Z’s Roc Nation also did not respond to a request for comment.
In recent weeks, DHS officials and agents have heavily ratcheted up the number of videos they post to social media. Many of the videos are heavily edited sizzle reels from immigration raids set to rap music or songs like the “Bad Boys” theme and Johnny Cash’s “God’s Gonna Cut You Down.”
The footage is being used to recruit new ICE agents and to promote the cruelty of Trump’s immigration raids; a video posted by chief border patrol agent Gregory Bovino features Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass warning about the overreach of the federal government in LA and includes a remixed version of “Public Service Announcement” over first-person footage of Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agents doing an immigration raid Thursday at a Home Depot in Los Angeles. That particular raid may have violated a court injunction, experts have argued.
“The Call of Duty aesthetic is sickening,” Chris Gilliard, co-director of The Critical Internet Studies Institute and author of the forthcoming book Luxury Surveillance, told 404 Media.
404 Media reported last week that CBP agents have been wearing Meta’s AI camera glasses to at least two recent immigration raids in Los Angeles (it is unclear what cameras were used to film the footage used in either of the videos featuring Jay-Z music).
“CBP utilize Go Pros mounted to helmets or body armor at times, as well as traditional DSLR handheld cameras,” a CBP spokesperson told 404 Media when we asked about its agents wearing Meta AI glasses. The spokesperson added “CBP does not have an arrangement with Meta. The use of personal recording devices is not authorized. However, Border Patrol agents may wear personally purchased sunglasses.”
DHS has also allowed Fox News reporters to embed with and film agents on raids, and footage from these raids shows DHS agents with DSLR cameras running alongside each other to capture footage. It is clearly important to this administration to capture and widely publicize this footage, which often emphasizes agents grabbing people who are running away from them.
The copyright takedown is notable because it shows DHS is not getting permission from artists to use their music in these propaganda videos, which are being used to recruit ICE agents in the immediate aftermath of a huge funding increase. As we reported earlier this month, ICE is trying to do a social media advertising blitz with part of this new funding, and is looking to plaster ads on social media, TV, and streaming sites. Despite this cash injection, early reports suggest that ICE is having trouble finding people to work for it.
Dept. of Homeland Security on Instagram: "Hunt Cartels. Save America. JOIN.ICE.GOV"
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10.000 firme per la petizione di Possibile contro Italia-Israele. Stop the game!
10.000 firme per la petizione di Possibile contro Italia-Israele
Druetti e Di Lenardo: come può lo sport ignorare il genocidio?
“Già diecimila persone hanno firmato su www.possibile.com/unafirmaper la petizione per dire no a Italia-Israele, la partita di qualificazione ai mondiali che è in programma il 14 ottobre a Udine.” Lo dichiarano Francesca Druetti, Segretaria Nazionale di Possibile, e Andrea di Lenardo, Capogruppo di Alleanza Verdi Sinistra Possibile al Consiglio Comunale di Udine.
“Sono più di 60mila le vittime solo negli ultimi due anni — ricordano Druetti e Di Lenardo — un’intera popolazione affamata, Gaza rasa al suolo dai bombardamenti. Nel frattempo, Israele, la sua nazionale, i suoi atleti, dovrebbero continuare a competere come se niente fosse. Oltre 600 vittime erano atleti, calciatori anche. Giocare questa partita è un affronto alla memoria di chi è stato ucciso, e di chiunque abbia a cuore i diritti umani, la giustizia, e lo sport.
“Da quando abbiamo lanciato la petizione — concludono Druetti e di Lenardo — Israele ha ucciso altre centinaia di persone, compresi sei giornalisti in un attacco mirato. Il genocidio va fermato, i governi devono interrompere i rapporti con Israele e soprattutto smettere di vendere armi a uno stato che sta compiendo un genocidio sotto gli occhi del mondo. Finché Israele non affronterà nessuna conseguenza, nemmeno sui campi di gioco internazionali, tanti, troppi continueranno a sentirsi giustificati nel voltarsi dall’altra parte. Ecco perché vi chiediamo di continuare a firmare e condividere la petizione, per far sentire la nostra voce e il nostro dissenso. Stop the game.”
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F-35 italiani intercettano due caccia russi nello spazio aereo Nato. I dettagli
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Per la prima volta, due caccia F-35 Lightning II dell’Aeronautica militare italiana hanno intercettato due velivoli russi operanti vicino allo spazio aereo dell’Alleanza. I due aerei intercettati sono decollati dalla base di Ämari, in Estonia, come confermato
By omitting the "one-third" provision that most other states with age verification laws have adopted, Wyoming and South Dakota are placing the burden of verifying users' ages on all sorts of websites, far beyond porn.
By omitting the "one-third" provision that most other states with age verification laws have adopted, Wyoming and South Dakota are placing the burden of verifying usersx27; ages on all sorts of websites, far beyond porn.#ageverification
Wyoming and South Dakota Age Verification Laws Could Include Huge Parts of the Internet
Last month, age verification laws went into effect in Wyoming and South Dakota, requiring sites hosting “material that is harmful to minors” to verify visitors are over 18 years old. These would normally just be two more states joining the nearly 30 that have so far ceded ground to a years-long campaign for enforcing invasive, ineffective methods of keeping kids away from porn online.But these two states’ laws leave out an important condition: Unlike the laws passed in other states, they don’t state that this applies only to sites with “33.3 percent” or one-third “harmful” material. That could mean Wyoming and South Dakota would require a huge number of sites to use age verification because they host any material they deem harmful to minors, not just porn sites.
Louisiana became the first state to pass an age verification law in the US in January 2023, and since then, most states have either copied or modeled their laws on Louisiana’s—including in Arizona, Missouri, and Ohio, where these laws will be enacted within the coming weeks. And most have included the “one-third” clause, which would theoretically limit the age verification burden to adult sites. But dropping that provision, as Wyoming and South Dakota have done, opens a huge swath of sites to the burden of verifying the ages of visitors in those states.
Louisiana’s law states:
“Any commercial entity that knowingly and intentionally publishes or distributes material harmful to minors on the internet from a website that contains a substantial portion of such material shall be held liable if the entity fails to perform reasonable age verification methods to verify the age of individuals attempting to access the material.”
A “substantial portion” is 33.3 percent or more material on a site that’s “harmful to minors,” the law says.
The same organizations that have lobbied for age verification laws that apply to porn sites have also spent years targeting social media platforms like Reddit and X, as well as streaming services like Netflix, for hosting adult content they deem “sexploitation.” While these sites and platforms do host adult content, age-gating the entire internet only pushes adult consumers and children alike into less-regulated, more exploitative spaces and situations, while everyone just uses VPNs to get around gates.
Florida Sues Huge Porn Sites Including XVideos and Bang Bros Over Age Verification Law
The lawsuit alleges XVideos, Bang Bros, XNXX, Girls Gone Wild and TrafficFactory are in violation of Florida’s law that requires adult platforms to verify visitors are over 18.404 MediaSamantha Cole
Adult industry advocacy group the Free Speech Coalition issued an alert about Wyoming and South Dakota’s dropping of the one-third or “substantial” requirement on Tuesday, writing that this could “create civil and criminal liability for social media platforms such as X, Reddit and Discord, retailers such as Amazon and Barnes & Noble, streaming platforms such as Netflix and Rumble,” and any other platform that simply allowed material these states consider “harmful to minors” but doesn’t age-verify. “Under these new laws, a platform with any amount of material ‘harmful to minors,’ is required to verify the age of all visitors using the site. Operators of platforms that fail to do so may be subject to civil suits or even arrest,” they wrote.I asked Wyoming Representative Martha Lawley, the lead sponsor of the state's bill, if the omission was on purpose and why. "I did not include the '33% or 1/3 rule' in my Age Verification Bill because it creates an almost impossible burden on a victim pursuing a lawsuit for violations of the law. It is more difficult than many might understand to prove percentage of an internet site that qualifies as “pornographic or material harmful to minor'" Lawley wrote in an email. "This was a provision that the porn industry lobbied heavily to be included. In Wyoming, we resisted those efforts. The second issue I had with these types of provisions is that they created some potential U.S. Constitutional concerns. These Constitutional concerns were actually brought up by several U.S. Supreme Court justices during the oral argument in the Texas Age Verification case. So, in short the 1/3 limitation places an undue burden on victims and creates potential U.S. Constitutional concerns."
I asked South Dakota Representative and sponsor of that state's bill Bethany Soye the same question. "We intentionally used the standard of 'regular course of trade or business' instead of 1/3. The 1/3 standard leaves many questions open. How is the amount measured? Is it number of images, minutes of video, number of separate webpages, pixels, etc. During oral argument, a Justice (Alito if I remember correctly) asked the attorney what percentage of porn was on his client’s websites. The attorney couldn’t give him an answer, instead he mentioned the other things on the websites like articles on sexual health and how to be an activist against these laws," Soye told me in an email. "The 1/3 standard also calls into question the government’s compelling interest in protecting kids from porn. Are we saying that 33% is harmful to minors but a website with 30% is not? We chose regular course of business because it is focused on the purpose of the business/website, not an arbitrary number. If you look into the history of the bill, 33% was a totally random number put in the first bill passed in Louisiana. Other states have just been copying it since then. We hope that our standard becomes the norm for state laws moving forward."
Kansas Is About to Pass the Most Extreme Age Verification Law Yet
The bill would make sites with more than 25 percent adult content liable to fines, and lumps homosexuality into “sexual conduct.”404 MediaSamantha Cole
A version of what could be the future of the internet in the US is already playing out in the UK. Last month, the UK enacted the Online Safety Act, which forces platforms to verify the ages of everyone who tries to access certain kinds of content deemed harmful to children. So far, this has included (but isn’t limited to) Discord, popular communities on Reddit, social media sites like Bluesky, and certain content on Spotify.
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On Monday, a judge dismissed a case brought by the Wikimedia Foundation that argued the over-broadness of the new UK rules would “undermine the privacy and safety of Wikipedia’s volunteer contributors, expose the encyclopedia to manipulation and vandalism, and divert essential resources from protecting people and improving Wikipedia, one of the world’s most trusted and widely used digital public goods,” Wikimedia Foundation wrote. “For example, the Foundation would be required to verify the identity of many Wikipedia contributors, undermining the privacy that is central to keeping Wikipedia volunteers safe.”"As we're seeing in the UK with the Online Safety Act, laws designed to protect the children from ‘harmful material’ online quickly metastasize and begin capturing nearly all users and all sites in surveillance and censorship schemes,” Mike Stabile, director of public policy at the Free Speech Coalition, told me in an email following the alert. “These laws give the government legal power to threaten platform owners into censoring or removing fairly innocuous content — healthcare information, mainstream films, memes, political speech — while decimating privacy protections for adults. Porn was only ever a Trojan horse for advancing these laws. Now, unfortunately, we're starting to see what we warned was inside all along."
Updated 8/13 2:35 p.m. EST with comment from Rep. Lawley.
Updated 8/13 3:35 p.m. EST with comment from Rep. Soye.
Wikimedia Foundation Challenges UK Online Safety Act Regulations – Wikimedia Foundation
UPDATE: On Monday, 11 August, the High Court of Justice dismissed the Wikimedia Foundation’s challenge to the UK’s Online Safety Act (OSA) Categorisation Regulations.Wikimedia Foundation
Un reattore nucleare sulla Luna entro il 2030. La sfida Usa a Russia e Cina
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Nei primi di agosto, l’amministratore pro tempore della Nasa, nonché segretario ai Trasporti degli Stati Uniti, Sean Duffy, ha annunciato che gli Usa intendono accelerare i loro sforzi per installare un reattore a fissione nucleare sul suolo lunare entro il 2030. Secondo Duffy, a sua
CBP's use of Meta Ray-Bans; the bargain that voice actors are having to make with AI; and how Flock tech is being essentially hacked into by the DEA.
CBPx27;s use of Meta Ray-Bans; the bargain that voice actors are having to make with AI; and how Flock tech is being essentially hacked into by the DEA.#Podcast
Podcast: Why Are DHS Agents Wearing Meta Ray-Bans?
We start this week with Jason’s article about a CBP official wearing Meta Ray-Bans smart glasses to an immigration raid. A lot of stuff happened after we published that article too. After the break, Sam tells us about the bargain that voice actors are making with AI. In the subscribers-only section, Jason tells us how a DEA official used a cop’s password to AI cameras to then do immigration surveillance.
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Emails obtained by 404 Media show the LAPD was interested in GeoSpy, an AI tool that can quickly figure out where a photo was taken.#FOIA
LAPD Eyes ‘GeoSpy’, an AI Tool That Can Geolocate Photos in Seconds
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The emails provide the first named case of a law enforcement agency showing clear interest in the tool. GeoSpy can also let law enforcement determine what home or building, down to the specific address, a photo came from, in some cases including photos taken inside with no windows or view of the street.
“Let’s start with one seat/license (me),” an October 2024 email from an LAPD official to Graylark Technologies, the company behind GeoSpy, reads. The LAPD official is from the agency’s Robbery-Homicide division, according to the email. 404 Media obtained the emails through a public records request with the LAPD.
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Bilanz nach einem Jahr: Neue Aufsicht über digitale Dienste hat vier Verfahren eingeleitet
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Solo con l’immunità il Parlamento ritrova la centralità perduta
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Recensione : Mark Solotroff – In Search of Total Placelessness
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Recensione : The Unknowns – Looking from the outside
The Unknowns "Looking from the outside": un'esperienza punk che scuote e incendia! Scopri il terzo album della band australiana che spacca!
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The Unknowns "Looking from the outside": un'esperienza punk che scuote e incendia! Scopri il terzo album della band australiana che spacca!Reverend Shit-Man (In Your Eyes ezine)
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Perplexity divorerà Chrome di Google?
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Nell'agone dell'Intelligenza artificiale va in scena la riedizione della lotta di Davide contro il gigante Golia: Perplexity (che farebbe gola ad Apple) pronta a sborsare 34,5 miliardi di dollari pur di accaparrarsi il browser di Google Chrome. Mountain View
Inciampo all’avvio per Alexa+. Perché il super assistente Amazon non convince il New York Times
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Gli algoritmi AI stanno mettendo a rischio la sopravvivenza dei vecchi assistenti virtuali: ecco perché Amazon sta correndo per presentare al
L’informazione, il genocidio e una pessima Rai
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Perché OpenAI ha dovuto risuscitare il suo vecchio modello Gpt-4o?
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A volte il vecchio è meglio del nuovo. O almeno, sembrerebbe così nel caso dell'ultimo modello di OpenAI. Dopo nemmeno 24 ore dal lancio di Gpt-5 gli utenti hanno rivoluto indietro il suo predecessore
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