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Gentle Processing Makes Better Rubber That Cracks Less


Rubber! It starts out as a goopy material harvested from special trees, and is then processed into a resilient, flexible material used for innumerable important purposes. In the vast majority of applications, rubber is prized for its elasticity, which eventually goes away with repeated stress cycles, exposure to heat, and time. When a rubber part starts to show cracks, it’s generally time to replace it.

Researchers at Harvard have now found a way to potentially increase rubber’s ability to withstand cracking. The paper, published in Nature Sustainability, outlines how the material can be treated to provide far greater durability and toughness.

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Note the differences between a short-chain crosslinked structure, and the longer-chain tanglemer structure with far less crosslinks. The latter is far better at resisting crack formation, since the longer chain can deconcentrate stress over a longer distance, allowing far greater stretch before failure. Credit: research paper
The traditional method of producing rubber products starts with harvesting the natural rubber latex from various types of rubber tree. The trees are tapped to release their milky sap, which is then dried, processed with additives, and shaped into the desired form before heating with sulfur compounds to vulcanize the material. It’s this last step that is key to producing the finished product we know as rubber, as used in products like tires, erasers, and o-rings. The vulcanization process causes the creation of short crosslinked polymer chains in the rubber, which determine the final properties and behavior of the material.

Harvard researchers modified the traditional rubber production process to be gentler. Typical rubber production includes heavy-handed mixing and extruding steps which tend to “masticate” the polymers in the material, turning them into shorter chains. The new, gentler process better preserves the long polymer chains initially present in the raw rubber. When put through the final stages of processing, these longer chains form into a structure referred to as a “tanglemer”, where the tangles of long polymer chains actually outnumber the sparse number of crosslinks between the chains in the structure.
The gentler production method involves drying the latex and additive mixture at room temperature to form a film, before hot-pressing it to form the final tanglemer structure. This process isn’t practical for producing large, thick parts. Credit: research paper
This tanglemer structure is much better at resisting crack formation. “At a crack tip in the tanglemer, stress deconcentrates over a long polymer strand between neighbouring crosslinks,” notes the research paper. “The entanglements function as slip links and do not impede stress deconcentration, thus decoupling modulus and fatigue threshold.” Plus, these long, tangled polymer chains are just generally better at spreading out stress in the material than the shorter crosslinked chains found in traditional vulcanized rubber. With the stress more evenly distributed, the rubber is less likely to crack or fail in any given location. The material is thus far tougher, more durable, and more flexible. These properties hold up even over repeated loading cycles.

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Overall, the researchers found the material to be four times better at resisting crack growth during repeated stretch cycles. It also proved to be ten times tougher than traditional rubber. However, the new gentler processing method is fussy, and cannot outperform traditional rubber processing in all regards. After all, there’s a reason things are done the way they are in industry. Most notably, it relies on a lot of water evaporation, and it’s not currently viable for thick-wall parts like tires, for example. For thinner rubber parts, though, the mechanical advantages are all there—and this method could prove useful.

Ultimately, don’t expect to see new this ultra-rubber revolutionizing the tire market or glove manufacturing overnight. However, the research highlights an important fact—rubber can be made with significantly improved properties if the longer polymer chains can be preserved during processing, and tangled instead of excessively cross-linked. There may be more fruitful ground to explore to find other ways in which we can improve rubber by giving it a better, more resilient structure.


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Droni in missione potranno decidere in modo autonomo quali uomini uccidere?


Sembra che gli Stati Uniti abbiano già seriamente preso in considerazione il concetto di guerra autonoma. Il jet da combattimento autonomo della DARPA , risulta in grado di combattere senza pilota, non è più considerato una svolta: l’agenzia è passata alla fase successiva di sviluppo, con l’obiettivo di creare sistemi in grado di controllare un gruppo di jet da combattimento in missioni congiunte oltre il raggio visivo.

Il nuovo programma della DARPA, Artificial Intelligence Reinforcements (AIR), si basa sul progetto Air Combat Evolution (ACE) , che ha messo a confronto F-16 dotati di intelligenza artificiale con velivoli con equipaggio in un addestramento “dogfight”. L’obiettivo è aumentare l’autonomia fino al punto in cui tali velivoli possano operare in formazione, coordinandosi su lunghe distanze e in ambienti di combattimento complessi. Il programma fa parte di una più ampia militarizzazione dell’intelligenza artificiale che sta sollevando preoccupazioni sulla sua sicurezza.

Sebbene AIR sia stato avviato più tardi di ACE, il concetto in sé non è nuovo: la prima domanda per il programma è stata pubblicata nel 2022. Questa settimana, la DARPA ha assegnato silenziosamente a Systems & Technology Research (STR) un contratto da 11,3 milioni di dollari nell’ambito della cosiddetta “Opzione Uno“. Come ha spiegato l’agenzia, questa è già la seconda delle due fasi previste del programma, il che indica che il progetto sta procedendo.

All’inizio di AIR, il programma coinvolgeva sei appaltatori, ma nella seconda fase il numero è stato ridotto a quattro. STR è responsabile di una delle due aree tecniche chiave: lo sviluppo di algoritmi che consentiranno l’esecuzione distribuita e autonoma di missioni tattiche in tempo reale in ambienti incerti, in rapida evoluzione e complessi. La seconda area prevede la creazione di modelli rapidi e accurati in grado di tenere conto dell’incertezza e di migliorare automaticamente con l’accumulo di dati.

Secondo la documentazione iniziale, l’AIR dovrebbe utilizzare sistemi di sensori, sistemi di guerra elettronica e armi esistenti. Le fasi di test includeranno simulazioni, quindi test con un essere umano nel circuito di controllo e infine test su un vero velivolo da combattimento senza pilota. Sviluppi simili sono già stati dimostrati: l’esercito statunitense ha creato un sistema robotico in grado di abbattere autonomamente i droni.

Oltre a STR, al progetto hanno partecipato anche Lockheed Martin e BAE Systems , ma la DARPA non ha ancora reso noto chi sarà incluso esattamente nella seconda fase: la selezione dei partecipanti è ancora in corso. I dettagli del lavoro nella prima e nella seconda fase rimangono riservati, ma è noto che la prossima fase durerà circa 30 mesi e coprirà la parte restante del programma.

La questione di quando i piloti saranno effettivamente costretti a cedere il passo all’intelligenza artificiale rimane aperta. E mentre gli sviluppatori stanno testando l’autonomia tattica, i critici non escludono scenari più inaspettati, fino al punto che un giorno un jet da combattimento autonomo decida di abbandonare una missione di combattimento. Gli esperti avvertono che la diffusione dell’IA militare potrebbe rendere il mondo meno sicuro , poiché l’IA commette errori e le conseguenze possono essere fatali . La comunità internazionale sta cercando di sviluppare un patto globale contro l’IA militare .

L'articolo Droni in missione potranno decidere in modo autonomo quali uomini uccidere? proviene da il blog della sicurezza informatica.



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Hackaday Podcast Episode 333: Nightmare Whiffletrees, 18650 Safety, and a Telephone Twofer


This week, Hackaday’s Elliot Williams and Kristina Panos met up over the tubes to bring you the latest news, mystery sound, and of course, a big bunch of hacks from the previous week.

In Hackaday news, get your Supercon 2025 tickets while they’re hot! Also, the One Hertz Challenge ticks on, but time is running out. You have until Tuesday, August 19th to show us what you’ve got, so head over to Hackaday.IO and get started now. Finally, its the end of eternal September as AOL discontinues dial-up service after all these years.

On What’s That Sound, Kristina got sort of close, but this is neither horseshoes nor hand grenades. Can you get it? If so, you could win a limited edition Hackaday Podcast t-shirt!

After that, it’s on to the hacks and such, beginning with a talking robot that uses typewriter tech to move its mouth. We take a look at hacking printed circuit boards to create casing and instrument panels for a PDP-1 replica. Then we explore a fluid simulation business card, witness a caliper shootout, and marvel at one file in six formats. Finally, it’s a telephone twofer as we discuss the non-hack-ability of the average smart phone, and learn about what was arguably the first podcast.

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Why Lorde’s Clear CD has so Many Playback Issues


2003 Samsung CD player playing a clear vs normal audio CD. (Credit: Adrian's Digital Basement)

Despite the regularly proclaimed death of physical media, new audio albums are still being published on CD and vinyl. There’s something particularly interesting about Lorde’s new album Virgin however — the CD is a completely clear disc. Unfortunately there have been many reports of folks struggling to get the unique disc to actually play, and some sharp-eyed commentators have noted that the CD doesn’t claim to be Red Book compliant by the absence of the Compact CD logo.
The clear Lorde audio CD in all its clear glory. (Credit: Adrian's Digital Basement, YouTube)The clear Lorde audio CD in all its clear glory. (Credit: Adrian’s Digital Basement, YouTube)
To see what CD players see, [Adrian] of Adrian’s Digital Basement got out some tools and multiple CD players to dig into the issue. These players range from a 2003 Samsung, a 1987 NEC, and a cheap portable Coby player. But as all audio CDs are supposed to adhere to the Red Book standard, a 2025 CD should play just as happily on a 1980s CD player as vice versa.

The first step in testing was to identify the laser pickup (RF) signal test point on the PCB of each respective player. With this hooked up to a capable oscilloscope, you can begin to see the eye pattern forming. In addition to being useful with tuning the CD player, it’s also an indication of the signal quality that the rest of the CD player has to work with. Incidentally, this is also a factor when it comes to CD-R compatibility.

While the NEC player was happy with regular and CD-R discs, its laser pickup failed to get any solid signal off the clear Lorde disc. With the much newer Samsung player (see top image), the clear CD does play, but as the oscilloscope shot shows, it only barely gets a usable signal from the pickup. Likewise, the very generic Coby player also plays the audio CD, which indicates that any somewhat modern CD player with its generally much stronger laser and automatic gain control ought to be able to play it.

That said, it seems that very little of the laser’s light actually makes it back to the pickup’s sensor, which means that the gain gets probably cranked up to 11, and with that its remaining lifespan will be significantly shortened. Ergo it’s probably best to just burn that CD-R copy of the album and listen to that instead.

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CrowdStrike Global Threat Report 2025: l’anno dell’avversario intraprendente


CrowdStrike ha pubblicato il suo Global Threat Report 2025, che documenta un balzo in avanti nel comportamento dei criminali informatici e dei gruppi statali. Gli esperti definiscono il 2024 “l’anno dell’avversario intraprendente“: gli aggressori si comportano come aziende mature, introducendo innovazioni, costruendo catene di approvvigionamento resilienti e utilizzando attivamente l’intelligenza artificiale .

L’indicatore principale – il tempo di breakout, ovvero il periodo che intercorre tra la penetrazione iniziale e l’inizio del movimento laterale attraverso la rete – è stato ridotto al minimo storico: una media di 48 minuti contro i 62 minuti dell’anno precedente. Il record assoluto è di 51 secondi, il che di fatto priva i difensori del tempo necessario per reagire.

Nel 79% dei casi rilevati, gli aggressori non hanno utilizzato file dannosi, ma hanno agito tramite strumenti di amministrazione legittimi e operazioni manuali (hands-on-keyboard). Questo approccio consente loro di camuffarsi come una normale attività utente e di aggirare l’EDR . Gli strumenti di gestione remota (RMM) sono particolarmente utilizzati, tra cui Microsoft Quick Assist e TeamViewer.

Gli attacchi di vishing sono esplosi nell’ultimo anno, con un aumento del 442% nella seconda metà del 2024 rispetto alla prima. I gruppi CURLY SPIDER, CHATTY SPIDER e PLUMP SPIDER hanno utilizzato attivamente le telefonate come vettore principale, spesso in combinazione con lo “spam bombing“, ovvero l’invio massivo di reclami che fungono da pretesto per una chiamata “dall’assistenza”. In alcuni casi, questi schemi si sono conclusi con l’installazione di backdoor e il lancio del ransomware Black Basta .

Si sta diffondendo anche l’ingegneria sociale nell’help desk, in cui gli aggressori si spacciano per dipendenti aziendali e convincono gli operatori a reimpostare le password o a disattivare l’autenticazione a più fattori. Questa tattica è utilizzata, tra gli altri, da SCATTERED SPIDER ed è diventata uno dei metodi chiave per compromettere account cloud e applicazioni SaaS.

Il 2024 ha segnato una svolta nell’uso dell’IA Gen da parte di criminali informatici e attori statali. I modelli LLM sono stati utilizzati per:

  • creazione di profili e immagini falsi (ad esempio, il famoso CHOLLIMA nordcoreano);
  • generare e-mail e siti Web di phishing che hanno mostrato un CTR superiore del 54% rispetto ai messaggi scritti da esseri umani;
  • deepfake negli schemi BEC: in un caso, sono stati rubati 25,6 milioni di dollari tramite questi metodi;
  • scrivere script e strumenti dannosi;
  • creazione di siti “deco” nelle campagne NITRO SPIDER.

È emerso anche un nuovo fenomeno: LLMJacking : il furto dell’accesso ai servizi di intelligenza artificiale aziendali nel cloud per rivenderli o utilizzarli in altri attacchi.

Il numero di attacchi con tracce cinesi è aumentato in media del 150% e del 200-300% nei settori finanziario, mediatico, manifatturiero e ingegneristico. Sono stati identificati nuovi gruppi specializzati: LIMINAL PANDA, LOCKSMITH PANDA, OPERATOR PANDA, VAULT PANDA ed ENVOY PANDA, ognuno con la propria specializzazione di nicchia, dalle telecomunicazioni e dalla finanza alle agenzie diplomatiche. Gli operatori cinesi utilizzano attivamente reti ORB composte da centinaia e migliaia di dispositivi hackerati per nascondere il traffico e utilizzano congiuntamente strumenti precedentemente unici, come il malware KEYPLUG.

Il famoso gruppo CHOLLIMA ha implementato campagne su larga scala utilizzando falsi dipendenti IT che ottengono lavoro presso aziende straniere, ricevono dispositivi aziendali e li consegnano a “laboratori di laptop” per installare backdoor. CrowdStrike ha registrato 304 incidenti che li hanno coinvolti, il 40% dei quali riguardava minacce interne.

Gli attacchi al cloud sono aumentati del 26%. Il 35% di questi è iniziato con la compromissione di account attivi, mentre gli aggressori preferiscono non modificare le password per non destare allarme. Vengono utilizzati sia il furto di credenziali tramite infostealer (Stealc, Vidar) sia l’abuso di connessioni attendibili tra aziende.

Una parte significativa degli attacchi si basa sull’utilizzo concatenato di exploit e sull’abuso di funzioni software legittime. Ad esempio, OPERATOR PANDA ha utilizzato una serie di vulnerabilità in Cisco IOS per attaccare società di telecomunicazioni e di consulenza negli Stati Uniti.

CrowdStrike prevede che la velocità degli attacchi e l’uso diffuso dell’intelligenza artificiale continueranno ad aumentare, soprattutto negli ambienti di social engineering e cloud. Per proteggersi da queste minacce, gli esperti raccomandano di dare priorità alla protezione dell’identità, implementare una pianificazione proattiva delle patch, rafforzare i controlli degli account cloud e utilizzare strumenti di threat hunting basati sull’intelligenza artificiale.

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“L’amore per l’Eucaristia si traduce nella capacità di riconoscere e servire chi vive ai margini. La mensa del Signore ci spinge ad incontrare le periferie del mondo, dove abitano povertà, solitudine, esclusione.




Researchers say this 'robot metabolism' is an early step in giving AI biological style bodies.

Researchers say this x27;robot metabolismx27; is an early step in giving AI biological style bodies.#News


Pentagon Funded Experiment Develops Robots that Change by ‘Consuming’ Other Robots


A team of researchers at Columbia University, funded in part by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, have developed “machines that can grow by consuming other machines.”

Video of the experiment shows tubular robots that move by extending their shafts to inch along the ground. As the tubes gather, they connect and form into more complex shapes like triangles and tetrahedrons. With each piece consumed, the whole moves faster and with more elegance.

“AI systems need bodies to move beyond current limitations. Physical embodiment brings the AI into the messy, constraint-rich real world—and that’s where true generalization has to happen,” Phillipe Martin Wyder, lead researcher on the project, told 404 Media.

The researchers said the experiment was done with a view towards developing a “body” for AI. The idea is to give artificial intelligence a form that can grow, heal, and change similar to a biological body. They published their research in Science Advances under the titleRobot metabolism: Toward machines that can grow by consuming other machines.”

For the experiment, the researchers designed what they called truss links: “a simple, expandable, and contractible, bar-shaped robot module with two free-form magnetic connectors on each end.” Each truss link is almost a foot long when fully contracted and weighs more than half a pound. When the Links move individually they look like plastic worms inching across the ground, but their motion becomes more fluid and interesting as they gather to each other, forming complex shapes that allow them to move faster.
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Right now, the truss links are controlled by a human on a keyboard and not artificial intelligence. “It’s not AI-controlled yet, but that’s partially the point: this architecture is a step towards future AI-controlled self-assembling physical systems,” Wyder said.

Wyder and his team controlled the truss links remotely and ran the robots through several obstacle courses. Some of the motions of the machines were preprogrammed with specially designed loops with names like “ratchet crawl” and “tetrahedron topple” that the researchers could activate with the push of a button. “There’s no autonomous AI running in the loop yet, but that’s the direction we’re heading,” he said.
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Wyder said that giving AI a body was in its very early stages. “Miniaturization is also on the table—more links, smaller size, finer resolution,” he said. “But I don’t believe a single platform will suit every task. Deep-sea robots, Mars colony builders, assistive home systems—they’ll need different form factors. The deeper idea here is the metabolic principle, not just the physical design.”

Human consciousness happens at the point where the mind and body interact. A person is not just the thoughts in their head, but also how they react to their environment with their body. All that stimuli shapes our thoughts. Wyder and his team are seeking to, eventually, recreate this phenomenon for AI. The research is exciting, but it’s also very new and there’s no way to know how it’ll play out in the long term.

This need not be a world where AIs are stuck in human-like bodies. He pointed to previous research out of Sweden that used a swarm of robots to form furniture on demand. If such a system were to break, we should not expect the average person to be able to replace the part. But what if the system could order a replacement part and repair itself?

“For this vision to become a reality, we must build robot systems that are intelligent in a way that allows them to keep track of their changing morphology,” Wyder said. “When the idea of modular robots first surfaced in the late 80s this was unthinkable, but I believe that our recent progress in machine learning could allow for intelligent, modular self-assembling machines.”

He also acknowledged there are dangers here. “With our current robots, the worst-case risk is probably a pinched finger. But yes, autonomy plus embodiment demands careful consideration of all the risks. Most robots today still struggle with navigation and manipulation. They’re far from being autonomous agents in the wild, but rather need our care,” he said.

Wyder also said that he doesn’t consider the ethics of this work as an optional part of the research. “Malicious use of robotics is a broader concern and not unique to this platform. Like any powerful technology—nuclear, biotech, AI—governance matters,” he said. “I don’t think this class of robot poses near-term risks, but that doesn’t mean ethical foresight is optional. We have to think about it so we can get it right.”

The researchers will build on this work and that one direction is teaching robots how to exploit environmental factors. “Imagine a climber choosing which rocks to grab—robots need that same affordance awareness,” he said. “We’re working on how robots can reason about their environment and use it to drive reconfiguration or mobility.”

Along with the paper, the researchers have a GitHub and Zenodo that contain the CAD and mesh files, firmware, software, and simulation code for the truss links. Anyone, if they so desired, could build their own bundle of robot-devouring-robots.


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“Non dobbiamo rassegnarci al prevalere della logica del conflitto e delle armi”. Con queste parole, Papa Leone XIV ha rilanciato il suo appello per la pace all’Angelus di oggi, Solennità dell’Assunzione della Beata Vergine Maria, celebrato a Castel G…


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Trump Has Dropped a Third of All Government Investigations Into Big Tech


The Trump administration has busied itself in the past six months by abandoning prosecutions and investigations into corporations at an unprecedented rate. According to a new report from Public Citizen—a nonprofit government watchdog—the Trump administration has dropped one third of all pending enforcement actions against tech companies. Those same companies collectively spent $1.2 billion on political contributions since 2024, most of it going to Republicans. Some of it went to Trump directly.

According to the report, Trump’s White House has withdrawn or halted enforcement actions against 165 different companies, a quarter of those are tech firms. The administration halted nine of the investigations outright, including a Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) investigation into Meta’s alleged misuse of customer financial data. It dismissed or withdrew an additional 38 enforcement actions against big tech, including 13 charges against the crypto exchange Binance for operating as an unlicensed securities exchange.

Everyone with eyes knows that Big Tech has gotten cozy with Trump during his second administration. Mark Zuckerberg and Jeff Bezos were at his inauguration. Elon Musk spent millions to help Trump get elected and Trump rewarded him by giving him direct control of much of the government by allowing him to spearhead DOGE.

“In a way I think the cumulative picture is the most shocking thing, because it reveals a clear pattern of these corporations going to great lengths to both ingratiate themselves with and enmesh themselves within the administration, and Trump’s agencies rewarding those corporations by treating them as if the laws do not apply to them,” Rick Claypool, a research director at Public Citizen’s President’s Office and the author of the report, told 404 Media.

Musk has been one of the big winners. The Department of Labor halted an investigation into Tesla and the Department of Justice dismissed a civil rights case against SpaceX. All it cost him was an estimated $352 million in political spending.

Claypool said that corporate enforcement plummeted during the first administration, and he knew it would happen again during the second term. “But this massive retreat from enforcement and dropping categories of cases involving corporate misconduct is something I’ve never seen before,” he said. “Many of these cases being dropped now originated in the first Trump administration. They were, correctly in my view, pursuing crypto scams.”

One of the more shocking cases involved crypto billionaire Justin Sun. The Securities and Exchange Commission filed charges against Sun for manipulating the market in 2023. After Trump’s election, he purchased $75 million worth of tokens from Trump’s crypto currency company as well as $18.6 million of $TRUMP meme coins. After the inauguration, the SEC sent a letter to the Federal Judge overseeing the case asking for a stay. The Judge granted it.

For Claypool, the signal dropping enforcement against Big Tech sends to the public (and more importantly to corporations) is simple. “It’s not illegal if a tech company does it,” he said, paraphrasing President Richard Nixon’s famous off-the-cuff remark about his crimes during the Frost/ Nixon interviews.

“The big winners are instances when the industry wins policy that serves as pretext for a retreat from whole categories of enforcement,” he said. “This is crypto corporations winning the total retreat of the SEC, fintech corporations winning the near-complete shutdown of the CFPB, and—coming soon—the retreat from FTC enforcement against AI corporations signaled in the admin’s AI Action Plan.”

Claypool said that this kind of massive retreat from corporate enforcement will have long term effects on society. “It distorts the incentives. It gives companies that are willing to risk pushing the limits of the law an unfair advantage over law abiding companies,” he said. “Members of the public are so much more at risk of falling prey to a whole range of scams, privacy invasions, and manipulations. At a societal level, it puts us at much greater risk for the next corporate catastrophe.”

The years leading up to the 2008 Financial Crisis coincided with an unprecedented increase in what Claypool called “questionably legal so-called innovations” such as credit default swaps and collateralized debt obligations on subprime mortgages.

We’re seeing a similar kind of innovation happen in the tech space where billionaires use crypto and AI to spin value out of thin air and curry favor with the Trump administration to avoid the consequences of hurting normal people. It’s only a matter of time before something terrible, on a grand scale, happens again.

“In many ways, what’s happening now is the culmination of years of lax enforcement against corporate lawbreakers. Democratic and Republican administrations for decades have been far too open to striking deals with corporate offenders to help them avoid the full consequences of accountability,” Claypool said. “So now we have this class of corporations and executives that believes it is entitled to escape the consequences of their misconduct. They don’t believe the laws should protect consumers and the public, and they don’t seem to mind risking widespread harms and violations if it means they might grab another billion. And the apparently corrupt way it’s going now, with dropped enforcement seeming to be a reward for insiders and donors, risks leading to a full retreat from federal authority to protect the public from corporate lawbreaking.”


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FLUG - Migrazione server di posta


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Segnalato da Linux Italia e pubblicato sulla comunità Lemmy @GNU/Linux Italia
Lunedì 28 luglio 2025 sulla lista del FLUG è stata annunciata la migrazione al nuovo server di posta sul rinato serverino (nome in codice Coraggio). Stiamo ancora verificando che tutto



“Affidiamo all’intercessione della Vergine Maria, assunta in cielo, la nostra preghiera per la pace”. Lo ha detto oggi Papa Leone XIV dopo la recita dell’Angelus a Castel Gandolfo: “Ella, come Madre, soffre per i mali che affliggono i suoi figli, spe…


“Cari fratelli e sorelle, buona festa!”. Nel giorno della Solennità dell’Assunzione della Beata Vergine Maria, recitando l’Angelus a Castel Gandolfo, Papa Leone XIV ha ricordato le parole del Concilio Vaticano II, secondo cui Maria “brilla ora innanz…


La gioia e la frustrazione di non essere più su Facebook


A metà di Giugno ho informato tutti i miei amici di Facebook che avrei chiuso l'account. Gli ho anche detto che mi avrebbero trovato qui su Friendica, ma fino ad oggi purtroppo non vedo nessuno, a parte @Fabrizio Venerandi che è molto più avanti di me (e di tanti altri) in queste cose.
Io non desisto, anche rinfrancato dal fatto che l'affidabilità di Meta è sempre più in declino.
Mia moglie aveva disattivato il suo account Facebook anni fa e da qualche settimana aveva notato riapparire notifiche via mail. Chiaramente il suo account era stato hackerato.
Per settimane abbiamo provato a riprenderne il controllo e solo oggi ci siamo riusciti. Ore e ore perse dietro questi incompetenti.
In pratica mia moglie ogni 5 giorni, oltre alle usuali notifiche, riceveva un messaggio con un codice numerico per recuperare la password. Questo probabilmente era l'hacker che le impediva in questo modo di attivare la funzione di recupero della password. Infatti quando andava per attivarla, le diceva "Sembra che tu stia usando in modo errato questa funzione andando troppo velocemente. Ti è stato temporaneamente impedito di usarla.". Ma la cosa assurda è che esiste anche un link di Facebook per segnalare che il proprio account è stato hackerato ed utilizzandolo si riceveva la stessa risposta "Sembra che tu stia usando in modo errato questa funzione...", il che è completamente assurdo perché è proprio quello che gli hacker desiderano per impedire che qualcuno possa recuperare il proprio account!
Il tentativo che finalmente è andato in porto è stato quello di cercare di creare un account con la stessa e-mail e nome e a quel punto la funzione di recupero della password con l'invio di un codice si è attivata.
Ora il problema sarà riuscire ad entrare (per capire cosa ha fatto l'hacker) senza inchinarsi a 1) pagare dei soldi per non avere la pubblicità o 2) accettare che i propri dati personali vengano usati per pubblicità personalizzata. Ci siamo quasi e poi anche questo account verrà eliminato!


la questione balneari può essere vista e descritta in molti modi diversi e pure contrapposti. ma quando è l'evidenza dei fatti ci dice che è gestita come una "rendita", dalla quale si cerca ogni anno di spremere sempre di più, e non un'attività economica, legata al territorio e all'economia locale, che non tiene conto del potere di acquisto degli italiani costantemente in decrescita, quando più, quanto meno, diventa comprensibile come diventi un non senso economico. tanto varrebbe annullare tutte le concessioni e trasformare tutto in spiagge libere con servizi extra a pagamento, cosa che peraltro, almeno in teoria, già sarebbero. un governo coraggioso potrebbe sollo fare questo come atto sensato. come minimo andrebbe dichiarato illegale far pagare l'ingresso i controllare gli accessi. è proprio l'attuale modello di business è che è fuori dal tempo, come quasi tutto in italia.


Umsetzung der NIS-2-Richtlinie: Bundestag muss Gesetz zur Cybersicherheit nachbessern


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la cosa assurda è che vedendo trump pare un soggetto talmente assurdo, pare talmente assurdo che possa esistere ed essere apprezzato, che vivo in una specie di limbo di insicurezza totale, in cui a loop mi chiedo se sono impazzita io, se ho una visione distorta del mondo, se mi sfugge una qualche qualità a cui sono ostinatamente cieca. trump è talmente un non senso che non riesco ad accettare che possa esistere senza che io stia dimenticando di considerare qualche ragione logica importante. un qualche problema reale che incredibilmente io non so come riesco a ignorare e che lui sta dimostrando di risolvere efficacemente che possa giustificare tutta questa follia sicuramente solo "apparente". vivo nell'idea che "qualcosa mi sfugga". non può essere così stupida la realtà.
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@informapirata @talksina in realtà sta facendo gli interessi delle big tech. Minaccia tariffe alte a qualsiasi stato voglia tassarle. L'unico a cui sta pestando i piedi è Melon, ma tanto ormai è diventato lo zimbello di tutti.

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@informapirata @talksina
Ok, cerchiamo di essere seri.
Se si vuole capire di chi si sta facendo gli interessi e come basta leggere “Dall’economia dell’ occupazione all’economia del genocidio” della relatrice speciale sulla situazione dei diritti umani nei territori palestinesi occupati dal 1967.
È un esempio estremo?
È un esempio circoscritto?
No.
Svela interessi, meccanismi e intrecci che ci riguardano e non solo umanamente


Nuovo articolo su giardino-punk.it: Anarchismo e modernità politica
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L'anarchismo come politica posmoderna, partendo da un testo di Nathan Jun

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trump sta riuscendo nel difficile compito di abbattere l'economia usa... proprio nel minarla alle radici.
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in realtà [!?ma davvero esiste una realtà oggettiva!?] trump-hio,(eggasi tronfio),e put-in,(leggasi in inglese)sono le due faccie della stessa medaglia,unica differenza la bandiera😑😁
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culturalmente rimangono abbastanza diversi. non ti lasciar perdere nel qualunquismo. putin è un uomo del kgb che ragiona in modo ottocentesco che pensa a conquista militari stile prima guerra mondiale. avanzate poderose. artiglieria. mezzi e uomini al macello. e pensa che questo serva a qualcosa. un "idoelogo" puro. di quelle ideologie che hanno a lungo avvelenato la storia. trump è il figlio di un uomo d'affari. che non sa fare affari. che non sa che un affare parte da un'idea innovativa. trump non ha idee. ma pensa che sia tutta una questione di soldi. sono molto diversi. a modo loro ugualmente dannosi ma certamente diversi. poi possiamo vedere trump come l'gente russo e putin con l'agente americano, ma sono tutte idee surreali più fantasie. l'unica cosa che hanno in comune è che entrambi stanno minando alla radice quello che amministrano. io vedo felicemernte distrutti entrambi gli imperi. ma peccato ci sia l'ucraina nel mezzo. ed in realtà non solo perché putin al confine russo schiavizza numerosi popoli e nazioni.


il bello è che quei coglioni dei repubblicani pensano di aver scelto un economista... attento ai temi economici... ricorda la storia in italia di berlusconi. che poi berlusconi per quanto antipatico è stato infinitamente meno dannoso di trump.



Buon #Ferragosto dal #MIM! ☀
Quali libri vi stanno accompagnando in questi mesi estivi?


Sto facendo colazione guardando la messa celebrata dal papa.

Leggono un brano dell'Apocalisse, un testo a cui noi amanti dell'horror e dell'heavy metal dobbiamo moltissimo.



Normale


@Giornalismo e disordine informativo
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Mi sono abituato. Viene giù un altro condominio in Ucraina, a causa di un bombardamento deliberato russo contro i civili: prima era un crimine di guerra, ora è normale. Si ribalta un barcone di migranti con molti annegati, tra cui anche una bimba di pochi mesi: prima era un’immorale omissione di soccorso, ora è normale. […]
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Pirate Candidate Announcement: Blase Henry for AZ’s 17th Legislative District


The United States Pirate Party is excited to announce our first of many candidates for the 2026 election cycle: AZPP Captain Blase Henry shall be running for Arizona’s 17th Legislative District!

Blase has been a rising star within the ranks of the United States Pirate Party, and with this announcement, he is officially the first Pirate we will be backing during the 2026 elections.

If elected, future State Rep. Henry has laid out to us some of the bills he plans on introducing, including but not limited to:

– A digital Bill of Rights for Arizona

– A bill banning ID requirement/age verification laws on the internet, AI or otherwise

– A bill similar to the “Stop Killing Games” initiative of Europe, aiming to protect video game consumers and players

– A bill that prevents internet service providers from sharing your data without your consent and make it so police need a warrant for your data

We are excited to share what will be the first of many Pirate candidates. Some candidates will appear on the ballot as independents, some as members of major parties and some, if they are so fortunate, will have “Pirate” next to their name on the ballot. No matter what it says next to their name on the ballot, we will throw our support behind our Pirate candidates.

NOTE: the US Pirate Party recently endorsed the gubernatorial campaign of Timothy Grady for Ohio. Timothy Grady is an independent candidate but is not officially a Pirate Party candidate. Blase Henry is the first official candidate announced from the US Pirate Party.

To quote Blase Henry himself: “Let’s Hoist the Colours and Join the Pirate Revolution! For if Buying isn’t Ownership, then Piracy isn’t Theft!”

You can visit his campaign website here, or if you’re an AZ resident, you can help get Blase on the ballot here.

Blase Henry, Victory is Arrrs


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L'immagine mostra uno schermo di un computer con un desktop che ha uno sfondo blu con forme ondulate. In alto a sinistra, c'è una finestra intitolata "VNC config" con opzioni di configurazione come "Accept clipboard from viewers", "Also set primary selection", "Send clipboard to viewers" e "Send primary selection to viewers", tutte disattivate. In basso, c'è una barra di stato con l'ora "mercoledì 10 settembre 2025 - 19:05" e un pulsante di spegnimento. Sullo schermo, c'è anche un simbolo di un giroscopio bianco.

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Riepilogo del mio viaggio nel nord della Germania


Ecco i post su Mastodon con le tappe del mio viaggio di quest'estate in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern e Schleswig-Holstein (aprire sempre le didascalie/testi alternativi delle immagini per qualche particolare in più)

Ulm

Schloss Ulrichshusen (concerto)

Ankershagen (museo Schliemann)

Greifswald, Boddenlandschaft (museo Caspar David Friedrich)

Stralsund (fabbrica di carte da gioco)

Wismar, Schwerin

Lubecca

Marne (concerto)

Amburgo (Kunsthalle) - somiglianze?

Stade (Kunstautomat)

Celle

Bergen-Belsen

Hildesheim

Lipsia (itinerario musicale, San Nicola)

Norimberga

Ritratto di gatta viaggiatrice


Destinazione: Germania settentrionale. Prima tappa: Ulm con il suo incredibile Münster, il Rathaus decoratissimo e il suo cielo plumbeo e piovoso.


The texts were sent to a group called “Mass Text” and show ICE using DMV and license plate reader data in an attempt to find their target, copies of the messages obtained by 404 Media show.#News


ICE Adds Random Person to Group Chat, Exposes Details of Manhunt in Real-Time


Members of a law enforcement group chat including Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and other agencies inadvertently added a random person to the group called “Mass Text” where they exposed highly sensitive information about an active search for a convicted attempted murderer seemingly marked for deportation, 404 Media has learned.

The texts included an unredacted ICE “Field Operations Worksheet” that includes detailed information about the target they were looking for, and the texts showed ICE pulling data from a DMV and license plate readers (LPRs), according to screenshots of the chat obtained and verified by 404 Media. The person accidentally added to the group chat is not a law enforcement official or associated with the investigation in any way, and said they were added to it weeks ago and initially thought it was a series of spam messages.

The incident is a significant data breach and operational security failure for ICE, which has ramped up arrest efforts across the U.S. as part of the Trump administration’s mass deportation efforts. The breach also has startling similarities to so-called Signal Gate, in which a senior administration official added the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic to a group chat that contained likely classified information. These new ICE messages were MMS, or Multimedia Messaging Service messages, meaning they weren’t end-to-end encrypted, like texts sent over Signal or WhatsApp are.

“Going to need to roll out at 1000,” one of the messages, sent at 09:25 a.m. on Wednesday to the group, called “Mass Text,” reads.

“Copy. We can break it down at 10,” comes the reply.

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Do you want to contact me securely? 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.

404 Media has verified that one of the members of the chat is an ICE official, and another appears to be from the U.S. Marshals Service.

The person accidentally added to the group chat, which appears to contain six people, said they had no idea why they had received these messages, and shared screenshots of the chat with 404 Media. 404 Media granted the person anonymity to protect them from retaliation.

“At first I thought it was just another series of spam messages like I get all the time from home improvement, car insurance , business loans, etc. Then I saw the rap sheet and license plate numbers and was like WTAF,” the person said in an online chat.



Screenshots of the messages. Redactions by 404 Media.

A DHS official not affiliated with the group chat told 404 Media, “This breach strikes me as indicative of the current carelessness of officers. They're concerned about pumping up arrest numbers, not about operating with the level of care and rigor we should expect from law enforcement officials.” 404 Media granted the source anonymity as they weren’t permitted to speak to the press.

404 Media only obtained text messages from the group sent on Wednesday and only learned of the issue at that time. They start early in the morning with one of the participants, which 404 Media has identified as an ICE official, sending a screenshot of the ICE field operations worksheet. This document names the target, lays out their criminal history, and includes personal information such as their Social Security Number, country of citizenship, and driver’s license number.

The target is a person who was previously convicted of attempted murder according to the document, and a search of the ICE Online Detainee Locator System returned no results.

Nearly an hour later, another member of the group replies with a series of license plates. The name registered to that number matches that of a U.S. Marshals Criminal Investigator, according to a freely available phone lookup tool and LinkedIn searches.


Screenshots of the messages. Redactions by 404 Media.

“Running those plates,” the ICE officer then replies. “In the mean time he has two vehicles,” the ICE officer adds, before uploading two photos of car registration data which appear to come from a DMV; one of the photos shows a PDF filename which includes “DMV.” ICE is able to access DMV data in many circumstances. The respective DMV for the state this investigation took place in acknowledged a request for comment but did not provide a response in time for publication.

Immediately after, the ICE official wrote “no LPR hits since March.” LPR cameras are made by various companies and are stationed all across the United States. These cameras typically scan any vehicles driving by them, recording the vehicle’s license plate, model, and color, and makes a timestamped record of where that car, and by extension person, was. For example, more than 9,000 ICE agents had access to an LPR database run by Vigilant Solutions, according to records the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) obtained in 2019. 404 Media also revealed that local police were tapping into Flock cameras on behalf of ICE and for immigration enforcement, sometimes in violation of the law.

“It’s possible it’s still a connected address. Could be family. The last name matches the female co-reg on one of his vehicles,” the ICE official writes, appearing to refer to some of the data he’s pulled up.

“Copy,” another participant replies.

“Ok I’ll call you,” another says.

By the time the chat members say they’re going to “roll out at 1000,” appearing to mean they will move at 10am, the ICE official says “I’ll have someone sit and try and get a pattern of life/pid.” Pattern of life is a general term law enforcement and intelligence agencies sometimes use to describe where someone may live, go to work, or spend their time.

The source who was accidentally added to the group chat said they haven’t received any more messages since then.

Neither DHS or the U.S. Marshals Service responded to requests for comment.

Recently ICE officials have raided incorrect addresses; potentially violated court orders banning the agency from racial profiling people at Home Depots; detained U.S. citizens (including for days without water); and deported U.S. citizen children, one of which had cancer, with their families to Honduras, all while aggressively rounding up undocumented people many of whom have no criminal record and denying due process to some. Around half the people in ICE detention, nearly 30,000 people, do not have criminal records, according to the Deportation Data Project.

Previously senior administration officials gave ICE a quota of 3,000 arrests a day. The administration has since claimed that no such quota exists.

With its new budget injection and overarching mass deportation goal, ICE is about to go on a social media ad recruiting blitz, 404 Media previously reported. On Tuesday DHS said it had received more than 100,000 applications for roles at ICE. At the end of July, the agency said it had issued more than 1,000 tentative job offers since July 4.


#News


4K Blu-Ray of 22-Year-Old 'Master and Commander' Is Sold Out Everywhere, Being Scalped on eBay#Media #News


4K Blu-Ray of 22-Year-Old 'Master and Commander' Is Sold Out Everywhere, Being Scalped on eBay


August—2025. The new limited edition 4K Blu-ray of the 2005 film Master and Commander has sold out everywhere. Secondary markets are now battlefields.

There are two kinds of people in this world: those who read the above sentences and feel an intense pain and yearning for camaraderie and combat on the high seas, and those who have never seen Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World.
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Copies of the new 4K release of the film are now selling on eBay for roughly double its MSRP, proof that physical media is not dead.

Released in 2005, Master and Commander is a war movie set in the Napoleonic period that focuses on the relationship between Captain Jack Aubrey of the Royal Navy and ship’s surgeon Stephen Maturin, played by Russell Crowe and Paul Bettany respectively. The film, which is based on a 20-book-long novel series of the same name, grossed $212 million on a $150 million budget but didn’t become a runaway hit at the time.

But in the two decades since it first hit screens, Master and Commander has grown in esteem, especially in American national security circles. It’s a cult favorite. The occasional live screenings at revival theaters routinely sell out, memes involving the film’s opening text are ubiquitous, and it often lands on lists of the the “best movies of the 2000s.” In the middle of July, a joint venture of Sony and Disney studios announced it would publish a high quality 4K UltraHD limited edition steelbook Blu-ray to be released in August. Fans went nuts.

This would be the highest quality home release of the beloved film ever seen. Fans tracked pre-orders as they went live on Amazon, Wal-Mart, and other retailers. It sold out in days, and has done so consistently every time it’s been restocked. Master and Commander heads are so hungry for 4K Crowe that they’re now paying double and triple the asking price for the steelbook copy on eBay and several notable people have posted about how they can’t find a copy.

totally missed that there was a new master and commander 4K out and naturally it is completely out of stock
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It’s rare in 2025 that the physical release of a 20 year old film is met with such fervor. Delight is especially high among members of America’s military community. Soldiers, officers, journalists, and the extremely online NatSec weirdos love Master and Commander. Like Star Wars, the movie has become a lingua franca in U.S. military circles where it’s a source of memes and concepts that drives discussion.

“There's no doubt that Master and Commander is beloved within the national security community. What's harder to explain is ‘why,’” Robert Farley, a senior lecturer at the University of Kentucky, told 404 Media. Farley said he just rewatched the movie two weeks ago after forcing a friend to watch who’d never seen it.

“If I had to hazard a guess, it's because the movie depicts the tight functioning of a community of warfighters, a community that is mostly comfortable with itself…and yet is deeply grounded in English social structure,” Farley said. “As in any well-functioning military, everyone has a place to be and a job to do. Jack Aubrey isn’t so much brilliant as ‘lucky,’ which adds to the workmanlike aspect. I'd say that there's a male bonding aspect to it (I don't believe any female character has even a single line), but I know plenty of women in the NatSec space who will quote ‘Oceans are battlefields’ in everyday conversation.”

Pauline Shanks Kaurin, a former military ethics professor at the U.S. Naval War College, told 404 Media that she’d used Master and Commander in her classes as a way to teach Aristotle’s three kinds of friendship and, separately, the Ethics of Care. “I think it’s really about the friendship between the Captain and doctor, as well as a portrayal of leadership and comradeship that is still masculine and strong, but not brutal and gratuitous,” she said.

When reached for comment about the film, Remap Radio’s Robert Zacny—famously a fan of the film—was actively debating paying $140 for a copy of the 4K steelbook. 404 Media informed Zacny that eBay had listings for half that price and asked the Remap founder for his thoughts on the movie and its enduring legacy.

“There's a moment in the film where Aubrey snaps at Maturin about the things that hold together their ‘little wooden world.’ Master and Commander is a war movie where the entire concerns of the world are reduced to the interior or a single ship. But it's also a character study about the worlds held within and between individuals. The roles people have to inhabit and the things they have to do in service to duty, the state, to ethics, to morality.
Yet this movie is also backdropped by the vastness and wonder of nature, of time considered on an evolutionary scale and the awareness that beyond that bubble of consciousness awaits eternity in the darkness of the sea. The oft-memed opening text is deceptive. It doesn't really matter that Napoleon is the master of Europe. The concept of a battlefield is meaningless to the ocean. The movie is about men waging battles inside themselves to reconcile their own contradictions and choose their own meaning. It's immaculately directed, acted, and scored, but so are a lot of movies. This one endures because it's always offering a berth on this voyage of introspection, and it's so much fun you don't even mind how insistently it reminds you to think about mortality.”


His thoughts exhausted, Remap’s founder pressed 404 Media for information. “Now link me some of these good deals on steelbooks,” he said. “I am gonna be buried with one.”




Join Our Leadership Team — Apply to Be a Team Lead for the European Pirates!


We’re building something big — a European umbrella organisation working to support our pirate parties across Europe and amplify our shared political voice. Our movement is rooted in collaboration, grassroots empowerment, and making real impact at the EU level. To make this happen, we’re looking for motivated, reliable, and passionate people to take on Team Lead roles in our volunteer-run European secretariat.

As a Team Lead, you will:

  • Coordinate the work of your team and help shape its priorities
  • Collaborate closely with other team leads in the Management Team
  • Support volunteers, delegate tasks, and ensure smooth internal communication
  • Help develop the strategy and direction of our European-level work

We are currently seeking Team Leads for the following teams:

  • Communications Team
  • Community & Outreach Team
  • IT Team
  • Policy Team
  • Operations Team

👉 You don’t need to be an expert or have years of experience — we value commitment, collaboration, and curiosity. We’re especially excited to hear from people with lived experience in grassroots activism, digital tools, or cross-border collaboration.

⏳ Time commitment: Flexible and part-time (volunteer-based). We expect most leads to dedicate around 4–6 hours per week, depending on availability.

🌍 Location: Remote / anywhere in Europe

Interested in helping build a stronger, more connected European movement?
📩Apply now or reach out with questions — we’d love to hear from you!
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John Lennon & Yoko Ono annunciata l’uscita del box Power To The People
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Esce il 10 ottobre il Box deluxe composto di nove CD + tre Blue-Ray più un libro di oltre duecento pagine dedicato a John Lennon e Yoko Ono. 31 brani live tratti dai due storici concerti di John e Yoko al One To One Concert, accompagnati dalla Plastic Ono Band, dagli Elephant’s Memory e da […]
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Join Our Leadership Team — Apply to Be a Team Lead for the European Pirates!


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Ucraina, l’Europa supera gli Usa e diventa il maggior fornitore di aiuti militari a Kyiv

@Notizie dall'Italia e dal mondo

Per la prima volta dall’inizio della guerra in Ucraina, l’Europa ha superato gli Stati Uniti nella produzione e nella fornitura di materiale militare a Kyiv. Lo dicono i numeri diffusi dal Kiel Institute for the World Economy: tra febbraio 2022 e giugno 2025, la produzione militare europea



Samsung si piega a Trump: nuovi investimenti per chip americani

L'articolo proviene da #StartMag e viene ricondiviso sulla comunità Lemmy @Informatica (Italy e non Italy 😁)
Il lavoro muscolare di Trump sta dando i suoi frutti: la necessità di Apple e Tesla di trovare una filiera statunitense sta portando Samsung a investire nuovamente negli States. La notizia comunque ha una



Golden Dome, ecco come funzionerà lo scudo spaziale di Trump. I dettagli

@Notizie dall'Italia e dal mondo

Il Dipartimento della Difesa degli Stati Uniti ha deciso di alzare il velo sull’architettura operativa del Golden Dome, il futuro sistema di difesa missilistica destinato a proteggere l’intero territorio statunitense – Alaska e Hawaii inclusi – contro le minacce balistiche,



il concerto di Gastone Pietrucci e la Macina con Elisa Ridolfi - 13 agosto 2025


Il concerto di Gastone Pietrucci e La Macina insieme a Elisa Ridolfi, vincitrice del Premio Tenco 2024 per la migliore opera prima, si è rivelato un'esperienza suggestiva e toccante. Il luogo prescelto, una radura a pochi metri dal borgo medievale di Cerreto di Montegiorgio, ha donato all'evento un'atmosfera intima e quasi magica. Seduti su semplici assi di legno grezzo, ci siamo ritrovati a stretto contatto con i musicisti, annullando ogni barriera e favorendo una vera e propria comunione tra artisti e ascoltatori.
Nonostante la qualità del suono non fosse sempre eccelsa, quasi a voler dimostrare che quello che conta è la sincerità e non la perfezione artificiale, l'espressività dei musicisti ha superato ogni limite tecnico. Le emozioni scaturite da ogni nota e da ogni parola sono state così coinvolgenti da rendere l'esperienza unica e indimenticabile.
L'esibizione ha offerto un viaggio musicale che ha saputo unire brani originali ad omaggi ad alcuni dei più grandi cantautori italiani: le canzoni di De André, Ciampi, Tenco e Piero Cesanelli (padre della rassegna musicale Musicultura) sono state reinterpretate con passione e rispetto. Momenti di rara intensità si sono raggiunti con le esecuzioni appassionate di "Vedrai, vedrai" di Luigi Tenco e del canto popolare "Sotto la croce Maria", così come con la sorprendente interpretazione della “Ballata degli impiccati” di De André, che è stata introdotta dalla voce nuda e dirompente di Elisa Ridolfi.
Questi passaggi hanno trasformato la serata da un semplice concerto in un'esperienza quasi spirituale di condivisione di sentimenti e storie, confermando ancora una volta il valore di una musica che affonda le radici nella tradizione, ma che sa parlare con forza e attualità al cuore di chi ascolta.
(13agosto2025 - #worldland festival)

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