2025 One Hertz Challenge: STM32 Blinks In Under 50 Bytes
Many of us have run a Blink program on a microcontroller before. It’s effectively the “Hello, World!” of the embedded space. However, few of us have ever thought about optimizing our Blink code to be as miniscule as possible. But that’s precisely what [Rudra Lad] did for this entry into the 2025 One Hertz Challenge!
This example of Blink, delay_blinky_13, is built specifically for the STM32F4 Discovery microcontroller development board. [Rudra] notes the code is “highly optimized” and compiles down to a binary size of under 50 bytes. The code doesn’t even use RAM, and it aims to get the blink as close to 1 Hz as possible. Many optimizations were used to crunch it down as small as possible. For example, the standard startup code isn’t used, with the entire program instead written in the Reset_Handler to save space. Bit-band is also used to write to peripheral registers to blink the LED, since this uses less instructions than the typical methods. Meanwhile, with many tweaks to the delay counting routine, [Rudra] was eventually able to get the blink frequency to 1.00019 Hz, as measured on a logic analyzer. That’s pretty darn close!
While it’s rare that you have only 50 bytes of binary space to blink an LED, work like this is a great way to flex your coding muscles. Code is on Github for the curious, and if you’ve worked up your own impressive tiny binaries, don’t hesitate to let us know!
The Nibbler was Quite a Scamp
The late 1970s were an interesting time for microcomputers. The rousing success of things like the 8080, the Z80, the 6800, and the 6502 made everyone wanted a piece of the action. National Semiconductor produced its SC/MP. That was technically the Simple Cost-effective Micro Processor, but it was commonly known as Scamp. There were several low-cost development boards built around this processor and [Hello World] is looking at Digikey’s “Nibbler” which was a fairly nice computer for only $150. Check it out in the video below.
The SC/MP was made to be cheap. It had a strange bank switching scheme reminiscent of the Microchip PIC 16F family. It also had, like a lot of old discrete computers, a serial ALU, which made it slower than many of its contemporaries. It did have good features, though. It was cheap and required very few extra parts along with a single 5 V supply in the second and subsequent versions. In addition, it had pins that were made for connecting more than one CPU, which was quite a feat for those days.
[Hello World] mentions that you don’t hear much about the SC/MP anymore and, in fact, we had all but forgotten about it. There is an effort underway to recreate the plucky little computer for anyone who wants to build a new one.
The $150 price tag seems reasonable, at least compared to other computers of the day. However, don’t forget that you still need a power supply, probably a card cage, and the biggest problem of all: a terminal. It is hard to remember how difficult it used to be to get your hands on a terminal at a reasonable cost. Your main choices were a TV typewriter or something surplus like a TeleType.
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Gli USA inseriscono localizzatori nei chip AI per evitare i dirottamenti verso la Cina
Secondo quanto riportato dai media, le autorità statunitensi starebbero segretamente inserendo dispositivi di localizzazione in lotti di chip che potrebbero essere dirottati illegalmente verso la Cina. I localizzatori potrebbero essere utilizzati nelle consegne di apparecchiature di Dell, SuperMicro, Nvidia e AMD.
La tattica del governo statunitense è limitata alle singole spedizioni, ha riferito Reuters questa settimana, citando fonti anonime a conoscenza della questione. L’obiettivo è identificare i casi in cui le spedizioni di chip di intelligenza artificiale vengono dirottate verso destinazioni che dovrebbero essere soggette a restrizioni all’esportazione. I tracker hanno lo scopo di aiutare a intentare cause contro individui e aziende che traggono profitto dalla violazione dei controlli sulle esportazioni.
Si noti che le forze dell’ordine statunitensi utilizzano metodi simili da diversi decenni e spesso tracciano merci soggette a controllo delle esportazioni (ad esempio, componenti di aeromobili). Pertanto, secondo una delle fonti, negli ultimi anni i tracker sono stati utilizzati anche per contrastare il traffico illegale di semiconduttori.
Altre cinque persone coinvolte nella catena di fornitura dei server di intelligenza artificiale hanno dichiarato all’agenzia di stampa che i tracker sono comunemente utilizzati per tracciare le spedizioni di hardware per server da produttori come Dell, Super Micro, Nvidia e AMD. Hanno affermato che i beacon sono solitamente nascosti negli imballaggi, ma non è noto chi sia coinvolto nella loro installazione o in quale punto del percorso ciò avvenga.
Ad esempio, in un caso del 2024, una spedizione di server Dell con chip Nvidia sarebbe stata dotata di grandi localizzatori sulle scatole di spedizione e di dispositivi più piccoli e discreti nascosti all’interno dei pacchi e persino nei server stessi. In un altro caso, la fonte ha affermato di aver visto personalmente immagini e video di altri fornitori di chip che rimuovevano dispositivi di tracciamento dai server Dell e Super Micro. Ha aggiunto che alcuni dei dispositivi più grandi avevano le dimensioni di uno smartphone.
Tali operazioni solitamente coinvolgono l’Ufficio per l’industria e la sicurezza del Dipartimento del Commercio, che supervisiona le esportazioni, e possono coinvolgere anche le indagini sulla sicurezza interna e l’FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigation), hanno affermato fonti dell’agenzia. Reuters riferisce che non è stato possibile stabilire con quale frequenza i tracker siano stati utilizzati nelle indagini, né quando esattamente le autorità statunitensi abbiano iniziato a utilizzarli per le loro indagini.
Super Micro ha affermato di non divulgare “le pratiche e le politiche di sicurezza adottate per proteggere le proprie attività, i partner e i clienti in tutto il mondo“. L’azienda ha rifiutato di commentare eventuali misure di sorveglianza da parte delle autorità statunitensi. Dell ha affermato di “non essere a conoscenza di alcuna iniziativa del governo statunitense volta a installare localizzatori nei prodotti che distribuisce“. Nvidia ha affermato di non installare dispositivi di tracciamento segreti nei suoi prodotti. AMD non ha risposto alla richiesta di commento di Reuters.
Vale la pena notare che questa pubblicazione è apparsa sullo sfondo di un conflitto iniziato ad agosto tra le autorità cinesi e Nvidia. Il fatto è che l’ente regolatore cinese, la State Internet Administration of China (CAC), accusa Nvidia di aver incorporato strumenti segreti di sorveglianza e di spegnimento remoto (“backdoor” e “kill switch”) nei chip H20 AI progettati appositamente per il mercato cinese (si tratta di versioni ridotte dei chip AI di punta con prestazioni ridotte).
Poco prima, Nvidia aveva ricevuto l’autorizzazione a riprendere le vendite dell’H20 dopo che Washington aveva revocato un precedente divieto di esportazione. In risposta, i rappresentanti di Nvidia hanno negato categoricamente le accuse, affermando che i chip dell’azienda non contengono backdoor o strumenti di spegnimento remoto e sottolineando inoltre che tali funzioni violerebbero i principi fondamentali della sicurezza informatica.
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A tutto spionaggio! Il drone solare Skydweller vola per quasi 3 giorni senza una sosta
La startup americana Skydweller Aero ha annunciato il successo dei test del suo drone solare, che ha trascorso quasi tre giorni in volo senza rifornimento. Il dispositivo, con un’apertura alare maggiore di quella di un Boeing 747, funzionava esclusivamente a energia solare e batterie.
In due voli consecutivi, Skydweller , il più grande aereo a energia solare del mondo, ha volato per 73 e 74 ore utilizzando solo energia solare, ha dichiarato la compagnia. Negli ultimi quattro voli, ha trascorso un totale di 222 ore in volo, dimostrando la sua resistenza, affidabilità e la promessa della tecnologia.
Le capacità del velivolo sono attualmente in fase di valutazione da parte della Divisione Aeromobili del Naval Air Warfare Center (NAWCAD). La Marina degli Stati Uniti sta valutando la piattaforma per missioni di intelligence, sorveglianza e ricognizione (ISR) di lunga durata nell’area di responsabilità del Comando Meridionale (SOUTHCOM). Questi velivoli senza pilota stanno diventando sempre più importanti per le operazioni militari.
La chiave di tale autonomia è il design leggero e il sistema di propulsione. La fusoliera è realizzata in fibra di carbonio e le ali, ricoperte da 17.000 celle solari, sono in grado di generare fino a 100 kW di elettricità. Durante il giorno, questa energia alimenta quattro motori a elica e le apparecchiature di bordo, oltre a caricare il sistema di batterie da 635 kg. Di notte, il dispositivo funziona a batterie fino a quando non inizia a ricaricarsi all’alba.
I test avvicinano l’azienda al suo obiettivo di volo “permanente” . Secondo i calcoli di Skydweller Aero, questi dispositivi saranno in grado di rimanere in volo per 30-90 giorni o più, atterrando solo per la manutenzione. Allo stesso tempo, sono in grado di trasportare un carico utile fino a 400 kg, significativamente superiore rispetto ai precedenti droni solari, che erano limitati a equipaggiamenti leggeri.
Questa autonomia consentirà al velivolo di pattugliare costantemente l’area, utilizzando meno velivoli e riducendo i costi rispetto alle flotte tradizionali. La sorveglianza continua delle aree oceaniche e costiere contribuirà a individuare la pesca illegale e il contrabbando, nonché a monitorare la situazione nelle aree remote.
A differenza del RQ-4 Global Hawk a reazione, che vola per circa 30 ore prima di tornare per il rifornimento, lo Skydweller non si affida a petroliere, il che è particolarmente importante in aree in cui il rifornimento di droni è tatticamente difficile. Questo apre la possibilità di missioni di lunga durata, dalla caccia a pirati e cartelli della droga in mare al monitoraggio delle attività militari in acque contese senza mettere a rischio gli equipaggi, oltre al monitoraggio delle migrazioni animali e alla prevenzione del bracconaggio in Africa. Tuttavia, è importante essere consapevoli dei rischi per la sicurezza informatica quando si utilizzano droni.
L’azienda sottolinea che il sistema di elaborazione AI di bordo è in grado di classificare i bersagli a bordo, riducendo significativamente la quantità di informazioni trasmesse a terra e risparmiando larghezza di banda per le comunicazioni, un fattore chiave per i voli autonomi a lungo raggio. Questo approccio è simile al modo in cui l’IA elabora i dati in vari sistemi , sebbene sia importante considerare possibili guasti.
Oltre alle applicazioni militari, Skydweller Aero prevede di introdurre la piattaforma anche sul mercato commerciale. Il drone può essere dotato di sensori scientifici per la raccolta di dati atmosferici e il monitoraggio ambientale.
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Metric, Imperial, and Flexibility
Al Williams wrote up a seemingly innocent piece on a couple of rules-of-thumb to go between metric and US traditional units, and the comment section went wild! Nothing seems to rile up the Hackaday comment section like the choice of what base to use for your unit system. I mean, an idealized version of probably an ancient Egyptian’s foot versus a fraction of the not-quite-right distance from the North Pole to the equator as it passes through Paris? Six of one, half a dozen the other, as far as I’m concerned. Both are arbitrary.
What’s fun, though, is how many of us need to know both systems and how schizophrenic it all can be. My favorite example is PCB layout, where tenths and thousandths of an inch are unavoidable in through-hole and surface-mount parts, yet we call out board sizes and drill bits in millimeters – on the same object, and without batting an eye. American 3D printer enthusiasts will know their M3 hardware, and probably even how much a kilogram weighs, because that’s what you buy spools of filament in. Oddly enough, though I live in Europe, I have 3/4” thread on my garden hose and a 29” monitor on my desk. Americans buy two liter bottles of soda without thinking twice.
The absolute kings of this are in the UK, where the distance between cities is measured in miles, but the dimensions of an apartment in meters. They’ll buy gas in liters and beer in pints. Humans are measured both in feet-and-inches and centimeters, and weighed in pounds, kilograms, or even stone.
And I think that’s just fine. Once you give up on the rightness of either system, they both have their pros and cons. Millimeters are superb for doing carpentry in – that’s just about how tight my tolerances are with hand tools anyway, and if it’s made of wood, you can fudge 0.5 mm either way pretty easily. Sure, you could measure in 32nds of an inch, but have you ever bought a plywood sheet that’s 1536 x 3072 thirty-seconds? (That’s 4’ x 8’, or 1200 mm x 2400 mm.) No, you haven’t.
But maybe stick to one system when lives or critical systems are on the line. Or at least be very careful to call out your units. While it’s annoying to spec the wrong SMT part size because KiCAD calls some of them out in millimeters and inches – 0402 in inches is tiny, but 0402 in metric is microscopic – it’s another thing entirely to load up half as much fuel as you need for a commercial airline flight because of metric vs imperial tons. There’s a limit to how units-flexible you want to be.
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A 500-year-old human hair in a rare khipu challenges the long-held idea that only elite men created these knotted records in the Inka empire.#TheAbstract
A Strand of Hair Just Changed What We Know About the Inka Empire
Welcome back to the Abstract! Here are the studies that stood out to me this week, covering everything from silver to scat.First, a story about an ancient Andean tradition that will somehow end with a full-sized replica of a person posthumously made with his own hair. Enjoy the ride!
Then: the health risks of climate change for children; you’ll never guess what came out of this otter’s butthole; and wow, Vikings sure were good at raiding, huh.
The tangled origins of Inka khipus
For thousands of years, Andean peoples have woven intricate patterns, known as khipus, that encode information into clusters of knots and multi-colored threads. Made from cotton, wool, and often human hair, khipus are an idiosyncratic form of writing used for a range of purposes like arithmetic, census-keeping, calendrical cycles, and more.
Spanish invaders, who overthrew the Inka empire in the 16th century, reported that only high-ranking bureaucratic men became khipu-makers (khipukamayuqs)—though this assertion has been challenged in the past by Indigenous sources.
Now, a strand of human hair woven into a 500-year-old khipu has resolved this centuries-old question. Scientists performed an isotopic analysis of the hair, revealing that the individual who wove it into the khipu was likely a low-status commoner with a simple plant-based diet. The discovery confirms that khipus were made by people from different classes and backgrounds, and that Inka women probably made them as well.
Khipukamayuqs “have been viewed primarily as imperial male elites who played key roles in running the empire,” said researchers led by Sabine Hyland of the University of St. Andrews. “However, the indigenous chronicler, Guaman Poma de Ayala”—who lived in the 16th century—”stated that women also made khipu records, explaining that females over fifty “[kept] track of everything on their [khipu],” the team added.
Hyland and her colleagues found a solution to the discordant accounts in a khipu called KH0631, which was made around the year 1498. Though the provenance of the khipu is not known, the primary cord was made of human hair, allowing them to unravel the diet of this ancient khipukamayuq from the elemental composition of their tresses.
The primary cord of KH0631. Image: Sabine Hyland
The sampled strand was more than three feet long, and would have taken about eight years to grow. Carbon and nitrogen analysis of the hair indicated that it belonged to an individual that “ate a plant-based diet consisting primarily of tubers and greens with little consumption of meat or high-status plants such as maize,” according to the study. Strontium analysis showed “little marine contribution to the diet, indicating that the individual likely lived in the highlands.” Overall “this diet is a characteristic of low-status commoners, unlike the diet of high-status elites who consumed considerably more meat and maize,” the researchers said.The team speculated that this long-haired khipukamayuq could have just been a proto-vegan, but that wouldn’t explain why there was so little maize in their diet given elites were professional beer drinkers.
“Obligatory drinking of maize beer formed a central feature of Inka ceremonies of governance in which high-ranking khipukamayuqs participated,” the researchers said. “Given the symbolic importance of hair in the Andes, and the frequent use of hair on the primary cord to indicate the khipukamayuq, our results indicate that the creator of KH0631 was likely a non-elite commoner” suggesting that “khipu literacy in the Inka Empire may have been more inclusive and widespread than hitherto thought.”
IIn addition to broadening our understanding of khipukamayuq origins, the study is full of amazing insights about veneration of hair in Inka culture.
“Hair in the ancient Andes was a ritually powerful substance that represented the individual from whom it came,” the researchers said. “Historically, when human hair was incorporated into a khipu’s primary cord, it served as a ‘signature’ to indicate the person who created the khipu.”
“For important ceremonies, the Inka emperor sacrificed his own hair,” they added. “His hair clippings were saved during his lifetime; after death, they were fashioned into a life-size simulacrum revered as the emperor himself.”
I strongly suggest we revive this funerary practice, so start saving your hair clippings for your wake.
In other news…
The kids are not going to be alright
The climate crisis is a tragedy for people of all ages, but kids are among the most exposed to harm. A new study provided an exhaustive review of climate-related threats to babies, children, and adolescents, which include: food insecurity, malnutrition, water scarcity, bad air quality, infectious diseases, exposure to extreme weather, displacement, trauma, and mental illness.
“Children are particularly affected by adverse environmental influences, as their immature organ systems are less able to cope with thermal stress and disease,” said researchers led by Paula Reichelt of the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research. “Moreover, their developmental stage makes them especially vulnerable to long-term consequences; early-life nutrient or health disruptions can lead to permanent impairments in growth and development.”
A visual summary of climate-related threats to children. Image: Reichelt, Paula et al.
“Due to the relatively modest global efforts by political decision-makers to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, further global warming and the associated negative developments in child and adolescent health are likely,” the team concluded.“Relatively modest” is doing a lot of work in that sentence. While I recognize the allure of doomerism or tuning out from these horrible realities, I recommend carrying around a manageable dose of incandescent rage at all times over the world we’re leaving behind to kids who had nothing to do with this mess.
Parasite lost (in otter poop)
You have to love a study that was inspired by an otter crapping out a weird red worm on a dock in the Chesapeake Bay. Curious about the poopy parasite, researchers sought out other otter “latrines” and discovered that these furry floaters eat a lot of parasites, probably because infected prey is often easier to catch. In this way, otters efficiently remove parasites from ecosystems; it may be a bummer for any infected prey on the otter menu, but is beneficial to the wider population.
“This study is the first to characterize river otter latrines and diet in a tidally influenced estuarine habitat within the Chesapeake Bay,” said researchers led by Calli Wise of Smithsonian Environmental Research Center.
“Our results indicate that river otters consume a wide range of terrestrial and aquatic fauna, primarily consisting of finfish and crustaceans, but also including frogs and ducks,” the team said. “Multiple parasite species were identified, including parasites of river otters and those infecting prey, indicating that parasites likely play an important role in both prey availability and otter health.”
Tl;dr: Otters are parasite vacuums. Yet another reason to love these cuddly creatures and forgive their more unsavory attributes.
Some Viking booty, as a treat
We’ll end, as all things ideally should, with treasure. A new study tracks down the likely origins of a hoard of gold and silver items—including a sword pommel, jewelry, and several ingots—that were stashed by Vikings in the English town of Bedale, North Yorkshire, more than 1,200 years ago.
The Bedale Hoard. Image: York Museums Trust
Vikings are well-known for their epic raids (source: Assassin’s Creed: Valhalla) and this particular hoard included far-flung loot sourced from across Europe and the Middle East.“The results indicate a dominant contribution of western European silver, pointing to the fate of loot seized by the Vikings during their raids on the Continent in the ninth century,” said researchers led by Jane Kershaw of the University of Oxford. “Nonetheless, Islamic silver is also present in several large ingots: silver from the east—the product of long-distance trade networks connecting Scandinavia with the Islamic Caliphate—permeated Viking wealth sources even in the western part of the Viking overseas settlement and should be seen as a significant driver of the Viking phenomenon.”
“The Vikings were not only extracting wealth locally; they were also bringing it into England via long-distance trade networks,” the team concluded.
With that Viking spirit in mind—skål, and see you next week.
North American river otters consume diverse prey and parasites in a subestuary of the Chesapeake Bay
IntroductionThe North American river otter (Lontra canadensis) occurs from freshwater to marine habitats across North America, yet very little information ex...Calli M. Wise (Frontiers)
Quell’insolita passione dei francesi per l’Italia. Da “Paese in declino” a modello che incuriosisce
La durata del governo di Giorgia Meloni ha sorpreso la Francia, finora uno degli Stati più stabili d’Europa, suscitando al contempo ammirazione e diffidenza.DANIEL PEYRONEL (Quotidiano Nazionale)
Arrivata da Gaza malnutrita, morta una 20enne a Pisa - Ultima ora - Ansa.it
E' morta ieri a Pisa la palestinese di 20 anni arrivata meno di 24 ore prima da Gaza con un volo militare della 46/a Brigata aerea nell'ambito dell'operazione umanitaria del governo italiano per dare un'assistenza sanitaria maggiore a civili palestin…Agenzia ANSA
Monsieur Blake - Maggiordomo per amore
Monsieur Blake - Maggiordomo per amore
Andrew Blake è un ricco uomo d’affari britannico, segnato dalla perdita della moglie. Contro il parere dell’amico Richard, torna in Francia al castello dove si erano innamorati.www.altrenotizie.org
Trump Putin: fallimento o successo?
@Giornalismo e disordine informativo
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“Non c’è alcun accordo finché non c’è un accordo”ama dire Trump. Pare proprio che l’accordo non ci sia stato.Era andato un Alaska speranzoso di strappare a Putin un cessate il fuoco,ma in Ucraina si è continuato a combattere anche ieri giorno dello storico vertice Usa
Trump Putin: fallimento o successo?
@Giornalismo e disordine informativo
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“Non c’è alcun accordo finché non c’è un accordo”ama dire Trump. Pare proprio che l’accordo non ci sia stato.Era andato un Alaska speranzoso di strappare a Putin un cessate il fuoco,ma in Ucraina si è continuato a combattere anche ieri giorno dello storico vertice Usa
Quali “grandi progressi”?
@Giornalismo e disordine informativo
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Dovrebbe essere questa la domanda da porsi oggi se si volesse capire e definire di conseguenza meglio l’esito dell’incontro tra il presidente americano Trump e quello russo Putin. Invece nei titoli dei giornali italiani si mettono in evidenza questi grandi progressi annunciati dai due, senza
Dal Mozambico al Sudan, le guerre dimenticate che uccidono nell’indifferenza
@Giornalismo e disordine informativo
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Mozambico, Sudan, Repubblica Democratica del Congo: sono solo alcune delle 30 e più guerre in atto nel mondo che non fanno notizia. Per i media
Trump e il colloquio privato con Putin: «Lui vuole sinceramente la pace». Il consiglio a Zelensky: «Fai un accordo: i russi sono più potenti»
beh.. niente di nuovo. trump si conferma privo di morale.
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KW 33: Die Woche, in der wir uns an den angeblichen Landesverrat erinnerten
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Tutti gli amoreggiamenti di Sanchez con Huawei in Spagna
L'articolo proviene da #StartMag e viene ricondiviso sulla comunità Lemmy @Informatica (Italy e non Italy 😁)
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A Mestre un presidio per la Palestina. Con Nandino Capovilla
@Giornalismo e disordine informativo
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«L’importante non è il megafono, ma il messaggio»: una volta subita l’espulsione da Israele motivata dal suo essere “pericoloso per la sicurezza nazionale”, è con questa affermazione che Nandino
Il lungo post che segue, l'ho trovato su fb. I riferimenti delle dichiarazioni ci sono, ma vanno verificati tutti. Se qualcuno vuole darmi una mano, possiamo linkare la fonte di ogni affermazione nei commenti in basso, se la troviamo, oppure indicare che quella citazione non si trova e che potrebbe essere fake.
La popolo eletto di Ben Gurion, Menachem Begin e altri
Dissero:
👉 "La nostra razza è la Razza dei maestri. Siamo dei divini su questo pianeta. Noi siamo tanto diversi dagli esseri umani inferiori che restano degli insetti. Infatti, rispetto alla nostra razza, le altre razze sono bestie, animali, bovini al massimo. Le altre razze sono escrementi umani. Il nostro destino è quello di governare queste razze inferiori. Il nostro regno terreno sarà governato dal nostro leader con una verga di ferro. Le masse leccheranno i nostri piedi e ci serviranno come schiavi." (Menachem Begin, Premio Nobel per la Pace 1978)
👉 David Ben Gurion, durante la guerra: «Se io sapessi che è possibile salvare tutti i figli (ebrei) di Germania trasferendoli in Inghilterra, e solo metà di loro trasferendoli nella terra di Israele, sceglierei la seconda possibilità; perché di fronte a noi non abbiamo solo il numero di questi figli, ma il progetto storico del popolo di Israele» (Shabtai Teveth, «Ben Gurion», 1988,).
👉 «Dobbiamo usare il terrore, l’assassinio, l’intimidazione, la confisca dei terreni e il taglio di tutti i servizi sociali per liberare la Galilea dalla sua popolazione araba» (David Ben Gurion, maggio 1948, to the General Staff. Da «Ben-Gurion, A Biography», di y Michael Ben-Zohar, Delacorte, New York 1978).
👉 «Dobbiamo espellere gli arabi e prendere i loro posti» –(David Ben Gurion, 1937, «Ben Gurion and the Palestine Arabs» Shabtai Teveth, Oxford University Press, 1985).
👉 «Non esiste qualcosa come un popolo palestinese. Non è che siamo venuti, li abbiamo buttati fuori e abbiamo preso il loro paese. Essi non esistevano» (Golda Meir, dichiarazione al The Sunday Times, 15 giugno 1969).
👉 «Come possiamo restituire I territori occupati? Non c’è nessuno a cui restituirli» (Golda Meir, marzo, 1969).
👉 «…Uscimmo fuori, e Ben Gurion ci accompagnò sulla porta. Allon ripeté la sua domanda: cosa si deve fare con la popolazione palestinese? Ben Gurion scosse la mano con un gesto che diceva: cacciarli fuori». (Yitzhak Rabin, è un passo censurato delle memorie di Rabin, rivelato dal New York Times, 23 ottobrer 1979)
👉 «Saranno create, nel corso dei 10 o 20 anni prossimi, condizioni tali da attrarre la naturale e volontaria emigrazione dei rifugiati da Gaza e dalla Cisgiordania verso la Giordania. Per ottenere questo dobbiamo accordarci con re Hussein e non con Yasser Arafat». (Yitzhak Rabin, citato da David Shipler sul New York Times, 04/04/1983)
👉 «I palestinesi sono bestie con due zampe» (Menachem Begin, primo ministro di Israele 1977-83, davanti alla Knesset, citato da Amnon Kapeliouk, “Begin and the Beasts”, New Statesman, June 25, 1982.)
👉 «La partizione della Palestina è illegale. Non sarà mai riconosciuta… Gerusalemme fu e sarà per sempre la nostra capitale. Eretz Israel sarà restaurato per il popolo d’Israele; tutto e per sempre» (Menachem Begin, il giorno dopo il voto all’Onu per la partizione della Palestina).
👉 «I palestinesi saranno schiacciati come cavallette… le teste spaccate contro le rocce e i muri» (Yitzhak Shamir, primo ministro in carica, in un discorso ai «coloni» ebraici, New York Times 1 aprile, 1988).
👉 «Israele doveva sfruttare la repressione delle dimostrazioni in Cina (nei giorni di Tienanmen, ndr.) quando l’attenzione del mondo era concentrata su quel paese, per procedere alle espulsioni di massa degli arabi dei territori (occupati)» (Benyamin Netanyahu, all’epoca vice-ministro degli esteri, già primo ministro, davanti agli studenti della T Bar Ilan University; citazione tratta dal giornale isrealiano Hotam, 24 novembre 1989).
👉 «Se pensassimo che anziché 200 morti palestinesi, 2 mila morti ponessero fine alla guerriglia in un colpo solo, useremmo molto più forza…» (Ehud Barak, primo ministro, citato dalla Associated Press, 16 novembre 2000).
👉 «Mi sarei arruolato in una organizzazione terroristica»: (risposta di Ehud Barak a Gideon Levy, il noto giornalista di Ha’aretz che gli aveva domandato cosa avrebbe fatto se fosse nato palestinese)
👉 «Noi dichiariamo apertamente che gli arabi non hanno alcun diritto di abitare anche in un centimetro di Eretz Israel… Capiscono solo la forza. Noi useremo la forza senza limiti finché i palestinesi non vengano strisciando a noi» (Rafael Eitan, capo dello stato maggiore IDF, citato da Gad Becker in «Yedioth Ahronot», 13 aprile 1983).
👉 «E’ dovere dei leader israeliani spiegare all’opinione pubblica, con chiarezza e coraggio, alcuni fatti che col tempo sono stati dimenticati. Il primo è: non c’è sionismo, colonizzazione o stato ebraico senza l’espulsione degli arabi e la confisca delle loro terre» (Ariel Sharon, allora ministro degli esteri, a un discorso tenuto davanti ai militanti del partito di estrema destra Tsomet – Agence France Presse, 15 novembre 1998).
👉 «Tutti devono muoversi, correre e prendere quante più cime di colline (palestinesi) possibile in modo da allargare gli insediamenti (ebraici) perché tutto quello che prenderemo ora sarà nostro… Tutto quello che non prenderemo andrà a loro.» (Ariel Sharon, Ministro degli esteri d’Israele, aprendo un incontro del partito Tsomet, Agence France Presse, 15 novembre 1998)
👉 «Israele ha il diritto di processare altri, ma nessuno ha il diritto di mettere sotto processo il popolo ebraico e lo Stato di Israele» (Sharon, primo ministro, 25 marzo 2001, BBC Online).
👉 «Quando avremo colonizzato il paese, tutto quello che agli arabi resterà da fare è darsi alla fuga come scarafaggi drogati in una bottiglia» (Raphael Eitan, Capo di Stato Maggiore delle forze armate israeliane, “New York Times”, 14/4/1983).
👉 «Noi possediamo varie centinaia di testate atomiche e missili, e siamo in grado di lanciarli in ogni direzione, magari anche su Roma. La maggior parte delle capitali europee sono bersagli per la nostra forza aerea» (febbraio 2003, Martin Van Creveld, docente di storia militare all’Università Ebraica di Gerusalemme)
👉 «C’è bisogno di una reazione brutale. Se accusiamo una famiglia, dobbiamo straziarli senza pietà, donne e bambini inclusi. Durante l’operazione non c’è bisogno di distinguere fra colpevoli e innocenti». (Ben Gurion, il “padre” di Israele, 1967)
👉 «I villaggi ebraici sono stati costruiti al posto dei villaggi arabi. Voi non li conoscete neanche i nomi di questi villaggi arabi, e io non vi biasimo perché i libri di geografia non esistono più. Non soltanto non esistono i libri, ma neanche i villaggi arabi non ci sono più. Nahlal è sorto al posto di Mahlul, il kibbutz di Gvat al posto di Jibta; il kibbutz Sarid al posto di Huneifis; e Kefar Yehushua al posto di Tal al-Shuman. Non c’è un solo posto costruito in questo paese che non avesse prima una popolazione araba.» (David Ben Gurion, citato in The Jewish Paradox, di Nahum Goldmann, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1978, p. 99)
👉 «Tra di noi non possiamo ignorare la verità … politicamente noi siamo gli aggressori e loro si difendono … Il paese è loro, perché essi lo abitavano, dato che noi siamo voluti venire e stabilirci qui, e dal loro punto di vista li vogliamo cacciare dal loro paese.» (David Ben Gurion, riportato a pp 91-2 di Fateful Triangle di Chomsky, che apparve in “Zionism and the Palestinians pp 141-2 di Simha Flapan che citava un discorso del 1938)
👉 «Questo paese esiste come il compimento della promessa fatta da Dio stesso. Sarebbe ridicolo chiedere conto della sua legittimità.» (Golda Meir, Le Monde, 15 ottobre 1971
👉 «Ogni volta che facciamo qualcosa tu mi dici che l’America farà questo o quello… devo dirti qualcosa molto chiaramente: Non preoccuparti della pressione americana su Israele. Noi, il popolo ebraico, controlliamo l’America, e gli americani lo sanno.» (Ariel Sharon, Primo Ministro d’Israele, 31 ottobre 2001, risposta a Shimon Peres, come riportato in un programma della radio Kol Yisrael.)
👉 «Un milione di Arabi non valgono nemmeno l’unghia di un ebreo.» (Rabbi Yaacov Perrin, NY Daily News, Feb. 28, 1994, p.6)
Taiwan, le esportazioni di chip potrebbero sfuggire ai dazi
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I palestinesi in Libia? Uno smacco per l’Italia
La costa mediterranea è il maggior candidato per la deportazione pianificata dal governo israeliano. La “soluzione libica” comporterebbe un ... Scopri di più!Guido Rampoldi (Domani)
Chicopee Police Cams Mapped
Jonathan Gerhardson, a journalist in Western Massachusetts, mapped police-owned cameras in Chicopee using public records requests and some digital sleuthing. He posted an article about his work and his camera map. It is also at his Github. Thanks to Jonathan for contacting us and sharing his work.
We will add his data to Open Street Map and cctv.masspirates.org. If you want to map surveillance cameras in your community, check out our how to guides.
Long before modern supply chains, ancient hominins were moving stone across long distances, potentially reshaping what we know about our evolutionary roots.#TheAbstract
A New Discovery Might Have Just Rewritten Human History
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Subscribe to 404 Media to get The Abstract, our newsletter about the most exciting and mind-boggling science news and studies of the week.For more than a million years, early humans crafted stone tools as part of the Oldowan tradition, which is the oldest sustained tool-making industry in the archaeological record. Now, scientists have discovered that Oldowan tool-makers who lived in Kenya at least 2.6 million years ago transported high-quality raw materials for tools across more than seven miles to processing sites.
The find pushes the recorded timeline of this unique behavior back half-a-million years, at minimum, and reveals that hominins possessed complex cognitive capacities, like forward planning and delayed rewards, earlier than previously known, according to a study published on Friday in Science.
Hominins at this site, called Nyayanga, used their tools to pound and cut foraged plants and scavenged animals, including hippos, to prepare them for consumption. Intriguingly, the identity of the tool-makers remains unknown, and while they may have been early humans, it’s also possible that they could have been close cousins of our own Homo lineage.
“I've always thought that early tool-makers must have had more capabilities than we sometimes give them credit for,” said Emma Finestone, associate curator and the Robert J. and Linnet E. Fritz Endowed Chair of Human Origins at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History, who led the study, in a call with 404 Media.
“I was excited to see that at 2.6 million years ago, hominins were making use of many different resources and moving stones over large distances,” she added.
While many animals craft and transport tools, hominins are unique in their ability to identify and move special materials across long distances, which the team defines as more than three kilometers (or 1.86 miles). This innovation reveals a capacity for forward planning, complex mental maps, and delayed payoff of food consumption.
“What's unique is the amount of effort put into moving resources around a landscape,” said Finestone. “There's several steps involved, and there's also time in between these efforts and the reward. Although you see that to some extent in other animals, humans really separate themselves, especially as we get further and further in evolutionary time, in terms of the complexities of our foraging system."
Nyayanga amphitheater in July 2025. Image: T.W. Plummer, Homa Peninsula Paleoanthropology Project
Previously, the earliest record of this behavior in hominins came from a site called Kanjera South, which is about two million years old. Both sites are on the Homa peninsula, a region dominated by soft rocks that are not durable as tools; this may have prompted early hominins to search elsewhere for high-quality resources, such as quartz, chert, and granite.Given that long-distance material transport was present at Kanjera South, the discovery of similar behavior at Nyayanga was not completely unexpected—though Finestone and her colleagues were still surprised by the scope and variety of materials these hominins gathered.
“Often, when you're dealing with these really old archeological assemblages, it's dominated by one type of raw material that's coming from a single source, or a few sources that are really nearby,” said Finestone. “Nyayanga has a lot of different raw materials, and they're using a variety of different sources, so that was surprising and exciting to us.”
Finestone and her colleagues have made many discoveries during their decade-long excavation at Nyayanga. The team previously reported that the tool-makers butchered hippopotamus carcasses which were probably scavenged rather than hunted, providing the earliest evidence of hominin consumption of large animals, according to a 2023 study led by Thomas Plummer, a professor of anthropology at Queens College, City University of New York.
That study also reported fossils from Paranthropus, a close hominin cousin of our own Homo genus, which went extinct more than a million years ago. So far, these are the only hominin remains recovered from Nyayanga, raising the possibility that the Oldowan tool-making industry was not limited to our own human lineage.
“It is interesting because Paranthropus is not traditionally thought to be a tool-user,” Finestone said. “There's debate over whether Paranthropus made tools or whether it was only genus Homo that was making Oldowan tools. I don't think that evidence at Nyayanga is definitive that Paranthropus was the tool maker. It's still an open question. But because we found Paranthropus remains at Nyayanga, and we haven't found anything from genus Homo—at least yet—there's definitely reason to consider that Paranthropus might have been manufacturing these tools.”
With luck, the team may uncover more fossils from these ancient hominins that could shed light on their place in the family. Finestone and her colleagues are also working on constraining the age of the Nyayanga artifacts, which could be anywhere from 2.6 million to three million years old.
But for now, the study marks a new milestone in the evolution of Oldowan tools and their makers, which eventually dispersed across Africa and into Europe and Asia before they were succeeded by new traditions (like the one from our story last week about yet another group of ancient tool-makers with an unknown identity).
The stones once used to butcher hippos and pound tubers offer a window into the minds of bygone hominins that pioneered technologies that ultimately made humans who we are today.
“What's really interesting about humans and their ancestors is we're a technologically dependent species,” Finestone said. “We rely on tools. We're obligate tool users. We don't do it opportunistically or occasionally the way that a lot of other animals use tools. It's really become ingrained in our way of life, in our survival, and our foraging strategies across all people and all cultures.”
“What was exciting about this study is that you see this investment in tool technology, and you see tools becoming ingrained in the landscape-scale behaviors of hominins 2.6 million years ago,” she concluded. “We might be seeing the roots of this importance that technology plays in our foraging behaviors and also just the daily rhythms of our life.”
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This week, we discuss OSINT for chat groups, Russell Crowe films, and storage problems.#BehindTheBlog
Behind the Blog: Exercises in OSINT and Storage Pains
This is Behind the Blog, where we share our behind-the-scenes thoughts about how a few of our top stories of the week came together. This week, we discuss OSINT for chat groups, Russell Crowe films, and storage problems.JOSEPH: On Wednesday we recorded a subscribers podcast about the second anniversary of 404 Media. That should hit your feeds next week or so. Towards the end of recording, I went silent for a bit. I said on air sorry about that, a source just sent me an insane tip, or something like that.
That tip led to ICE Adds Random Person to Group Chat, Exposes Details of Manhunt in Real-Time. Definitely read the piece if you haven’t already. It presented an interesting verification challenge. Essentially I was given these screenshots which included phone numbers but I didn’t know exactly who was behind each one. I didn’t know their names, nor their agencies. It sure looked like a conversation involving ICE though, because it included a “Field Operations Worksheet” covered in ICE branding. But I needed to know who was involved. I didn’t think DHS or ICE would help because they are taking multiple days to reply to media requests if they do at all at the moment. So I had to do something else.
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Libsophia #21 – Tocqueville con Ermanno Ferretti
@Politica interna, europea e internazionale
L'articolo Libsophia #21 – Tocqueville con Ermanno Ferretti proviene da Fondazione Luigi Einaudi.
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 title “Robot 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.
Image via Columbia University.
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.
Roombot Swarm Creates On-Demand Mobile Furniture
All the furniture you’ll ever need is a swarm of modular robotsEvan Ackerman (IEEE Spectrum)
Tech companies spent $1.2 billion on political influence since 2024. It’s paid off.#News
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.”
Tesla discrimination probe killed as Trump axes watchdog agency
The Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs investigated companies for unfair practices — including Elon Musk's automaker.Jonah Owen Lamb (The San Francisco Standard)
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
La gioia e la frustrazione di non essere più su Facebook
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!
Umsetzung der NIS-2-Richtlinie: Bundestag muss Gesetz zur Cybersicherheit nachbessern
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