Il Great Firewall cinese blocca il traffico internet per 74 minuti
I ricercatori del team del Great Firewall Report hanno notato che nella notte del 20 agosto il Great Firewall cinese ha subito un problema tecnico o era sottoposto a qualche tipo di test. Tutto il traffico sulla porta TCP 443 è rimasto bloccato per 74 minuti, isolando la Cina da quasi tutta la rete Internet globale.
“Circa dalle 00:34 alle 01:48 (ora di Pechino, UTC+8) del 20 agosto 2025, il Grande Firewall cinese ha mostrato un comportamento anomalo, iniettando incondizionatamente falsi pacchetti TCP RST+ACK per terminare tutte le connessioni sulla porta TCP 443 (sia da che verso la Cina)”, hanno scritto i ricercatori.
Ciò ha impedito agli utenti cinesi di accedere alla maggior parte dei siti web ospitati all’estero. L’incidente ha anche bloccato i servizi che utilizzano la porta 443, lo standard per le connessioni HTTPS. Apple e Tesla, ad esempio, utilizzano questa porta per connettersi ai server stranieri che forniscono alcuni dei loro servizi principali.
Allo stesso tempo, gli analisti notano che l’impronta digitale del dispositivo che ha implementato questo blocco non corrispondeva ad alcun nodo o componente noto del “Grande Firewall cinese”.
I ricercatori ritengono che l’incidente sia stato causato da un nuovo dispositivo connesso al Great Firewall cinese o da un dispositivo esistente “che funzionava in uno stato nuovo o configurato in modo errato“.
Pertanto, le principali teorie degli esperti sostengono che la Cina potrebbe aver testato la possibilità di bloccare le connessioni sulla porta 443, oppure che qualcuno abbia semplicemente commesso un errore che è stato prontamente corretto. Tuttavia, l’indagine sull’accaduto è difficile a causa della breve durata dell’incidente.
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Un Criminal Hacker vende gli accessi ai server della Roche nelle underground
Un recente post comparso in un forum underground ha attirato l’attenzione degli esperti di sicurezza informatica. Un utente ha dichiarato di aver venduto accesso amministrativo di Roche, colosso farmaceutico con oltre 100mila dipendenti e un fatturato di circa 69,7 miliardi di dollari.
Il messaggio, corredato dal logo dell’azienda e da link a siti informativi pubblici, è stato presentato come una sorta di “trofeo” condiviso all’interno della community criminale. È probabile che l’intento sia stato quello di guadagnare credibilità presso altri utenti e attirare potenziali acquirenti interessati ad accessi di alto valore.
Disclaimer: Questo rapporto include screenshot e/o testo tratti da fonti pubblicamente accessibili. Le informazioni fornite hanno esclusivamente finalità di intelligence sulle minacce e di sensibilizzazione sui rischi di cybersecurity. Red Hot Cyber condanna qualsiasi accesso non autorizzato, diffusione impropria o utilizzo illecito di tali dati. Al momento, non è possibile verificare in modo indipendente l’autenticità delle informazioni riportate, poiché l’organizzazione coinvolta non ha ancora rilasciato un comunicato ufficiale sul proprio sito web. Di conseguenza, questo articolo deve essere considerato esclusivamente a scopo informativo e di intelligence.
I forum sotterranei sono da anni un punto di riferimento per il mercato nero digitale. In questi spazi, nascosti nel dark web e protetti da sistemi di anonimato, si scambiano credenziali rubate, malware, servizi di phishing e accessi a reti aziendali.
La pubblicazione di un annuncio come quello legato a Roche si inserisce in una dinamica ben nota: ostentare una “conquista” per rafforzare la reputazione personale.
È probabile però che non tutti questi annunci corrispondano a un’effettiva intrusione. Nel mondo degli underground forum, la linea tra realtà e propaganda è spesso sfumata. Talvolta i criminali pubblicano informazioni parziali o addirittura false per attirare compratori. In altri casi, l’accesso viene venduto più volte a soggetti diversi, generando ulteriori rischi per le vittime e alimentando un circolo vizioso che mescola verità e menzogna. Ciò rende estremamente difficile verificare la fondatezza delle affermazioni senza indagini approfondite.
Negli ultimi anni diverse piattaforme simili sono state chiuse grazie a operazioni coordinate delle autorità internazionali. RaidForums, BreachForums e Darkode sono stati smantellati, e molti utenti sono finiti sotto inchiesta proprio a causa dei loro stessi post. È probabile quindi che dichiarazioni troppo plateali, come quella legata a Roche, possano attirare l’attenzione indesiderata di investigatori e analisti di cyber intelligence, trasformandosi in un pericoloso autogol per chi cerca notorietà criminale.
Il dato di fondo resta però chiaro: il fenomeno dei forum underground continua a crescere. Secondo stime recenti, nel 2024 si è registrato un aumento significativo dei dati condivisi in questi spazi, con miliardi di credenziali compromesse messe in vendita. È probabile che, in un simile scenario, post come quello comparso a nome di Roche non siano casi isolati, ma parte di una strategia di marketing criminale che si nutre di clamore, prestigio e paura.
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972 milioni di utenti VPN di Google Play sono a rischio!
Gli analisti di Citizen Lab hanno segnalato che oltre 20 app VPN presenti sul Google Play Store presentano gravi problemi di sicurezza che minacciano la privacy degli utenti e consentono la decrittazione dei dati trasmessi. In totale, queste app sono state scaricate 972 milioni di volte.
Gli esperti affermano che i provider VPN che distribuiscono app problematiche sono chiaramente collegati tra loro, sebbene affermino di essere aziende separate e utilizzino vari metodi per nascondere la vera situazione.
Il rapporto di Citizen Lab si basa su ricerche precedenti che hanno individuato collegamenti tra tre provider VPN presumibilmente con sede a Singapore: Innovative Connecting, Autumn Breeze e Lemon Clove. Tutte queste aziende erano state precedentemente collegate a un cittadino cinese e ora i ricercatori hanno trovato ulteriori sovrapposizioni tra le app, nonché collegamenti ad altre app VPN e ai loro sviluppatori.
Secondo il rapporto, otto app VPN create da Innovative Connecting, Autumn Breeze e Lemon Clove condividono codice, dipendenze e password hard-coded comuni, consentendo potenzialmente agli aggressori di decrittografare tutto il traffico utente. Insieme, queste app hanno più di 330 milioni di installazioni sul Google Play Store.
Tutte e tre le aziende, precedentemente collegate a Qihoo 360 (un’azienda cinese di sicurezza informatica sanzionata dagli Stati Uniti nel 2020), offrono servizi VPN e si affidano al protocollo Shadowsocks, originariamente progettato per aggirare il Great Firewall cinese.
I ricercatori sottolineano che il protocollo utilizza la crittografia simmetrica ed è vulnerabile a vari attacchi a causa dell’uso di cifrari obsoleti e password hard-coded. Inoltre, la sua interazione con il sistema di tracciamento delle connessioni del sistema operativo consente agli aggressori di assumere il controllo delle connessioni delle vittime.
Otto applicazioni (Turbo VPN, Turbo VPN Lite, VPN Monster, VPN Proxy Master, VPN Proxy Master – Lite, Snap VPN, Robot VPN e SuperNet VPN) supportano i protocolli IPsec e Shadowsocks, presentano inoltre sovrapposizioni significative nel codice e utilizzano vari meccanismi per l’anti-analisi e l’aggiramento dei controlli di sicurezza automatici.
Tutte le app esaminate dai ricercatori erano vulnerabili ad attacchi di manomissione della connessione e di iniezione di pacchetti. Tutte raccolgono segretamente informazioni sulla posizione dell’utente, utilizzano una crittografia debole e contengono la stessa password hard-coded per la configurazione di Shadowsocks.
Utilizzando questa password, Citizen Lab ha scoperto che tutti e tre i provider VPN che offrono queste app utilizzano la stessa infrastruttura, il che conferma ulteriormente la connessione tra loro.
Si noti che un altro gruppo di fornitori (Matrix Mobile PTE LTD, ForeRaya Technology Limited, Wildlook Tech PTE LTD, Hong Kong Silence Technology Limited e Yolo Mobile Technology Limited) potrebbe essere associato al trio sopra menzionato, dato l’utilizzo di protocolli identici, codice simile e offuscamento.
Si è scoperto che le loro soluzioni VPN, scaricate più di 380 milioni di volte, sono vulnerabili ad attacchi di manomissione della connessione, contengono password offuscate e si connettono allo stesso set di indirizzi IP.
Altri due provider, Fast Potato Pte. Ltd e Free Connected Limited, offrono client VPN che si basano sulla stessa implementazione di protocollo proprietario.
Secondo Citizen Lab, i problemi di sicurezza e privacy identificati nelle app studiate hanno un impatto diverso sugli utenti. Ad esempio, potrebbero violare la fiducia e la privacy raccogliendo furtivamente dati sulla posizione e potrebbero esporre le persone al rischio di intercettazione e modifica del traffico.
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Now that Commodore is Back, Could Amiga Be Next?
Now that Commodore has arisen from the depths of obscurity like Cthulhu awoken from R’lyeh, the question on every shoggoth’s squamose lips is this: “Will there be a new Commodore Amiga?” The New Commodore is reportedly interested, but as [The Retro Shack] reports in the video embedded below, it might be some time before the stars align.
He follows the tortured history of the Amiga brand from its origins with Hi-Toro, the Commodore acquisition and subsequent Atari lawsuit, and the post-Commodore afterlife of the Amiga trademark. Yes, Amiga had a life after Commodore, and that’s the tl;dr here: Commodore might be back, but it does not own the Amiga IP.
If you’re wondering who does, you’re not the only one. Cloanto now claims the name and most of Amiga’s IP, though it remains at loggerheads with Hyperion, the distributors of AmigaOS 4. If you haven’t heard of them, Cloanto is not an elder god, but in fact the group behind Amiga Forever. They have been great stewards of the Amiga heritage over the decades. Any “new” Amiga is going to need the people at Cloanto on board, one way or another. That doesn’t mean it’s impossible– the new Commodore might be able to seduce Cloanto into a merger, or even just a licensing agreement to use the name on reproduction or new hardware.
While a replica C=64 was a no-brainer for the revived Commodore brand, it’s not quite so clear what they should do with the Amiga name. An FPGA reproduction of the popular A500 or A1200? Would anyone want newly-made 68000-based machines, or to follow Hyperion and MorphOS to now-outdated generations of PowerPC? All of these have been proposed and argued over for years.
We’d love to see something fully new that captures the spirit of the bouncing ball, but it’s hard to imagine bottling magic like that in the twenty-first century. For now, Amiga lies dreaming– but that is not dead which can eternally lie, and we hold out hope this Great Old One can return when the stars are right.
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Replicating the World’s Oldest Stringed Instrument
Posts on Hackaday sometimes trend a little bit retro, but rarely do we cover hacks that reach back into the Bronze Age. Still, when musician [Peter Pringle] put out a video detailing how he replicated an ancient Sumerian instrument, we couldn’t wait to dig in.
The instrument in question is the “Golden Lyre of Ur”, and it was buried at the Royal Cemetery of Ur with a passel of other grave goods (including a Silver Lyre) something around 4400 to 4500 years ago. For those not in the know, Ur was an early Sumerian city in the part of Mesopotamia became modern-day Iraq. A lyre is a type of plucked stringed instrument, similar to a harp.
That anything of the instrument remains after literal millennia buried under the Mesopotamian sand is thanks to the
extensive ornamentation on the original lyre– the gut strings and wooden body might have rotted away, but the precious stones and metals adorning the lyre preserved the outline of the instrument until it was excavated in 1922. Reconstruction was also greatly aided by contemporary mosaics and pottery showing similar lyres.
For particular interest are the tuning pegs, which required that artistic inspiration to recreate– the original archeological dig did not find any evidence of the tuning mechanism. [Peter] spends some time justifying his reconstruction, using both practical engineering concerns (the need for tension to get good sound) and the pictographic evidence. The wide “buzzing” bridge matches the pictographic evidence as well, and gives the lyre a distinct, almost otherworldly sound to Western ears. [Peter]’s reconstruction sounds good, though we have no way of knowing if it matches what you’d have heard in the royal halls of Ur all those dusty centuries ago. (Skip to 17:38 in the video below if you just want to hear it in action.)
The closest thing to this ancient, man-sized lyre we’ve seen on Hackaday before might be one of the various laser harp projects we’ve featured over the years. If you squint a little, you can see the distant echo of the Golden Lyre of Ur in at least some of them. We also can’t help but note that the buzzing bridge gives the Sumerian lyre a certain droning quality not entirely unlike a hurdy-gurdy, because we apparently can’t have a musical post without mentioning the hurdy-gurdy.
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X di Elon Musk potrebbe finalmente risolvere la causa di buonuscita da 500 milioni di dollari
Dopo aver acquistato Twitter nel 2022, Musk ha licenziato oltre 6.000 dipendenti di Twitter, riducendo l'organico dell'azienda di circa l'80%. Sebbene Musk abbia offerto tre mesi di buonuscita, la causa sostiene che molti ex dipendenti non hanno ricevuto pagamenti completi, mentre alcuni non hanno ricevuto alcun pagamento.
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Dopo aver acquistato Twitter nel 2022, Musk ha licenziato oltre 6.000 dipendenti di Twitter, riducendo l'organico dell'azienda di circa l'80%. Sebbene Musk abbia offerto tre mesi di buonuscita, la causa sostiene che molti ex dipendenti non hanno ricevuto pagamenti completi, mentre alcuni non hanno ricevuto alcun pagamento.
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Elon Musk's X may finally settle $500M severance lawsuit | TechCrunch
Elon Musk's X is settling a severance lawsuit with former Twitter employees.Amanda Silberling (TechCrunch)
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Quel pasticciaccio brutto dello sgombero del Leoncavallo
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Dietro a questa vicenda ingarbugliata dello sgombero del Centro sociale Leoncavallo di Milano si muovono interessi di mera propaganda politica ed elettorale, di natura economica, i cui contorni sono
STEFANO DE MARTINO E CAROLINE TRONELLI: TELECAMERE DOMESTICHE E I PERICOLI NASCOSTI
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L’attacco informatico che ha coinvolto Stefano De Martino e Caroline Tronelli, con il furto di contenuti privati dalle telecamere interne della loro abitazione...
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In addition to Planet Nine, the solar system may also contain a closer, smaller world that could be spotted soon, according to a new preprint study.#TheAbstract
A ‘Warp’ In Our Solar System Might Be an Undiscovered World: Planet Y
Scientists have discovered possible hints of an undiscovered world in the solar system—nicknamed “Planet Y”—orbiting about 100 to 200 times farther from the Sun than Earth, according to a new study.The newly proposed planet, assuming it exists, is predicted to be somewhere between Mercury and Earth in scale, which would likely make it detectable within the next few years. It is distinct from Planet Nine or Planet X, another hypothetical planet that is predicted to be much larger and more distant than Planet Y.
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Scientists speculated about the potential existence of Planet Y after discovering a strange “warp” in the Kuiper belt, which is a ring of icy bodies beyond Neptune, reports the study, which was posted on the preprint server arXiv on Wednesday.“We still are skeptical because it's not a ‘grand slam’ signal by any means,” said Amir Siraj, a graduate student in astrophysics at Princeton University who led the study, in a call with 404 Media. “At the most, it's a hint—or it’s suggestive of—an unseen planet.” The paper has been accepted for publication in The Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Siraj said.
Siraj and his co-authors made the discovery while laying the groundwork for an upcoming search for Planet Nine. For more than a decade, scientists have debated whether this hypothetical world—roughly five to ten times as massive as Earth, making it a “super-Earth” or “mini-Neptune”—is orbiting at a distance of at least 400 astronomical units (AU), where one AU is the distance between Earth and the Sun.
Scientists came up with the Planet Nine hypothesis after observing small celestial bodies beyond the orbit of Neptune called trans-Neptunian objects (TNOs), which appear to be gravitationally influenced by some hidden phenomenon. Planet Nine could be the culprit.
It’s an exciting time for Planet Nine watchers, as the next-generation Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile achieved first light in June. Rubin is expected to begin running its signature project, the Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST), by the end of 2025, and will spend a decade scanning the southern sky to produce a time-lapsed map that could expose Planet Nine, if it exists.
For this reason, scientists are gearing up for a worldwide race to be the first to spot the planet in the incoming LSST data. To prepare for the observational onslaught, Siraj and his colleagues have been developing new techniques to learn all they can about the murky Kuiper belt.
“This is something I've been focusing on for the past couple of years, particularly because we are going to be flooded very soon—knock on wood—with thousands of new TNOs from the Vera C. Rubin Observatory’s LSST,” said Siraj. “So, my philosophy for the past couple of years has been, well, let me make sure I know everything that I can know from all the efforts so far.”
To that end, the team developed an improved technique for measuring the mean motions of objects in the distant Kuiper belt and comparing them to the plane of the solar system. Ideally, the mean plane of the objects’ orbits should fall in line with the solar system’s plane, but deviations could point to more evidence for Planet Nine.
Instead, the team’s novel approach found that the Kuiper belt’s mean plane was tilted by about 15 degrees relative to the solar system plane at ranges of 80 to 400 AU. This “warp” could be caused by many factors, such as orbital resonances with known solar system planets. But it could also hint at the presence of a small rocky world, lurking anywhere from three-to-five times as far as the orbit of Pluto.
“It was certainly a big surprise,” Siraj said. “If this warp holds up, the best explanation we can come up with is an undiscovered and relatively small inclined planet, roughly 100 to 200 AU from the Sun. The other thing that was exciting to us is that, whether the warp is real or not, it will be very quickly confirmed or refuted within the first few years of LSST’s operation.”
If there truly is an undiscovered Mercury-ish world beyond Pluto, it is probably a homegrown member of the solar system that was ejected by the turbulent environment in the early solar system. Planet Nine, in contrast, could have either formed in the solar system, or it could have been a wandering exoplanet that was gravitationally captured by the solar system.
“The solar system probably formed with a lot of planetary embryos,” Siraj said. “There were probably a lot of bodies that were roughly Mercury-mass and most of them likely were just scattered out of the solar system like balls in a pinball machine during the violent stages of solar system formation.”
“That would definitely be the most likely and possible formation scenario for such an object,” he added. “I think it would be very unlikely for an orbit like this to be produced from a capture event.”
Time will tell whether or not the warp represents a lost world that was kicked out of our local neighborhood more than four billion years ago. But the intense focus on the outer solar system and its many mysteries, spurred by LSST, is sure to bring a flood of new discoveries regardless. Indeed, the hypothetical existence of Planet Y does not rule out the existence of Planet Nine (and vice versa) so there may well be multiple mysterious worlds waiting to be added to our solar family.
“It is really remarkably hard to see objects in the outer solar system,” Siraj said. “These kinds of measurements were not even remotely possible 20 years ago, so this speaks to the technological progress that's been made. It is potentially putting us into an era in astronomy that's unfamiliar these days, but was much more familiar in, say, the 1700s or 1800s—the idea of adding another planet to our own solar system.”
Caltech Researchers Find Evidence of a Real Ninth Planet
Planet Nine's existence was discovered by Konstantin Batygin and Mike Brown through mathematical modeling and computer simulations.California Institute of Technology
Real Footage Combined With a AI Slop About DC Is Creating a Disinformation Mess on TikTok#News #AISlop
Real Footage Combined With a AI Slop About DC Is Creating a Disinformation Mess on TikTok
TikTok is full of AI slop videos about the National Guard’s deployment in Washington, D.C., some of which use Google’s new VEO AI video generator. Unlike previous efforts to flood the zone with AI slop in the aftermath of a disaster or major news event, some of the videos blend real footage with AI footage, making it harder than ever to tell what’s real and what’s not, which has the effect of distorting people’s understanding of the military occupation of DC.At the start of last week, the Trump administration announced that all homeless people should immediately move out of Washington DC. This was followed by an order to Federal agents to occupy the city and remove tents where homeless people had been living. These events were reported on by many news outlets, for example, this footage from NBC shows the reality of at least one part of the exercise. On TikTok, though, this is just another popular trending topic, where slop creators and influencers can work together to create and propagate misinformation.
404 Media has previously covered how perceptions of real-life events can be quickly manipulated with AI images and footage; this is more of the same; with the release of new, better AI video creation tools like Google’s VEO, the footage is more convincing than ever.
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Some of the slop is obvious fantasy-driven engagement farming and gives itself away aesthetically or through content. This video and this very similar one show tents being pulled from a vast field into the back of a moving garbage truck, with the Capitol building in the background, on the Washington Mall. They’re not tagged as AI, but at least a few people in the comments are able to identify them as such; both videos still have over 100,000 views. This somehow more harrowing one feat. Hunger Games song has 41,000.@biggiesmellscoach Washington DC cleanup organized by Trump. Homeless are now given secure shelters, rehab, therapy, and help. #washingtondc #fyp #satire #trending #viral ♬ origineel geluid - nina.editssWith something like this video, made with VEO, the slop begins to feel more like a traditional news report. It has 146,000 views and it’s made of several short clips with news-anchorish voiceover. I had to scroll down past a lot of “Thank you president Trump” and “good job officers” comments to find any that pointed out that it was fake, even though the watermark for Google’s VEO generator is in the corner.
The voiceover also “reports” semi-accurately on what happened in DC, but without any specifics: “Police moved in today, to clear out a homeless camp in the city. City crews tore down tents, packed up belongings, and swept the park clean. Some protested, some begged for more time. But the cleanup went on. What was once a community is now just an empty field.” I found the same video posted to X, with commenters on both platforms taking offence at the use of the term “community.”
Comments on the original and X postings of this video which is clearly made with VEO
I also found several examples of shorter slop clips like this one, which has almost 1 million views, and this one, with almost half a million, which both exaggerate the scale and disarray of the encampments. In one of the videos, the entirety of an area that looks like the National Mall (but isn’t) has been taken over by tents. Quickly scrolling these videos gives the viewer an incorrect understanding of what the DC “camps” and “cleanup” looked like.
These shorter clips have almost 1.5 million views between them
The account that posted these videos was called Hush Documentary when I first encountered it, but had changed its name to viralsayings by Monday evening. The profile also has a five-second AI-generated footage of ATF officers patrolling a neighborhood; marked as AI, with 89,000 views.
What’s happening also is that real footage and fake footage are being mixed together in a popular greenscreen TikTok format where a person gives commentary (basically, reporting or commenting on the news) while footage plays in the background. That is happening in this clip, which features that same AI footage of ATF officers.
The viralsayings version of the footage is marked as AI. The remixed version, combined with real footage, is not.
I ended up finding a ton of instances where accounts mixed slop clips of the camp clearings, with seemingly real footage—notably many of them included this viral original footage of police clearing a homeless encampment in Georgetown. But a lot of them are ripping each other off. For example, many accounts have ripped off the voiceover of this viral clip from @Alfredito_mx (which features real footage) and have put it over top of AI footage. This clone from omivzfrru2 has nearly 200,000 and features both real and AI clips; I found at least thirty other copies, all with between ~2000 and 5000 views.
The scraping-and-recreating robot went extra hard with this one - the editing is super glitchy, the videos overlay each other, the host flickers around the screen, and random legs walk by in the background.
@mgxrdtsi 75 homeless camps in DC cleared by US Park Police since Trump's 'Safe and Beautiful' executive order #alfredomx #washington #homeless #safeandbeautiful #trump ♬ original sound - mgxrdtsiSo, one viral video from a popular creator has spawned thousands of mirrors in the hope of chipping off a small amount of the engagement of the original; those copies need footage, go looking for content in the tags, encounter the slop, and can’t tell / don’t care if it’s real. Then more thousands of people see the slop copies and end up getting a totally incorrect view of an actual unfolding news situation.
In these videos, it’s only totally clear to me that the content is fake because I found the original sources. Lots of this footage is obviously fake if you’re familiar with the actual situation in DC or familiar with the geography and streets in DC. But most people are not. If you told me “some of these shots are AI,” I don’t think I could identify all of those shots confidently. Is the flicker or blurring onscreen from the footage, from a bad camera, from a time-lapse or being sped up, from endless replication online, or from the bad green screen of a “host”? Now, scrolling social media means encountering a mix of real and fake video, and the AI fakes are getting good enough that deciphering what’s actually happening requires a level of attention to detail that most people don’t have the knowledge or time for.
People Think AI Images of Hollywood Sign Burning Are Real
AI generated slop is tricking people into thinking an already devastating series of wildfires in Los Angeles are even worse than they are — and using it to score political points.Samantha Cole (404 Media)
16 countries burned Poland’s bridges on the CSA Regulation: What now?
Poland’s surprising compromise to ease the deadlock on the CSA Regulation – which has been stuck in the Council of EU Member States for the past three years – met with failure. This blog recaps the Polish compromise, the positions of the Member States on the proposal, and it could mean for the future of one of the most criticised EU laws of all time.
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Cosa ci fanno tre navi da guerra americane in rotta per il Venezuela? Trump mette alla prova Maduro
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Nelle ultime ore la Casa Bianca ha confermato che tre cacciatorpediniere di classe Arleigh-Burke della US Navy fanno attualmente rotta per le acque internazionali al largo del Venezuela. Nel frattempo, sarebbero in
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Usa-Ue, raggiunto un primo accordo per gli acquisti militari. Tutti i dettagli
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Il futuro dei rapporti commerciali tra Europa e Stati Uniti inizia a prendere forma, anche sul piano del procurement militare. Washington e Bruxelles avrebbero raggiunto una prima intesa su un accordo-quadro che ridisegnerà gli equilibri degli scambi tra le due
Quella volta in cui nessuno ci credeva eppure l’entusiasmo ha salvato tutti
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Ho conosciuto Maurizio Mannoni un po’ per caso, in una di quelle sere afose e incantevoli dell’estate al Sud. Pacato, autorevole, limpido. È stato
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Wikipedia's founder said he used ChatGPT in the review process for an article and thought it could be helpful. Editors replied to point out it was full of mistakes.
Wikipediax27;s founder said he used ChatGPT in the review process for an article and thought it could be helpful. Editors replied to point out it was full of mistakes.#Wikipedia
Jimmy Wales Says Wikipedia Could Use AI. Editors Call It the 'Antithesis of Wikipedia'
Jimmy Wales, the founder of Wikipedia, thinks the internet’s default encyclopedia and one of the world’s biggest repositories of information could benefit from some applications of AI. The volunteer editors who keep Wikipedia functioning strongly disagree with him.The ongoing debate about incorporating AI into Wikipedia in various forms bubbled up again in July, when Wales posted an idea to his Wikipedia User Talk Page about how the platform could use a large language model as part of its article creation process.
Any Wikipedia user can create a draft of an article. That article is then reviewed by experienced Wikipedia editors who can accept the draft and move it to Wikipedia’s “mainspace,” which makes up the bulk of Wikipedia and the articles you’ll find when you’re searching for information. Reviewers can also reject articles for a variety of reasons, but because hundreds of draft articles are submitted to Wikipedia every day, volunteer reviewers often use a tool called articles for creation/helper script (ACFH), which creates templates for common reasons articles are declined.
This is where Wales thinks AI could help. He wrote that he was asked to look at a specific draft article and give notes that might help the article get published.
“I was eager to do so because I'm always interested in taking a fresh look at our policies and procedures to look for ways they might be improved,” he wrote. “The person asking me felt frustrated at the minimal level of guidance being given (this is my interpretation, not necessarily theirs) and having reviewed it, I can see why.”
Wales explains that the article was originally rejected several years ago, then someone tried to improve it, resubmitted it, and got the same exact template rejection again.
“It's a form letter response that might as well be ‘Computer says no’ (that article's worth a read if you don't know the expression),” Wales said. “It wasn't a computer who says no, but a human using AFCH, a helper script [...] In order to try to help, I personally felt at a loss. I am not sure what the rejection referred to specifically. So I fed the page to ChatGPT to ask for advice. And I got what seems to me to be pretty good. And so I'm wondering if we might start to think about how a tool like AFCH might be improved so that instead of a generic template, a new editor gets actual advice. It would be better, obviously, if we had lovingly crafted human responses to every situation like this, but we all know that the volunteers who are dealing with a high volume of various situations can't reasonably have time to do it. The templates are helpful - an AI-written note could be even more helpful.”
Wales then shared the output he got from ChatGPT. It included more details than a template rejection, but editors replying to Wales noted that it was also filled with errors.
For example, the response suggested the article cite a source that isn’t included in the draft article, and rely on Harvard Business School press releases for other citations, despite Wikipedia policies explicitly defining press releases as non-independent sources that cannot help prove notability, a basic requirement for Wikipedia articles.
Editors also found that the ChatGPT-generated response Wales shared “has no idea what the difference between” some of these basic Wikipedia policies, like notability (WP:N), verifiability (WP:V), and properly representing minority and more widely held views on subjects in an article (WP:WEIGHT).
“Something to take into consideration is how newcomers will interpret those answers. If they believe the LLM advice accurately reflects our policies, and it is wrong/inaccurate even 5% of the time, they will learn a skewed version of our policies and might reproduce the unhelpful advice on other pages,” one editor said.
Wales and editors proceeded to get into it in the replies to his article. The basic disagreement is that Wales thinks that LLMs can be useful to Wikipedia, even if they are sometimes wrong, while editors think an automated system that is sometimes wrong is fundamentally at odds with the human labor and cooperation that makes Wikipedia so valuable to begin with.
As one editor writes:
“The reputational risk to adding in AI-generated slop feedback can not be overstated. The idea that we will feed drafts into a large language model - with all the editorial and climate implications and without oversight or accountability - is insane. What are we gaining in return? Verbose, emoji-laden boilerplate slop, often wrong in substance or tone, and certainly lacking in the care and contextual sensitivity that actual human editors bring to review work. Worse it creates a dangerous illusion of helpfulness, where the appearance of tailored advice masks the lack of genuine editorial engagement. We would be feeding and legitimising a system that replaces mentoring, discourages human learning, and cheapens the standards we claim to uphold. That's the antithesis of Wikipedia, no?”
“It is definitely not the antithesis of Wikipedia to use technology in appropriate ways to make the encyclopedia better,” Wales responded. “We have a clearly identifiable problem, and you've elaborated on it well: the volume of submissions submits templated responses, and we shouldn't ask reviewers to do more. But we should look for ways to support and help them.”
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This isn’t the first time the Wikimedia Foundation, the non-profit that manages Wikipedia, and Wikipedia editors have clashed about AI. In June, the Wikimedia Foundation paused an experiment to use AI-generated summaries at the top of Wikipedia articles after a backlash from editors.A group of Wikipedia editors have also started WikiProject AI Cleanup, an organized effort to protect the platform from what they say is growing number of AI-generated articles and images submitted to Wikipedia that are misleading or include errors. In early August, Wikipedia editors also adopted a new policy that will make it easier for them to delete articles that are clearly AI-generated.
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“Wikipedia’s strength has been and always will be its human-centered, volunteer-driven model — one where knowledge is created and reviewed by people, volunteers from different countries, perspectives, and backgrounds. Research shows that this process of human debate, discussion, and consensus makes for higher-quality articles on Wikipedia,” a Wikimedia Foundation spokesperson told me in an email. “Nevertheless, machine-generated content is exploding across the internet, and it will inevitably make its way to Wikipedia. Wikipedia volunteers have showcased admirable resilience in maintaining the reliability of information on Wikipedia based on existing community-led policies and processes, sometimes leveraging AI/machine learning tools in this work.“The spokesperson said that Wikipedia already uses AI productively, like with bots that revert vandalism and machine translation tools, and that these tools always have a “human in the loop” to validate automated work.
“As the founder of Wikipedia, Jimmy regularly engages with volunteers on his talk page to share ideas, test assumptions, and respond to questions,” the spokesperson said. ”His recent comments about how AI could improve the draft review process are an example of this and a prompt for further community conversation."
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Penso sia doveroso riconoscere che quattro gatti di israeliani per bene ci sono rimasti ("quattro gatti" perché è letto da poche persone) e questa cosa personalmente mi rincuora molto.
Se anche in mezzo a tutto quell'odio e quella propaganda qualcuno riesce a mantenersi lucido vuol dire che ha senso continuare a sperare.
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“Kia Boys will be Flipper Boys by 2026,” one person in the reverse engineering community said.#Features
Inside the Underground Trade of ‘Flipper Zero’ Tech to Break into Cars
A man holds an orange and white device in his hand, about the size of his palm, with an antenna sticking out. He enters some commands with the built-in buttons, then walks over to a nearby car. At first, its doors are locked, and the man tugs on one of them unsuccessfully. He then pushes a button on the gadget in his hand, and the door now unlocks.The tech used here is the popular Flipper Zero, an ethical hacker’s swiss army knife, capable of all sorts of things such as WiFi attacks or emulating NFC tags. Now, 404 Media has found an underground trade where much shadier hackers sell extra software and patches for the Flipper Zero to unlock all manner of cars, including models popular in the U.S. The hackers say the tool can be used against Ford, Audi, Volkswagen, Subaru, Hyundai, Kia, and several other brands, including sometimes dozens of specific vehicle models, with no easy fix from car manufacturers.
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Do you know anything else about people using the Flipper Zero to break into cars? 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.These tools are primarily sold for a fee, keeping their distribution somewhat limited to those willing to pay. But, there is the looming threat that this software may soon reach a wider audience of thieves. Straight Arrow News (SAN) previously covered the same tech in July, and the outlet said it successfully tested the tool on a vehicle. Now people are cracking the software, meaning it can be used for free. Discord servers with hundreds of members are seeing more people join, with current members trolling the newbies with fake patches and download links. If the tech gets out, it threatens to supercharge car thefts across the country, especially those part of the social media phenomenon known as Kia Boys in which young men, often in Milwaukee, steal and joyride Kia and Hyundai cars specifically because of the vehicles’ notoriously poor security. Apply that brazeness to all of the other car models the Flipper Zero patches can target, and members of the car hacking community expect thieves to start using the easy to source gadget.
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📌 Dal 22 al 27 agosto il #MIM parteciperà al Meeting di Rimini! Il titolo dell’edizione di quest’anno è “Nei luoghi deserti costruiremo con mattoni nuovi”.Telegram
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Le statine che prendo sono di Teva Italia e quella attuale sarà evidentemente la mia ultima confezione di questa marca.
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Sgomberare il Leoncavallo per colpire l’antifascismo
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Nel frattempo, a Roma, lo stabile occupato da CasaPound in via Napoleone III, proprietà statale affidata a Miur e Demanio, ha accumulato un danno erariale di oltre 4,6 milioni di euro
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La simulazione di un social network popolato solo da bot dimostra che le strategie per ridurre polarizzazione e hate speech online hanno effetti minimi, o addirittura peggiorano la situazione
Un esperimento condotto dall’Università di Amsterdam rivela che il problema sia strutturale e connaturato proprio ai social network, e di conseguenza impossibile da risolvere con interventi semplici. I risultati dell'esperimento vanno comunque considerati con il giusto grado di scetticismo, dato che lo studio non è ancora stato sottoposto a peer-review, ma è comune interessante approfondire l'idea da cui sono partiti Petter Törnberg, assistente professore specializzato in intelligenza artificiale e social media, e il ricercatore Maik Larooij.
Gli autori hanno creato una piattaforma sintetica minimale, progettata da zero, dove agenti simulati potevano:
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- Seguire altri utenti
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Un esperimento condotto dallUniversità di Amsterdam rivela che le principali strategie per ridurre polarizzazione e hate speech online hanno effetti minimi, o addirittura peggiorano la situazioneHardware Upgrade
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EDRi Annual Report 2024: Reinforcing digital rights and justice in uncertain times
Read about EDRi’s work in 2024 to build an inclusive and equitable digital world. Last year, we witnessed massive changes in the political realm after the European elections in June, and resisted growing attacks on important digital rights legislation while staying rooted in our long-term vision for digital futures.
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Apple prova a superare la crisi puntando sulla smart home?
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È stato un successo
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Il caso De Martino e il lato oscuro delle telecamere di sorveglianza. Il video di @Matteo G.P. Flora
Stefano De Martino e la sua compagna sono stati vittime di un video diffuso online, probabilmente sottratto da telecamere di sorveglianza domestiche. Un episodio che riporta al centro dell’attenzione il problema della sicurezza digitale, ma di cui avevamo parlato nel... 2017!Le telecamere smart possono diventare occhi indiscreti se non protette: password deboli, sistemi non aggiornati e configurazioni superficiali aprono la porta a intrusioni gravi, con conseguenze devastanti per la privacy.
In questo video analizziamo i rischi reali, la diffusione non consensuale di immagini intime e le soluzioni pratiche per difendersi, tra tecnologia, responsabilità e tutela personale.
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The Department of Defense asks its civilian workers to apply for a "volunteer force" to support ICE that may involve working under "austere conditions.#Immigration
Pentagon Asks Its Civilian Employees If They Want to Work for ICE
The Department of Defense sent an email to civilian employees Wednesday asking them to sign up for a “volunteer force” that will help both Immigrations and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Protection with Donald Trump’s mass deportation campaign. A job application page says the Department of Defense's civilian employees would be deployed to ICE and CBP sites and that they may be expected to work under “austere conditions.”“The Secretary of Defense has authorized DoD civilian employees to participate in details to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to contribute to its operations along the Southern Border and its internal immigration enforcement activities,” the email, seen by 404 Media, says. “Selected Department employees will have a chance to offer critical support to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) as they fulfill the President’s intent to ensure a safe and orderly immigration system.”
The Department of Defense has roughly 950,000 civilian employees.
The email suggests that DHS is trying to recruit from within the Department of Defense for CBP and ICE, which has a vastly expanded budget and has been trying to hire new agents at a huge scale. The email, which was addressed to “DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE CIVILIAN EMPLOYEES,” asks current civilian Department of Defense employees to apply for the force on the USA Jobs website. The application page says the employees would be working largely in support roles at “facilities along the U.S. border or ICE and CBP facilities throughout the interior of the United States … Locations will extend to other geographic areas according to the need. Conditions at some locations could be austere. Deployment locations are based on need and are not negotiable.”
“At the discretion of ICE and CBP, Detailees will be assigned to perform some or all of the following duties at the several ICE and CBP facilities throughout the interior of the United States:
- Data Entry: Enter and maintain data elements in relevant information systems;
- Operational Planning Support: Assist ICE and CBP in developing concepts of operation and campaign plans to execute internal arrests and raids as well as patrols along the Southwest Border (SWB);
- Processing and Throughput Logistics: Assist ICE and CBP in managing the physical flow of detained illegal aliens from arrest to deportation, as well as manage associated data;
- Logistical Support: Assist ICE and CBP in managing the logistical planning to move law enforcement personnel, operational capabilities, and support equipment across the United States to improve efficiencies and the effectiveness of operations.”
In recent weeks, the Trump administration deployed the Marines to Los Angeles and deployed the National Guard to Los Angeles and Washington D.C. The Los Angeles deployments were in response to widespread protests against ICE raids in the city, but the military itself was not conducting immigration enforcement.
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Volunteer Force (DOD Detail)
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Volunteer Force (VF) provides Department of Defense civilian employees an opportunity to support Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP) in their commitment to ensuri…USAJOBS
Le emozioni devono essere regolate nella mente. Aql (dall'arabo= intelletto) significa legare.
L'amore non è un'emozione, è uno stato del cuore. Anelo a raggiungere questo stato, a non identificare più l'amore nella mente.
Guarda sempre te stessa. Nei confronti degli altri sai che devi comportarti giustamente, e ti basta questo. Guarda sempre te stesso e valuta, giudica dove sta il bene e orientati sempre nella sua direzione.
Tu guarda te stessa perchè la vita è un dono di Allah subhanahu wa ta’ala per essere temporaneamente giudici e fautori di noi stessi, facilitati dalla guida e dalla saggezza dell'Amorevole. Siamo vicari su questa terra.
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CSA Regulation Document Pool
This document pool contains updates and resources on the EU's proposed 'Regulation laying down rules to prevent and combat child sexual abuse' (CSA Regulation)
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