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Druetti (Pos): Tajani sbaglia su Global Sumud Flotilla, non può dire che l’iniziativa è inopportuna


“Le parole di Tajani sulla Global Sumud Flotilla sono deludenti, anche se non sorprendono viste le posizioni del nostro governo.” Lo dichiara la Segretaria Nazionale di Possibile Francesca Druetti, commentando la dichiarazione del ministro degli esteri secondo cui gli attivisti delle navi in partenza verso Gaza “non sono terroristi, ma si può dire di non essere d’accordo, che si tratti di iniziative inopportune.”
“Le parole di Tajani” — continua Druetti — sono appunto inopportune. Perché l’iniziativa della Global Sumud Flotilla andrebbe semplicemente sostenuta dal nostro governo. Perché i quattro obiettivi della spedizione (lo stop all’assedio, lo stop alla fame usata come arma, lo stop alla disumanizzazione della popolazione palestinese, lo stop al genocidio) non dovrebbero nemmeno essere oggetto di dibattito, ma la posizione minima di umanità da cui partire per trovare una soluzione politica e diplomatica.

“Di fronte a quanto succede ogni giorno a Gaza — conclude Druetti — alle decine di morti ogni giorno, alla carestia imposta da uno Stato contro cui continuiamo a vendere armi e a offrire supporto internazionale, l’invito alla moderazione di Tajani a Ben Gvir (che aveva minacciato di trattare gli attivisti alla stregua di terroristi una volta arrivati sulle coste di Gaza) è semplicemente ridicolo. Continuiamo a sostenere, in ogni modo, la Global Sumud Flotilla. Quando arriverà a destinazione, saremo tutte e tutti chiamati a mobilitarci, con i nostri corpi e con la pressione istituzionale.”

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Vulnerabilità critica in IIS Web Deploy: l’exploit PoC è ora pubblico


Questa settimana è stato pubblicato un exploit proof-of-concept per il bug CVE-2025-53772, una vulnerabilità critica di esecuzione di codice remoto nello strumento IIS Web Deploy (msdeploy) di Microsoft, che ha sollevato urgenti allarmi nelle community .NET e DevOps.

Il CVE-2025-53772 è una vulnerabilità RCE critica negli endpoint msdeploy.axd e msdeployagentservice di Microsoft Web Deploy, causata dalla deserializzazione non sicura dei dati dell’intestazione HTTP in formato GZip + Base64. Consente a un utente malintenzionato autenticato di eseguire codice da remoto.

Microsoft ha assegnato un punteggio CVSS di 8,8 per il CVE-2025-53772. Le misure di mitigazione immediate includono la disabilitazione del servizio Web Deploy Agent (MsDepSvc), l’applicazione di ACL di rete rigorosi sull’endpoint msdeploy.axd e l’applicazione di filtri in ingresso per bloccare intestazioni MSDeploy.SyncOptions inaspettate.

IIS Web Deploy (msdeploy) è un set di strumenti che impacchetta e trasferisce applicazioni Web, configurazioni IIS e risorse basate su provider in un ambiente di destinazione. Supporta due tipi di meccanismi di accesso: tramite Web Management Service (WMSvc) su endpoint HTTP(S): /msdeploy.axd tramite Web Deploy Agent Service (MsDepSvc):msdeployagentservice

Le funzionalità principali includono: Sincronizzazione e distribuzione tramite provider per file, siti Web, certificati, database, ecc. Flussi di lavoro per la creazione di pacchetti ( GetPackage) e l’applicazione di pacchetti ( Sync) Questa elevata flessibilità, se combinata con progetti di serializzazione che non convalidano rigorosamente gli input, amplia la superficie di attacco.

Per una correzione a lungo termine è necessario sostituire BinaryFormatter con un serializzatore sicuro (ad esempio, DataContractSerializer con contratti di tipo espliciti) e convalidare tutti gli input dell’intestazione prima della deserializzazione.

Con la diffusione degli exploit PoC, le organizzazioni che sfruttano IIS Web Deploy devono dare priorità all’applicazione di patch e al rafforzamento per impedire agli aggressori autenticati di sfruttare questo vettore RCE critico.

L'articolo Vulnerabilità critica in IIS Web Deploy: l’exploit PoC è ora pubblico proviene da il blog della sicurezza informatica.



“Questa nuova alleanza ha un significato profondo”. Lo ha affermato padre Alejandro Moral Antón, priore generale degli Agostiniani e presidente della Fondazione Agostiniani nel mondo, intervenendo alla conferenza stampa che oggi, all’Augustinianum di…


Vacanze in Valle d'Aosta


Ciao, condivido qui alcune foto della vacanza in Valle D'Aosta, in particolare delle zone di #Arvier, #Cogne, #Morgex e #Courmayer. Oltre alle montagne ho trovato tanti #castelli (un paio li ho visitati nei giorni di maltempo) e un #acquedotto romano del 3 A.C. perfettamente conservato.
Giusto per rifarci gli occhi

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La collaborazione editoriale tra la Fondazione Agostiniani nel mondo e il Gruppo Editoriale San Paolo è stata presentata oggi a Roma, presso l’Augustinianum.


Trasferimenti di dati UE-USA: Prime reazioni al caso "Latombe Prima reazione alla sentenza del Tribunale sul ricorso "Latombe" contro l'accordo sul trasferimento dei dati tra UE e USA (TADPF). mickey03 September 2025


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Online safety's day in court


Online safety's day in court
WELCOME TO DIGITAL POLITICS. I'm Mark Scott, and this edition marks the one-year anniversary for this newsletter. That's 61 newsletters, roughly 130,000 words and, hopefully, some useful insight into the world of global digital policymaking.

To thank all subscribers for your support, I'm offering a discounted offer to the paid version of Digital Bridge published each Monday. You can go for either a monthly or an annual subscription — at 25 percent off the regular price. You can also keep receiving these monthly free updates.

Also, for anyone in Brussels, I'll be in town next week from Sept 8 - 11. Drop me a line if you're free for coffee.

— The outcome to a series of legal challenges to online safety legislation will be made public in the coming weeks. The results may challenge how these laws are implemented.

— We are starting to see the consequences of what happens when policymakers fail to define what "tech sovereignty" actually means.

— The vast amount of money within the semiconductor industry comes from the design, not manufacture, of high-end microchips.

Let's get started:


LEGAL CHALLENGES TO ONLINE SAFETY RULES


WE'RE ABOUT TO FIND OUT WHERE THE limits are to some of the Western world's attempts to rein in social media platforms and e-commerce giants.

On Sept. 3, Zalando, the German online shopping site (my decade-old profile here) will find out if one of the European Union's top courts agrees that it should not be designated as a Very Large Online Platform, or VLOP, under the bloc's Digital Services Act. The Berlin-based retailer claims it doesn't represent a so-called "systemic risk" within the EU. Zalando's focus on business customers (in contrast to retailer customers) also means the platform does not technically have 45 million users within the EU, it also argues. Expect a decision from the European Court of Justice before midday CET on Sept. 3 (documents here.)

By challenging Brussels' ability to designate which tech companies fall within its VLOP definition (in which the requirement to have at least 45 million local users is critical), Zalando is taking on a central component of the EU's online safety regime. Under the DSA, these large firm take on greater responsibilities and reporting requirements — and are overseen directly by the European Commission, and not EU national regulators — compared to their smaller counterparts.

Currently, how the bloc determines the threshold for 45 million users is cloaked in secrecy — mostly because officials typically have to rely on company estimates to make such adjudications. Telegram, for instance, maintains it has less than that benchmark, allowing it to avoid the most strenuous oversight offered by the DSA. By challenging the European Commission's (opaque) methodology, Zalando's case (no matter the outcome) will force Brussels to up its game when determining which companies fall within its VLOP definition.

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Here's what paid subscribers read in August:
— Google and Meta's separate decisions to end political ads in Europe is a mistake; What Big Tech's quarterly earnings teach us about geopolitics; Most Brits have yet to jump on the AI bandwagon. More here.
— Everything you need to know about India's AI Impact Summit; How Russia's propaganda machine weaponized the Trump-Putin meeting in Alaska; Who's Who in the shake-up in the European Commission's DG CNECT. More here.
— Why focusing on protecting kids online should not come at the price of breaking encryption; What Kremlin-backed media took from the Trump-Putin summit; The cottage industry of copyright lawsuits targeting AI companies. More here.
— The US, EU and China are building rival "AI Stacks" that will split the world into competing camps; How to understand the EU-US trade framework when it comes to tech and future tensions; The "AI Divide" is playing out in global research. More here.

Next up are Meta and TikTok. In a dual ruling on Sept. 10 (documents here and here), one of Europe's top courts will again decide a key part of the bloc's online safety rules. This time, both tech giants claim the so-called DSA supervisory fee, or annual levy all VLOPs must pay for the regulation's implementation, is disproportionate and opaque.

The fee — which increased 21 percent this year, to €58.2 million — is based on the European Commission's calculation of up to a 0.05 percent charge on these tech firms' annual global net income. Both Meta and TikTok (and, in a separate legal challenge, Google) say those figures should only come from each firm's profit within the 27-country bloc, and not from their overall global income. In response, Brussels says such levies — a tiny slice of these firms' annual profits — do not violate companies' rights.

Depending on how the court rules, the decision will have ramifications for the DSA's (stuttering) implementation.

Currently, the European Commission has scores of open investigations. Temu, the Chinese online retailer, was the latest firm to be accused of breaching the rules. A potential separate enforcement action against X is expected in the coming weeks. These probes cost money. If Europe's top judges start cutting the funds available for DSA enforcement — based on TikTok and Meta's claims — then the regulation's implementation will similarly slow.

If one of Europe's top courts sides with the tech giants, then expect Brussels to claim business-as-usual, and likely dedicate additional resources from the bloc's almost €2 trillion budget. But the ability to charge VLOPs for DSA supervision is a pillar of how these online safety rules are supposed to work. It forms the basis for the European Commission's mutlti-year work plan on DSA supervision and enforcement. To suggest everything is fine, if next week's court decision goes against Brussels, will be a fantasy.

The next legal challenge takes us across the English Channel to the United Kingdom's Online Safety Act, or OSA. There is already growing disquiet after the country's so-called "age assurance" rules came into force late last month. Now, 4chan and Kiwi Farms filed a lawsuit in a federal court in the United States to challenge how the UK's online safety rules apply to these US-based online platforms.

I'm no lawyer. But the lawsuit is worth a read for two reasons.

First, 4Chan and Kiwi Farms — both of which received requests from Ofcom, the UK's online safety regulator, to comply with mandatory transparency demands — relied heavily on history to suggest they did not have to comply with the British rules. (Disclaimer: I sit on an independent advisory committee at Ofcom, so anything I say here is done so in a personal capacity.)

"Where Americans are concerned, the Online Safety Act purports to legislate the Constitution out of existence," lawyers for both firms wrote in the lawsuit. "Parliament does not have that authority. That issue was settled, decisively, 243 years ago in a war that the UK’s armies lost and are not in any position to re-litigate.”

Shots fired, if you will.

Under the UK's online safety regime, a company does not have to have a physical presence within the country to fall under the legislation. Technically, a site only needs to be accessible to British internet users for the regulatory requirements, most of which focus on mandating a base level of transparency about how companies apply their internal online safety protocols. That means thousands of sites worldwide fall under the UK's OSA — even though almost none of them will be contacted as what happened with 4Chan and Kiwi Farms.

Determining how far the UK's OSA can extend to sites with no physical presence in the country — even if that comes via a US federal court — is a marker for how countries can extend their online safety rules in the name of protecting their citizens.

The second reason the case is important is more political.

Expect the federal lawsuit against Ofcom to be name-checked during a Congressional hearing, overseen by Congressman Jim Jordan, on Sept 3 entitled: "Europe's Threat to American Speech and Innovation." It will start at 10am ET and the current witness list includes noted online safety expert (jk!) Nigel Farage. Former European Commissioner Thierry Breton was invited, though he preferred to respond in an OpEd for The Guardian.

The 4Chan/Kiwi Farm lawsuit is important as it represents a new attack from some in the US who view any form of online safety regulation as a direct threat to Americans' First Amendment rights.

These individuals — most commonly associated with the "Censorship Industrial Complex" — have already accused researchers of acting in unison with the US federal government and social media platforms to censor those mostly on the political right. So far, there has been no evidence to back up those allegations.

Now, many are turning to non-US online safety legislation, most notably the EU's DSA and the UK's OSA, as a new attack vector to claim Americans' free speech rights are under attack. The 4Chan/Kiwi Farm lawsuit's arguments, including the illegal extraterritoriality of the British rules, are likely to be re-used in these ongoing efforts to thwart countries' push to protect their own citizens against online abuse and illegal content like terrorist propaganda.


Chart of the Week


EVERY COUNTRY UNDER THE SUN wants to be a semiconductor superpower. That's especially true in the global battle between rival "AI stacks" reliant on next generation semiconductors.

But there's a significant difference between those who make semiconductors and where the value resides in the overall global chip market.

The chart on the left depicts the 2024 worldwide revenue, divided as a percentage per company, for semiconductor foundries, or facilities that manufacture microchips. The chart on the right represents overall market values for semiconductor companies (based on Dec. 31, 2024 prices), divided by companies and countries.

On manufacturing, Taiwan is the global leader, by some margin. But in overall semiconductor value, the US (and, to a large degree, NVIDIA) are the ones to beat.

That's a reminder for any country spending taxpayers' dollars to entice semiconductor foundries to be built locally. Just because you back such in-country manufacturing doesn't mean the overall value within the semiconductor supply chain will follow.

Online safety's day in court
Online safety's day in court

Source: JPMorgan; Companiemarketcap.com. Data as of Dec. 2024


The consequences of tech sovereignty


I KNOW I'M BIASED. BUT IT'S HARD NOT TO VIEW the first eight months of 2025 as a demonstration of what happens when countries blend politics and technology in ways that lead to bad outcomes. Think the US-China stand-off on pretty much everything. Think the EU-US dispute over trade/digital regulation. Think the failure of Middle Powers to articulate a path on digital that is different to that offered by China, the US and Europe, respectively.

This is what happens when politicians and policymakers put forward a vision of "tech sovereignty" without thinking through what happens when you mix national/regional political needs with the global nature of how technology actually works.

Back in March, I made a plea for a more joined-up approach to that amorphous definition that, ever since European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen went hard on "tech sovereignty" five years ago, has been plagued with false starts, conflicting efforts and a failure to understand how such digital policymaking would end up playing out in the real world.

Fast forward to late(ish) 2025, and we are starting to feel the consequences of rival and, frustratingly, allied countries implementing "tech sovereignty" concepts that will inevitably harm citizens' fundamental rights and their ability to take advantage of what technology has to offer.

For me, those concepts include: countries asserting legal claims over the global internet; politicians subsidizing the creation/support of domestic industries that do not have the scale to compete on the global stage; the creation of artificial barriers between digital markets/goods that undermine fundamental rights; the politicization of apolitical digital regulation aimed at quelling abuse.

Some of these issues were almost inevitable, given the vast differences between how countries approach both digital policymaking and industrial policy. The US — based on its financial muscle, deregulatory stance and domestic industry — is just in a different place to, say, Singapore, which must approach questions about how technology affects its society in ways that meet its own domestic needs.

What I worry, though, is that the push toward 'tech sovereignty' has reached a point where it may be difficult to bring countries back from the edge of creating siloed digital worlds. That goes for everything from high-tech manufacturing that may face high import tariffs elsewhere to digital regulation aimed at safeguarding people's fundamental rights.

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As technology has become a powerful engine, both for politics and industry, it was inevitable that politicians would want to exert greater power over digital areas of the economy and society. Where we are currently, however, is nearing a point of potentially killing the golden goose.

Technology, at its basic level, is an apolitical tool. And ever since the Web 1.0 era, that has been based on a borderless, hand-off approach to digital oversight — something that just isn't possible given the geopolitical nature of technology in 2025.

What I've been thinking a lot about is how can we marry the best of this laissez-faire approach to technology — one that allows firms and people to connect to each other, within seconds, across the globe — with the ability for politicians and policymakers to both protect citizens from harm and harness what technology has to offer to serve domestic economic interests.

Right now, that balance is failing, and badly.

It is leading to the siloing of citizens within national/regional digital fiefdoms. It is embracing a top-down approach to "tech sovereignty" that relegates people to passive spectators as their digital experiences are dictated for them. It is leaving millions behind as digital policymaking falls into three camps: led by China, the EU and US, respectively.

Watch this space for thoughts on how to fix that.


What I'm reading


— The Molly Rose Foundation analyzed TikTok and Instagram and found an ongoing high-level risk of exposure for minors to content linked to suicide, self-harm and depression-related material. More here.

— Bits of Freedom, a Dutch non-profit organization, filed a lawsuit against Meta so that its local users could access their Instagram and Facebook feeds in ways not based on user profiling. More here.

— Researchers from the University of Amsterdam created a social media network based on AI agents, and discovered the platform quickly recreated levels of polarization seen in real-world networks. More here.

— The White House's recent AI Action Plan is full of contradictory policies that may lead to the concentration of power of the emerging technology, argue three former Joe Biden-appointed officials for Tech Policy Press.

— Meta's Oversight Board published its annual report, including details into the 217 voluntary policy recommendations it had made to the tech firm since 2027. More here.



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Reverse-Engineering Mystery TV Equipment: The Micro-Scan


[VWestlife] ended up with an obscure piece of 80s satellite TV technology, shown above. The Micro-Scan is a fairly plan metal box with a single “Tune” knob on the front. At the back is a power switch and connectors for TV Antenna, TV Set, and “MW” (probably meaning microwave). There’s no other data. What was this, and what was it for?

Satellite TV worked by having a dish receive microwave signals, but televisions could not use those signals directly. A downconverter was needed to turn the signal into something an indoor receiver box (to which the television was attached) could use, allowing the user to select a channel to feed into the TV.

At first, [VWestlife] suspected the Micro-Scan was a form of simple downconverter, but that turned out to not be the case. Testing showed that the box didn’t modify signals at all. Opening it up revealed the Micro-Scan acts as a combination switchbox and variable power supply, sending a regulated 12-16 V (depending on knob position) out the “MW” connector.

So what is it for, and what does that “Tune” knob do? When powered off, the Micro-Scan connected the TV (plugged into the “TV Set” connector) to its normal external antenna (connected to “TV Antenna”) and the TV worked like a normal television. When powered on, the TV would instead be connected to the “MW” connector, probably to a remote downconverter. In addition, the Micro-Scan supplied a voltage (the 12-16 V) on that connector, which was probably a control voltage responsible for tuning the downconverter. The resulting signal was passed unmodified to the TV.

It can be a challenge to investigate vintage equipment modern TV no longer needs, especially hardware that doesn’t fit the usual way things were done, and lacks documentation. If you’d like to see a walkthrough and some hands-on with the Micro-Scan, check out the video (embedded bel0w).

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Tencent sfida i giganti! Il nuovo Hunyuan-MT batte Google Translate e GPT-4.1


L’azienda cinese Tencent ha reso pubblico il codice sorgente di una nuova serie di modelli linguistici Hunyuan-MT, appositamente ottimizzati per le attività di traduzione. Gli sviluppatori affermano che gli algoritmi mostrano risultati migliori di Google Translate nel popolare benchmark WMT25.

La serie comprende quattro modelli, tra cui due modelli di punta: Hunyuan-MT-7B e Hunyuan-MT-Chimera-7B, ciascuno contenente 7 miliardi di parametri. Vengono inoltre presentate due versioni compresse, che utilizzano meno memoria, ma operano con una leggera perdita nella qualità della traduzione.

Tencent ha utilizzato quattro set di dati per l’addestramento. Due di questi includevano testi in 33 lingue senza traduzione, mentre gli altri due includevano diversi milioni di coppie di frasi e le relative traduzioni. Questo approccio ha permesso di combinare la conoscenza delle lingue con l’erudizione generale.

L’efficacia dei modelli è stata testata utilizzando il test MMLU-Pro, progettato per valutare le conoscenze generali. Hunyuan-MT ha mostrato risultati migliori rispetto a Llama-3-8B-Base, nonostante un numero inferiore di parametri.

Dopo l’addestramento iniziale, i modelli sono stati sottoposti a un ulteriore passaggio, utilizzando l’apprendimento per rinforzo. Tencent ha fornito loro compiti e feedback sulla qualità della traduzione, contribuendo a migliorarne l’accuratezza.

La qualità è stata valutata da un sistema di intelligenza artificiale separato, che ha analizzato la corrispondenza semantica della traduzione con l’originale e la correttezza dell’uso della terminologia in diversi campi.

Il primo modello della serie, Hunyuan-MT-7B, si basa sull’architettura classica dei modelli linguistici. La variante Chimera-7B utilizza un metodo di ensemble: diverse reti neurali elaborano una richiesta simultaneamente e le loro risposte vengono poi combinate in una versione finale di qualità superiore.

Nei test WMT25 che confrontano le traduzioni in 31 coppie di lingue, Hunyuan-MT ha superato Google Translate in 30 casi, con alcune coppie che hanno ottenuto risultati superiori del 65%.

Inoltre, la serie di Tencent ha ottenuto risultati migliori rispetto a GPT-4.1 e Claude 4 Sonnet di Anthropic nella maggior parte delle coppie di lingue dello stesso benchmark.

L'articolo Tencent sfida i giganti! Il nuovo Hunyuan-MT batte Google Translate e GPT-4.1 proviene da il blog della sicurezza informatica.



OpenAI mette i genitori al comando: arriva il parental control su ChatGPT


In un momento in cui la controversia sull’impatto dell’intelligenza artificiale sulla salute mentale giovanile va crescendo, l’introduzione di un controllo parentale per ChatGPT è stata annunciata come una misura da OpenAI.

In un post sul blog pubblicato martedì, l’azienda di intelligenza artificiale con sede in California ha affermato di aver lanciato queste funzionalità in risposta alla necessità delle famiglie di supportare “la definizione di linee guida sane che si adattino alla fase di sviluppo unica di un adolescente”.

Grazie a queste modifiche, i genitori potranno collegare i propri account ChatGPT a quelli dei propri figli, disattivare alcune funzionalità, tra cui la memoria e la cronologia delle chat, e controllare il modo in cui il chatbot risponde alle query tramite “regole di comportamento del modello appropriate all’età”.

I genitori potranno anche ricevere notifiche quando i loro figli adolescenti mostrano segni di disagio, ha affermato OpenAI, aggiungendo che cercherà il contributo di esperti nell’implementazione della funzionalità per “sostenere la fiducia tra genitori e adolescenti”.

OpenAI, che la scorsa settimana ha annunciato una serie di misure volte a migliorare la sicurezza degli utenti vulnerabili, ha affermato che le modifiche entreranno in vigore entro il mese prossimo.

“Questi passi sono solo l’inizio”, ha affermato l’azienda.

“Continueremo ad apprendere e a rafforzare il nostro approccio, sotto la guida di esperti, con l’obiettivo di rendere ChatGPT il più utile possibile. Non vediamo l’ora di condividere i nostri progressi nei prossimi 120 giorni.”

In un contesto sempre più delicato, queste novità arrivano anche a seguito di procedimenti legali intentati da privati contro le aziende tecnologiche, accusate di non aver protetto adeguatamente i minori dall’impatto dei loro prodotti. In diversi casi, le famiglie hanno sostenuto che l’assenza di controlli adeguati e di sistemi di tutela abbia contribuito a gravi conseguenze psicologiche, fino al suicidio dei loro figli.

Negli Stati Uniti, ad esempio, la famiglia di una ragazza della California ha denunciato OenAI per aver incentivato il suicidio del figlio Adam Reid. Queste vicende hanno acceso il dibattito pubblico e rafforzato la pressione sulle aziende tecnologiche, spinte ad adottare strumenti concreti di prevenzione.

Le nuove funzionalità di parental control annunciate da OpenAI si inseriscono in questa cornice: un tentativo di coniugare innovazione e responsabilità sociale, cercando di prevenire altri casi drammatici e di ristabilire la fiducia delle famiglie nei confronti delle tecnologie basate sull’intelligenza artificiale.

L'articolo OpenAI mette i genitori al comando: arriva il parental control su ChatGPT proviene da il blog della sicurezza informatica.




Abstimmungskampf Referendum E-ID


Mit dem Versand der Abstimmungsunterlagen beginnt für die Piratenpartei Schweiz (PPS) und zahlreiche Unterstützer:innen die heisse Phase der Kampagne gegen das neue E-ID-Gesetz. Die Piraten als Referendumsführer und kritische Stimme der ersten Stunde sind froh, dass am 28. September 2025 die Stimmbevölkerung über eine Vorlage entscheiden darf, die weitreichende Folgen für Datenschutz, Privatsphäre und digitale Selbstbestimmung hätte.

Bereits bei der Ausstellung werden sensible biometrische Daten wie Gesichtsvideos erhoben und bis zu 15 Jahren gespeichert. Unternehmen können bei jeder Nutzung der E-ID zahlreiche persönliche und staatlich verifiziert Informationen anfordern. Dass diese Daten nicht ausgewertet und „veredelt“ werden dürfen ist nicht verboten – sie werden so auch zu einem heiss begehrten Ziel für Hacking.

Stefan Sergi, Präsident Piratenpartei Aargau: „Kein IT-System ist abschliessend sicher, es ist nur eine Frage der Zeit, bis massenhaft gestohlene Identitäten im Umlauf sind.“

Melanie Hartmann, Vorstandsmitglied Piratenpartei Schweiz: „Wer Privatsphäre ernst nimmt, sagt Nein zu dieser E-ID

Die E-ID ist nur theoretisch freiwillig. Gesetze und aktuelle Vorstösse verlangen die Identifikation beim Medienkonsum, auf Social Media, für Kommentare auf Newsseiten, Tickets für Sportanlässe etc. Für den Widerruf bei der Organspende ist die E-ID bereits fix eingeplant und für Tickets bei OeV und Events ist der Ausweiszwang heute der Quasi-Standard. Das führt zur digitalen Ausweispflicht im Alltag und öffnet alle Pforten für Profiling, Social-Scoring und die tägliche Überwachung, Analyse und Bewertung unseres digitalen Verhaltens – auch durch Firmen und Plattformen wie TikTok oder Disney+ oder Steam. Die andauernde Identifikation wird damit zur neuen Normalität.

Ivan Buechi, Präsident Piratenpartei Ostschweiz: „Wir laufen nicht durch die Bahnhofstrasse mit unserem Namen über dem Kopf und weisen uns im Laden oder Kino laufend aus. Aber genau das wird mit der E-ID geschehen.“

Pascal Fouquet, Vizepräsident Piratenpartei Kanton Bern: „Gute Digitalisierung braucht keine Überwachung. Auch mit dieser Vorlage wurde eine grosse Chance für gute Digitalisierung verpasst.

Die E-ID wird von Bund und Wirtschaft als Fortschritt verkauft – doch sie bringt kaum Mehrwert für die Bevölkerung. Für digitale Behördengänge existieren bereits heute sichere, staatliche und datensparsame Lösungen wie AGOV.

Jorgo Ananiadis, Präsident der Piratenpartei Schweiz: „Die E-ID wird als Fortschritt gepriesen – doch sie löst keines der grundlegenden Probleme der Schweizer Digitalpolitik: Die Strategielosigkeit und mangelnde Digitalkompetenz bleiben bestehen und statt Lösungen bringt uns dieses E-ID-Gesetz neue Risiken – ohne spürbaren Nutzen für die Bevölkerung.“

Die Piratenpartei fordert ein E-ID-Gesetz, das folgende Kriterien erfüllt:
– Echte Freiwilligkeit – statt diskriminierendem Zwang
– Datensparsamkeit – statt noch mehr Datensammlung
– Digitale Selbstbestimmung – statt kollektive Gefährdung
– Eine vertrauenswürdige E-ID für uns – nicht für Konzerne oder einen Fichenstaat

Entsprechende Vorgaben müssen gesetzlich verankert sein, damit sich Verwaltung und Bundesrat nicht mehr über Verordnungen und Ausführungsbestimmungen hinwegsetzen können, so wie das aktuell beispielsweise beim BÜPF geschieht.

Die Piratenpartei Schweiz ruft deshalb alle Stimmberechtigten auf, sich zu informieren und am 28. September ein deutliches Zeichen für digitale Freiheit zu setzen: Wer Privatsphäre, Sicherheit und echte Freiwilligkeit will, sagt Nein zur E-ID.
Weitere Informationen zur Kampagne: www.referendum-eid.ch


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The actual house that inspired the 1999 film, “The Blair Witch Project” located in Burkittsville, Maryland.
(Peter Ciccariello)
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#horror #blairwitchproject #film



israele è proprio una scheggia impazzita... da terminare.


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Qualcuno pensava di essere Totò che vende la Fontana di Trevi al turista americano...

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Agli Stati Uniti non sta bene che il ponte sullo Stretto rientri nelle spese militari - Il Post
https://www.ilpost.it/2025/09/03/stati-uniti-spese-militari-ponte-stretto-messin/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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Bastian’s Night #441 September, 4th


Every Thursday of the week, Bastian’s Night is broadcast from 21:30 CEST (new time).

Bastian’s Night is a live talk show in German with lots of music, a weekly round-up of news from around the world, and a glimpse into the host’s crazy week in the pirate movement.


If you want to read more about @BastianBB: –> This way


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Webinar precongressuale: disabilità e diritti


In occasione del XXII Congresso dell’Associazione Luca Coscioni per la libertà di ricerca scientifica APS, l’Associazione Luca Coscioni presenta il webinar

Riunione precongressuale: disabilità e diritti.

L’appuntamento precongressuale sul tema dei diritti delle persone con disabilità, prevederà gli interventi di Barbara Peres (Consigliera di Parità effettiva della città metropolitana di Milano), Alessandro Bardini (avvocato), Alessandro Gerardi (avvocato) e Irene Ghezzi (attivista e coordinatrice della cellula di Cremona); modera Rocco Berardo (responsabile iniziative disabilità).

L’appuntamento è per il 15 settembre 2025 alle ore 18, online sul canale ytb di Associazione Luca Coscioni APS.


L’evento sarò poi reso disponibile sul canale YouTube dell’Associazione Luca Coscioni all’interno della playlist “Eventi precongressuali 2025”.

L'articolo Webinar precongressuale: disabilità e diritti proviene da Associazione Luca Coscioni.



Artists&Clients, a website for connecting artists with gigs, is down after a group called LunaLock threatened to feed their data to AI datasets.#AI #hackers #artists


Hackers Threaten to Submit Artists' Data to AI Models If Art Site Doesn't Pay Up


An old school ransomware attack has a new twist: threatening to feed data to AI companies so it’ll be added to LLM datasets.

Artists&Clients is a website that connects independent artists with interested clients. Around August 30, a message appeared on Artists&Clients attributed to the ransomware group LunaLock. “We have breached the website Artists&Clients to steal and encrypt all its data,” the message on the site said, according to screenshots taken before the site went down on Tuesday. “If you are a user of this website, you are urged to contact the owners and insist that they pay our ransom. If this ransom is not paid, we will release all data publicly on this Tor site, including source code and personal data of users. Additionally, we will submit all artwork to AI companies to be added to training datasets.”

LunaLock promised to delete the stolen data and allow users to decrypt their files if the site’s owner paid a $50,000 ransom. “Payment is accepted in either Bitcoin or Monero,” the notice put on the site by the hackers said. The ransom note included a countdown timer that gave the site’s owners several days to cough up the cash. “If you do not pay, all files will be leaked, including personal user data. This may cause you to be subject to fines and penalties under the GDPR and other laws.”

Most of LunaLock’s threat is standard language for a ransomware attack. What’s new is the explicit threat to give the site’s data—which includes the unique artwork and information of its users—to AI companies. “This is the first time I see a threat actor use training AI models as part of their extortion tactic,” Tammy Harper, a senior threat intelligence researcher at the cyber security company Flare, told 404 Media. “Before this it was kind of an assumption that victim data could end up being shared through AI models. Especially if the groups use it to find leverage and process the data to calculate ransom amounts.”

Harper said that this kind of threat could be effective against artists. “It’s a very sensitive subject for this type of victim (an art marketplace.) LunaLock is definitely using and hoping for the clients and artists of the victim to pressure them into paying the ransom.”
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It’s unclear how LunaLock would get the artistic data to AI companiesOf course, it might be as simple as setting up an independent website full of the data on the open web and waiting for one of the LLMs crawlers to come and devour the information. Or just starting a chat with the companies’ respective chatbots and uploading the images, depending on each company’s policy on how they train their AIs based on user uploads.

As of this writing, Artists&Clients is down and attempts to reach it trigger a Cloudflare error. But users and cyber security accounts are sharing screenshots of the ransomware note on social media. Google also indexed the ransom note and as of writing, it appears in the description of the site when you look it up in the search engine.

Artists&Clients did not respond to 404 Media’s request for a comment.




Webinar precongressuale: “Salute mentale, ben oltre la psichiatria”


In occasione del XXII Congresso dell’Associazione Luca Coscioni per la libertà di ricerca scientifica APS, l’Associazione Luca Coscioni presenta il webinar

Salute mentale: ben oltre la psichiatria.

L’appuntamento precongressuale ha come obiettivo quello di porre le basi per una proposta dell’Associazione Luca Coscioni sul tema della salute mentale, e prevederà gli interventi di Claudia Moretti (avvocata e Consigliera Generale ALC), Fabrizio Starace (Direttore della struttura complessa psichiatria dell’ASL TO5 e Consigliere Generale ALC), Piero Cipriano (Psichiatra e psicoterapeuta) ; modera Diego Silvestri (psichiatra e Consigliere Generale ALC).

L’appuntamento è per il 17 settembre 2025 alle ore 18, online sul canale ytb di Associazione Luca Coscioni APS.


L’evento sarò poi reso disponibile sul canale YouTube dell’Associazione Luca Coscioni all’interno della playlist “Eventi precongressuali 2025”.

L'articolo Webinar precongressuale: “Salute mentale, ben oltre la psichiatria” proviene da Associazione Luca Coscioni.



Evento precongressuale a Roma: “PMA per tutte: il diritto alla procreazione medicalmente assistita (PMA)”


In occasione del XXII Congresso dell’Associazione Luca Coscioni per la libertà di ricerca scientifica, l’Associazione Luca Coscioni presenta l’evento

PMA per tutte: il diritto alla procreazione medicalmente assistita (PMA) per donne single e coppie di donne.

PROGRAMMA

Saluti istituzionali:
Mariolina Castellone, vice presidente del Senato
Modera: Senio Bonini, vice direttore TG1

Intervengono:
Alessandra Maiorino, senatrice M5S
Filomena Gallo, Segretaria nazionale dell’Associazione Luca Coscioni per la libertà di ricerca scientifica APS
Francesca Re, coordinatrice della campagna PMA per tutte e consigliera generale dell’associazione Luca Coscioni per la libertà di ricerca scientifica

Con le testimonianze di:
Barbara Zoina,
Veronica Biancardi,
Maria Giulia D’amico
Fabrizia Caradonna
Valeria Manieri

L’appuntamento è per il 18 settembre 2025, presso laSala “Caduti di Nassiriya”, Palazzo Madama, Piazza Madama, a Roma. L’evento è accessibile su prenotazione fino ad esaurimento posti, inviando una mail a info@associazionelucacoscioni entro il 12 settembre e per gli uomini con obbligo di giacca e cravatta.


L’evento sarà registrato e poi reso disponibile sul canale YouTube dell’Associazione Luca Coscioni all’interno della playlist “Eventi precongressuali 2025”.

L'articolo Evento precongressuale a Roma: “PMA per tutte: il diritto alla procreazione medicalmente assistita (PMA)” proviene da Associazione Luca Coscioni.



Michigan just became the 48th state to enact a law addressing deepfakes, imposing jail time and penalties up to the felony level for people who make AI-generated nonconsensual abuse imagery of a real person.#Deepfakes


Almost Every State Has Its Own Deepfakes Law Now


It’s now illegal in Michigan to make AI-generated sexual imagery of someone without their written consent. Michigan joins 47 other states in the U.S. that have enacted their own deepfake laws.

Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer signed the bipartisan-sponsored House Bills 4047 and its companion bill 4048 on August 26. In a press release, Whitmer specifically called out the sexual uses for deepfakes. “These videos can ruin someone’s reputation, career, and personal life. As such, these bills prohibit the creation of deep fakes that depict individuals in sexual situations and creates sentencing guidelines for the crime,” the press release states. That’s something we’ve seen time and time again with victims of deepfake harassment, who’ve told us over the course of the six years since consumer-level deepfakes first hit the internet that the most popular application of this technology has been carelessness and vindictiveness against the women its users target—and that sexual harassment using AI has always been its most popular use.

Making a deepfake of someone is now a misdemeanor in Michigan, punishable by imprisonment of up to one year and fines up to $3,000 if they “knew or reasonably should have known that the creation, distribution, dissemination, or reproduction of the deep fake would cause physical, emotional, reputational, or economic harm to an individual falsely depicted,” and if the deepfake depicts the target engaging in a sexual act and is identifiable “by a reasonable individual viewing or listening to the deep fake,” the law states.

‘I Want to Make You Immortal:’ How One Woman Confronted Her Deepfakes Harasser
“After discovering this content, I’m not going to lie… there are times it made me not want to be around any more either,” she said. “I literally felt buried.”
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This is all before the deepfake’s creator posts it online. It escalates to a felony if the person depicted suffers financial loss, the person making the deepfake intended to profit off of it, if that person maintains a website or app for the purposes of creating deepfakes or if they posted it to any website at all, if they intended to “harass, extort, threaten, or cause physical, emotional, reputational, or economic harm to the depicted individual,” or if they have a previous conviction.

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Have you been targeted by deepfake harassment, or have you made deepfakes of real people? Using a non-work device, you can message me securely on Signal at sam.404. Otherwise, send me an email at sam@404media.co.

The law specifically says that this isn’t to be construed to make platforms liable, but the person making the deepfakes. But we already have federal law in place that makes platforms liable: the Tools to Address Known Exploitation by Immobilizing Technological Deepfakes on Websites and Networks, or TAKE IT DOWN Act, introduced by Ted Cruz in June 2024 and signed into law in May this year, made platforms liable for not moderating deepfakes and imposes extremely short timelines for acting on AI-generated abuse imagery reports from users. That law’s drawn a lot of criticism from civil liberties and online speech activists for being too overbroad; As the Verge pointed out before it became law, because the Trump administration’s FTC is in charge of enforcing it, it could easily become a weapon against all sorts of speech, including constitutionally-protected free speech.

"Platforms that feel confident that they are unlikely to be targeted by the FTC (for example, platforms that are closely aligned with the current administration) may feel emboldened to simply ignore reports of NCII,” the Cyber Civil Rights Initiative told the Verge in April. “Platforms attempting to identify authentic complaints may encounter a sea of false reports that could overwhelm their efforts and jeopardize their ability to operate at all."

A Deepfake Nightmare: Stalker Allegedly Made Sexual AI Images of Ex-Girlfriends and Their Families
An Ohio man is accused of making violent, graphic deepfakes of women with their fathers, and of their children. Device searches revealed he searched for “undress” apps and “ai porn.”
404 MediaSamantha Cole


“If you do not have perfect technology to identify whatever it is we're calling a deepfake, you are going to get a lot of guessing being done by the social media companies, and you're going to get disproportionate amounts of censorship,” especially for marginalized groups, Kate Ruane, an attorney and director of the Center for Democracy and Technology’s Free Expression Project, told me in June 2024. “For a social media company, it is not rational for them to open themselves up to that risk, right? It's simply not. And so my concern is that any video with any amount of editing, which is like every single TikTok video, is then banned for distribution on those social media sites.”

On top of the TAKE IT DOWN Act, at the state level, deepfakes laws are either pending or enacted in every state except New Mexico and Missouri. In some states, like Wisconsin, the law only protects minors from deepfakes by expanding child sexual abuse imagery laws.

Even as deepfakes legislation seems to finally catch up to the notion that AI-generated sexual abuse imagery is abusive, reporting this kind of harassment to authorities or pursing civil action against one’s own abuser is still difficult, expensive, and re-traumatizing in most cases.
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Evento precongressuale a Genova: “Coltiviamo un futuro più etico: scienza e politica dietro la carne coltivata”


In occasione del XXII Congresso dell’Associazione Luca Coscioni per la libertà di ricerca scientifica, l’Associazione Luca Coscioni presenta l’evento

Coltiviamo un futuro più etico: scienza e politica dietro la carne coltivata

Appuntamento precongressuale sul tema della Carne Coltivata, co-organizzato con la Cellula Coscioni di Genova ed Eumans. Ne discuteranno:

Bruna Anzà – Relatrice scientifica – Dottoranda in Ingegneria Chimica, Politecnico di Torino
Luca Lo Sapio – Esperto di bioetica e sostenibilità ambientale: Luca Lo Sapio – Professore Associato di Filosofia Morale, Università di Torino
Vitalba Azzolini – Esperta di legislazione e diritto alimentare, Giurista ed editorialista del quotidiano Domani
Stefano Lattanzi – Imprenditore del settore, CEO di Bruno Cell S.r.l., prima startup di carne coltivata in Italia
Marco Cappato – Promotore di politiche per la libertà di ricerca e la partecipazione civica

Modera l’incontro Andrea Andolfi – Ricercatore postdoc presso l’Università degli Studi di Genova e rappresentante in Consiglio della cellula di Genova dell’Associazione Luca Coscioni

L’appuntamento è per il 24 settembre 2025 alle ore 17.00, presso la Sala Conferenze 322, Università degli Studi di Genova, via Dodecaneso 35, a Genova.

L’evento, ad accesso libero, sarà registrato e poi reso disponibile sullo canale YouTube dell’Associazione Luca Coscioni all’interno della playlist “Eventi precongressuali 2025”.

L'articolo Evento precongressuale a Genova: “Coltiviamo un futuro più etico: scienza e politica dietro la carne coltivata” proviene da Associazione Luca Coscioni.



Evento precongressuale a Brescia: “DATti voce! Testamento biologico: scegliere oggi può cambiare il domani”


In occasione del XXII Congresso dell’Associazione Luca Coscioni per la libertà di ricerca scientifica, la Cellula Coscioni di Brescia presenta l’evento

DATti voce! Testamento biologico: scegliere oggi può cambiare il domani.

L’appuntamento precongressuale sul tema del testamento biologico, è co-organizzato con il Festival del Rinascimento Culturale e l’associazione Luca Coscioni e prevederà gli interventi di Marzio Remus (avvocato e coordinatore della cellula), Elisabetta Dal Gal (coordinatrice della cellula), Luca Paladini (Consigliere Regione Lombardia), Francesco Tomasini (avvocato e consigliere del comune di Brescia) e Marco Cappato (Tesoriere ALC).

L’appuntamento è per il 13 settembre 2025, alle ore 10.30 la Cascina Parco Gallo, via Corfù 100, Brescia. L’ingresso è gratuito ed è fortemente consigliata la prenotazione a questo link eventibrite.


L’evento, sarà registrato e poi reso disponibile sul canale YouTube dell’Associazione Luca Coscioni all’interno della playlist “Eventi precongressuali 2025”.

L'articolo Evento precongressuale a Brescia: “DATti voce! Testamento biologico: scegliere oggi può cambiare il domani” proviene da Associazione Luca Coscioni.










Ecco come Fincantieri ammodernerà la flotta polacca

@Notizie dall'Italia e dal mondo

In un contesto in cui i Paesi della Nato rafforzano le proprie capacità militari, Fincantieri amplia i suoi impegni internazionali, tra progetti già avviati, navi ibride per il settore energetico offshore e sottomarini per partner strategici. Il programma Constellation, già avviato da tempo con la Marina



L’Europa arma la sua difesa. Piano Safe al completo e bilanci militari ai massimi storici

@Notizie dall'Italia e dal mondo

Il piano Security action for europe (Safe) dell’Unione europea ha raggiunto il suo primo obiettivo: i 150 miliardi di euro in prestiti messi a disposizione per sostenere la produzione militare e la capacità industriale europea sono stati



La cravatta di Trump si stringe al collo dell’Africa


@Giornalismo e disordine informativo
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È nota l’idiosincrasia che i presidenti statunitensi (in particolare repubblicani) nutrono verso la geografia. George Bush jr. ci ha donato preziose perle ma Donald Trump sta facendo di meglio amalgamando sapientemente



Tokyo mette sul piatto 60 miliardi per la Difesa. Caccia e satelliti tra le priorità

@Notizie dall'Italia e dal mondo

Il governo giapponese ha presentato per il 2026 una richiesta di bilancio per la Difesa da 8,8 trilioni di yen, corrispondenti a circa 60 miliardi di dollari. Una cifra record per il Paese del Sol Levante, che conferma la traiettoria intrapresa negli ultimi anni che punta a rafforzare