Droni, nuova allerta in Danimarca e Svezia. Mosca: “Se abbattete i nostri jet, sarà guerra”
[quote]COPENAGHEN – Cresce la tensione nei rapporti tra i Paesi Nato e la Russia. I caccia di Mosca avrebbero sorvolato i confini di Alaska e Lettonia, mentre la Danimarca ha…
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Antitrust, maxi multa per sei società petrolifere. Facevano cartello sui prezzi carburanti
[quote]Sanzione per oltre 936 milioni di euro a sei compagnie petrolifere che operano in Italia
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Usa, incriminato l’ex capo dell’Fbi James Comey: indagò sul Russiagate
NEW YORK – L’ex capo dell’Fbi James Comey è stato incriminato dal gran giurì. Lo riporta la Cnn, citando alcune fonti rimaste anonime. L’uomo, nemico giurato del presidente degli Stati…
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Svolta su Garlasco, indagato per corruzione l’ex procuratore che scagionò Sempio
La procura di Brescia ha iscritto nel registro degli indagati l’ex procuratore aggiunto di Pavia, Mario Venditti, con l’accusa di corruzione in atti giudiziari
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Hong Kong vuole migliorare i suoi minuscoli appartamenti
Una nuova legge impone che siano grandi almeno 8 metri quadrati, con un bagno chiuso e una finestra: ma non si applica a tutti i casiIl Post
Onu, il giorno di Netanyahu: il suo discorso trasmesso a Gaza. Il piano Trump: Blair guiderà la Striscia
[quote]NEW YORK – È il giorno di Netanyahu a New York: dalle 15 di oggi, 26 settembre, il premier israeliano parlerà di fronte all’Assemblea Generale delle Nazioni Unite. Secondo l’emittente…
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saranno felici i russi...
comunque è una notizia da prendere un po' con le pinze, ma il problema è che il clima non è un sistema lineare, e quindi per quel che sappiamo può tranquillamente succedere. l'unica cosa certe è che in un modo o nell'altro andrà male al genere umano. siamo oramai fragili e vulnerabili a qualsiasi genere di cambiamento. forse incapaci di evolvere e cambiare. e nessuno tiene mai conto della necessità di politiche a lungo termine. l'orizzonte politico massimo è 5 anni e le prossime elezioni. e ovviamente la soluzione non sarebbe fare elezioni meno spesso... sia chiaro. manca coscienza e consapevolezza a tutti i livelli.
Riscaldamento globale, studio scientifico ribalta tutto: in arrivo una glaciazione
La ricerca dell'Università della California a Riverside, pubblicata su Science, ipotizza un meccanismo naturale che nel lunghissimo periodo potrebbe spingere la Terra in una nuova era glacialeTgcom24
Steamboat Willie Still Tests Copyright
If you know anything about Mickey Mouse, you’ll be able to tell us that his first outing was in 1928’s Steamboat Willie — an animated short that sees our hero as the hapless pilot of a riverboat battling an assortment of animals and his captain. It entered the public domain last year, meaning that it and the 1928 incarnation of Mickey are now free of any copyright obligation to the media giant.
There’s an interesting development from Florida on that front though as it seems Disney may have been testing this through legal means, and now a law firm wants to see them in court over their proposed use of the film in an advert.
Of course here at Hackaday we don’t cover the dry subject of Florida legal news as a rule, but we are interested in the world of copyright as it applies to many other things that do come under our eye. As we understand it the law firm is requesting the judge assert their protection from trademark claims over the use of Disney’s 1928 Willie, given that there have been claims from the entertainment giant against others doing the same thing.
It’s hardly surprising that a large corporation might seek to use legal muscle and trademark law to de facto extend the term of Mickey’s protection beyond the defined copyright expiration date, so for once it’s refreshing to see them come up against someone unafraid of a courtroom.
We hope that common sense will prevail, and this undermining of a cherished right (not to mention prior case law) is not allowed to succeed. Meanwhile if you’d like a 1928 Mickey that Disney have shied away from coming after, look no further than the EFF.
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Moldavia, democrazia a senso unico
Le elezioni parlamentari di domenica prossima in Moldavia e l’autentico terrore dell’Europa per la possibile sconfitta del partito di governo, che ne proietta gli interessi nel paese ex sovietico, hanno fatto scattare un vero e proprio tsunami di dis…www.altrenotizie.org
Così le pensioni ci divorano il bilancio e il futuro
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L’Italia è un Paese di anziani. La demografia parla chiaro: un italiano su quattro ha più di 65 anni, ossia è in età pensionabile. È la percentuale più alta nell’UE, con l’ISTAT che ne stima l’ulteriore crescita nel prossimo decennio. Saranno 6,1 milioni i nuovi pensionati entro il 2035: un’uscita in
I servizi segreti USA smantellano server con 100.000 SIM. Ma era davvero un piano terroristico?
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Il network è stato individuato in diverse sedi vicino al centro di New York nei giorni in cui la città statunitense ospitava gli incontri delle Nazioni Unite. Ecco cosa sappiamo
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"Israele occupa la Cisgiordania da decenni, sia militarmente sia tramite la creazione di colonie riconosciute come illegali da gran parte della comunità internazionale. I coloni israeliani compiono quotidianamente abusi e violenze contro gli abitanti palestinesi."
poiché questo è un dato acquisito esattamente, in che modo si parla di guerra iniziata dai Hamas contro israele?
Trump dice che l’annessione della Cisgiordania da parte di Israele «non succederà»
L'hanno minacciata alcuni politici estremisti israeliani, dopo che molti paesi occidentali hanno riconosciuto la PalestinaIl Post
Bundesamt für Migration und Flüchtlinge: Asylbehörde liest kaum noch Datenträger aus
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In libreria dal 3 Ottobre 2025 Considerata all’avanguardia per i diritti delle donne e delle minoranze di genere e sessuali nel mondo arabo, la Tunisia ha una storia di attivismo ancora poco esplorata, fatta di conquiste e battute
Arrestati due ragazzi olandesi sospettati di spionaggio con legami alla Russia
La polizia olandese ha fermato due ragazzi di 17 anni sospettati di attività di spionaggio, con possibili collegamenti alla Russia, secondo quanto riportato venerdì dal quotidiano Telegraaf.
Il padre di uno dei giovani ha dichiarato che il figlio sarebbe stato reclutato tramite Telegram da un hacker filo-russo. Ad agosto, il ragazzo si sarebbe recato davanti agli uffici di Europol, Eurojust e all’ambasciata canadese all’Aia trasportando un cosiddetto “wifi sniffer”, uno strumento in grado di individuare reti wireless vicine e intercettarne i dati.
Il pubblico ministero non ha fornito commenti ufficiali sul caso, citando la giovane età dei sospettati. È stato tuttavia confermato che uno dei due resterà in custodia per ulteriori due settimane, mentre l’altro è stato posto agli arresti domiciliari con obbligo di braccialetto elettronico.
Secondo il genitore del principale sospettato, lunedì pomeriggio otto uomini con passamontagna hanno fatto irruzione nella loro abitazione con un mandato di perquisizione. Gli agenti hanno raggiunto direttamente la stanza dove il ragazzo stava facendo i compiti, portandolo via senza ulteriori spiegazioni, limitandosi a parlare di “spionaggio” e “servizi a un paese straniero”.
Il padre ha descritto il figlio come una persona riservata, appassionata di videogiochi e con ottime competenze informatiche, che lavora part-time in un supermercato e non manifesta interesse per esperienze all’esterno. Gli arresti sono stati effettuati a seguito di informazioni fornite dai servizi di intelligence olandesi (AIVD).
Sebbene casi simili non siano mai stati resi pubblici nei Paesi Bassi, in Germania il governo ha già avviato campagne di sensibilizzazione rivolte ai giovani per prevenire il loro coinvolgimento in attività di spionaggio come “agenti usa e getta”.
L'articolo Arrestati due ragazzi olandesi sospettati di spionaggio con legami alla Russia proviene da il blog della sicurezza informatica.
TikTok, perché l’accordo tra Oracle e ByteDance Us non piace a tutti
L'articolo proviene da #StartMag e viene ricondiviso sulla comunità Lemmy @Informatica (Italy e non Italy 😁)
Oracle, Silver Lake e il fondo emiratino Mgx controlleranno il 45 per cento di TikTok, mentre il proprietario cinese ByteDance verrà ridotto a meno 20 per cento. Si chiude - forse - un grosso caso politico, ma
A Ham-Adjacent Portable Radio Repeater
Although ham radio offers a wide array of bands to transmit on, not to mention plenty of modes to communicate with, not everyone wants or needs to use all of this capability. For those needing simple two-way communication services like FRS or GMRS are available (in North America) with much less stringent licensing requirements, and GMRS even allows repeaters to be used to extend their range beyond the typical mile or so. [Dave] aka [N8DAV] has built an off-grid simplex repeater that can travel around with him wherever he goes.
The repeater itself is based on a pre-built simplex repeater module, which means that it has to record an incoming signal and then play it back on the same frequency. Compared to a split frequency repeater which uses different frequencies for transmit and receive this can be a bit cumbersome but simplifies the design and the use. A Baofeng UV-5R is used to perform the actual radio duties paired to a 40 watt amplifier to extend the range as much as possible. It’s all packed into a Pelican-like case and set up with a large battery that could power it for a number of days, making it useful for camping, rescue, or other off-grid activities.
For those wondering why [Dave] is using his ham call sign instead of his GMRS one, all of the equipment in this build will work in either the UHF ham bands or the channels reserved for GMRS with minor adjustments, so it’s perfectly possible to use the setup for one’s preferred license. And, for those in other parts of the world without GMRS there’s a similar class of radio called UHF CB which might be able to support similar builds, but be sure to check your local jurisdiction’s laws before hooking something like this up. For an even longer-range radio repeater using similar equipment we’d recommend looking to the skies.
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Thanks to [Red] for the tip!
Un attacco informatico ucraino paralizza il sistema di pagamento russo SBP
Gli specialisti informatici dell’intelligence di difesa dell’Ucraina hanno portato a termine con successo un attacco che ha paralizzato il sistema di pagamento nazionale russo SBP. Fonti della DIU hanno condiviso la notizia con Militarnyi. Secondo loro, l’attacco era mirato alle infrastrutture utilizzate per finanziare le organizzazioni che sostengono l’aggressione contro l’Ucraina.
A seguito di un attacco DDOS su larga scala al sistema SBP e al provider TransTeleCom, un numero significativo di russi ha perso la possibilità di effettuare trasferimenti istantanei e pagare gli acquisti online. Gli abitanti di Ekaterinburg si sono lamentati in massa sui social media per le interruzioni del servizio, poiché le persone non erano in grado di pagare i mezzi di trasporto o di fare rifornimento alle stazioni di servizio.
L’attacco informatico ha causato anche interruzioni nell’accesso a Internet e alla televisione interattiva. Centinaia di migliaia di abbonati di provider locali in diverse regioni della Federazione Russa sono rimasti senza comunicazione. Secondo l’intelligence ucraina, le conseguenze dell’attacco hanno avuto un impatto significativo sull’economia russa.
“Le perdite economiche stimate a seguito dell’attacco DDOS al sistema di pagamento SBP ammontano fino a 30 milioni di dollari”, ha sottolineato la DIU.
Sui social network di Ekaterinburg sono comparse numerose lamentele riguardo all’impossibilità di pagare online i trasporti pubblici o i pagamenti alle stazioni di servizio.
L'articolo Un attacco informatico ucraino paralizza il sistema di pagamento russo SBP proviene da il blog della sicurezza informatica.
PODCAST. Flotilla Sumud: “No al piano del governo Meloni, la missione per Gaza va avanti”
@Notizie dall'Italia e dal mondo
La portavoce Maria Elena Delia: "La proposta del governo italiano non apre un corridoio umanitario permanente per Gaza, è solo una iniziativa estemporanea con il fine di fermare la GSF".
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Campagna occhi aperti sulla Cisgiordania. I predatori di terre e acqua/ Il reportage
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In esclusiva per Articolo21 la prima puntata del reportage di Sandra Cecchi, giornalista Rai, ex Tg2 appena rientrata dai
Bloccare chatcontrol: ecco perché scansionare tutti i nostri messaggi privati è una pessima idea - Martedì 30/9 il webinar in inglese
Scansionare tutti i messaggi, le foto e i file senza consenso o anche solo sospetto rappresenta una grave violazione del nostro diritto alla privacy e un'enorme minaccia per la sicurezza. Ciononostante, i legislatori europei stanno ancora portando avanti la cosiddetta legislazione su chatcontrol. Con il pretesto che proteggerebbe i bambini dagli abusi online, tutti i controlli e gli equilibri per la tutela della nostra privacy vengono smantellati. E gli scienziati hanno già concluso che chatcontrol non funzionerà.
È tempo di unirci e porre fine a chatcontrol. In un'epoca in cui regimi autocratici in tutto il mondo minacciano la nostra libertà di comunicare, dobbiamo aumentare la tutela della privacy, non abbassare la guardia.
Martedì 30 settembre 18.30 CEST - Presentato dall'eurodeputata Pirata Markéta Gregorová (Verdi/ALE)
Esperti ospiti:
Carmela Troncoso – del Laboratorio di Ingegneria della Sicurezza e della Privacy (SPRING), un gruppo di ricerca presso l'EPFL – École Polytechnique Fédérale di Losanna in Svizzera.
Joachim – Rappresentante dell'iniziativa Fight Chat Control ; offrirà il punto di vista dei cittadini su come la pressione pubblica influenza il dibattito.
Udbhav Tiwari - Vicepresidente, Strategia e Affari Globali, Signal
Asha Allen - Direttore del Centro per la Democrazia e la Tecnologia (CDT) Europa
Stop Chat Control: Why scanning all our private messages is a very bad idea
🔴 Webinar - Tue 30 Sep 18.30h CESTact.greens-efa.eu
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PODCAST. All’Onu la via alternativa della Cina a Trump
@Notizie dall'Italia e dal mondo
Pechino si candida a guidare il sud del mondo e propone le sue iniziative globali. La Cina promette di ridurre le emissioni di gas serra mentre Trump nega la crisi climatica
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noyb WIN: L'autorità austriaca vieta il credit scoring illegale di KSV1870 noyb ha ottenuto una vittoria nel suo procedimento di reclamo contro l'agenzia austriaca di informazioni creditizie KSV1870 e il fornitore di energia Unsere Wasserkraft mickey26 September 2025
Despite walk back, Pentagon access policy is unconstitutional nonsense
The Pentagon faced bipartisan backlash for its ridiculous policy requiring journalists to agree not to obtain or report “unauthorized” information. Now, in a response to an inquiry from the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, officials are trying to walk it back.
They claim the rules were intended to restrict Pentagon staffers from giving unauthorized information to journalists, not to restrict journalists from printing “unsolicited” tips they’re given. We’re not buying it. We commend RCFP for getting the Pentagon to elaborate on the policy — but, despite lots of legalese and doublespeak, its clarifications are mostly meaningless.
As an initial matter, a policy solely aimed at government employees would not need to be distributed to or acknowledged by journalists. To the extent that the government is permitted to keep information secret, the Supreme Court says that’s the government’s responsibility — officials aren’t entitled to shift the burden to reporters to keep their secrets for them. Even crediting the Pentagon’s explanation, the memo was clearly intended to do exactly that. It sends a message to the press, and that message is “tread carefully.”
Nor can the government restrict the press to publishing unsolicited tips. News doesn’t fall from the sky into reporters’ laps. Reporters are entitled to ask questions, cultivate sources, and seek out news (otherwise known as reporting), as long as they don’t break the law in doing so. That’s the job description — they’re journalists, not stenographers.
Journalists should not agree to this ridiculous policy in exchange for … what, exactly? The honor of being lied to at news conferences?
The Pentagon’s position seems to draw from the Supreme Court case Bartnicki v. Vopper, which held that journalists can obtain information given to them by sources that obtained it illegally as long as the journalists didn’t themselves participate in the illegality. By soliciting information from sources, the Pentagon’s reasoning apparently goes, journalists participate in the sources’ violations of Pentagon policy.
But nothing in Bartnicki limits constitutional protection to unsolicited information — the only exception it acknowledges is when journalists participate in a source’s illegal acts (in that case, an unlawful wiretap). There is no analogous underlying illegality here.
The whole purpose of the First Amendment is so that the government can’t stop journalists from publishing what the government does not want published. We wouldn’t need a constitutional right to publish what the government authorizes to be released — the government would have no reason to try to prevent that.
That’s the fundamental point that seems entirely lost on this administration. The press exists to hold it accountable, not to keep its secrets or do its bidding.
The other point Pentagon officials are missing – as their response to RCFP makes clear — is that they’re not entitled to scream “national security” like magic words when they want the First Amendment to disappear. The response, disturbingly, reserves the right for the administration to unilaterally deem reporting a national security danger after the fact and punish reporters for it.
But as the Pentagon Papers case made extremely clear, that’s not how it works: “The word ‘security’ is a broad, vague generality whose contours should not be invoked to abrogate the fundamental law embodied in the First Amendment.” And that was a case involving a specific set of documents alleged to pose a threat — not a vague reservation of rights to declare hypothetical documents a threat.
And this administration is guaranteed not to invoke “national security” responsibly. It has claimed the right to deport journalists, activists, and op-ed writers who disagree with, or merely report or comment on its policies. The president has said that when officials want a journalist to give up sources, they can just “tell the reporter, ‘National security’.”
The Trump administration considers anything that threatens to harm its reputation or expose its lies a threat to national security. It considers the First Amendment and free press themselves threats to national security.
The Pentagon is essentially shifting its position from, “You can’t report anything we didn’t authorize you to report” to “You can’t report anything we didn’t authorize you to report unless we decide after the fact in our sole discretion that it’s OK.” That should not provide much comfort to journalists. They certainly should not agree to this ridiculous policy in exchange for … what, exactly? The honor of being lied to at news conferences?
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Direttiva anti-SLAPP: Parlamento recepisca la normativa nel provvedimento in esame alla Camera
@Giornalismo e disordine informativo
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Il presidente del Consiglio nazionale dell’Ordine dei giornalisti Carlo Bartoli è stato
50 anni dal “massacro” del Circeo. Latina non dimentica
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La fine di settembre 1975 e l’estate del 1976 rappresentano due date storiche che hanno segnato profondamente la storia del femminismo a Latina e la storia della nostra Associazione, oltre che mutare anche a
Una panchina per Mario Paciolla. 26 settembre, Imola
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Venerdì 26 settembre alle ore 17.00, nel Giardino “Europa Unita” nel quartiere Zolino, ingresso da via Gualandi, si terrà l’iniziativa “Una panchina per Mario”, un momento di memoria e riflessione per ricordare Mario
Rostagno, e quel pensiero vero di libertà
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“A cui’ apparteni chisto? A Trapani questo interrogativo è ricorrente, soprattutto quando davanti c’è chi mostra di poter avere un certo credito, una determinata presa, capace di attirare attenzione. Per forza deve avere un’appartenenza, una
Regulation works again - if you run Windows 10 in Europe, you will keep receiving extended security updates for free. No need to enable Windows Backup or jump through hoops. October 2025 isn't the end.theverge.com/news/785544/micro…
Microsoft forced to make Windows 10 extended security updates truly free in Europe
You won’t have to enable Windows Backup to get extended Windows 10 security updates in the European Economic Area.Tom Warren (The Verge)
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Con The Cure, Doja Cat, The xx, Gorillaz, Massive Attack, Addison Rae e My Bloody Valentine Mac DeMarco, Pinkpantheress, Skrillex, Peggy Gou, Lola Young, Father John Misty, Ethel Cain, Bad Gyal, Big Thief, Wet Leg, Little Simz, Slowdive, Kneecap, Alex G, Dijon e Blood Orange nella lista dei 150 nomi rivelati oggi. Una costellazione di artisti […]
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Hey Fifa! Parliamone. Eye on palestine
Eye On Palestine
Hey Fifa, why is Israel still participating in the World Cup while they starve Palestinian children? You said that you aren't political, and yet you banned Russia just 4 days after they invaded Ukraine.Telegram
Moderators reversed course on its open door AI policy after fans filled the subreddit with AI-generated Dale Cooper slop.#davidlynch #AISlop #News
Pissed-off Fans Flooded the Twin Peaks Reddit With AI Slop To Protest Its AI Policies
People on r/twinpeaks flooded the subreddit with AI slop images of FBI agent Dale Cooper and ChatGPT generated scripts after the community’s moderators opened the door to posting AI art. The tide of terrible Twin Peaks related slop lasted for about two days before the subreddit’s mods broke, reversed their decision, and deleted the AI generated content.Twin Peaks is a moody TV show that first aired in the 1990s and was followed by a third season in 2017. It’s the work of surrealist auteur David Lynch, influenced lots of TV shows and video games that came after and has a passionate fan base that still shares theories and art to this day. Lynch died earlier this year and since his passing he’s become a talking point for pro-AI art people who point to several interviews and second hand stories they claim show Lynch had embraced an AI-generated slop future.
On Tuesday, a mod posted a long announcement that opened the doors to AI on the sub. In a now deleted post titled “Ai Generated Content On r/twinpeaks,” the moderator outlined the position that the sub was a place for everyone to share memes, theories, and “anything remotely creative as long as it has a loose string to the show or its case or its themes. Ai generated content is included in all of this.”
The post went further. “We are aware of how Ai ‘art’ and Ai generated content can hurt real artists,” the post said. “Unfortunately, this is just the reality of the world we live in today. At this point I don’t think anything can stop the Ai train from coming, it’s here and this is only the beginning. Ai content is becoming harder and harder to identify.”
The mod then asked Redditors to follow an honor system and label any post that used AI with a special new flair so people could filter out those posts if they didn’t want to see them. “We feel this is a best of both worlds compromise that should keep everyone fairly happy,” the mod said.
An honor system, a flair, and a filter did not mollify the community. In the following 48 hours Lynch fans expressed their displeasure by showing r/twinpeaks what it looks like when no one can “stop the Ai train from coming.” They filled the subreddit with AI-generated slop in protest, including horrifying pictures of series protagonist Cooper doing an end-zone dance on a football field while Laura Palmer screamed in the sky and more than a few awful ChatGPT generated scripts.
Image via r/twinpeaks.
Free-IDK-Chicken, a former mod of r/twinpeaks who resigned over the AI debacle, said the post wasn’t run by other members of the mod team. “It was poorly worded. A bad take on a bad stance and it blew up in their face,” she told 404 Media. “It spiraled because it was condescending and basically told the community--we don’t care that it’s theft, that it’s unethical, we’ll just flair it so you can filter it out…they missed the point that AI art steals from legit artists and damages the environment.”According to Free-IDK-Chicken, the subreddit’s mods had been fighting over whether or not to ban AI art for months. “I tried five months ago to get AI banned and was outvoted. I tried again last month and was outvoted again,” she said.
On Thursday morning, with the subreddit buried in AI slop, the mods of r/twinpeaks relented, banned AI art, and cleaned up the protest spam. “After much thought and deliberation about the response to yesterday's events, the TP Mod Team has made the decision to reverse their previous statement on the posting of AI content in our community,” the mods said in a post announcing the new policy. “Going forward, posts including generative AI art or ChatGPT-style content are disallowed in this subreddit. This includes posting AI google search results as they frequently contain misinformation.”
Lynch has become a mascot for pro AI boosters. An image on a pro-AI art subreddit depicts Lynch wearing an OpenAI shirt and pointing at the viewer. “You can’t be punk and also be anti-AI, AI-phobic, or an AI denier. It’s impossible!” reads a sign next to the AI-generated picture of the director.
Image via r/slopcorecirclejerk
As evidence, they point to aBritish Film Institute interview published shortly before his death where he lauds AI and calls it “incredible as a tool for creativity and for machines to help creativity.” AI boosters often leave off the second part of the quote. “I’m sure with all these things, if money is the bottom line, there’d be a lot of sadness, and despair and horror. But I’m hoping better times are coming,” Lynch said.Image via r/slopcorecirclejerk
The other big piece of evidence people use to claim Lynch was pro-AI is a secondhand account given to Vulture by his neighbor, the actress Natasha Lyonne. According to the interview in Vulture, Lyonne asked Lynch for his thoughts on AI and Lynch picked up a pencil and told her that everyone has access to it and to a phone. “It’s how you use the pencil. You see?” He said.Setting aside the environmental and ethical arguments against AI-generated art, if AI is a “pencil,” most of what people make with it is unpleasant slop. Grotesque nonsense fills our social media feeds and AI-generated Jedis and Ghiblis have become the aesthetic of fascism.
We've seen other platforms and communities struggle with keeping AI art at bay when they've allowed it to exist alongside human-made content. On Facebook, Instagram, and Youtube, low-effort garbage is flooding online spaces and pushing productive human conversation to the margins, while floating to the top of engagement algorithms.
Other artist communities are pushing back against AI art in their own ways: Earlier this month, DragonCon organizers ejected a vendor for displaying AI-generated artwork. Artists’ portfolio platform ArtStation banned AI-generated content in 2022. And earlier this year, artists protested the first-ever AI art auction at Christie’s.
Artists Are Revolting Against AI Art on ArtStation
Artists are fed up with AI art on the portfolio platform, which is owned by Epic Games, but the company isn't backing down.Chloe Xiang (VICE)
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The tech the Secret Service claims can be used to "disable cell phone towers" is very commonly used by ticket scalpers to game Ticketmaster.#SIMFarm #SIMBank #Tickets #TicketScalping #Ticketmaster
The SIM Farm Hardware Seized by the Secret Service Is Also Popular With Ticket Scalpers
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Tuesday, the Secret Service said it “dismantled a network” of “300 co-located SIM servers and 100,000 SIM cards across multiple sites.” The Secret Service suggested that this network posed a threat to the United Nations General Assembly meeting, which was “within 35 miles” of the servers and which it said could have been used to “disable cell phone towers.” The story quickly went viral, with the New York Times and CNN’s reports being widely shared and discussed.
CNN reported that the SIM servers were used in swatting calls against members of Congress, and the New York Times quoted an expert who said that they believed the servers could be used for espionage. As security researcher Robert Graham points out in a post called “That Secret Service SIM farm story is bogus—it’s just normal crime,” the Secret Service has not yet released any actual evidence of what the SIM servers were used for and it is unclear how such a setup could be used for “espionage.” Graham notes that, based on photos released by the Secret Service and its description of the operations, claims that such a network could have only been created by a sophisticated nation state actor are particularly ridiculous: “I can pull this off, personally. It’s just a SIM farm. Sure, there’s some capital involved, on the order of $1 million, but it could be setup and managed by a single person. It likely wasn’t setup all at once with that much money, but has been slowly growing for years as profits are funneled back into setting up more SIM accounts,” he wrote.
The discovery of a bunch of SIM banks (also called SIM farms, SMS gateways, and several other things) anywhere is interesting from a spam / cybercrime perspective, and they give a type of cyberpunk visual that, frankly, is extremely my shit. But the breathless way this bust has been announced—with a special video announcement by Secret Service director Sean Curran and a clearly embargoed rollout with the New York Times and CNN, makes these SIM farms seem as though they are particularly special and high tech, when they clearly are not. The technology used, which can be seen clearly in photos released by the Secret Service, are regularly used by SMS scammers, spammers, and marketers, yes, but the tech is also extremely widely used by ticket scalpers seeking to create lots of Ticketmaster accounts with which to buy tickets. This is off-the-shelf technology that anyone can buy and use; if one had enough money, one could surely buy 300 of them from Ejointech, the Chinese company that makes them, and set something like this up.
I have been familiar with and meaning to write about SIM banks for a few months now, specifically because they have become popular with ticket scalpers. Like many “anti-scalping” and anti-fraud measures taken by Ticketmaster, relatively recent updates that require SMS verification to create a new Ticketmaster account and immediately before buying tickets hasn’t actually stopped scalping. Instead, it has created a new underground market for tools that make SMS authentication at bulk easier. By adding this barrier to entry, Ticketmaster has ensured that normal fans have one single attempt to buy tickets, while motivated ticket scalpers with specialized tech can have many attempts at buying tickets.This SMS verification system has created a new underground market for various technologies and software that lets scalpers game this SMS verification system. SIM boxes are such an important part of that new underground market that Ejointech now advertises one of its products—which looks very much like the models shown in the Secret Service’s images from the seized servers in New York—as specifically being good “for ticketing & bulk SMS.”
“Popular model: used by 5,000+ leading ticket brokers globally & trusted for thousands of large-scale SMS campaigns!,” Ejointech advertises on the $3,730 Ejoin 256 SIM 4G LTE SMS Gateway. On TikTok, it advertises a similar, 512 SIM card model as having “human behavior,” “cloud management,” and “auto SIM card switch.”
“Ticket brokers, streamline your Ticketmaster operations with EjoinTech! Our SMS gateway devices support up to 512 SIM cards, ensuring you never miss a verification code,” the company says. “Designed for efficiency with no unnecessary noise.”
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There is of course no evidence that the SIM boxes seized by the Secret Service this week were used by ticket scalpers, but there’s also no public evidence released by the Secret Service that suggests they were going to try to disrupt the UN General Council’s meeting. The point I’m making is that these devices and these types of farms have become somewhat common in recent years, and they are used not just to send messages in bulk but to receive them in bulk, too. They are used not just for crimes, but for various grey market and controversial, but not necessarily illegal, purposes too.“Proxies” and real SIM cards that can receive SMS messages have become critical to the ticket scalping industry. The way ticket scalping works now is that big time brokers will create many (hundreds or thousands) of unique Ticketmaster accounts, each associated with their own phone number. These are sometimes made using prepaid or low-cost wireless carriers like MobileX, whose SIM cards appeared in bulk in Secret Service materials.
Not every big time broker is going to want to roll their own SIM bank, so a series of companies have popped up that offer “proxies,” which just means that they are basically a company running and selling access to phone numbers, keeping them online, and forwarding SMS codes directly to the ticket broker buying them. These companies do not advertise what specific hardware they are using to do this, but SIM boxes could easily be used to do this, and the scale of farm that the Secret Service found is not particularly large considering these types of services exist. They go by names like “WiredSMS,” “TextChest,” “Quick-Text,” “SMSPass,” and “Jivetel,” among others. TextChest advertises “industry-leading physical SIM lines, trusted by thousands.” A company called Seat Heroes notes that it is “carrier compliant” and that “while others rely on risky, unauthorized setups, Seat Heroes runs on the first ever Tier 1 carrier-integrated infrastructure—no modems, no VOIP, just proprietary and exclusive access to genuine numbers—always on, 24/7” and “no SIM banks—just direct connections.”
In practice, ticket brokers connect their proxies—either bought from a third party or rolled by themselves—to other bespoke ticketing-buying software that helps them actually manage tons of Ticketmaster accounts and tons of phone numbers at once. There are a host of ticket broker-specific internet browsers that allow brokers to open hundreds or thousands of browser tabs, which each have a browsing session tied to either a specific SIM card or to an IP proxy which can also be bought from third-party services. This allows brokers to power through Ticketmaster’s “Virtual Waiting Rooms” because a broker can have hundreds or thousands of independent browser sessions waiting as separate “people.” The SIM box (or a SIM proxy service) can then be set up in these bespoke browsers to automatically forward and submit Ticketmaster’s SMS two-factor authentication, which is supposedly designed to prevent scalpers from getting tickets.At one point, Private Tabs, one of the bespoke browsers for ticket scalpers, was advertising a “SIMBOX HARDWARE ADD-ON,” which could “add 512 phone numbers for $3 per line.”
“These hardware devices allow you to add 512 phone numbers to your Private Tabs account,” an archived version of the Private Tabs website reads. “If you already have one, then you can just add it to the config or call us, and we’ll set it up for ya. This ensures that every account you load in has its dedicated number. Rather than paying $9 to $24 per phone number, you can purchase one of these devices and get a phone line for as little as $3 per number. Typically, they pay for themselves within 2 months since each device can hold 512 numbers. With this device you do not need ‘TextChest’ or ‘Private Tab Phones’ [a proxy service] as you can host your own numbers for half the cost.”
The Private Tabs web browser no longer advertises SIM boxes, and in a FAQ on its current website, it says says people using their own telecom hardware may run into problems: "There have been recent reports as of 9/5/2025 that some people using Chinese hardware is a problem. You may want to contact your phone company before trying to integrate it with the API to confirm it works ok."
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"We now not only know the person that bought the ticket, but we’re going to know those three people that you are taking to the show, which we have not known historically."Jason Koebler (404 Media)
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Pentagon press restrictions are an affront to the First Amendment
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The Washington Post reported today that officials plan to require Pentagon reporters to pledge not to gather or report any information that the government has not authorized for release, whether classified or unclassified. Violators risk having their press credentials revoked.
Freedom of the Press Foundation (FPF) Director of Advocacy Seth Stern issued the following statement:
“The Supreme Court has made clear for decades that journalists are entitled to lawfully obtain and publish government secrets. That is essentially the job description of an investigative journalist. The law is also clear that the government can’t require people to contract away a constitutional right, like the right to obtain and publish secrets, in exchange for a benefit, like access to government buildings or press credentials.“This policy operates as a prior restraint on publication, which is considered the most serious of First Amendment violations. As we learned in the Pentagon Papers case, the government cannot prohibit journalists from public information merely by claiming it’s a secret or even a national security threat. This is worse in a way, because the government isn’t only seeking to restrain specific documents it contends pose a unique threat, it’s seeking to restrain everything it doesn’t want the public to know. That is fundamentally un-American.
“In the meantime, journalists will need to decide whether they’re so dependent on physical access to the Pentagon that they’re willing to trade away their independence to retain it.
“I hope they won’t, and will find other ways to gather news. Agreeing not to look where the government doesn’t want you to look and, by extension, not to print what it doesn’t want you to print, is propaganda, not journalism. Caving to these kinds of demands would in some ways be the most outrageous capitulation yet, and there are plenty to choose from.
“Virtually every time this administration (and past ones) has tried to justify secrecy by claiming it’s protecting national security, its real agenda turned out to be saving itself from embarrassment or from having its lies exposed. There is no reason to think this is any different. Perhaps there are so many embarrassing documents at this point that it’s too difficult to keep finding bogus reasons to keep each of them secret. Maybe that’s why the administration is taking more of a wholesale approach to concealing records that may show wrongdoing, corruption, and incompetence.”
Please contact us if you would like further comment on the dangers this policy poses to press freedom in the United States.
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Multiple Palantir and Flock sources say the companies are spinning a commitment to "democracy" to absolve them of responsibility. "In my eyes, it is the classic double speak," one said.#News
How Surveillance Firms Use ‘Democracy’ As a Cover for Serving ICE and Trump
In a blog post published in June, Garrett Langley, the CEO and co-founder of surveillance company Flock, said “We rely on the democratic process, on the individuals that the majority vote for to represent us, to determine what is and is not acceptable in cities and states.” The post explained that the company believes the laws of the country and individual states and municipalities, not the company, should determine the limits of what Flock’s technology can be used for, and came after 404 Media revealed local police were tapping into Flock’s networks of AI-enabled cameras for ICE, and that a sheriff in Texas performed a nationwide search for a woman who self-administered an abortion.💡
Do you work at any of these companies or others like them? 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.Langley’s statement echoes a common refrain surveillance and tech companies selling their products to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) or other parts of the U.S. government have said during the second Trump administration: we live in a democracy. It is not our job to decide how our powerful capabilities, which can track peoples’ physical location, marry usually disparate datasets together, or crush dissent, can or should be used. At least, that’s the thrust of the argument. That is despite the very clear reality that the first Trump administration was very different to the Biden administration, and both pale in comparison to Trump 2.0, with the executive branch and various agencies flaunting ordinary democratic values. The idea of what a democracy is capable of has shifted.
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