The concept of a 3D scanner can seem rather simple in theory: simply point a camera at the physical object you wish to scan in, rotate around the object to capture all angles and stitch it together into a 3D model along with textures created from the same photos. This photogrammetry application is definitely viable, but also limited in the sense that you’re relying on inferring three-dimensional parameters from a set of 2D images and rely on suitable lighting.
To get more detailed depth information from a scene you’d need to perform direct measurements, which can be done physically or through e.g. time-of-flight (ToF) measurements. Since contact-free ways of measurements tend to be often preferred, ToF makes a lot of sense, but comes with the disadvantage of measuring of only a single spot at a time. When the target is actively moving, you can fall back on photogrammetry or use an approach called structured-light (SL) scanning.
SL is what consumer electronics like the Microsoft Kinect popularized, using the combination of a visible and near-infrared (NIR) camera to record a pattern projected onto the subject, which is similar to how e.g. face-based login systems like Apple’s Face ID work. Considering how often Kinects have been used for generic purpose 3D scanners, this raises many questions regarding today’s crop of consumer 3D scanners, such as whether they’re all just basically Kinect-clones.
The Successful Kinect Failure
Although Microsoft’s Kinect flopped as a gaming accessory despite an initially successful run for the 2010 version released alongside the XBox 360, it does provide us with a good look at what it looks like when trying to make real-time 3D scanning work for the consumer market. The choice of SL-based scanning with the original Kinect was the obvious choice, as it was a mature technology that was also capable of providing real-time tracking of where a player’s body parts are relative in space.
Hardware-wise, the Kinect features a color camera, an infrared laser projector and a monochrome camera capable of capturing the scene including the projected IR pattern. The simple process of adding a known visual element to a scene allows a subsequent algorithm to derive fairly precise shape information based on where the pattern can be seen and how it was distorted. As this can all be derived from a single image frame, with the color camera providing any color information, the limiting factor then becomes the processing speed of this visual data. PrimeSense diagram of their reference depth sensor platform. (Source: iFixit) After the relatively successful original Kinect for the XBox 360, the XBox One saw the introduction of a refreshed Kinect, which kept the same rough layout and functioning, but used much upgraded hardware, including triple NIR laser projectors, as can be seen in the iFixit teardown of one of these units. The naked front of the XBox One Kinect, featuring the same RGB and NIR camera setup alongside an NIR projector. (Credit: iFixit) In both cases much of the processing is performed in the control IC inside the Kinect, which in the case of the original Kinect was made by PrimeSense and for the XBox One version a Microsoft-branded chip presumably manufactured by ST Microelectronics.
The NIR pattern projected by the PrimeSense system consists of a static, pseudorandom dot pattern that is projected onto the scene and captured as part of the scene by the NIR-sensitive monochrome camera. Since the system knows the pattern that it projects and its divergence in space, it can use this as part of a stereo triangulation algorithm applied to both. The calculated changes to the expected pattern thus create a depth map which can subsequently be used for limb and finger tracking for use with video games. The ToF phase-measurement principle. (Credit: Sarbolandi et al., 2015) Here it’s interesting to note that for the second generation of the Kinect, Microsoft switched from SL to ToF, with both approaches compared in this 2015 paper by Hamed Sarbolandi et al. as published in Computer Vision and Image Understanding.
Perhaps the biggest difference between the SL and ToF versions of the Kinect is that the former can suffer quite significantly from occlusion, with up to 20% of the projected pattern obscured versus up to 5% occlusion for ToF. The ToF version of the Kinect has much better low-light performance as well. Thus, as long as you can scan a scene quickly enough with the ToF sensor configuration, it should theoretically perform better.
Instead of the singular scanning beam as you might expect with the ToF approach, The 2013 Kinect for XBox One and subsequent Kinect hardware use Continuous Wave (CW) Intensity Modulation, which effectively blasts the scene with NIR light that’s both periodic and intensity modulated, thus illuminating the NIR CMOS sensor with the resulting effect from the scene pretty much continuously.
Both the SL and ToF approach used here suffer negatively when there’s significant ambient background light, which requires the use of bandpass filters. Similarly, semi-transparent and scattering media also pose a significant challenge for both approaches. Finally, there is motion blur, with the Kinect SL approach having the benefit of only requiring a single image, whereas the ToF version requires multiple captures and is thus more likely to suffer from motion blur if capturing at the same rate.
What the comparison by Sarbolandi et al. makes clear is that at least in the comparison between 2010-era consumer-level SL hardware and 2013-era ToF hardware there are wins and losses on both sides, making it hard to pick a favorite. Of note is that the monochrome NIR cameras in both Kinects are roughly the same resolution, with the ToF depth sensor even slightly lower at 512 x 424 versus the 640 x 480 of the original SL Kinect.
Kinect Modelling Afterlife
Over the years the proprietary Kinect hardware has been dissected to figure out how to use them for purposes other than making the playing of XBox video games use more energy than fondling a hand-held controller. A recent project by [Stoppi] (in German, see below English-language video) is a good example of one that uses an original Kinect with the official Microsoft SDK and drivers along with the Skanect software to create 3D models.
This approach is reminiscent of the photogrammetry method, but provides a depth map for each angle around the scene being scanned, which helps immensely when later turning separate snapshots into a coherent 3D model.
In this particular project a turning table is made using an Arduino board and a stepper motor, which allows for precise control over how much the object that is being scanned rotates between snapshots. This control feature is then combined with the scanning software – here Skanect – to create the 3D model along with textures created from the Kinect’s RGB camera.
Here it should be noted that Skanect has recently been phased out, and was replaced with an Apple mobile app, but you can still find official download links from Structure for now. This is unfortunately a recurring problem with relying on commercial options, whether free or not, as Kinect hardware begins to age out of the market.
Fortunately we can fallback on libfreenect for the original SL Kinect and lifreenect2 for the ToF Kinect. These are userspace drivers that provide effectively full support for all features on these devices. Unfortunately, these projects haven’t seen significant activity over the past years, with the OpenKinect domain name lapsing as well, so before long we may have to resort to purchasing off-the-shelf hardware again, rather than hacking Kinects.
On which note, how different are those commercial consumer-oriented 3D scanners from Kinects, exactly?
Commercial Scanners
The Creality CR-Scan Ferret Pro 3D scanner, with iPhone in place. (Credit: Creality) It should probably not come as a massive surprise that the 3D scanners that you can can purchase for average consumer-levels of money are highly reminiscent of the Kinect. If we ogle the approximately $350 Creality CR-Scan Ferret Pro, for example, we’d be excused for thinking at first glance that someone stuck a tiny Kinect on top of a stick.
When we look at user manual for this particular 3D scanner, however, we can see that it’s got one more lens than a Kinect. This is because it uses two NIR cameras for stereoscopic imaging, while keeping the same NIR projector and single RGB camera that we are used seeing on the Kinect. A similar 30 FPS capture rate is claimed as for the Kinect, with a 1080p resolution for the RGB camera and ‘up to 0.1 mm’ resolution within its working distance of 150 – 700 mm.
The fundamental technology has of course not changed from the Kinect days, so we’re likely looking at ToF-based depth sensors for these commercial offerings. Improvements will be found in the number of NIR cameras used to get more depth information, higher-resolution NIR and RGB sensors, along with improvements to the algorithms that derive the depth map. Exact details here of course scarce barring someone tearing one of these units down for a detailed analysis. Unlike the Kinect, modern-day 3D scanners are much more niche and less generalized. This makes them far less attractive to hack than cheap-ish devices which flooded the market alongside ubiquitous XBox consoles with all of Microsoft’s mass-production muscle behind it.
When looking at the demise of the Kinect in this way, it is somewhat sad to see that the most accessible and affordable 3D scanner option available to both scientists and hobbyists is rapidly becoming a lost memory, with currently available commercial options not quite hitting the same buttons – or price point – and open source options apparently falling back to the excitingly mediocre option of RGB photogrammetry.
Un trojan bancario e RAT per Android chiamato Klopatra si maschera da app IPTV e VPN e ha già infettato oltre 3.000 dispositivi. Il malware è un trojan in grado di monitorare lo schermo del dispositivo in tempo reale, intercettare gli input, simulare la navigazione gestuale e dispone di una modalità VNC (Virtual Network Computing) stealth.
Cleafy, l’azienda che ha scoperto il malware, fa notare che il Trojan non è associato ad alcuna famiglia di malware Android documentata e sembra essere un progetto di un gruppo di hacker turco.
Klopatra è progettato per rubare credenziali bancarie tramite sovrapposizioni, rubare il contenuto degli appunti e intercettare le sequenze di tasti, svuotare gli account delle vittime tramite VNC e raccogliere informazioni sulle applicazioni di portafoglio di criptovalute. Il malware si infiltra nei dispositivi delle vittime tramite un’app dropper chiamata Modpro IP TV + VPN, distribuita al di fuori dello store ufficiale di Google Play.
Klopatra utilizza Virbox (un prodotto commerciale che rende difficili il reverse engineering e l’analisi), utilizza librerie native per ridurre l’impronta Java/Kotlin e crittografa le stringhe utilizzando NP Manager.
Il RAT sfrutta in modo improprio il servizio di accessibilità di Android per ottenere autorizzazioni aggiuntive, intercettare l’input dell’utente, simulare tocchi e gesti e monitorare lo schermo del dispositivo della vittima per ottenere password e altre informazioni sensibili.
Una delle caratteristiche principali del malware è la modalità VNC con schermo nero, che consente agli operatori di Klopatra di eseguire azioni sul dispositivo infetto. All’utente, il dispositivo appare come se fosse inattivo e con lo schermo bloccato.
Questa modalità supporta tutte le azioni remote necessarie per eseguire transazioni bancarie manuali, tra cui la simulazione di tocchi su aree specifiche dello schermo, scorrimenti verso l’alto e verso il basso e pressioni prolungate.
Per scegliere il momento ideale per attivare la modalità VNC, il malware controlla se il dispositivo è in carica e se lo schermo è spento, in modo che l’utente non sospetti nulla. Per evitare di essere rilevato, Klopatra contiene un elenco codificato di nomi di pacchetti di noti antivirus per Android e tenta di rimuoverli.
Gli specialisti di Cleafy hanno scoperto diversi server di comando e controllo malware. Si ritiene che siano collegati a due campagne diverse, che hanno già causato oltre 3.000 infezioni uniche.
Secondo i ricercatori, Klopatra è attivo da marzo 2025 e durante questo periodo sono state rilasciate circa 40 diverse build del Trojan, il che indica uno sviluppo attivo e una rapida evoluzione del nuovo banker.
E' ufficiale, mi hanno diagnosticato il diabete, dovrò prendere l'insulina. E' una mazzata non lo nego, adesso che sono in pensione e potevo vivere tranquillo ecco che arriva la bastonata in testa. Tanto per cambiare la vita di merda non si smentisce, mai una notizia buona. Vabbè, di qualcosa bisogna pur morire, prendiamola con filosofia.
“L’era del Dipartimento della Difesa è finita. Benvenuti al Dipartimento della Guerra”, ha esordito Hegseth davanti a un’aula che, come ha poi scherzato Trump, era “il pubblico più silenzioso che abbia mai avuto”. Il Segretario non ha usato mezzi termini nell’accusare i presenti: “Per
Some services needed for immigration applications, like H-1B and E3 visas, no longer have funding, while others are still operational — for now.#Immigration #shutdown #visas
Government Shutdown Causes Even More Confusion for U.S. Visa Applicants
Amid the government shutdown, visa applicants are facing more confusion and are worried about potential delays, as some services essential to their application processes are “under maintenance” due to lapses in funding.
The Foreign Labor Application Gateway website, which employers use for labor certification and immigration applicants use to access documentation for their applications, is down due to the shutdown, with an “Under Maintenance” notice on the site in place of the portal.
The federal government shut down on Wednesday, as Republican legislators refuse to budge on their desired cuts to Medicaid and Affordable Care Act healthcare subsidies. The last government shutdown was in 2018, also under President Donald Trump, and lasted 35 days.
“Due to a lapse in funding, all foreign labor certification activities administered by the Department’s Office of Foreign Labor Certification (OFLC) have been suspended,” the site currently says. “During this suspension, access to the Foreign Labor Application Gateway (FLAG), will be disabled and will not permit system users to prepare and submit new applications as well as submit any information associated with applications pending a final determination.” Screenshot of flag.dol.gov as of Oct. 2 A notice on the State Department’s Bureau of Consular Affairs site says consular operations domestically and abroad will remain operational, however, including passports, visas, and assisting American citizens abroad. Consular services, including US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), are almost entirely fee-funded and only a small part of their funding is reliant on congress. The American Immigration Council notes that for this reason, application interviews, naturalization ceremonies, biometrics processing, and other parts of the immigration system should continue as usual, and past reports have shown that only one percent of the USCIS would likely need to be furloughed during a shutdown, but that backlogs and increased immigration enforcement from the Trump administration could mean even that one percent could create more delays.
The Office of Foreign Labor Certification website shows a notice about a lapse in appropriations: “This website is currently not being updated due to the suspension of Federal government services,” the site says. “The last update to the site was 10/1/2025. Updates to the site will start again when the Federal government resumes operations.”
An Australian applicant for an E3 visa — a specific type of temporary, non-immigrant work visa for Australian citizens — told 404 Media that not being able to access the FLAG website means she can’t access or download the Department of Labor-certified Labor Condition Application she needs for her visa appointment in two weeks.
“If the shutdown is lifted prior to my visa appointment, I’ll download the LCA and be on my way. If however the shutdown goes on past my appointment date, I don’t know what I’ll do,” she said.
The immigration and visa application process, overhauled by the Trump administration since taking office, has already caused chaos and confusion for applicants. On Friday, Trump signed an executive order that adds a $100,000 fee for applicants to the H-1B visa program for skilled foreign workers. US-based workers visiting abroad during the announcement rushed to travel back to the US after Trump’s announcement left them only hours before Trump’s deadline at midnight on Sunday, while some employers, especially small startups, scrambled to pay the fees for their workers. playlist.megaphone.fm?p=TBIEA2…
Marco Cappato al KUM! Festival – Dialogo con Vincenzo Paglia
Venerdì 17 ottobre 2025 Ore 17:30 Auditorium Scavolini, Pesaro Modera Antonio Sanfrancesco
CURA, DIRITTO, LIBERTÀ Un confronto tra Marco Cappato, tesoriere dell’Associazione Luca Coscioni, e mons. Vincenzo Paglia, sul significato della cura, le libertà individuali e i diritti fondamentali alla fine della vita.
Siamo di fronte a una rivoluzione demografica senza precedenti. Il calo delle nascite, l’allungamento della vita media e le innovazioni della medicina contemporanea stanno trasformando profondamente la struttura della nostra società, così come i modi di vivere e di morire. Le categorie tradizionali – fede contro ragione, necessità di cura contro libertà di scelta, salute contro malattia – non bastano più a orientarci. Da qui l’urgenza di nuove categorie concettuali, etico-politiche, pratiche e giuridiche, capaci di dare senso alle scelte che ciascuno di noi è chiamato a fare.
Un’occasione per approfondire uno dei dibattiti più attuali e urgenti del nostro tempo.
Ogni volta che Bruxelles sforna una sigla nuova, in azienda qualcuno sbuffa: “ancora carta?”. Capita. Ma il Data Act non è un semplice timbro da aggiungere al faldone: mette ordine su chi può accedere ai dati, a quali condizioni e come si può uscire da un fornitore cloud senza restare incatenati. In un mercato dominato da prodotti connessi, piattaforme e contratti “prendere o lasciare”, è un cambio di passo concreto.
Il Regolamento è entrato in vigore l’11 gennaio 2024 ed è applicabile dal 12 settembre 2025 in tutta l’UE. L’obiettivo è creare un mercato dei dati più equo e competitivo: meno lock-in, più interoperabilità, più diritti per utenti e imprese. Tradotto: i dati non restano nel cassetto del produttore o del cloud provider, ma diventano una leva che l’utilizzatore può far valere.
Che cos’è, in due parole
È un regolamento “orizzontale” che abbraccia dati personali e non personali e tocca tre fronti chiave. Il primo: dati generati da prodotti connessi (macchine, veicoli, domotica, sensori). L’utente che usa il dispositivo ha diritto di accedere a quei dati e di condividerli con terzi da lui scelti, ad esempio un manutentore indipendente. Il secondo: rapporti B2B, dove il Data Act limita le clausole contrattuali imposte unilateralmente che strozzano l’uso dei dati. Il terzo: servizi di trattamento dati (cloud ed edge), con norme che impongono portabilità, interoperabilità e rimozione delle barriere tecniche e contrattuali allo switching.
C’è anche il tema dell’accesso della PA ai dati: non è una porta spalancata. Si parla di “necessità eccezionale”, cioè emergenze o casi specifici previsti dalla legge, con richieste mirate, temporanee e giustificate. L’idea non è “prendere tutto”, ma permettere interventi quando davvero serve.
Sicurezza, IP e segreti industriali
Prima la domanda che tutti fanno: “Allora devo regalare i miei segreti?” No. Il Data Act pretende misure adeguate per proteggere segreti commerciali e proprietà intellettuale. Se l’utente o il terzo non rispettano le misure di tutela, la condivisione può essere sospesa. La logica è semplice: diritti di accesso e riuso sì, saccheggio no.
C’è anche una clausola di prudenza geopolitica: per i dati non personali detenuti nell’Unione si richiedono cautele contro accessi o trasferimenti extra-UE incompatibili con il diritto europeo. Per chi ha supply chain del dato globali, non è un dettaglio.
Perché interessa davvero a CISO, CIO e legali
Per chi costruisce dispositivi connessi, il messaggio è chiaro: progettare “by data-sharing”. Non basta “generare” dati: bisogna consentire all’utente di accedervi e condividerli in modo sicuro e tracciabile. Servono autenticazione forte, logging, pseudonimizzazione dove opportuno, gestione puntuale dei trade secret, governance delle richieste e un canale ufficiale per evaderle senza improvvisazioni.
Per chi compra o vende cloud, si passa dagli slogan ai fatti. Lo switching diventa un diritto: i contratti devono specificare come si esce, in quanto tempo, con quale assistenza e a che condizioni economiche. Sul piano tecnico servono formati aperti per l’export, mappature semantiche, automazioni di portabilità, orchestrazione multicloud e criteri di interoperabilità misurabili. È l’antidoto strutturale al lock-in, ed è anche resilienza operativa.
Per chi scrive o rilegge contratti B2B, il Data Act disinnesca molte clausole “capestro” sulle responsabilità, sui rimedi e sull’interpretazione dei diritti d’uso. La morale è che la libertà contrattuale resta, ma l’equità torna al centro: certe condizioni non vincolano più la parte debole.
Infine, la procedura B2G: dotatevi di una policy interna per gestire richieste della PA. Verifica della base giuridica, accertamento della necessità eccezionale, minimizzazione, tracciamento e retention. No a risposte estemporanee: servono ruoli, workflow e un registro delle richieste.
Cosa cambia “da lunedì mattina”
Smettiamo di considerarlo l’ennesimo obbligo e leggiamolo come un abilitatore competitivo. I dati di prodotto diventano carburante per nuovi servizi post-vendita, manutenzione predittiva, supply chain più trasparenti. L’interoperabilità cloud sblocca strategie multicloud meno romantiche e più misurabili, riducendo il rischio operativo. La pulizia contrattuale nei rapporti B2B evita guerre di cavilli e accorcia il time-to-value dei progetti data-driven.
E sì, comporta lavoro vero: mappare i flussi dati, aggiornare informative e contratti, rafforzare i controlli, ripensare l’architettura per la portabilità. Ma è lavoro che crea valore, non solo compliance.
Conclusione: meno slogan, più ingegneria (e contratti fatti bene)
Il Data Act è l’ennesima normativa? Sì. Solo che questa, se la metti in produzione, ti fa lavorare meglio. Sposta potere verso chi usa i prodotti e paga i servizi, riduce le catene invisibili del lock-in, e costringe tutti a trattare i dati come un bene comune negoziabile con regole chiare. La differenza la fa l’esecuzione: processi solidi, sicurezza by design e contratti finalmente espliciti su accesso, condivisione e uscita. Il resto sono scuse.
La cooperazione spaziale è ormai terreno strategico, dove tecnologia e sicurezza si intrecciano con diplomazia e industria. L’affidabilità delle infrastrutture orbitali e terrestri è cruciale per comunicazioni, navigazione e osservazione della Terra, come
@Informatica (Italy e non Italy 😁) Il report ENISA Threat Landscape 2025 evidenzia phishing, ransomware e attacchi basati su AI come principali minacce in Europa. Pubblica amministrazione, trasporti e infrastrutture digitali i settori più colpiti. Ecco trend, dati chiave e
La successione senza precedenti di “incidenti” legati ai droni e alle violazioni dello spazio aereo europeo ha scosso le cancellerie europee, più di quanto ci si sarebbe aspettati. Benché non sia ancora possibile ricondurre la totalità degli
@Politica interna, europea e internazionale Fanno discutere le parole del ministro degli Esteri italiano, Antonio Tajani, pronunciate a Porta a Porta nei momenti in cui la marina militare israeliana eseguiva l’abbordaggio alle imbarcazioni della Global Sumud
Prende il via in Perù, e in particolare a Lima, il mese “morado” (viola), dedicato alla devozione del Cristo dei miracoli, le cui processioni radunano centinaia di migliaia di persone, in una manifestazione di fede e pietà popolari che non ha, forse,…
“Cristiani, prendetevi cura della Terra come di un dono prezioso”. È l’appello che accompagna la Marcia per il clima del 5 ottobre a Bruxelles, alla quale parteciperanno l’arcivescovo di Malines-Bruxelles, mons.
Collective human consciousness is full of imagined or mythical dream-like utopias, hidden away behind mountains, across or under oceans, hidden in mist, or deep in the jungle. From Atlantis, Avalon, El Dorado, and Shangri-La, we have not stopped imagining these secret, fantastical places. One of these, Xanadu, is actually a real place but has been embellished over the years into a place of legend and myth, and thus became the namesake of an Internet we never got to see like all of those other mystical, hidden places.
The Xanadu project got its start in the 1960s at around the same time the mouse and what we might recognize as a modern computer user interface were created. At its core was hypertext with the ability to link not just other pages but references and files together into one network. It also had version control, rights management, bi-directional links, and a number of additional features that would be revolutionary even today. Another core feature was transclusion, a method for making sure that original authors were compensated when their work was linked. However, Xanadu was hampered by a number of issues including lack of funding, infighting among the project’s contributors, and the development of an almost cult-like devotion to the vision, not unlike some of today’s hype around generative AI. Surprisingly, despite these faults, the project received significant funding from Autodesk, but even with this support the project ultimately failed.
Instead of this robust, bi-directional web imagined as early as the 1960s, the Internet we know of today is the much simpler World Wide Web which has many features of Xanadu we recognize. Not only is it less complex to implement, it famously received institutional backing from CERN immediately rather than stagnating for decades. The article linked above contains a tremendous amount of detail around this story that’s worth checking out. For all its faults and lack of success, though, Xanadu is a interesting image of what the future of the past could have been like if just a few things had shaken out differently, and it will instead remain a mythical place like so many others.
“L’intelligenza artificiale in medicina può e deve essere un grande aiuto per migliorare l’assistenza clinica, ma non potrà mai occupare il posto del medico”.
The Pirate Party Germany held its General Assembly on September 27 and 28 in Dudweiler, Germany and elected their 19th Federal Board.
Lilia Kayra Kuyumcu was elected as the new Chair. At just 18 years old, she is the youngest Chair in the history of the German Pirate Party.
She will be joined by Denis Klüver as Vice-Chair, Jutta Dietrich as Treasurer, and Babak Tubis, Wolf Vincent Lübcke, Nick Neumann, and Karsten Wehner as Board Members.
We welcome the new leadership and hope to hear from them on the international stage. We also extend thanks to the outgoing board members, who we also hope will work with us more on the international stage.
Congratulations to the new Federal Board of the Pirate Party Germany!
Cosa rischiano gli attivisti della Global sumud flotilla, perché l’abbordaggio israeliano è contrario al diritto internazionale e cosa potrebbe fare la diplomazia. Leggi
L'articolo proviene da #StartMag e viene ricondiviso sulla comunità Lemmy @Informatica (Italy e non Italy 😁) Il magnate sudafricano recupera un suo vecchio pallino: l'ostilità a Wikipedia. Musk annuncia via X di essere al lavoro su di una versione realmente super partes startmag.it/innovazione/vi-pre…
Rod Picott – Ville Lumière Promenade – Live at The Pomme D’Eve, Paris – 2005 freezonemagazine.com/articoli/… C’è un momento nella carriera di ogni cantautore in cui la voce, le storie e il corpo stesso delle canzoni sembrano combaciare perfettamente con l’età e con l’esperienza vissuta. Per Rod Picott quel momento arriva ai suoi quaranta, quando approda a Parigi per registrare Ville Lumière Promenade, un live che
Stan Barstow – Un modo di amare freezonemagazine.com/news/stan… In libreria dal 10 Ottobre 2025 Pubblicato per la prima volta nel 1960, Un modo di amare segna l’esordio di Stan Barstow, qui per la prima volta tradotto in italiano da Nicola Manuppelli. Ambientato nello Yorkshire di fine anni Cinquanta, il romanzo racconta la storia di Vic Brown, giovane determinato e ambizioso che trova lavoro, comincia a guadagnare […] L'articolo Stan Barstow – Un modo di
@Giornalismo e disordine informativo articolo21.org/2025/10/manifes… Adesione articolo 21 “ci saremo perché di fronte al genocidio in atto, nessuno può astenersi, come sta facendo il governo italiano. Chi, come la presidente Meloni, continua ad inveire contro la Cgil e la Flotilla ci dica perché non
Roadpol è una rete di cooperazione tra le Polizie Stradali, nata sotto l'egida dell'Unione Europea, a cui aderiscono tutti gli Stati Membri dell'UE (ad eccezione di Grecia e Danimarca), oltre a Svizzera, Serbia, Turchia, Moldavia, Macedonia del Nord, Ucraina e Albania. La Polizia dell'Emirato di Dubai (Emirati Arabi Uniti) partecipa in qualità di osservatore.
L'attività principale di ROADPOL è il controllo del traffico sulle strade, ma svolgiamo anche campagne di prevenzione degli incidenti. Poiché sempre più episodi di criminalità sulle strade sono commessi da conducenti o passeggeri o utilizzano i veicoli come strumento per commettere reati, abbiamo avviato trattative con le forze dell'ordine internazionali per una cooperazione efficace.
Recentemente Si è conclusa la campagna congiunta di sicurezza stradale "Safety Days”, promossa da Roadpol European Roads Policing Network, che si è inserita nell’ambito della “Settimana Europea della Mobilità” svolta dal 16 al 22 settembre.
L'iniziativa mirava a raggiungere l'obiettivo europeo di zero vittime sulle strade in una singola giornata.
Durante la campagna sono state impiegate 5830 pattuglie sul territorio nazionale italiano, controllati 28.239 veicoli e contestate 6.103 sanzioni per eccesso di velocità, 1.460 per mancato utilizzo dei sistemi di ritenuta, 636 per uso del cellulare durante la guida e 34 per mancato uso del casco. Sono state inoltre ritirate 1.135 patenti e decurtati 26.730 punti.
L'attività si è concentrata sul contrasto alle principali cause di incidentalità: eccesso di velocità, mancato utilizzo dei sistemi di ritenuta (incluse le cinture e i seggiolini per bambini), uso del cellulare alla guida e mancato uso del casco protettivo. Particolare attenzione è stata rivolta agli utenti vulnerabili delle due ruote (motocicli, ciclomotori, biciclette e monopattini), evidenziando l'importanza di una condotta responsabile non solo da parte loro, ma anche degli altri utenti della strada.
AI-Generated Biography on Amazon Tries to Capitalize on the Death of a Beloved Writer Kaleb Horton
On September 27, several writers published obituaries about writer and photographer Kaleb Horton, who recently died. The obituaries were written by friends, acquaintances, and colleagues, but all of them revered him as a writer and photographer, whose work has appeared in GQ, Rolling Stone, Vanity Fair, and VICE.
Some of these obituary writers were shocked and disgusted to discover an AI-generated “biography” of Kaleb Horton was suddenly for sale on Amazon.
“I cannot overstate how disgusting I find this kind of ‘A.I.’ dog shit in the first place, never mind under these circumstances,” writer Luke O’Neil, who wrote an obituary for Horton, told me in an email. “This predatory slop is understandably upsetting to his family and friends and fans and an affront to his specific life and to life itself. Especially days after his death. All week people have been eulogizing Kaleb as one of the best, although sadly not widely read enough, writers of his generation, and some piece of shit pressed a button and took 30 seconds or whatever it is to set up a tollbooth to divert the many people just learning about him away from his real and vital work. And for what? To make maybe a few dollars? By tricking people? I can't say what I think should happen to thieves like this.”
The book, titled KALEB HORTON: A BIOGRAPHY OF WORDS AND IMAGES: The Life Of A Writer And Photographer From The American West, was published on September 27 as well, is 74 pages long, and has all the familiar signs of the kind of AI-generated books that flood Amazon’s store on a daily basis.
Even at just 74 pages, the book was produced at superhuman speed. That appears to be the normal cadence for the author, Jack C. Cambron, who has no online footprint outside of online bookstores, and who has written dozens of biographies and cookbooks since his career as an author appeared out of thin air earlier in September. He has written biographies about director Cameron Crowe, Fulton County, Georgia district attorney Fani Willis, and pop singer Madison Beer, to name just a few. There’s no consistent pattern to these biographies other than a lot of the people they’re about have been in the news recently.
All these books also have obviously AI-generated covers, which is the most obvious and one of the most insulting signs that Horton’s biography is AI-generated as well: The person on the cover looks nothing like him.
AI-generated books on Amazon are extremely common and often attempt to monetize whatever is happening in the news or that people are searching for at any given time. For example, last year we wrote about a flood of AI-generated books about the journalist Kara Swisher appearing on Amazon leading up to the release of her memoir Burn Book. In theory, someone who might be interested in the book or Swisher might search for her name on Amazon and buy one of those AI-generated books without realizing it’s AI-generated. We’ve seen this same strategy flood public libraries with AI-generated books as well.
"Although many of us online appreciated him and have paid tribute to him as a writer, any real reporting about him—like the kind he did for the figures he obsessed over, and which he would deserve—would reflect that Kaleb was a human being and a complicated guy," Matt Pearce, another journalist who wrote about Horton's passing, told me in an email. "This AI slop is just harvesting the remnants of legacy journalism, insulting the legacies of the dead and intellectually impoverishing the rest of us."
Amazon did not immediately respond to a request for comment, but it removed the AI-generated Horton biography shortly after we reached out for comment. The company has said that it does not want these books in its store in response to our story about the AI-generated Kara Swisher books last year, but obviously is not taking any meaningful action to stop them.
“We aim to provide the best possible shopping, reading, and publishing experience for customers and authors and have content guidelines governing which books may be listed for sale," Amazon spokesperson Ashley Vanicek told me in an email last year. "We do not allow AI-generated content that creates a poor customer experience. We have proactive and reactive measures to evaluate content in our store. We have removed a number of titles that violated our guidelines.”
Update: This post has been updated with comment from Matt Pearce. This post has also been updated to note Amazon removed the AI-generated biography shortly after we reached out for comment.
The main use of Sora appears to generate brainrot of major beloved copyrighted characters, to say nothing of the millions of articles, images, and videos OpenAI has scraped.#OpenAI #Sora2 #Sora
OpenAI’s Sora 2 Copyright Infringement Machine Features Nazi SpongeBobs and Criminal Pikachus
Within moments of opening OpenAI’s new AI slop app Sora, I am watching Pikachu steal Poké Balls from a CVS. Then I am watching SpongeBob-as-Hitler give a speech about the “scourge of fish ruining Bikini Bottom.” Then I am watching a title screen for a Nintendo 64 game called “Mario’s Schizophrenia.” I swipe and I swipe and I swipe. Video after video shows Pikachu and South Park’s Cartman doing ASMR; a pixel-perfect scene from the Simpsons that doesn’t actually exist; a fake version of Star Wars, Jurassic Park, or La La Land; Rick and Morty in Minecraft; Rick and Morty in Breath of the Wild; Rick and Morty talking about Sora; Toad from the Mario universe deadlifting; Michael Jackson dancing in a room that seems vaguely Russian; Charizard signing the Declaration of Independence, and Mario and Goku shaking hands. You get the picture.
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Sora 2 is the new video generation app/TikTok clone from OpenAI. As AI video generators go, it is immediately impressive in that it is slightly better than the video generators that came before it, just as every AI generator has been slightly better than the one that preceded it. From the get go, the app lets you insert yourself into its AI creations by saying three numbers and filming a short video of yourself looking at the camera, looking left, looking right, looking up, and looking down. It is, as Garbage Day just described it, a “slightly better looking AI slop feed,” which I think is basically correct. Whenever a new tool like this launches, the thing that journalists and users do is probe the guardrails, which is how you get viral images of SpongeBob doing 9/11.
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The difference with Sora 2, I think, is that OpenAI, like X’s Grok, has completely given up any pretense that this is anything other than a machine that is trained on other people’s work that it did not pay for, and that can easily recreate that work. I recall a time when Nintendo and the Pokémon Company sued a broke fan for throwing an “unofficial Pokémon” party with free entry at a bar in Seattle, then demanded that fan pay them $5,400 for the poster he used to advertise it. This was the poster: With the release of Sora 2 it is maddening to remember all of the completely insane copyright lawsuits I’ve written about over the years—some successful, some thrown out, some settled—in which powerful companies like Nintendo, Disney, and Viacom sued powerless people who were often their own fans for minor infractions or use of copyrighted characters that would almost certainly be fair use.
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No real consequences of any sort have thus far come for OpenAI, and the company now seems completely disinterested in pretending that it did not train its tools on endless reams of copyrighted material. It is also, of course, tacitly encouraging people to pollute both its app and the broader internet with slop. Nintendo and Disney do not really seem to care that it is now easier than ever to make Elsa and Pikachu have sex or whatever, and that much of our social media ecosystem is now filled with things of that nature. Instagram, YouTube, and to a slightly lesser extent TikTok are already filled with AI slop of anything you could possibly imagine.And now OpenAI has cut out the extra step that required people to download and reupload their videos to social media and has launched its own slop feed, which is, at least for me, only slightly different than what I see daily on my Instagram feed. The main immediate use of Sora so far appears to be to allow people to generate brainrot of major beloved copyrighted characters, to say nothing of the millions of articles, blogs, books, images, videos, photos, and pieces of art that OpenAI has scraped from people far less powerful than, say, Nintendo. As a reward for this wide scale theft, OpenAI gets a $500 billion valuation. And we get a tool that makes it even easier to flood the internet with slightly better looking bullshit at the low, low cost of nearly all of the intellectual property ever created by our species, the general concept of the nature of truth, the devaluation of art through an endless flooding of the zone, and the knock-on environmental, energy, and negative labor costs of this entire endeavor.
Profitez des vidéos et de la musique que vous aimez, mettez en ligne des contenus originaux, et partagez-les avec vos amis, vos proches et le monde entier.
La chiusura parziale di uffici e servizi pubblici a causa della mancata approvazione del bilancio federale non è un evento inedito negli Stati Uniti e lo “shutdown”, o la minaccia di esso, viene spesso utilizzato come uno strumento di pressione polit…
“LA PENSIONE NON È DOVUTA” La Fornero torna a fare terrorismo pontificando sulla Finanziaria: «Punirà i giovani». Parola di chi ha fabbricato migliaia di esodati. Da 14 anni insiste, cioè da quando tentò di distruggere quel che restava di un Paese massacrato dallo spread e in pieno tsunami da crisi dei debiti sovrani. Non ci riuscì. Ma da allora è un continuo rimodellare la realtà, vantare operazioni pseudo-strategiche, ergersi a salvatrice della patria.
Anche stavolta Fornero vede grigio e lancia un siluro dal titolo: «Legge di bilancio, il solito mercato che alla fine punisce i giovani». L’ex ministro del Lavoro, impegnata vita natural durante a giustificare la sua sanguinosa riforma, sostiene che sarebbe sbagliato proporre «provvedimenti che ripropongono per l’ennesima volta la falsa illusione dell’anticipo del pensionamento per fare posto ai giovani o il falso mito del diritto acquisito».
E per chiudere dichiara: «Mostrateci, governo e opposizione, quello sguardo lungo e inclusivo che per molto tempo è mancato alla politica italiana». Sorvolando sullo sguardo inclusivo (poiché il suo includeva i sottopassi delle stazioni come abitazioni per i 170.000 esodati fabbricati a mano),fa specie che la ex docente universitaria torinese continui a definire un diritto acquisito, praticamente una grazia del sovrano che getta dobloni dalla finestra ai villani, quello che secondo la Costituzione è uno dei patti sociali più inscalfibili in una democrazia; un contratto fra Stato e cittadini, i quali ne rivendicano il rispetto e l’applicazione nel momento in cui maturano requisiti anagrafici e contributivi di legge.
Fornero riesce a concretizzare due paradossi: definisce regalìa una prerogativa di legge, ancor più dopo l’applicazione in toto del sistema contributivo. E trasforma un dovere costituzionale (quello dell’erogazione della pensione ai lavoratori) in un principio contabile, scambiando allegramente lo Stato per una Spa.
È lo stesso errore che si commette sulla Sanità quando si evoca il pareggio di bilancio, ritenendo erroneamente che debba essere un investimento a scopo di lucro e non un servizio indispensabile da eseguire anche in perdita.
Una delle navi della Global Sumud Flotilla, la Alma, è stata abbordata dalle navi dell’IDF.
Al momento le navi si trovano nella zona definita ad alto rischio, a 10 miglia nautiche dalla costa di Gaza. Nelle scorse ore una ventina di navi non identificate erano state captate dai radar della Flottilla, dando il via allo stato di allarme.
People Are Farming and Selling Sora 2 Invite Codes on eBay
People are farming and selling invite codes for Sora 2 on eBay, which is currently the fastest and most reliable way to get onto OpenAI’s new video generation and TikTok-clone-but-make-it-AI-slop app. Because of the way Sora is set up, it is possible to buy one code, register an account, then get more codes with the new account and repeat the process.
On eBay, there are about 20 active listings for Sora 2 invite codes and 30 completed listings in which invite codes have sold. I bought a code from a seller for $12, and received a working code a few minutes later. The moment I activated my account, I was given four new codes for Sora 2. When I went into the histories of some of the sellers, many of them had sold a handful of codes previously, suggesting they were able to get their hands on more than four invites. It’s possible to do this just by cycling through accounts; each invite code is good for four invites, so it is possible to use one invite code for a new account for yourself, sell three of them, and repeat the process.
There are also dozens of people claiming to be selling or giving away codes on Reddit and X; some are asking for money via Cash App or Venmo, while others are asking for crypto. One guy has even created a website in which he has generated all 2.1 billion six-digit hexadecimal combinations to allow people to randomly guess / brute force the app (the site is a joke).
The fact that the invite codes are being sold across the internet is an indication that OpenAI has been able to capture some initial hype with the release of the app (which we’ll have much more to say about soon), but does not necessarily mean that it’s going to be some huge success or have sustained attention. Code and app invite sales are very common on eBay, even for apps and concert tickets (or game consoles, or other items) that eventually aren’t very popular or are mostly just a flash in the pan. But much of my timeline today is talking about Sora 2, which suggests that we may be crossing some sort of AI slop creation rubicon.
Kodak announced two new types of film that it will sell directly to photography stores, sidestepping a bizarre distribution agreement that has been in place since its bankruptcy.#Photography #FilmCameras #film
Kodak Is Selling Its Own Film Again for the First Time in a Decade
Kodak announced two new stocks of color film on Wednesday, in a move that has excited the photography world and which indicates that the photography giant is directly distributing still photography film again.
“To help meet the growing demand for film, Kodak is excited to announce the launch of two color-negative films, KODACOLOR 100 and KODACOLOR 200, in 135 format rolls,” Kodak said in an Instagram post. “For the first time in over a decade, Kodak will sell these films directly to distributors, in an effort to increase supply and help create greater stability in a market where prices have fluctuated. These films are sub-brands of existing Kodak films and offer the same high quality you’ve come to expect from Kodak.”
That quote is key—there are various types of Kodak film on the market right now. Those films are all made by Eastman Kodak (the legendary 133-year-old photography company) but they are sold through a totally separate company called Kodak Alaris, which is a UK-based company spun off from Eastman Kodak in 2012 as part of its bankruptcy. Since then, Kodak Alaris has had the sole right to distribute the still film stocks that Eastman Kodak manufactures. The sense in the photography community is that this arrangement is, at best, annoying and that it has perhaps led Kodak to not focus as much on making new film stocks as it should; there was further concern last year after Kodak Alaris was sold to a private equity firm.
What remains unclear is what KODACOLOR actually is; in the photography world, many “new” films are rebranded versions of other films that are on the market, are rereleased versions of film that had been previously discontinued, or are respooled versions of movie film that have been altered for still photography.
The Wednesday announcement of KODACOLOR makes clear that Eastman Kodak will be selling KODACOLOR directly to photography stores itself, which suggests that the company has wrested at least some control over the distribution of its films from Kodak Alaris, and raises all sorts of exciting possibilities about the future of Kodak film. The details of how or why it did this are not yet available and Kodak did not immediately respond to a request for comment. But it is notable that while Kodak manufactures about a dozen different types of film including Kodak Gold, Ektar, Portra, and Colorplus, the only “still film” listed on the Kodak website is now the new KODACOLOR film stocks.
Regardless of the reasoning or specifics behind the news, the announcement of new film stocks from the most important film company in the world is the latest sign of the enduring and resurgent popularity of analog film photography. And it at least shows that Kodak is interested in creating new types of film for the hobby; as Petapixel points out, it is Kodak’s “first new film in a very long time.” In recent years, there has been a handful of new film stocks announced and released, most notably a type of film called Phoenix from a company called Harman, which is made in a new factory in England and, according to the company, has been “hugely successful.”
HARMAN TECHNOLOGY ANNOUNCES SIGNIFICANT ONGOING INVESTMENT IN THE FUTURE OF PHOTOGRAPHIC FILM HARMAN technology Ltd, one of the world’s largest manufacturers of analogue photographic films, darkroom papers, and photo chemicals, has further reaffirmed…
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