Gli aggiornamenti di ottobre per Windows 11 hanno interrotto la funzionalità localhost, impedendo il corretto funzionamento delle applicazioni che si connettono a 127.0.0.1 tramite HTTP/2.

Sebbene gli sviluppatori utilizzino in genere localhost per testare siti web e per eseguire il debug delle applicazioni, può essere utilizzato anche da applicazioni che devono connettersi a un servizio in esecuzione locale per eseguire azioni o richieste.

Dopo aver installato l’aggiornamento KB5066835 di Windows 11 e l’aggiornamento di anteprima di settembre KB5065789, gli utenti hanno scoperto che le applicazioni non riuscivano più a completare le connessioni HTTP all’indirizzo IP localhost (127.0.0.1). Quando tentavano di connettersi, ricevevano errori come “ERR_CONNECTION_RESET” o “ERR_HTTP2_PROTOCOL_ERROR”.

Il problema è stato segnalato sui forum Microsoft , Stack Exchange e Reddit. Tutti gli utenti interessati segnalano di non essere più in grado di stabilire connessioni HTTP a 127.0.0.1.

Il problema ha interessato molte applicazioni diffuse, tra cui il debug in Visual Studio, l’autenticazione SSMS Entra ID e l’app desktop Duo, che controlla lo stato di sicurezza del dispositivo e richiede la connessione ai server Web in esecuzione su localhost.

“Dopo l’installazione degli aggiornamenti Windows 11 24H2 e 25H2, potresti riscontrare un problema per cui Duo Prompt non riesce ad accedere a Duo Desktop”, afferma il bollettino di supporto Duo. “Ciò potrebbe impedire l’autenticazione (o comportare funzionalità limitate) in situazioni in cui vengono utilizzati endpoint attendibili, criteri come Duo Desktop e integrità dispositivo, Duo Desktop come metodo di autenticazione, Duo Passport, Duo Push verificato con riempimento automatico Bluetooth o verifica di prossimità.”

Il blog di BornCity suggerisce di apportare le seguenti modifiche al registro, che presumibilmente possono aiutare a risolvere il problema disabilitando il protocollo HTTP/2:

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESystemCurrentControlSetServicesHTTPParameters]"EnableHttp2Tls"=dword:00000000
"EnableHttp2Cleartext"=dword:00000000
Un altro metodo che alcuni utenti ritengono efficace è installare l’ultimo aggiornamento delle firme antivirus per Microsoft Defender. Tuttavia, altri segnalano che questo non risolve il problema.

Di conseguenza, l’unico modo affidabile per risolvere l’errore è attualmente disinstallare l’aggiornamento di ottobre KB5066835 e l’aggiornamento di anteprima di settembre KB5065789.

Dopo averli disinstallati e riavviato Windows, l’interfaccia di loopback dovrebbe consentire nuovamente le connessioni HTTP/2, risolvendo i problemi dell’applicazione.

L'articolo Problemi con localhost su Windows 11 dopo aggiornamenti di ottobre proviene da Red Hot Cyber.

E pensare che fino a pochi anni fa Huawei e gran parte del suo ecosistema dipendevano totalmente da Google Android. Poi arrivarono i divieti: prima il ban di Android, poi quello sulle attrezzature per la produzione dei chip e infine sulle tecnologie per l’intelligenza artificiale.

Una strategia USA che, paradossalmente, ha prodotto l’effetto opposto a quello desiderato: invece di indebolire l’azienda, ha alimentato una spinta straordinaria verso l’indipendenza tecnologica.
Nel tentativo di ostacolare la crescita di Huawei, gli Stati Uniti hanno finito per accelerarla, favorendo involontariamente lo sviluppo di un ecosistema tecnologico completamente autonomo.

Huawei ha ufficializzato il lancio di HarmonyOS 6, la nuova versione del suo sistema operativo, che sarà presentata il 22 ottobre alle 14:30 durante un evento dedicato.

Nuove funzionalità e miglioramenti

Secondo Huawei, HarmonyOS 6 introduce una piattaforma più elegante, intuitiva e performante, con un’attenzione particolare alla connettività tra dispositivi e alla riduzione della latenza.

Il sistema integra inoltre un’intelligenza artificiale più avanzata e aperta, progettata per semplificare l’interazione uomo-macchina e migliorare la produttività.

Il framework intelligente HMAF (HarmonyOS Intelligent Body Framework)

rappresenta una delle principali novità: consente aggiornamenti dinamici di app e meta-servizi, ottimizzando la collaborazione tra dispositivi e rendendo l’esperienza utente più naturale e coerente.
Anche Xiaoyi, l’assistente virtuale di Huawei, riceverà un significativo potenziamento con nuove capacità proattive e una maggiore comprensione contestuale.

Anteprime e rilascio per sviluppatori

Nei mesi precedenti, Huawei ha avviato più fasi di test per sviluppatori e early adopters, con diverse sessioni di reclutamento per accedere alle versioni preliminari del sistema.
Le versioni beta hanno già consentito di valutare le nuove funzionalità e la stabilità complessiva della piattaforma, con feedback positivi da parte della community.

La serie Mate 80 sarà la prima con HarmonyOS 6

Secondo alcune indiscrezioni, la serie Huawei Mate 80, attesa per novembre, sarà la prima a integrare ufficialmente HarmonyOS 6.
Non è escluso che durante la conferenza del 22 ottobre venga comunicata anche la data di debutto dei nuovi smartphone.

Dalla fase “NEXT” al rilascio definitivo

Gli utenti che hanno partecipato ai test interni hanno notato che il suffisso “NEXT” è stato rimosso dal nome del sistema, che ora appare semplicemente come HarmonyOS 6.0.
La denominazione “HarmonyOS NEXT” era stata introdotta durante la Huawei Developer Conference dell’agosto 2023, quando l’azienda aveva annunciato l’ingresso nella fase di sviluppo del sistema operativo completamente nativo.
Con il consolidamento dell’ecosistema, Huawei ha deciso di eliminare l’etichetta “NEXT”, segnalando il passaggio definitivo a una piattaforma stabile e completa.

L'articolo Huawei presenta HarmonyOS 6: ecco il nuovo sistema operativo in arrivo il 22 ottobre proviene da Red Hot Cyber.

Quand'è che abbiamo iniziato a pensare che vedere rifiuti in giro fosse normale? Ormai non c'è città, paese, spiaggia o bosco dove non se ne trovino. In alcuni casi sono anche tanti.

Per quanto riguarda la mia città, ormai ci avviamo a diventare uno dei centri abitati più luridi d'Italia; non dico che si vedano i mucchi di rifiuti ma ormai in giro si vede di tutto, dal polistirolo a pallini fino ai vestiti.

E' un grave problema a mio avviso, sotto molti punti di vista: anzitutto per l'ambiente, ma anche per l'immagine di una delle amministrazioni la cui corrente qui governa da 80 anni (la sinistra) e che vorrebbe darsi l'immagine di essere "quella giusta", quella che amministra bene.

Io ho l'impressione che ce la cantiamo e ce la suoniamo.

Negli ultimi anni è stata introdotta la raccolta porta a porta, togliendo numerosi bidoni per rifiuti dalla città, e da quel momento le cose sono precipitate. E questo mi porta al secondo punto, la domanda che mi ponevo all'inizio di questa riflessione.

Cosa porta le persone a pensare che va bene gettare a terra i rifiuti a casaccio? Per me c'è un'imbarbarimento collettivo, ma quando cerco di farlo notare, mi si dice a più voci che "i problemi sono altri".

E ignorare il problema che cerco di mettere in luce, nel frattempo, non risolve neanche gli altri.

#rifiuti #inquinamento #spazzatura #inciviltà @Ambiente - Sostenibilità e giustizia climatica

As any generation of people get older, they tend to look back fondly on their formative years when there was less responsibility and more wonder. Even if things have objectively improved, we often have a fondness for the past. Such is the case for cable television, where even though ads were everywhere and nothing was on-demand, we can see that something was lost from this era in the modern streaming ecosystem. [Ricardo] brought back the good parts of this golden era of cable TV with this small channel surfing television.

The project attempts to keep the good parts of this era while discarding things we certainly don’t miss. The ability to channel surf is still here, with a rotary encoder standing in for an antique television channel selector knob, but dealing with any telecommunications company is out, including those of the Internet variety. Instead it is a fully offline machine with the user able to curate their own channels and programming with a Flask application, and [Ricardo]’s includes his own collection of commercials from Argentina.

The hardware itself is fairly straightforward as well, with a Raspberry Pi doing the heavy lifting, paired with a small screen and enclosed in a retro-themed television case. It’s a clever throwback to a time where we might not know what we wanted to see but there was always something on. Builds like this are gaining popularity right now as well, and we’ve even seen them recreate the cable company’s preview channel as well.

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The spectrum of laser technologies available to hackers has gradually widened from basic gas lasers through CO2 tubes, diode lasers, and now fiber lasers. One of the newer entries is the MOPA laser, which combines a laser diode with a fiber-based light amplifier. The diode’s pulse length and repetition rate are easy to control, while the fiber amplifier gives it enough power to do interesting things – including, as [Ben Krasnow] found, etch hologram-like diffraction gratings onto stainless steel.

Stainless steel works because it forms a thin oxide layer when heated, with a thickness determined by the temperature it reaches. The oxide layer creates thin-film interference with incoming light, letting the laser mark parts of a steel sheet with different colors by varying the intensity of heating. [Ben] wrote a script to etch color images onto steel using this method, and noticed in one experiment that one area seemed to produce diffraction patterns. More experimentation revealed that the laser could consistently make diffraction gratings out of parallel patterns of oxide lines. Surprisingly, the oxide layer seemed to grow mostly down into the metal, instead of up from the surface.

The pitch of the grating is perpendicular to the direction of the etched lines, and varying the line spacing changes the angle of diffraction, which should in theory be enough control to print a hologram with the laser. [Ben]’s first experiment in this general direction was to create a script that turned black-and-white photographs into shimmering matrices of diffraction-grating pixels, in which each pixel’s grating orientation was determined by its brightness. To add a parallax depth effect, [Ben] spread out images into a gradient in a diffraction grating, so that it produced different images at different angles. The images were somewhat limited by the minimum size required for the grating pixels, but the effect was quite noticeable.

Unfortunately, since the oxide layers grow down into the metal, [Ben] doubts whether the laser can etch molds for diffraction-grating chocolate. If you’re interested in more diffraction optics, check out these custom diffraction lenses or the workings of normal holograms.

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You’ve got a laser cutter. You’ve got a 3D printer. What do you make? [Ayushmaan45] suggests a telescope. The modest instrument isn’t going to do serious astronomy with only 8X worth of optics, but it would make a fine spyglass for a youngster.

The body is cut from MDF, and there are only a few 3D printed parts. The only other things you need are rubber bands and a pair of lenses. You don’t even need glue. We might have spray painted the inside of the scope black or used some black contact paper to cut down on reflections, although it probably wouldn’t make much difference.

Of course, depending on your lenses, you may have to make some changes. Or find new lenses, for that matter. We like that it doesn’t take any exotic parts. We also appreciate that it is easy for kids to take apart and put back together. It would be interesting to see how a motivated kid might alter the design, as well.

If a kid gets interested, you could move on to a more sophisticated telescope. Or maybe you’d prefer a nice microscope.

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As protesters paint signs for another round of “No Kings” demonstrations this Saturday, journalists are getting ready in their own way: Charging camera batteries, notifying emergency contacts, and rinsing old tear gas off their shatter-resistant goggles.

At similar events since June, well over a hundred journalists have been injured, detained, or arrested by police. Now two cities — Los Angeles, California, and Chicago, Illinois — are expecting their largest protests since federal judges issued multiple rulings exempting the press from general dispersal orders and restricting law enforcement use of “less lethal” munitions.

Those are big wins on paper, but only if you know how to use them.

The law exists in two separate but unequal places: the court and the street. And you’ll never win a philosophical argument on a skirmish line.

Sure, you’re probably right. You’re armed with the First Amendment. But the average police officer is armed with a baton, handcuffs, body armor, tear gas, and at least a couple of guns. They may also be tired, overwhelmed, hungry, and see you standing between them and a bathroom break.

As they’ve been known to say, “You can beat the rap, but you can’t beat the ride.”

It’s no longer “Listen to me,” it’s ideally “Here’s a signed order from your boss.”

Covering a protest, an immigration raid, or an immigration hearing is no place to give up your rights. Instead, you can learn to invoke them more effectively.

The press is one of two professions (alongside religious practitioners) distinguished by its constitutionally guaranteed freedoms. Policing is the opposite, marked by rigid command structure and a sworn duty to enforce very specific codes and regulations.

But cops are supposed to be trained and held accountable by their department. They shouldn’t need reminding of the law they’re supposed to uphold. And it’s not the job of journalists to train them.

As professional communicators, journalists may find it more productive to translate conversations into the language of law enforcement.

For example, in California, it won’t get you very far to tell an officer you’re exempt from dispersal orders thanks to “Senate Bill 98.” You might be talking to a kid fresh out of the police academy or a detective pulled off desk duty to earn overtime. They have no idea what passed the statehouse four years ago. At best, they’re trained to speak in terms of “penal code.” Mentioning “Penal Code 409.7,” the statute established by that bill, might be your better ticket out of handcuffs. (This state law only applies to local law enforcement, not to federal operations like Immigration or Customs Enforcement or other Department of Homeland Security agencies.)

For journalists in the Chicago and Los Angeles areas, recent court rulings, including one for the LA Press Club in which I’m a plaintiff, have made things much clearer. Ideally you don’t need to print out 80 pages of preliminary injunctions. An officer will likely ignore that anyway, figuring it’s up to department lawyers to interpret. Instead, try to print the version of orders their boss(’s boss’s boss) was required to issue. The following list of PDFs are being updated as those materials are released by each agency, so use your judgment and print what might be applicable to your situation.

• Chicago-area Temporary Restraining Order (Northern District of Illinois)
  
  • As each DHS subsidiary agency provided their own cover sheet to personnel, it may be useful to print each of the following.
  • Federal Protective Service Cover Sheet
  • Immigration and Customs Enforcement Cover Sheet
  • Customs and Border Patrol Cover Sheet
  • Department of Justice Cover Sheet

  
  

• Los Angeles Police Department’s “Chief’s Notice” to all personnel
  
  • This is an earlier version based on an initial TRO. It will be updated with a newer version based on a more recent preliminary injunction, which is even more favorable to press.

  
  

• LA-area Preliminary Injunction (Central District of California)
  
  • DHS has not shared details on how this order was distributed. As a longer document, you may wish to only print the cover page along with pages 43 to 45, which contain the injunction itself.

  
  

This puts things in law enforcement terms — from the top of their command structure. It’s no longer “Listen to me,” it’s ideally “Here’s a signed order from your boss.”

You want a printed copy, since your phone could run out of battery, be lost, or shatter. And it’s never a good idea to hand your unlocked phone to police. Also, if you need to pull out these orders (or a press pass), state clearly what you’re reaching for before placing your hand in a pocket or bag. Officers don’t love those sorts of unannounced movements.

A piece of paper isn’t much of a shield from a raging officer swinging a baton and screaming, “Leave the area.” But if you can engage with them, you want to ensure the precious few words that they hear will resonate. And it bears repeating: Everyone has a boss.

Protests involve a lot of turnover on the front line, so you may never see the same officer twice. If possible, communicate early and often. Ask to meet a supervisor or public information officer during a calm moment, and get their name so you can ask for them if you have trouble later on.

Unfortunately, even a signed order from the chief isn’t always a “get out of jail free” card. After a temporary restraining order was issued against the LAPD this summer, officers still put several journalists in zip ties during a protest. Two lawyers who had won the TRO showed up with a copy of official paperwork instructing officers to leave press alone. After they handed it to the incident commander, police still drove two photojournalists away in the back of a squad car.

The LAPD later suggested those photographers were ”pretending to be media.” The pair’s credits include The Atlantic, The New Yorker, Business Insider, The Washington Post, New York Magazine, Rolling Stone, Mother Jones, and even a cover for Time magazine.

A federal judge later wrote of the LAPD, “The Court expresses no approval for this conduct. To the contrary, the evidence presented is disturbing and, at the very least, shows that Defendants violated the spirit if not the letter of the Court’s initial restraining order.”

Of course, the photojournalists beat the rap. But they didn’t beat the ride.

Attending a protest outside of LA or Chicago? You still have First Amendment rights, even if you don’t have a court order. The U.S. Press Freedom Tracker has been investigating and documenting serious violations in cities from New York to Portland, Oregon. If you experience or witness law enforcement violating press rights anywhere in the country, please send us tips and any available evidence to tips@pressfreedomtracker.us.

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Dear Friend of Press Freedom,

It’s been two weeks since Atlanta journalist Mario Guevara was deported and 207 days since Rümeysa Öztürk was arrested for co-writing an op-ed. Read on for more about this weekend’s planned protests, actions you can take to protect journalists, and events you can catch us at this month.

When the law’s on your side but ICE doesn’t care

As protesters paint signs for another round of “No Kings” demonstrations this Saturday, journalists are getting ready in their own way: charging camera batteries, notifying emergency contacts, and rinsing old tear gas residue off their shatter-resistant goggles.

Two cities — Los Angeles, California, and Chicago, Illinois — are expecting their largest protests since federal judges issued multiple rulings exempting the press from general dispersal orders and restricting law enforcement’s use of “less lethal” munitions.

Those are big wins for journalists, but only if they know how to use them. Our new deputy director of advocacy at Freedom of the Press Foundation (FPF), Adam Rose, wrote about how journalists can prepare for the weekend. Read more here.

Administration ignores flotilla abuses

Three U.S. journalists have been abducted from aid flotillas bound for Gaza and detained by Israel. All three reported experiencing or witnessing abuse and even torture.

Photojournalist Noa Avishag Schnall recalled, “I was hung from the metal shackles on my wrists and ankles and beaten in the stomach, back, face, ear and skull by a group of men and women guards, one of whom sat on my neck and face, blocking my airways … Our cell was awoken with threats of rape.”

Jewish Currents reporter Emily Wilder said she “announced … ‘I’m a journalist, I’m press.’ The woman to my left hissed, ‘We don’t give a fuck,’ and the other dug her nails into my scalp and pulled me by my hair across the port.”

In normal times, this would be a major scandal. We joined Defending Rights & Dissent and others in a letter to Secretary of State Marco Rubio explaining what should be obvious — the U.S. shouldn’t sit silently as its ally assaults its journalists. Read it here.

First rule of Qatari jets? Don’t talk about Qatari jets

We sued the Trump administration for refusing to share its legal rationale for approving the president’s acceptance of a $400 million jet from the Qatari government, despite the Constitution saying he can’t do that. Now the administration wants to strike our complaint, claiming the background discussion of the gifted jet is “impertinent” and “scandalous.”

That’s rich, especially weeks after the president’s frivolous defamation lawsuit against The New York Times got dismissed for rambling on about how he was once on WrestleMania and “The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air” (he’s since filed an amended complaint).

Read about our response.

Public records expert: ‘We can do better’

If fewer newspapers exist to request public records, does the government become less transparent? That’s the question at the heart of “Dark Deserts,” a new research paper by David Cuillier of the Freedom of Information Project at the Brechner Center for Advancement of the First Amendment and law student Brett Posner-Ferdman.

Cuillier told us about what he and Posner-Ferdman found and what it means for the public’s right to know. Read the interview here.

Standing with student journalists

Last week we told you about the lawsuit filed by The Stanford Daily to stop the Trump administration’s unconstitutional and appalling push to deport foreign students who say or write things it doesn’t like.

This week we joined the American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California, the First Amendment Coalition, and others in a legal brief in support of that important lawsuit.

Read it here.

Congressional secrecy bill advances

The Senate passed Sens. Ted Cruz and Amy Klobuchar’s bill to protect themselves — but not you — from data broker abuses and otherwise allow federal lawmakers to censor the internet.

FPF’s Caitlin Vogus wrote for The Dallas Morning News about how the bill threatens journalism — for example, by stifling reporting on its co-sponsor vacationing while his constituents endure natural disasters. Read more here.

Tell the House to kill the bill.

What we’re reading

Pentagon reporters have now turned in their badges – but plan to keep reporting (The Guardian). Journalists told The Guardian, “the restrictions won’t stop the work, with some even saying they plan to take a more aggressive tack.” Good. The policy is highly unconstitutional, but it’s an opportunity to omit Pentagon lies and spin from reporting.

LAPD wants judge to lift an order restricting use of force against the press (LAist). Rose, who is also press rights chair for the LA Press Club, said that “Instead of holding the department accountable, the city is spending even more money to hire an outside law firm so they can effectively beg a judge for permission to keep assaulting journalists for just doing their job.”

Facebook suspends popular Chicago ICE-sightings group at Trump administration’s request (Chicago Sun-Times). So much for Facebook’s renewed commitment to free speech. And so much for this administration’s condemnation of social media censorship.

Victory: Federal court halts Texas’ ‘no First Amendment after dark’ campus speech ban (FIRE). A federal court blocked a ridiculous law that banned almost all speech on public college campuses in Texas at night, including student journalism. As we explained in the Houston Chronicle, free speech does not have a curfew.

Upcoming FPF events

Oct. 22: Join FPF’s Adam Rose and others on Oct. 22 at 3 p.m. EDT for an online conversation hosted by the American Constitution Society about the impact of federal law enforcement violence on your First Amendment rights. Register here.

Oct. 24: If you’re in Chicago and fortunate enough to not have to hide from ICE invaders, come to Northwestern for a panel on Oct. 24 at 10 a.m. CT featuring FPF Advocacy Director Seth Stern. We’ll discuss the numerous digital and physical challenges journalists are facing. Register here.

Oct. 29: FPF’s Caitlin Vogus will join an online panel of experts to break down how the Federal Communications Commission and Federal Trade Commission are targeting journalists and the First Amendment and how to fight back. Register here for the Center for Democracy and Technology’s Future of Speech 2025, “Working the Refs” panel on Oct. 29 at 12:10 p.m. EDT.

That same day, join us for a conversation about making public records-based reporting free, featuring Vogus as well as our Chair on Government Secrecy Lauren Harper, in conversation with leadership at Wired and 404 Media, including Wired global editorial director and FPF board member Katie Drummond. The event starts at 2 p.m. EDT; RSVP on Zoom here.

Oct. 30: Join an online discussion on Oct. 30 at 1 p.m. EDT about digital safety and legal rights for journalists reporting on immigration in the U.S., featuring FPF Director of Digital Security Harlo Holmes and several other experts from the U.S. Journalist Assistance Network. Register here.

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“Il sito comprato da Ama per realizzare l’inceneritore alla cifra astronomica di sette milioni e mezzo di euro è oggetto di indagini della Procura di Roma e della Corte dei conti è contaminato” è quanto dichiara in una nota l’Unione dei Comitati contro l’inceneritore.

“A metterlo nero su bianco – precisa la nota dell’Unione dei Comitati - sono le indagini di caratterizzazione ambientale del suolo svolte nel primo semestre del 2024 da Acea Infrastrutture che hanno evidenziato molteplici superamenti delle CSC per idrocarburi pesanti e degli IPA.
Appaiono particolarmente gravi – incalzano dall’Unione dei Comitati - le omissioni di Ama e dell’Amministrazione capitolina. La municipalizzata ha omesso di avviare le procedure obbligatorie attuando le misure di prevenzione stabilite dall'articolo 242 del codice dell’ambiente mentre l’amministrazione capitolina guidata da Gualtieri ha proseguito l’iter che ha portato alla validazione del progetto in un sito contaminato. L’amministrazione capitolina ha pertanto ignorato il principio di precauzione di derivazione europea stabilito che avrebbe imposto di indagare, origine, estensione e profondità della contaminazione la cui origine antropica in relazione agli idrocarburi pesanti e agli IPA è fuori discussione.
“Nell’ambito delle osservazioni alla VIA e sulla base del principio di precauzione stabilito dall’ articolo 191 del Trattato sul funzionamento dell’Unione europea – concludono dall’Unione – abbiamo pertanto chiesto di sospendere la VIA e il PAUR fin quando non fosse completato l’espletamento dell’insieme delle procedure obbligatorie necessarie alla caratterizzazione del sito. Infine, abbiamo sollecitato un intervento in autotutela finalizzato al previo espletamento delle procedure di caratterizzazione del sito accompagnato dalla sospensione della VIA e del PAUR evitando il danno erariale legato ai maggiori costi da sostenere per la bonifica per l’avvio in fasi successive”.