The mummified remains of two duck-billed dinosaurs exposing skin, spikes, flesh, the first reptilian hooves ever discovered.
There’s a Dinosaur ‘Mummy Zone.’ Here’s What Scientists Found There.
Welcome back to a special scary installment of the Abstract! Is Halloween over? Technically yes. But as lovers of spooky season will know, the fallout from Halloween—when dawn reveals the remains of the festivities—is an extension of the day itself. That is why I have assembled a parade of horrors for you this morning.First, ancient mummies from a watery grave. Then: : let’s get tangled up in one of the great mysteries of spider webs; watch out for the venomous snakes; and lastly, scientists literally ask where the bodies are buried.
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And now, Halloween is over but the darkness lingers on…
Prepare to enter the “mummy zone”
If you think human mummies are scary, wait until you meet dinosaur mummies.
Paleontologists have discovered the mummified remains of two duck-billed dinosaurs that belong to the species Edmontosaurus (go Oilers!) annectens, which lived 66 million years ago in what is now Wyoming.
The immaculate preservation of the animals—a 2-year-old juvenile and young adult that was roughly 5 to 8 years old—exposed unprecedented corporeal details, such as intricate polygonal scales, spinal spikes, fleshy contours, skin wrinkles, and the first hooves ever identified in a dinosaur (or any reptile), making them the oldest hooves in the fossil record.
The scaly skin of a crest over the back of the juvenile duck-billed dinosaur Edmontosaurus annectens, nicknamed "Ed Jr." Image: Tyler Keillor/Fossil Lab
“The late juvenile is the first subadult dinosaur mummy on record and the first large-bodied dinosaur preserving the fleshy midline over the trunk,” said researchers led by Paul Sereno of the University of Chicago. “The early adult is the first hadrosaurid to preserve the entire spike row from hips to tail tip and the first reptile preserving wedge-shaped pedal hooves.”
These “end-Cretaceous E. annectens preserve the oldest hoof renderings for any tetrapod, the first record of hooves in a reptile” and “the first instance of a hooved tetrapod capable of bipedal locomotion,” the team added.
Dinosaur hoof. Image: Tyler Keillor/UChicago Fossil Lab
For more than a century, paleontologists have discovered dinosaur mummies in what the team delightfully calls the “mummy zone” of the Lance Formation of east-central Wyoming. In addition to adding new specimens to this collection, Sereno and his colleagues have also shed light on the rare process of “clay templating” that produces this preservation of mummified flesh, skin, and other soft tissues.
As the carcasses of these Edmontosaurs dried in the Cretaceous sun, they were suddenly immersed under a flash flood that left a thin biofilm over their skin, preserving the three-dimensional soft tissues in time. The team concluded that “the extraordinary preservation of the ‘mummy zone’ is due to rapid subsidence in a coastal setting subject to seasonal drought-flood cycles.”
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While it’s sad that these dinos died young, it’s a miracle that we can observe their flesh, skin, and hooves 66 million years later. Anyway, it’s not as if they had much to look forward to, since the die was already cast for the non-avian dinosaurs. In this case, the die is an apocalyptic space rock to which we humans owe our existence—and the reality of these cosmic gambles of fate is frankly scarier than any mummy, even a dinosaur mummy, ever could be.In other news…
Deck the halls with stabilimenta
Halloween revelers will be taking down their decorative spider-web today, but real spiders keep their web decor up all year long. Researchers have long struggled to make sense of the silky zigzag ornaments that some spiders weave, known as “stabilimenta,” which could serve as insect attractors, predator defense, thermal protection, or water collection. Nobody is really sure!
An example of stabilimentum in Argiope bruennichi web. Image: Pierluigi Rizzo (member of Aracnofilia - Italian Society of Arachnology), CC-BY 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/b…)
Now, a team has suggested that stabilimenta might be vibrational amplifiers that help alert spiders to prey impacting the web. “No studies have yet investigated how web decorations affect vibration propagation in orb webs,” said researchers led by Gabriele Greco of the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences. By studying wasp spiders in Sardinia, the team found that in certain cases, ”the presence of the stabilimentum enhances the spider’s ability to detect prey location…compared to webs without a stabilimentum.”
“However, from a biological standpoint, the high variability in stabilimentum geometry suggests that the observed differences in elastic wave propagation are unlikely to have a consistent or significant functional role,” the team added.
In other words, these web decorations still defy a one-size-fits-all explanation. My own hypothesis is that they are just the dorm room posters of the spider world.
A new antivenom bites back
Though I am a militant ophiophilist, even I can see how a clade of dangerous limbless weirdos ended up becoming so widely feared and maligned. Snakes kill tens of thousands of people per year, an ongoing tragedy that has galvanized researchers to develop antivenom “cocktails” that could treat snakebit emergencies across many species while also mitigating adverse immunological reactions.
A new study has now addressed this challenge “by immunizing an alpaca and a llama with the venoms of 18 different snakes, including mambas, cobras and rinkhals,” said researchers led by Shirin Ahmadi of the Technical University of Denmark.
The cocktail “effectively prevented venom-induced lethality in vivo across 17 African elapid snake species” and “shows considerable promise for comprehensive, continent-wide protection against snakebites by all medically relevant African elapids,” the team added.
While it will take much more research to prove it is safe and effective in humans, the antivenom is a significant step toward preventing snakebite deaths and injuries. It's also about the only cocktail that you hope you’ll never have the desire to order.
The more (dead), the merrier
We’ll close on that most hallowed of Halloween traditions—a trip to the haunted cemetery.
In an unprecedented study, researchers mapped out tens of thousands of ancient Chinese tombs spanning the past 4,000 years since the Xia Dynasty. The team used mapping software to analyze the age and location of the tombs to search for clues about the social and political impacts on burial locations.
The shift trajectory of burials across different historical periods. Image: Ma et al., 2025, PLOS One, CC-BY 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/b…)
“The number of ancient tombs varied significantly across historical periods” with the Qing dynasty (1644 - 1912) accounting for 47.012 percent of the national total, while the Sui dynasty (581 - 618) had only 0.134 percent, according to researchers led by Quanbao Ma of the Beijing University of Civil Engineering and Architecture.
“From a temporal perspective, periods of frequent dynastic transitions and wars in Chinese history were often accompanied by significant population declines and migrations,” the team added. “However, during post-war recovery and periods of societal stability, population numbers typically rebounded and grew rapidly, which was also reflected in the increasing number of deceased individuals requiring burial.”
In other words, contrary to Halloween lore, it can be a good sign to find a lot of dead bodies in one place because it’s often an indicator of more peaceful and stable times (dead bodies, after all, are the product of living ones). What might be more creepy is an absence of graves in your general vicinity. With that in mind, go visit your local ghosts; they are great company this time of year.
Thanks for reading! See you next week.
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Malware Android ruba carte di credito con tecnologia NFC
Nei paesi dell’Europa orientale si è registrato un rapido aumento di app Android dannose che sfruttano la tecnologia di trasferimento dati contactless per rubare carte di credito.
Secondo Zimperium, negli ultimi mesi sono stati rilevati oltre 760 programmi che utilizzano la tecnologia NFC per l’accesso non autorizzato alle informazioni di pagamento.
A differenza dei trojan bancari che falsificano le interfacce o ottengono l’accesso remoto ai dispositivi, questo nuovo tipo di malware utilizza il meccanismo di emulazione della carta host, consentendo a uno smartphone di imitare una carta bancaria.
Queste app intercettano i campi del protocollo EMV, rispondono alle richieste del terminale con comandi preimpostati o le inoltrano a un server remoto, dove vengono generate le risposte corrette per completare la transazione senza l’intervento del titolare della carta.
Tali attacchi sono stati rilevati per la prima volta in Polonia nel 2023, poi sono comparsi nella Repubblica Ceca e infine si sono diffusi in Russia. Nel tempo, sono emerse diverse varianti dello schema: programmi che trasmettono dati di pagamento tramite Telegram ; toolkit che inoltrano comandi APDU ai dispositivi associati; i cosiddetti pagamenti “fantasma”, in cui le risposte del sistema vengono falsificate in tempo reale; nonché app web e app bancarie fittizie che si registrano come metodo di pagamento principale sul dispositivo.
Gli analisti di Zimperium sottolineano che la popolarità di tali strumenti nell’Europa orientale è in rapida crescita. Sebbene all’inizio del 2023 siano stati riscontrati esempi isolati, ora il loro numero ammonta a centinaia. Per coordinare le loro operazioni, gli aggressori utilizzano oltre 70 server di comando e controllo, piattaforme di distribuzione di app e decine di bot di Telegram attraverso i quali vengono trasmessi i dati rubati.
Le app fraudolente spesso si mascherano da noti servizi di pagamento e banche. Si consiglia agli utenti di scaricare app bancarie solo da siti web ufficiali, evitare di installare file APK da fonti di terze parti e prestare attenzione alle richieste sospette di NFC o di accesso ai servizi in background.
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Ecco cosa dice il Global Peace index del 2025 - Info Data
I decessi causati dai conflitti globali hanno raggiunto il livello più alto degli ultimi venticinque anni.Enrico Calabrese (Info Data)
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Il dibattito sul ponte sullo stretto di Messina di questi giorni va oltre la politica. I rilievi della Corte dei conti non sono un atto di ostruzionismo, ma l’esercizio di una funzione di garanzia che tutela la legalità, la trasparenza e la corretta gestione delle risorse pubbliche. In un sistema democratico equilibrato, il controllo non è un freno, ma uno strumento di responsabilità.
Il progetto del ponte muove circa 14 miliardi di euro, coinvolge interessi strategici e incide sull’ambiente, sull’economia e sulla coesione territoriale. È naturale, e necessario, che la Corte chieda chiarezza su piani finanziari, sostenibilità economica e conformità giuridica degli atti, per assicurare che ogni fase rispetti le norme sui contratti pubblici e sulla spesa dello Stato.
Nel caso del governo Meloni, la spinta verso una realizzazione rapida dell’opera è ovvia: il ponte è diventato un simbolo politico, un progetto identitario che promette infrastrutture e sviluppo. Tuttavia, l’urgenza non può sostituire la trasparenza né giustificare forzature amministrative. Il ruolo della Corte è proprio quello di ricordare che una grande opera vive solo se fondata su basi legali solide e su una gestione finanziaria sostenibile.
Parlare di “attacco” o “ostacolo” da parte della Corte significa travisare la sua missione costituzionale. La funzione di controllo serve a rafforzare la credibilità dell’azione di governo, non a limitarla. In un periodo in cui il debito pubblico pesa e i margini di spesa sono stretti, è fondamentale che ogni euro investito sia tracciabile e coerente con i vincoli di legge.
La correttezza dei rilievi contabili sta nel richiamare l’attenzione su elementi tecnici che non possono essere ignorati: la revisione dei contratti con i concessionari, la copertura finanziaria pluriennale, la valutazione dei rischi ambientali e la trasparenza delle gare. Sono queste le condizioni per evitare arbitrio, sprechi o contenziosi futuri che rallenterebbero ulteriormente i lavori. La vera modernizzazione non è solo costruire infrastrutture, ma farlo rispettando le regole e garantendo che la spesa pubblica sia un investimento per tutti, non un rischio collettivo.
Ora serve che il governo Meloni abbandoni la retorica distrattiva. Se davvero la priorità è costruire il futuro dell’Italia, si dimostri di saperlo fare passando dal rispetto delle leggi e dall’ascolto delle istituzioni di controllo. Solo così questa opera potrà essere il simbolo di un paese credibile, non di una stagione di scorciatoie, e non divenire l’ennesimo fallimento di un esecutivo che, per ora, non ha portato a casa quasi nulla.
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Cosa è successo al Linux Day Fabriano 2025 👀
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E bravo Crosetto...
«Quelle persone vanno prese a calci e mandate via» - Il Post
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«Quelle persone vanno prese a calci e mandate via»
L'ha detto il ministro della Difesa Guido Crosetto, di Fratelli d'Italia, del gruppo che cantava cori fascisti nella sede del suo partito a ParmaIl Post
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La Gaza Cola è una bibita che ho scoperto oggi grazie ad un video di cui lascio il link a seguire. Il nome già da sé indica il suo obiettivo umanitario: il ricavato della vendita andrà per la ricostruzione di Gaza. In Italia è in vendita da poco quindi la sua diffusione è ancora limitata.
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Anduril accelera sul suo loyal wingman. Effettuati i primi test di volo del “Fury”
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Il loyal wingman di Anduril prende ufficialmente il volo. Venerdì scorso, secondo quanto affermato dalla stessa Us Air Force, il prototipo dell’Yfq-44A “Fury” realizzato dalla start-up americana avrebbe iniziato ufficialmente i test di volo in una località
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Presentazione del volume di Antonella Attanasio “Don Diego alla corte roveresca di Casteldurante: l’Historia naturale dell’elefante” 12 novembre 2025, ore 17.00
Conoscete la storia dell’elefante Don Diego?
Venite a scoprirla il 12 novembre alla Biblioteca Universitaria Alessandrina!
Verrà presentato il volume “Don Diego alla corte roveresca di Casteldurante: l’Historia naturale dell’elefante” di Antonella Attanasio.
Primo dei “Quaderni” della collana “Immaginare i Saperi” per De Luca Editori d’Arte
Interventi di:
Daniela Fugaro, direttrice della Biblioteca Universitaria Alessandrina
Massimo Moretti, Sapienza Università di Roma
Lucia Tomasi Tongiorgi, Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei
Antonella Sbrilli, Sapienza Università di Roma
Ore 17.00 Sala Bio Bibliografica
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Volumetric Display Takes a Straight Forward (and Backward) Approach
There’s something delightfully sci-fi about any kind of volumetric display. Sure, you know it’s not really a hologram, and Princess Leia isn’t about to pop out and tell you you’re her only hope, but nothing says “this is the future” like an image floating before you in 3D. [Matthew Lim] has put together an interesting one, using persistence-of-vision and linear motion.
The basic concept is so simple we’re kind of surprised we don’t see it more often. Usually, POV displays use rotary motion: on a fan, a globe, a disk, or even a drone, we’ve seen all sorts of spinning LEDs tricking the brain into thinking there’s an image to be seen. [Matthew’s] is apparently the kind of guy who sticks to the straight-and-narrow, on the other hand, because his POV display uses linear motion.
An ESP32-equipped LED matrix module is bounced up by an ordinary N20 motor that’s equipped with an encoder and driven by a DRV8388. Using an encoder and the motor driver makes sure that the pixels on the LED matrix are synced perfectly to the up-and-down motion, allowing for volumetric effects. This seems like a great technique, since it eliminates the need for slip rings you might have with rotary POV displays. It does of course introduce its own challenges, given that inertia is a thing, but I think we can agree the result speaks for itself.
One interesting design choice is that the display is moved by a simple rack-and-pinion, requiring the motor to reverse 16 times per second. We wonder if a crank wouldn’t be easier on the hardware. Software too, since [matthew] has to calibrate for backlash in the gear train. In any case, the stroke length of 20 mm creates a cubical display since the matrix is itself 20 mm x 20 mm. (That’s just over 3/4″, or about twice the with of a french fry.) In that 20 mm, he can fit eight layers, so not a great resolution on the Z-axis but enough for us to call it “volumetric” for sure. A faster stroke is possible, but it both reduces the height of the display and increases wear on the components, which are mostly 3D printed, after all.
It’s certainly an interesting technique, and the speechless (all subtitles) video is worth watching– at least the first 10 seconds so you can see this thing in action.
Thanks to [carl] for the tip. If a cool project persists in your vision, do please let us know.
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io credo (ma non è che ci si possa basare alcuna strategia) che l'arsenale atomico russo, dopo tutti questi anni di incuria, sia ormai da considerare per lo più "scaduto". per mancanza di manutenzione e rinnovamento. le atomiche non sono cose che metto in un magazzino e durano secoli. il materiale fissile è instabile per necessità stessa di essere bomba e generare un'esplosione. un'instabilità "finemente" "calibrata". e tutti questi proclami di putin, non fanno che alimentare questi dubbi. le atomiche nel mondo sono in dato "acquisito" e ovvio, e pure parlarne rende per certi versi più dubbia l'esistenza. se puoi già nuclearizzare tutto il mondo perché hai bisogno di nuove armi? esiste la possibilità, ma spero di non dovermi mai cacare sotto per provarlo, che in caso di vero conflitto atomico, la russia sia nuclearizzata (2-3 città in tutto, tanto basta) ma sospetto che in europa o usa arriverebbero i classici missili armati di bandierina con la scritta ("il materiale fissile si trova nel magazzino AB92S").
ovviamente ripeto, non è il caso di provare questa cosa.
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Sotto i ghiacci dell’Antartide scoperto un enorme corpo granitico sepolto da 175 milioni di anni
Sotto il ghiacciaio di Pine Island, in Antartide occidentale, è stato scoperto un enorme corpo granitico largo circa 100 km e spesso circa 7 km, nascosto da 175 milioni di anni.Ilaria Polastro (Geopop)
Guerre di Rete - Il riepilogo del mese
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ChatControl Gets Coup-De-Grace
Possibly the biggest privacy story of the year for Europeans and, by extension the rest of the world, has been ChatControl. Chatcontrol is a European Union proposal backed by Denmark for a mandatory backdoor in all online communications. As always with these things, it was touted as a think-of-the-children solution to online child abuse material, but as many opposed to it have warned, that concealed far more sinister possibilities. For now, it seems we can breathe easily as the Danes are reported to have formally backed away from the proposal after it was roundly condemned by the German government, sending it firmly into the political wilderness.
Hackaday readers are likely vastly more informed on this matter than many of the general public, so you’ll have no need for a primer on the obvious privacy and security concerns of such a move. From our point of view, it also suffered from the obvious flaw of being very unlikely to succeed in its stated aim. Even the most blinkered politician should understand that criminals would simply move their traffic to newly-illegal encrypted forms of communication without government backdoors. Perhaps it speaks volumes that it was the Germans who sounded its death-knell, given that state surveillance on that level is very much within living memory for many of them.
The mood in European hackerspaces has been gloomy of late on the subject, so it’s something of a cause for celebration on the continent. If only other governments on the same side of the Atlantic could understand that intrusive measures in the name of thinking of the children don’t work.
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Taiwan lancia un’iniziativa internazionale per la sicurezza dei cavi sottomarini
Il 28 ottobre 2025, durante il Forum di cooperazione sulla sicurezza dei cavi sottomarini Taiwan-UE, svoltosi a Taipei, il ministro degli Esteri taiwanese Lin Chia-lung ha presentato la “Iniziativa Internazionale per la Gestione del Rischio dei Cavi Sottomarini”, sottolineando che non si tratta di un progetto esclusivamente di Taiwan, ma di un accordo di collaborazione globale.
Una partnership per la resilienza delle infrastrutture digitali
L’evento, organizzato congiuntamente dal Centro per la Scienza, la Democrazia e la Società (DSET), dal Formosa Club e dal Ministero degli Affari Esteri, ha riunito esperti, rappresentanti governativi e istituzioni europee.
Tra i relatori è intervenuto Richards Kols, presidente del Formosa Club di Taipei e membro della Commissione per gli Affari Esteri del Parlamento Europeo, che ha aperto i lavori del forum.
Nel suo intervento, Lin ha evidenziato come i cavi sottomarini rappresentino un’infrastruttura critica per le comunicazioni globali, ma allo stesso tempo vulnerabile a incidenti e minacce.
Nella regione indo-pacifica, frequentemente colpita da terremoti, i guasti ai cavi sono un problema costante.
A questi si aggiungono i danni causati da attività umane come pesca, dragaggio, ancoraggio e costruzioni offshore, che ogni anno provocano centinaia di interruzioni e comportano costi di manutenzione significativi per governi e operatori.
Le minacce emergenti: sabotaggio e guerra ibrida
Il ministro ha espresso preoccupazione per i rischi di sabotaggio deliberato, sottolineando come il taglio intenzionale dei cavi possa essere utilizzato come strumento di guerra ibrida o coercizione geopolitica, in grado di compromettere la sicurezza nazionale e l’economia di un Paese.
Negli ultimi anni, Taiwan ha sperimentato direttamente le conseguenze di questi incidenti, in particolare nelle isole periferiche, dove le interruzioni di rete hanno avuto ripercussioni sul commercio, sui servizi finanziari, sulle comunicazioni d’emergenza e sulla vita quotidiana dei cittadini.
Taiwan, nodo strategico nelle comunicazioni globali
Lin ha ricordato che Taiwan occupa una posizione strategica nel sistema delle telecomunicazioni internazionali: numerosi cavi sottomarini passano attraverso o vicino all’isola, collegando l’Indo-Pacifico, il Nord America e l’Europa.
Questa centralità comporta non solo vantaggi economici, ma anche una responsabilità condivisa nella protezione delle reti globali. Secondo il ministro, “la stabilità nello Stretto di Taiwan rappresenta un bene pubblico globale, e Taiwan è pronta a contribuire attivamente alla sua salvaguardia”.
I quattro pilastri dell’iniziativa internazionale
L’Iniziativa Internazionale per la Gestione del Rischio dei Cavi Sottomarini mira a promuovere una cooperazione multilaterale tra Stati, imprese e istituzioni, attraverso quattro obiettivi principali:
- Mitigazione del rischio: rafforzare la manutenzione preventiva, i sistemi di monitoraggio e la capacità di risposta rapida in caso di guasti o minacce.
- Condivisione delle informazioni: istituire canali di scambio e allerta precoce per garantire una comunicazione efficace e tempestiva tra le parti coinvolte.
- Riforma del sistema: promuovere linee guida internazionali condivise e il rispetto delle convenzioni esistenti, come la Convenzione delle Nazioni Unite sul Diritto del Mare, aggiornandole se necessario.
- Sviluppo delle competenze: organizzare formazioni, workshop e programmi di scambio per accrescere le capacità tecniche e operative dei Paesi interessati.
Lin ha concluso sottolineando che l’iniziativa si propone di creare una rete di cooperazione globale, capace di rafforzare la resilienza delle infrastrutture digitali e di proteggere un bene comune fondamentale dell’era moderna: la connettività globale.
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Il grande Indiano che sconfigge BlackRock con la non-violenza e dà inizio allo... scoppio della bolla dei fondi di investimento.
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Nuova Delhi:
In quello che viene descritto come un atto di frode finanziaria "mozzafiato", la divisione di investimento nel credito privato della società di investimenti globale BlackRock e diversi importanti istituti di credito stanno ora cercando di recuperare più di 500 milioni di dollari persi in una frode sui prestiti presumibilmente orchestrata dal dirigente indiano del settore delle telecomunicazioni Bankim Brahmbhatt.
Secondo un rapporto esclusivo del Wall Street Journal , i creditori, tra cui HPS Investment Partners di BlackRock, hanno accusato Brahmbhatt, proprietario delle società di servizi di telecomunicazione Broadband Telecom e Bridgevoice, di aver falsificato fatture e crediti commerciali che erano stati dati in garanzia per prestiti ingenti. La causa, intentata ad agosto negli Stati Uniti, sostiene che la rete di società di Brahmbhatt abbia costruito sulla carta l'illusione di una solida situazione finanziaria, trasferendo denaro all'estero, in India e Mauritius.
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Porno, AI, big tech: un approccio adeguato alla rivoluzione digitale è indispensabile
L'articolo proviene da #StartMag e viene ricondiviso sulla comunità Lemmy @Informatica (Italy e non Italy 😁)
L’intelligenza artificiale è uno strumento formidabile per chi lo sappia usare tecnicamente e possieda la consapevolezza adeguata dei contenuti da reperire,
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Public records are for the public
Dear Friend of Press Freedom,
It’s been 220 days since Rümeysa Öztürk was arrested for co-writing an op-ed the government didn’t like. Read on for news from California, Washington D.C. and Maryland as the government shutdown drags on.
Public records are for the public
When Wired made public records-based stories free, subscriptions went up.
When 404 Media published reporting that relied on the Freedom of Information Act without a paywall, new sources came forward.
Freedom of the Press Foundation (FPF) spoke to Wired Global Editorial Director and FPF board member Katie Drummond, and 404 Media co-founder Joseph Cox about why giving the public access to public records reporting is good for journalism — and for business. Read more here.
Shutting down the government doesn’t shut down the First Amendment
It’s absurd and unconstitutional to exclude reporters from immigration hearings unless they get government permission to attend, especially when it’s impossible to obtain permission due to the government shutdown, and particularly when the current government despises First Amendment freedoms and will use any opportunity to evade transparency.
And yet that’s exactly what an immigration court in Maryland did this week. We wrote a detailed letter to the top judge at the courthouse explaining why they need to reverse course, both to comply with the law and for the sake of democracy. The next day, Capital News Service reported that the court had backed down and lifted the ban. Read the letter here.
No secret police in LA
Award-winning journalist Cerise Castle sued Los Angeles County in July and obtained a court order for the department to release the sheriff’s deputy ID photographs.
But now the county is appealing. Its objection to allowing the public to identify law enforcement officers is especially striking when Angelenos and others across the country are outraged by unidentified, masked federal immigration officers abducting their neighbors. It also comes on the heels of the city of Los Angeles embarrassing itself with its failed effort to sue a journalist for publishing officer photographs.
We connected with Castle’s lawyer, Susan Seager, to try to figure out what the department is thinking. Read more here.
Top three questions about the White House ballroom
FPF’s Daniel Ellsberg Chair on Government Secrecy Lauren Harper has lots of questions about the demolition of a section of the White House to construct a ballroom.
She wrote about three of them for our government secrecy site, The Classifieds: (1) Is there a budget? (2) Who are the donors, and what do they get in return? and (3) Where should we look for answers about what’s going on at the East Wing? Read more here.
What we’re reading
U.S. assessment of Israeli shooting of journalist divided American officials (The New York Times). A retired U.S. colonel has gone public with his concern that the Biden administration’s findings about the 2022 killing of Palestinian-American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh by the Israeli military were “soft-pedaled to appease Israel.” There has been “a miscarriage of justice,” he says.
ICE detains British journalist after criticism of Israel on US tour (The Guardian). The detention of Sami Hamdi by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement solely for his views while on a speaking tour in the U.S. is a blatant assault on free speech. These are the tactics of the thought police.
Trump and Leavitt watch with glee as the press is crumbling (Salon). “As the press becomes more subservient and less independent, the firsthand knowledge needed to even stage a fight to get our mojo back is a whisper in the ether,” writes Brian Karem. That’s why veteran journalists who know how abnormal this all is need to be extra vocal these days.
Atlanta journalist says he ‘won’t be the only’ one deported by Trump officials (The Guardian). “It’s not the way I wanted to come back to my country – deported like a criminal,” journalist Mario Guevara told Briana Erickson of FPF’s U.S. Press Freedom Tracker from El Salvador. Read The Guardian’s story, based on reporting by the Tracker.
One third of all journalists are creator journalists, new report finds (Poynter). It’s no time for gatekeeping. There aren’t enough traditional J-School trained journalists to adequately document every ICE abduction – let alone everything else going on. We appreciate everyone who is exercising their press freedom rights, no matter how they’re categorized.
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LA sheriff ducks journalist’s request for deputy photographs
Award-winning journalist Cerise Castle has some history with the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department. In 2021, she chronicled how deputies formed violent gangs within the department. She then turned “A Tradition of Violence,” her 15-part series for Knock LA, into a podcast by the same name.
Perhaps that’s why the department was spooked when Castle submitted a Public Records Act request for names and official ID photographs of all sworn personnel, “excluding those in undercover assignments.” Or maybe the department was merely committed to following its routine practice of delaying and denying records requests.
In any case, the department produced the names of about 8,500 deputies but refused to produce any photographs except of the sheriff and his undersheriffs. They claimed that producing photographs of the deputies would violate their right to privacy and might endanger them in the future, if they ever go undercover.
But the department’s rationale seemed suspect because it also refused to comply with separate requests for headshots of three deputies who have been convicted of serious felonies, fired, and obviously won’t be sent on any future undercover operations for the department.
Castle won her Los Angeles County Superior Court Public Records Act lawsuit in July, and the court ordered the department to release the deputy ID photographs. But now the county is appealing. Its objection to allowing the public to identify law enforcement officers is especially striking when Angelenos and others across the country are outraged by unidentified, masked federal immigration officers abducting their neighbors.
The timing is also particularly odd after the California Legislature just enacted Sen. Scott Wiener’s new law, the No Secret Police Act, barring law enforcement officers operating in the state from masking their faces when working in public, beginning on Jan. 1, 2026.
We spoke to Castle’s lawyer, Susan Seager, to learn more about the case and her client’s opposition to the county’s appeal.
What is the county’s basis for its opposition to producing pictures of law enforcement officers who operate in public and serve the public at the public’s expense?
They claim that no deputy will ever work undercover again because if a deputy’s photo is posted online, and if that deputy works undercover in the future, and if a “criminal” uses facial recognition technology, then that future undercover deputy will be recognized by criminals. But the court rejected this argument because it’s all speculation. Los Angeles Superior Court Judge James Chalfant followed decisions by the California Supreme Court, such as Commission on Peace Officer Certification Standards and Training v. Superior Court, which held that ordinary police officers don’t have a right to privacy in their identities and mere “speculation” about safety risks to the general police force is not enough to block disclosure of public records containing individual police officers’ identities.
The top brass at the LA Sheriff’s Department don’t want their deputies to be accountable to the public they serve. The Sheriff’s Department fights all Public Records Act cases. It’s a knee-jerk reaction.
Susan Seager
Have similar arguments been rejected by the courts before?
No. As far as I know, this is the first case where a court decided that official police department officer ID photos are disclosable under the Public Records Act. The city of LA and city of Santa Ana both voluntarily gave journalist Ben Camacho official police officer ID photos in response to his Public Records Act legal actions, but they did so before a court ruled on his request. The LAPD photos are now online for public use at Watch the Watchers.
It seems notable that LA County is pursuing this appeal so soon after the city of Los Angeles wasted its time and the taxpayers’ money, and embarrassed itself in the Camacho case. Why is the county repeating the city’s mistakes?
The problem is that both the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors and the Los Angeles City Council appear to be very hands-off on the litigation against them, including cases involving their sheriff’s department and police department, respectively. The elected officials seem to let their lawyers make all the decisions on litigation strategies, appeals, etc., without asking for any updates or to be involved in any decisions to appeal in cases against the government agencies. LA’s elected officials need to take more control over litigation involving their police officers. They need to stop wasting taxpayer money fighting Public Records Act cases like this, especially after a superior court orders the police agency to release the records.
Many people in Los Angeles and around the country have been outraged in recent months by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents wearing masks, and other efforts by the Trump administration to discourage and even criminalize identifying law enforcement officers. What do you make of LA County litigating the right to keep deputies’ identities secret against that backdrop?
LA deputies probably wish they could wear masks as well. And the top brass at the LA Sheriff’s Department don’t want their deputies to be accountable to the public they serve. The Sheriff’s Department fights all Public Records Act cases. It’s a knee-jerk reaction. And the lawyers hired by the county don’t care about public accountability — they are hired to fight and win.
What’s your theory about why the county is pursuing this? Where is the pressure coming from? Do they seriously believe that this is a meritorious appeal that they have a real chance of winning? Or do they just not care because taxpayers are funding it?
This is typical for the county of Los Angeles and the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department. They fight all Public Records Act cases. In this case, there is extra pressure coming from the labor unions representing the deputies. The deputies’ labor unions actually joined in the case as intervenors, so we are fighting against the county and the labor unions.
If journalists are not able to obtain photos of law enforcement officers through public records requests, what kind of reporting will the public lose out on?
In the age of everyone carrying a smartphone and filming police, and posting images of police on social media or news sites, the public and the press can use those images to identify officers and investigate their past history. There may be instances where deputies use excessive force or threaten members of the public, but the victim doesn’t know the name of the deputy. Photographs help identify officers.
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Behind the Blog: Ray-Bans Are No Longer Cool or Timeless
This is Behind the Blog, where we share our behind-the-scenes thoughts about how a few of our top stories of the week came together. This week, we discuss keeping FOIA reporting in front of a paywall, Ray-Bans, and what pregnate Schoolhouse Rock bills say about our current AI-driven hellscape.JOSEPH: Yesterday I did a livestreamed event with Freedom of the Press Foundation and WIRED. It was called Unpaywalled: The case for making public records-based reporting free and you can check it out here.
As you might know, we made a decision very early on with 404 Media, I think in the first week maybe, to not paywall our Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) reporting. There are a few reasons, but the main one simply is that with public records, we think people should be able to see those records without paying. It’s like a government agency publishing certain databases, or census data, or whatever. These are public records and should be published or re-published as such.
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Photos captured by Mobile Fortify will be stored for 15 years, regardless of immigration or citizenship status, the document says.#FOIA #ICE #CBP
You Can't Refuse To Be Scanned by ICE's Facial Recognition App, DHS Document Says
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The document provides new details about the technology behind Mobile Fortify, how the data it collects is processed and stored, and DHS’s rationale for using it. On Wednesday 404 Media reported that both ICE and Customs and Border Protection (CBP) are scanning peoples’ faces in the streets to verify citizenship.
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Licio Gelli, la P2, la separazione delle carriere
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Siamo nei primi mesi del 1981. I giudici di Milano Gherardo Colombo e Giuliano Turone stanno indagando sul falso rapimento dell’agosto 1979 del bancarottiere Michele Sindona che controlla le attività illecite di Cosa Nostra
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Gli Stati Uniti sono pronti a colpire il Venezuela. Ecco cosa sta succedendo
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Gli Stati Uniti sono pronti a colpire il Venezuela e Donald Trump ha dato il via libera per procedere alle azioni militari all’interno del Paese. Potrebbe accadere già nelle prossime ore. Questo è quanto riporta il Miami Herald – rapidamente ripreso da Forbes e altri
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I've just received my Bark Sweden wooden case, it's the second one, as I got one for my FP5 too. This time I bought the Masur birch, with reinforced corners.
It's absolutely beautiful!
It's a real piece of art and it fits like a glove on my FP6.
It's about 1 mm over the glass screen so the screen should be well protected. The grip is more secure than with the original Fairphone cover (which is also good).
It's not cheap, but I think it's really worth the money.
If you're thinking about a Christmas gift for yourself think of this case. 😁
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AMNESTY: Il sistema europeo Schengen discrimina chi difende i diritti umani
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L'emissione di visti ostacola le persone che difendono i diritti umani di varie parti del mondo, impedendo a molte di loro di partecipare a importanti conferenze
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Prenotazioni eureka
"Eureka" è un progetto pensato per avvicinare le ragazze e i ragazzi dell'ultimo anno della scuola media al liceo classico. L'obiettivo è far vivere loro l'esperienza di una lezione-tipo, al posto dei classici corsi di alfabetizzazione.
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Nelle stesse date, dalle 16 alle 17, è previsto anche uno sportello dedicato esclusivamente alle famiglie, per rispondere alle loro domande e chiarire eventuali dubbi. Anche le famiglie dei ragazzi che non partecipano alle lezioni sono invitate a utilizzare questo servizio.
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Referendum e invasioni di campo
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La migliore spinta per la campagna elettorale del “NO” alla “deforma” (copyright del compianto Felice Besostri) è arrivata dalla replica della signora presidente del Consiglio verso la sentenza della Corte dei Conti riguardante il ponte sullo stretto di Messina. Replica che è
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