Non solo un lavoro di qualità, ma anche prospettive di qualità
@Notizie dall'Italia e dal mondo
Stiamo tornando a far rallentare il mondo. Ma l’ultimo periodo, per noi, non è stato per niente semplice. Ci siamo scontrati con la difficoltà di portare avanti un’attività giornalistica indipendente e renderla al contempo sostenibile. Nonostante i nostri buoni propositi, la mancanza di risorse
Una foto con il busto di Mussolini: l’inchiesta di Report che imbarazza Colosimo
@Giornalismo e disordine informativo
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Alcuni quotidiani anticipano oggi quello che dovremmo vedere nella puntata di Report. Tra i tanti titoli ci ha colpito l’annuncio che ci
Penjing: l’arte cinese che trasforma la natura in un racconto in miniatura (e che non è un bonsai)
Penjing: l’arte cinese dei paesaggi in miniatura. Cos’è, differenze con il bonsai, stili e come iniziare a crearne uno a casa.Marco Crisciotti (GreenMe.it)
Una panoramica delle potenze militari nel mondo
@Notizie dall'Italia e dal mondo
Il sito web militare statunitense Global Firepower ha recentemente pubblicato la sua classifica della potenza militare mondiale per il 2025, con i primi dieci classificati come segue: Stati Uniti d’America, Russia, Repubblica Popolare della Cina, India, Repubblica di Corea (sud), Regno Unito, Francia, Giappone, Turchia e
Quel momento in cui capisci che realizzare il tuo sogno è impossibile.
Non so se vi è mai capitato di avere un sogno, sperare di poterlo realizzare, e poi desiderare che si avveri, ogni giorno più intensamente.
A me è capitato tante volte, e altrettante volte i sogni si sono infranti. Alcuni erano anche molto grandi, e la delusione è stata tanta quando è successo. Forse sono una persona che si crea troppe aspettative; chissà.
Ma quando il mio sogno è diventato quello di non provare più dolore e malessere, allora la questione è cambiata: era GIUSTO che io realizzassi quel sogno. Pensavo che ci sarei riuscito facilmente, e non solo mi sembrava che una qualche giustizia divina me lo avrebbe concesso, ma addirittura che sarebbe stato più semplice riuscirci, più che per tutti gli altri sogni che avevo coltivato.
Non è stato così.
Il sogno di vivere a Tenerife si è sbriciolato velocemente dal 2020 in poi, quando ho iniziato a capire che quel posto, l'unico in cui io stia davvero bene, non era più vivibile. Troppe persone ci si sono trasferite, troppi turisti continuano ad andarci, rendendolo di fatto un luogo inospitale.
Riuscite ad immaginare come mi sentivo ritornando a Tenerife, dopo che avevo capito che anche a El Hierro non avrei potuto vivere?
Cercavo di non rovinarmi quei pochi giorni di permanenza amara, in cui tutto ciò che vedevo - e sentivo - somigliava ad una preziosa torta, che i miei occhi di bambino non potevano vedere, ma non toccare.
Eppure, l'isola è riuscita ad insegnarmi qualcosa.
Di nuovo.
Il racconto è in questo episodio del podcast.
Tenerife: l'isola perfetta, dove non posso vivere.
Nel quinto episodio del podcast in cui cerco una nuova casa, eccomi di nuovo a Tenerife, l'isola dove mi sarei dovuto trasferire ma che nel frattempo è diventata "inospitale".
Ogni volta che la vedo è una fitta al cuore, ma anche stavolta mi ha insegnato qualcosa di importante.
Buon ascolto.
L’intelligenza artificiale migliorerà le app di incontri o le peggiorerà? Report Economist
L'articolo proviene da #StartMag e viene ricondiviso sulla comunità Lemmy @Informatica (Italy e non Italy 😁)
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Non spegniamo le luci su Gaza
@Giornalismo e disordine informativo
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Notizie sempre più scarne. L’informazione toglie spazio a Gaza e alla Cisgiordania con poche eccezioni, per esempio quelle di Avvenire e Il Manifesto. Ma il dramma che si è consumato a Gaza durante i bombardamenti israeliani non si è esaurito, purtroppo, con la fragile pace americana.
Ecco le università italiane che flirtano con la Cina
@Informatica (Italy e non Italy 😁)
Mentre le università degli Stati Uniti intrattengono sempre meno relazioni con la Cina, l'Italia conta 21 accordi con atenei cinesi. Ecco quali sono e che rischi si corrono, secondo la newsletter Radar di Carrer
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BIOS Detectives Find Ghost Of Previously Unknown PC
Old parts such as EPROMs will often find themselves for sale on sites such as eBay, where they are sometimes snapped up by retrocomputing enthusiasts in search of interesting code. Vintage Computer Federation forum member [GearTechWolf] picked up a clutch of IBM-labelled chips, and as int10h reports, stumbled upon a previously unknown PC-AT BIOS version which even hints at a rare PC model as yet unseen.
The IBM AT and its various versions are extremely well known in the retro PC world, so while this was quickly identified as an IBM BIOS from 1985 and narrowed down to a member of the AT family, it didn’t fit any of the known versions which shipped with the ubiquitous 1980s computer. Could it have been from an industrial or rack mount variant? It’s a possibility, but the conclusion is that it might contain a patched BIOS version of some kind.
Lacking real hardware, it happily boots on an emulator. It’s another piece of the PC historical jigsaw for people interested in computer history, and with luck in time someone will unearth an example of whatever it came from. If you find it, try a modern OS on it!
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2025 Component Abuse Challenge: Using Inductors to Steal Power from Qi Wireless Charging Base Station
Over on Hackaday.IO our hacker [bornach] has his entry into the Component Abuse Challenge: Inductors are Wireless Power Sources.
There are actually open standards, known as the Qi standards, for how to negotiate power from a Qi device. But [bornach] ignored all of that. Instead he leveraged the fact that the Qi base station will periodically send out a “ping” containing a small measure of power to let compatible devices know that it’s available for negotiation. It is the energy in this “ping” that power’s [bornach]’s circuit!
In [bornach]’s circuit a TL431 provides a regulated five volt supply which can be used to drive a microcontroller and a charliplexed array of ten LEDs. Pretty nifty stuff. If you’re new to wireless charging you might like to know How Wireless Charging Works And Why It’s Terrible.
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Rust 1.91: il supporto completo per Windows su ARM è arrivato!
Rust ha ricevuto un importante aggiornamento : la versione 1.91 porta ufficialmente il supporto di Windows sui sistemi ARM a 64 bit allo stesso livello di Linux e macOS.
Le build per l’architettura aarch64-pc-windows-msvc sono ora nella classe di compatibilità più elevata, garantendo il superamento di tutti i test e la disponibilità dei binari. Per gli utenti di computer ARM con Windows, questo rende Rust uno strumento completo per lo sviluppo industriale, senza la necessità di compilazione manuale.
Inoltre, le build aarch64-pc-windows-gnullvm e x86_64-pc-windows-gnullvm hanno ottenuto lo stato di Tier 2, avvicinandosi al supporto completo. Il team prevede di aggiungere in futuro i componenti mancanti, inclusi i pacchetti di installazione e gli strumenti LLVM.
Oltre ad ampliare la compatibilità con la piattaforma, l’aggiornamento ha rafforzato il sistema di analisi del codice. Rust 1.91 ora avvisa automaticamente della potenziale creazione di puntatori pendenti se una funzione restituisce riferimenti grezzi a variabili locali.
Questo meccanismo funziona in base agli avvisi, prevenendo potenziali errori che potrebbero portare all’accesso alla memoria liberata. Gli sviluppatori sottolineano che questo non rende il codice non sicuro, ma aiuta a identificare tempestivamente i costrutti pericolosi.
La versione include anche un ampio set di interfacce e funzioni stabilizzate. Tra queste, nuovi metodi per puntatori atomici, operazioni su interi, gestione di percorsi e file system e manipolazione di stringhe e indirizzi IP. Il supporto per alcune API in contesti costanti è stato ampliato, aumentando la flessibilità del linguaggio nella scrittura di codice di basso livello.
Il team di progetto sottolinea che l’aggiornamento non si limita ai miglioramenti tecnici. Continua il lavoro per unificare strumenti e infrastrutture tra i sistemi operativi, per garantire che il supporto di Windows su ARM rimanga alla pari con le piattaforme tradizionali. Gli utenti possono installare la nuova versione tramite Rustup o passare al canale beta per testare le modifiche future.
Rust 1.91 segna una pietra miliare significativa nello sviluppo del linguaggio, consolidando la sua posizione come uno degli strumenti più robusti e affidabili per la programmazione di sistemi, ora con supporto completo per tutte le architetture attuali.
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Linux supera il 3% su Steam: un piccolo passo per i gamer, un salto per il pinguino
Windows 10 ha perso il 3,94% degli utenti, Windows 11 ne ha guadagnati solo il 3,18%, e una parte del pubblico ha scelto di abbandonare l’ecosistema Microsoft, orientandosi verso altre piattaforme. Linux ha guidato questa migrazione con una crescita dello 0,41%, raggiungendo una quota complessiva del 3,05%. Anche macOS ha beneficiato della situazione, aumentando dello 0,34% fino al 2,11%.
Nonostante questi numeri, Windows rimane il dominatore assoluto, rappresentando il 94,84% dei giocatori su Steam, con il 63,57% su Windows 11, il 31,14% su Windows 10 e un residuo 0,09% su Windows 7. Tuttavia, la tendenza suggerisce che le alternative stanno lentamente erodendo terreno, segno di una maggiore apertura degli utenti verso altri ecosistemi.
All’interno del mondo Linux, la distribuzione più diffusa tra i gamer è SteamOS, che rappresenta il 27,18% degli utenti Linux su Steam. Seguono Arch Linux con il 10,32%, Linux Mint 22.2 con un significativo aumento del 6,65% e Bazzite, una distribuzione ottimizzata per il gaming che sta rapidamente guadagnando consensi.
Un altro elemento chiave di questa crescita è la compatibilità: quasi il 90% dei giochi progettati per Windows funziona oggi anche su Linux, grazie a tecnologie come Proton e all’impegno costante di Valve. Questo ha eliminato una delle barriere storiche che frenavano la diffusione del sistema operativo nel mondo del gaming.
Valve, forte del successo di Steam Deck, continua a puntare su Linux come base per i suoi progetti futuri. L’azienda starebbe già lavorando a una console domestica basata sullo stesso sistema operativo, con l’obiettivo di portare l’esperienza di gioco Linux anche nel salotto di casa.
Dopo anni di lenta crescita, Linux sta finalmente raccogliendo i frutti del suo percorso. Non è più solo l’alternativa per smanettoni, ma una piattaforma sempre più solida e accessibile anche per i videogiocatori.
L'articolo Linux supera il 3% su Steam: un piccolo passo per i gamer, un salto per il pinguino proviene da Red Hot Cyber.
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Maria Corsini Beltrame Quattrocchi
In questa opera il padre cappuccino Massimiliano Noviello ci guida con maestria alla scoperta del pensiero di Maria Corsini, proclamata Beata nel 2001, insieme al marito.
Il volume comprende cinque capitoli. Nel primo viene delineato il profilo storico-biografico e spirituale di Maria Corsini che, unitasi in matrimonio con Luigi Beltrame Quattrocchi, realizzò quell’ideale di famiglia fortemente ispirato ai valori cristiani. Partendo dalla tesi che vede il matrimonio cristiano come un cammino verso Dio, un substrato su cui innestare e far crescere la prima forma di Chiesa, la famiglia, e come mezzo per il raggiungimento della santità, vengono illustrate le tappe del suo lungo tirocinio di autoformazione, cogliendone l’attualizzazione delle realtà del Vangelo, unica via del vero apprendimento per l’insegnamento e l’annuncio.
Il secondo capitolo ci mostra come nella costruzione del profilo umano-spirituale di Corsini l’influenza mariana, incentrata sui tre termini ricavati dalla vita della Vergine Maria – Fiat, Adveniat, Magnificat (cfr p. 69) –, sia determinante per una teologia ancorata e vissuta nel quotidiano. Riconoscere a Maria il posto che il dogma e la tradizione le assegnano significa essere saldamente radicati nella cristologia autentica, come insegna la Lumen gentium: «La Chiesa, pensando a lei [Maria] con pietà filiale e contemplandola alla luce del Verbo fatto uomo, […] si va sempre più conformando con il suo Sposo» (n. 65).
Nel terzo e quarto capitolo, l’A., attraverso l’analisi filologica dei testi di Corsini, delinea le linee pedagogiche da lei attuate nel contesto della famiglia, che determinarono, per i suoi membri, un’esperienza di vita e di fede. Di ogni testo viene data un’esaustiva sintesi, da cui ricavare il filo rosso del «modello educativo» della Beata. Il concetto di educazione che ritroviamo è basato su una morale non astratta, né tantomeno generica, bensì «positiva e concreta, la quale, al di fuori di ogni preconcetto, non può cercarsi che nel Vangelo» (p. 16). Essa viene realizzata non da «persone estranee al fanciullo», ma da quel soggetto, la madre, «che più di ogni altro riesce a coglierne le esigenze, essendole propria, in qualità di datrice di vita, una particolare capacità di lettura delle più intime sfumature dell’animo» (p. 116).
Maria Corsini è morta il 26 agosto 1965, all’età di 81 anni, pochi mesi prima della chiusura del Concilio Vaticano II. Il quinto capitolo ci mostra come lei abbia seguìto con grande interesse gli eventi conciliari, accogliendone con gioia i primi documenti, in particolare la Lumen gentium, con la quale la Chiesa sottolineava la soggettualità dei laici nella realtà ecclesiale, riconosceva la medesima dignità a tutti i battezzati e la loro partecipazione alla funzione «sacerdotale, profetica e regale» di Cristo.
Quello dunque che ci viene presentato in questo studio è un cammino luminoso e pieno di speranza in tempi difficili per le famiglie, i giovani e gli adulti. È un bell’esempio di attualizzazione dei princìpi di vita cristiana fondati sui Vangeli.
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This week, we discuss archiving to get around paywalls, hating on smart glasses, and more.#BehindTheBlog
Behind the Blog: Paywall Jumping and Smart Glasses
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 archiving to get around paywalls, hating on smart glasses, and more.JASON: I was going to try to twist myself into knots attempting to explain the throughline between my articles this week, and about how I’ve been thinking about the news and our coverage more broadly. This was going to be something about trying to promote analog media and distinctly human ways of communicating (like film photography), while highlighting the very bad economic and political incentives pushing us toward fundamentally dehumanizing, anti-human methods of communicating. Like fully automated, highly customized and targeted AI ads, automated library software, and I guess whatever Nancy Pelosi has been doing with her stock portfolio. But then I remembered that I blogged about the FBI’s subpoena against archive.is, a website I feel very ambivalent about and one that is the subject of perhaps my most cringe blog of all time.
So let’s revisit that cringe blog, which was called “Dear GamerGate: Please Stop Stealing Our Shit.” I wrote this article in 2014, which was fully 11 years ago, which is alarming to me. First things first: They were not stealing from me they were stealing from VICE, a company that I did not actually experience financial gains from related to people reading articles; it was good if people read my articles and traffic was very important, and getting traffic over time led to me getting raises and promotions and stuff, but the company made very, very clear that we did not “own” the articles and therefore they were not “mine” in the way that they are now. With that out of the way, the reporting and general reason for the article was I think good but the tone of it is kind of wildly off, and, as I mentioned, over the course of many years I have now come to regard archive.is as sort of an integral archiving tool. If you are unfamiliar with archive.is, it’s a site that takes snapshots of any URL and creates a new link for them which, notably, does not go to the original website. Archive.is is extremely well known for bypassing the paywalls on many sites, 404 Media sometimes but not usually among them.
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X and TikTok accounts are dedicated to posting AI-generated videos of women being strangled.#News #AI #Sora
OpenAI’s Sora 2 Floods Social Media With Videos of Women Being Strangled
Social media accounts on TikTok and X are posting AI-generated videos of women and girls being strangled, showing yet another example of generative AI companies failing to prevent users from creating media that violates their own policies against violent content.One account on X has been posting dozens of AI-generated strangulation videos starting in mid-October. The videos are usually 10 seconds long and mostly feature a “teenage girl” being strangled, crying, and struggling to resist until her eyes close and she falls to the ground. Some titles for the videos include: “A Teenage Girl Cheerleader Was Strangled As She Was Distressed,” “Prep School Girls Were Strangled By The Murderer!” and “man strangled a high school cheerleader with a purse strap which is crazy.”
Many of the videos posted by this X account in October include the watermark for Sora 2, Open AI’s video generator, which was made available to the public on September 30. Other videos, including most videos that were posted by the account in November, do not include a watermark but are clearly AI generated. We don’t know if these videos were generated with Sora 2 and had their watermark removed, which is trivial to do, or created with another AI video generator.
The X account is small, with only 17 followers and a few hundred views on each post. A TikTok account with a similar username that was posting similar AI-generated choking videos had more than a thousand followers and regularly got thousands of views. Both accounts started posting the AI-generated videos in October. Prior to that, the accounts were posting clips of scenes, mostly from real Korean dramas, in which women are being strangled. I first learned about the X account from a 404 Media reader, who told me X declined to remove the account after they reported it.
“According to our Community Guidelines, we don't allow hate speech, hateful behavior, or promotion of hateful ideologies,” a TikTok spokesperson told me in an email. The TikTok account was also removed after I reached out for comment. “That includes content that attacks people based on protected attributes like race, religion, gender, or sexual orientation.”
X did not respond to a request for comment.
OpenAI did not respond to a request for comment, but its policies state that “graphic violence or content promoting violence” may be removed from the Sora Feed, where users can see what other users are generating. In our testing, Sora immediately generated a video for the prompt “man choking woman” which looked similar to the videos posted to TikTok and X. When Sora finished generating those videos it sent us notifications like “Your choke scene just went live, brace for chaos,” and “Yikes, intense choke scene, watch responsibly.” Sora declined to generate a video for the prompt “man choking woman with belt,” saying “This content may violate our content policies.”
Safe and consensual choking is common in adult entertainment, be it various forms of BDSM or more niche fetishes focusing on choking specifically, and that content is easy to find wherever adult entertainment is available. Choking scenes are also common social media and more mainstream horror movies and TV shows. The UK government recently announced that it will soon make it illegal to publish or possess pornographic depictions of strangulation of suffocation.
It’s not surprising, then, that when generative AI tools are made available to the public some people generate choking videos and violent content as well. In September, I reported about an AI-generated YouTube channel that exclusively posted videos of women being shot. Those videos were generated with Google’s Veo AI-video generator, despite it being against the company’s policies. Google said it took action against the user who was posting those videos.
Sora 2 had to make several changes to its guardrails since it launched after people used it to make videos of popular cartoon characters depicted as Nazis and other forms of copyright infringement.
Pornography depicting strangulation to become criminal offence in the UK
Legal requirement to be placed on tech platforms to prevent users from seeing such ‘choking’ materialRobyn Vinter (The Guardian)
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Early humans crafted the same tools for hundreds of thousands of years, offering an unprecedented glimpse of a continuous tradition that may push back the origins of technology.#TheAbstract
Advanced 2.5 Million-Year-Old Tools May Rewrite Human History
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Subscribe to 404 Media to get The Abstract, our newsletter about the most exciting and mind-boggling science news and studies of the week.After a decade-long excavation at a remote site in Kenya, scientists have unearthed evidence that our early human relatives continuously fashioned the same tools across thousands of generations, hinting that sophisticated tool use may have originated much earlier than previously known, according to a new study in Nature Communications.
The discovery of nearly 1,300 artifacts—with ages that span 2.44 to 2.75 million years old—reveals that the influential Oldowan tool-making tradition existed across at least 300,000 years of turbulent environmental shifts. The wealth of new tools from Kenya’s Namorotukunan site suggest that their makers adapted to major environmental changes in part by passing technological knowledge down through the ages.
“The question was: did they generally just reinvent the [Oldowan tradition] over and over again? That made a lot of sense when you had a record that was kind of sporadic,” said David R. Braun, a professor of anthropology at the George Washington University who led the study, in a call with 404 Media.
“But the fact that we see so much similarity between 2.4 and 2.75 [million years ago] suggests that this is generally something that they do,” he continued. “Some of it may be passed down through social learning, like observation of others doing it. There’s some kind of tradition that continues on for this timeframe that would argue against this idea of just constantly reinventing the wheel.”
Oldowan tools, which date back at least 2.75 million years, are distinct from earlier traditions in part because hominins, the broader family to which humans belong, specifically sought out high-quality materials such as chert and quartz to craft sharp-edged cutting and digging tools. This advancement allowed them to butcher large animals, like hippos, and possibly dig for underground food sources.
When Braun and his colleagues began excavating at Namorotukunan in 2013, they found many artifacts made of chalcedony, a fine-grained rock that is typically associated with much later tool-making traditions. To the team’s surprise, the rocks were dated to periods as early as 2.75 million years ago, making them among the oldest artifacts in the Oldowan record.
“Even though Oldowan technology is really just hitting one rock against the other, there's good and bad ways of doing it,” Braun explained. “So even though it's pretty simple, what they seem to be figuring out is where to hit the rock, and which angles to select. They seem to be getting a grip on that—not as well as later in time—but they're definitely getting an understanding at this timeframe.”
Some of the Namorotukunan tools. Image: Koobi Fora Research and Training Program
The excavation was difficult as it takes several days just to reach the remote offroad site, while much of the work involved tiptoing along steep outcrops. Braun joked that their auto mechanic lined up all the vehicle shocks that had been broken during the drive each season, as a testament to the challenge.But by the time the project finally concluded in 2022, the researchers had established that Oldowan tools were made at this site over the course of 300,000 years. During this span, the landscape of Namorotukunan shifted from lush humid forests to arid desert shrubland and back again. Despite these destabilizing shifts in their climate and biome, the hominins that made these tools endured in part because this technology opened up new food sources to them, such as the carcasses of large animals.
“The whole landscape really shifts,” Braun said. “But hominins are able to basically ameliorate those rapid changes in the amount of rainfall and the vegetation around by using tools to adapt to what’s happening.”
“That's a human superpower—it’s that ability we have to keep this information stored in our collective heads, so that when new challenges show up, there's somebody in our group that remembers how to deal with this particular adaptation,” he added.
It’s not clear exactly which species of hominin made the tools at Namorotukunan; it may have been early members of our own genus Homo, or other relatives, like Australopithecus afarensis, that later went extinct. Regardless, the discovery of such a long-lived and continuous assemblage may hint that the origins of these tools are much older than we currently know.
“I think that we're going to start to find tool use much earlier” perhaps “going back five, six, or seven million years,” Braun said. “That’s total speculation. I've got no evidence that that's the case. But judging from what primates do, I don't really understand why we wouldn't see it.”
To that end, the researchers plan to continue excavating these bygone landscapes to search for more artifacts and hominin remains that could shed light on the identity of these tool makers, probing the origins of these early technologies that eventually led to humanity’s dominance on the planet.
“It's possible that this tool use is so diverse and so different from our expectations that we have blinders on,” Braun concluded. “We have to open our search for what tool use looks like, and then we might start to see that they're actually doing a lot more of it than we thought they were.”
Early Oldowan technology thrived during Pliocene environmental change in the Turkana Basin, Kenya - Nature Communications
Here, the authors present archaeology of the Namorotukunan site in Kenya’s Turkana Basin that demonstrates adaptive shifts in hominin tool-making behaviour spanning 300,000 years and increasing environmental variability.Nature
Protecting Minors Online: Can Age Verification Truly Make the Internet Safer?
The drive to protect minors online has been gaining momentum in recent years and is now making its mark in global policy circles. This shift, strongly supported by public sentiment, has also reached the European Union.
In a recent development, Members of the European Parliament, as part of the Internal Market and Consumer Protection Committee, approved a report raising serious concerns about the shortcomings of major online platforms in safeguarding minors. With 32 votes in favour, the Committee highlighted growing worries over issues such as online addiction, mental health impacts, and children’s exposure to illegal or harmful digital content.
What Is In The Report
The report discusses the creation of frameworks and systems to support age verification and protect children’s rights and privacy online. This calls for a significant push to incorporate safety measures as an integral part of the system’s design, within a social responsibility framework, to make the internet a safe environment for minors.
MEPs have proposed sixteen years as the minimum age for children to access social media, video-sharing platforms, and AI-based chat companions. Children below sixteen can access the above-mentioned platforms with parental permission. However, a proposal has been put forth demanding that an absolute minimum age of thirteen be set. This indicates that children under 13 cannot access or use social media platforms, even with parental permission.
In Short:
- Under 13 years of age: Not allowed on social media
- 13-15 years of age: Allowed with parents’ approval
- 16 years and above: Can use freely, no consent required
MEPs recommended stricter actions against non-compliance with the Digital Services Act (DSA). Stricter actions range from holding the senior executives of the platforms responsible for breaches of security affecting minors to imposing huge fines.
The recommendations include banning addictive design features and engagement-driven algorithms, removing gambling-style elements in games, and ending the monetisation of minors as influencers. They also call for tighter control over AI tools that create fake or explicit content and stronger rules against manipulative chatbots.
What Do Reports And Research Say?
The operative smoothness and convenience introduced by the digital and technological advancements over the last two decades have changed how the world works and communicates. The internet provides a level field for everyone to connect, learn, and make an impact. However, the privacy of internet users and the access to and control over data are points of contention and a constant topic of debate. With an increasing percentage of minor users globally, the magnitude of risks has been multiplied. Lack or limited awareness of understanding of digital boundaries and the deceptive nature of the online environment make minors more susceptible to the dangers. Exposure to inappropriate content, cyberbullying, financial scams, identity theft, and manipulation through social media or gaming platforms are a few risks to begin with. Their curiosity to explore beyond boundaries often makes minors easy targets for online predators.
Recent studies have made the following observations (the studies are EU-relevant):
- According to the Internet Watch Foundation Annual Data & Insights / 2024 (reported 2025 releases), Record levels of child sexual abuse imagery were discovered in 2024; IWF actioned 291,273 reports and found 62% of identified child sexual abuse webpages were hosted in EU countries.
- WeProtect Global Alliance Global Threat Assessment 2023 (relevant to the EU) reported an 87% increase in child sexual abuse material since 2019. Rapid grooming on social gaming platforms and emerging threats from AI-generated sexual abuse material are the new patterns of online exploitation.
- According to WHO/Europe HBSC Volume on Bullying & Peer Violence (2024), one in six school-aged children (around 15-16%) experienced cyberbullying in 2022, a rise from previous survey rounds.
These reports indicate the alarming situation regarding minors’ safety and reflect the urgency with which the Committee is advancing its recommendations. Voting is due on the 23rd-24th of November, 2025.
While these reports underline the scale of the threat, they also raise an important question: are current solutions, like age verification, truly effective?
How Foolproof Is Age Verification As A Measure?
The primary concern in promoting age verification as a defence mechanism against cybercrime is the authenticity of those verification processes and whether they are robust enough to eliminate unethical practices targeting users. For instance, if the respondent (user) provides inaccurate information during the age verification process, are there any mechanisms in place to verify its accuracy?
Additionally, implementing age verification for children is next to impossible without violating the rights to privacy and free speech of adults, raising the question of who shall have access to and control over users’ data – Government bodies or big tech companies. Has “maintenance of anonymity” while providing data been given enough thought in drafting these policies? This is a matter of concern.
According to EDRI, a leading European Digital Rights NGO, deploying age verification as a measure to tackle multiple forms of cybercrime against minors is not a new policy. Reportedly, social media platforms were made to adopt similar measures in 2009. However, the problem still exists. Age verification as a countermeasure to cybercrime against minors is a superficial fix. Do the Commission’s safety guidelines address the root cause of the problem – a toxic online environment – is an important question to answer.
EDRI’s Key arguments:
- Age verification is not a solution to problems of toxic platform design, such as addictive features and manipulative algorithms.
- It restricts children’s rights to access information and express themselves, rather than empowering them.
- It can exclude or discriminate against users without digital IDs or access to verification tools.
- Lawmakers are focusing on exclusion instead of systemic reform — creating safer, fairer online spaces for everyone.
- True protection lies in platform accountability and ethical design, not mass surveillance or one-size-fits-all age gates.
Read the complete article here:
https://edri.org/our-work/age-verification-gains-traction-eu-risks-failing-to-address-the-root-causes-of-online-harm/ | https://archive.ph/wip/LIMUI: Protecting Minors Online: Can Age Verification Truly Make the Internet Safer?
Before floating any policy into the periphery of execution, weighing the positive and negative user experiences is pivotal, because a blanket policy based on age brackets might make it ineffective at mitigating the risks of an unsafe online space. Here, educating and empowering both parents and children with digital literacy can have a more profound and meaningful impact rather than simply regulating age brackets. Change always comes with informed choices.
Sulle droghe abbiamo un piano: Possibile alla contro-conferenza nazionale sulle droghe
Possibile è presente alla Controconferenza nazionale “Sulle droghe abbiamo un piano” con Giulia Marro, Consigliera Regionale del Piemonte, e Domenico Sperone, assessore del Comune di Canale.
La controconferenza si svolge a Roma in parallelo alla conferenza governativa che si è aperta all’Eur.
È stata promossa dalla Rete nazionale per la riforma delle politiche sulle droghe, dopo che il governo ha rifiutato ogni confronto con la società civile e gli enti locali. L’impostazione della conferenza ufficiale rimane ancorata a un modello repressivo e datato, ancora legato allo slogan “un mondo senza droghe”, lontano dalle conoscenze scientifiche e dalle esperienze sviluppate a livello internazionale.
L’iniziativa propone un piano alternativo per le politiche sulle droghe, basato su salute pubblica, diritti umani e riduzione del danno, in linea con le raccomandazioni ONU e con le pratiche già adottate in diversi Paesi.
Nella prima giornata, il 6 novembre, si sono alternati interventi di esperti e rappresentanti di reti internazionali, tra cui Susanna Ronconi (Forum Droghe), Saner Mahmood (Alto Commissariato ONU per i Diritti Umani), Marie Nougier (International Drug Policy Consortium), Adria Cots Fernández (Apertura Politiche Droghe) ed Eligia Parodi (rete EuroPUD, persone che usano droghe).
È emerso un messaggio chiaro: le politiche punitive non riducono i consumi né migliorano la salute pubblica, ma producono esclusione e stigma. Sempre più paesi — tra cui Portogallo, Spagna e Svizzera — stanno invece seguendo la via della depenalizzazione e dell’investimento in servizi di riduzione del danno.
I lavori si sono articolati in tre panel:
1. Politiche e diritti umani, con un’analisi dei cambiamenti globali e delle nuove risoluzioni ONU;
2. Riduzione del danno come politica complessiva, con esperienze europee e latinoamericane che integrano salute, inclusione e giustizia sociale;
3. Psichedelici per uso medico, dedicato alla libertà di ricerca e ai trattamenti innovativi.
La controconferenza ha sottolineato anche il ruolo delle città e delle amministrazioni locali, che in molti casi sono il primo livello istituzionale capace di attuare politiche concrete e basate sui diritti.
Per Possibile, questo appuntamento rappresenta uno spazio politico necessario per costruire politiche sulle droghe efficaci e umane, fondate su salute, evidenze scientifiche e rispetto della dignità delle persone, superando definitivamente l’approccio repressivo e ideologico che continua a dominare il dibattito nazionale.
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Il progetto sociale, dell'Associazione Italiana Editori (AIE) per la creazione e il potenziamento delle biblioteche scolastiche, quest’anno si svolge da oggi al 16 novembre con 4,2 milioni di studenti coinvolti, 29.
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Time to enforce ICE restraining orders
Dear Friend of Press Freedom,
Rümeysa Öztürk has been facing deportation for 227 days for co-writing an op-ed the government didn’t like, and the government hasn’t stopped targeting journalists for deportation. Read on for news from Illinois, our latest public records lawsuit, and how you can take action to protect journalism.
Enforce ICE restraining orders now
A federal judge in Chicago yesterday entered an order to stop federal immigration officers from targeting journalists and peaceful protesters, affirming journalists’ right to cover protests and their aftermath without being assaulted or arrested.
Judge Sara Ellis entered her ruling — which extended a similar prior order against Immigration and Customs Enforcement — in dramatic fashion, quoting everyone from Chicago journalist and poet Carl Sandburg to the Founding Fathers. But the real question is whether she’ll enforce the order when the feds violate it, as they surely will. After all, they violated the prior order repeatedly and egregiously.
Federal judges can fine and jail people who violate their orders. But they rarely use those powers, especially against the government. That needs to change when state thugs are tearing up the First Amendment on Chicago’s streets. We suspect Sandburg would agree.
Journalist Raven Geary of Unraveled Press summed it up at a press conference after the hearing: “If people think a reporter can’t be this opinionated, let them think that. I know what’s right and what’s wrong. I don’t feel an ounce of shame saying that this is wrong.”
Congratulations to Geary and the rest of the journalists and press organizations in Chicago and Los Angeles that are standing against those wrongs by taking the government to court and winning. Listen to Geary’s remarks here.
Journalists speak out about abductions from Gaza aid flotillas
We partnered with Defending Rights & Dissent to platform three U.S. journalists who were abducted from humanitarian flotillas bound for Gaza and detained by Israel.
They discussed the inaction from their own government in the aftermath of their abduction, shared their experiences while detained, and reflected on what drove them to take this risk while so many reporters are self-censoring.
We’ll have a write-up of the event soon, but it deserves to be seen in full. Watch it here.
FPF takes ICE to court over dangerous secrecy
We filed yet another Freedom of Information Act lawsuit this week — this time to uncover records on ICE’s efforts to curtail congressional access to immigration facilities.
“ICE loves to demand our papers but it seems they don’t like it as much when we demand theirs,” attorney Ginger Quintero-McCall of Free Information Group said.
If you are a FOIA lawyer who is interested in working with us pro bono or for a reduced fee on FOIA litigation, please email lauren@freedom.press.
Read more about our latest lawsuit here.
If Big Tech can’t withstand jawboning, how can individual journalists?
Last week, Sen. Ted Cruz convened yet another congressional hearing on Biden-era “jawboning” of Big Tech companies. The message: Government officials leaning on these multibillion-dollar conglomerates to influence the views they platform was akin to censorship.
Sure, the Biden administration’s conduct is worth scrutinizing and learning from. But if you accept the premise that gigantic tech companies are susceptible to soft pressure from a censorial government, doesn’t it go without saying that so are individual journalists who lack anything close to those resources?
We wrote about the numerous instances of “jawboning” of individual reporters during the current administration that Senate Republicans failed to address at their hearing. Read more here.
Tell lawmakers from both parties to oppose Tim Burke prosecution
Conservatives are outraged at Tucker Carlson for throwing softballs to neo-Nazi Nick Fuentes. But the Trump administration is continuing its predecessor’s prosecution of journalist Tim Burke for exposing Tucker Carlson whitewashing another antisemite — Ye, formerly known as Kanye West.
Lawmakers shouldn’t stand for this hypocrisy, regardless of political party. Tell them to speak up with our action center.
What we’re reading
FBI investigating recent incident involving feds in Evanston, tries to block city from releasing records (Evanston RoundTable). Apparently obstructing transparency at the federal level is no longer enough and the government now wants to meddle with municipal police departments’ responses to public records requests.
To preserve records, Homeland Security now relies on officials to take screenshots (The New York Times). The new policy “drastically increases the likelihood the agency isn’t complying with the Federal Records Act,” FPF’s Lauren Harper told the Times.
When your local reporter needs the same protection as a war correspondent (Poynter). Foreign war correspondents get “hostile environment training, security consultants, trauma counselors and legal teams. … Local newsrooms covering militarized federal operations in their own communities? Sometimes all we have is Google, group chats and each other.”
YouTube quietly erased more than 700 videos documenting Israeli human rights violations (The Intercept). “It is outrageous that YouTube is furthering the Trump administration’s agenda to remove evidence of human rights violations and war crimes from public view,” said Katherine Gallagher of the Center for Constitutional Rights.
Plea to televise Charlie Kirk trial renews Senate talk of cameras in courtrooms (Courthouse News Service). It’s past time for cameras in courtrooms nationwide. None of the studies have ever substantiated whatever harms critics have claimed transparency would cause. Hopefully, the Kirk trial will make this a bipartisan issue.
When storytelling is called ‘terrorism’: How my friend and fellow journalist was targeted by ICE (The Barbed Wire). “The government is attempting to lay a foundation for dissenting political beliefs as grounds for terrorism. And people like Ya’akub — non-white [or] non-Christian — have been made its primary examples. Both journalists; like Mario Guevara … and civilians.”
If Big Tech can’t withstand jawboning, how can individual journalists?
Last week, Sen. Ted Cruz convened yet another congressional hearing on Biden-era “jawboning” of Big Tech companies. The message: Government officials leaning on these multibillion-dollar conglomerates to influence the views they platform was akin to censorship. Officials may not have formally ordered the companies to self-censor, but they didn’t have to – businesspeople know it’s in their economic interests to stay on the administration’s good side.
They’re not entirely wrong. Public officials are entitled to express their opinions about private speech, but it’s a different story when they lead speakers to believe they have no choice but to appease the government. At the same time the Biden administration was making asks of social platforms, the former president and other Democrats (and Republicans) pushed for repealing Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, the law that allows social media to exist.
It’s unlikely that the Biden administration intended its rhetoric around Section 230 to intimidate social media platforms into censorship. That said, it’s certainly possible companies made content decisions they otherwise wouldn’t have when requested by a government looking to legislate them out of existence. It’s something worth exploring and learning from.
But if you accept the premise — as I do — that gigantic tech companies with billions in the bank and armies of lawyers are susceptible to soft pressure from a censorial government, doesn’t it go without saying that so are individual journalists who lack anything close to those resources?
If it’s jawboning when Biden officials suggest Facebook take down anti-vaccine posts, isn’t it “jawboning” when a North Carolina GOP official tells ProPublica to kill a story, touting connections to the Trump administration? When the president calls for reporters to be fired for doing basic journalism, like reporting on leaks? When the White House and Pentagon condition access on helping them further official narratives? A good-faith conversation about jawboning can’t just ignore all of that.
Here are some more incidents Cruz and his colleagues have not held hearings about:
- A Department of Homeland Security official publicly accused a Chicago Tribune reporter of “interference” for the act of reporting where immigration enforcement was occurring. Journalism, in the government’s telling, constituted obstruction of justice. That certainly could lead others to tread cautiously when exercising their constitutional right to document law enforcement actions.
- Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard attacked Washington Post reporter Ellen Nakashima by name, suggesting her reporting methods — which is to say, calling government officials — were improper and reflected a media establishment “desperate to sabotage POTUS’s successful agenda.” Might that dissuade reporters from seeking comment from sources, or sources from providing such comment to reporters?
- When a journalist suggested people contact her on the encrypted messaging app Signal, an adviser to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said she should be banned from Pentagon coverage. The Pentagon then attempted to exclude her from Hegseth’s trip to Singapore. Putting aside the irony of Hegseth’s team taking issue with Signal usage, it’s fair to assume journalists are less likely to suggest sources lawfully contact them via secure technologies if doing so leads to government threats and retaliation.
- Bill Essayli, a U.S. attorney in California, publicly called a reporter “a joke, not a journalist” for commenting on law enforcement policies for shooting at moving vehicles. Obviously, remarks from prosecutors carry unique weight and have significant potential to chill speech, particularly when prosecutors make clear that they don’t view a journalist as worthy of the First Amendment’s protections for their profession.
Sources wanting to expose wrongdoing ... will think twice about talking to journalists who are known targets of an out-of-control administration.
There are plenty more examples — and that doesn’t even get into all the targeting of news outlets, from major broadcast networks to community radio stations. They may have more resources than individual reporters, but they’re nowhere near as well positioned to withstand a major spike in legal bills and insurance premiums as big social media firms (who this administration also jawbones to censor constitutionally protected content).
And hovering over all of this is President Donald Trump himself, whose social media feed doubles as an intimidation campaign against reporters. Our Trump Anti-Press Social Media Tracker documents hundreds of posts targeting not only news outlets but individual journalists. It’s documented over 3,500 posts. Unlike Biden-era “jawboning,” threats like these come from the very top — people in a position to actually carry them out. And unlike Biden’s administration, Trump’s track record makes the threat of government retribution real, not hypothetical.
Trump views excessive criticism of him as “probably illegal.” He has made very clear his desire for journalists to be imprisoned, sued for billions, and assaulted for reasons completely untethered to the Constitution, and has surrounded himself with bootlicking stooges eager to carry out his whims. “Chilling” is an understatement for the effect when a sitting president — particularly an authoritarian one — threatens journalists for doing their job.
It’s not only that these journalists don’t have the resources of Meta, Alphabet, and the like. They also have much more to lose. Tech companies might get some bad PR based on how they handle government takedown requests, but it’s unlikely to significantly impact their bottom line, particularly when news content comprises a small fraction of their business.
But journalists don’t just host news content, they create it. Their whole careers depend on their reputations and the willingness of sources to trust them. Sources wanting to expose wrongdoing, who often talk to journalists at great personal risk and try to keep a low profile, will think twice about talking to journalists who are known targets of an out-of-control administration.
Other news outlets might be reluctant to hire someone who has been singled out by the world’s most powerful person and his lackeys. Editors and publishers — already spooked about publishing articles that might draw a SLAPP suit or worse from Trump — will be doubly hesitant when the article is written by someone already on the administration’s public blacklist.
Unlike Biden’s antics, the Trump administration has cut out the middleman by directly targeting the speech and speakers it doesn’t like. And it wields this power against people with a fraction of the resources to fight back. If that’s not jawboning, what is?
Migliaia di voli in ritardo a causa dei tagli della FAA che hanno bloccato i principali aeroporti
Le cancellazioni dei voli imposte dalla FAA aumenteranno fino al 10% entro il 14 novembre.
- Oltre 5.000 voli sono stati ritardati e 1.100 cancellati, mentre venerdì sono entrate in vigore le riduzioni in 40 aeroporti ad alto traffico , in quello che i funzionari definiscono un tentativo di alleviare la pressione derivante dalla chiusura record del governo.
- Le cancellazioni dei voli imposte dalla FAA comportano una riduzione del 4% questo fine settimana. La riduzione salirà al 6% entro l'11 novembre, all'8% entro il 13 novembre e al 10% entro il 14 novembre.
- Il Segretario ai Trasporti Sean Duffy ha dichiarato oggi che la fine della chiusura delle attività governative non comporterà il ripristino immediato dei controllori di volo, perché ci vorrà del tempo prima che tutti possano tornare al lavoro.
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