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Umsetzung der NIS-2-Richtlinie: Bundestag muss Gesetz zur Cybersicherheit nachbessern


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È bastata una ん di troppo! Phishing che impersona Booking.com con la tecnica degli omoglifi


Gli aggressori hanno iniziato a utilizzare un trucco insolito per mascherare i link di phishing, facendoli apparire come indirizzi di Booking.com. La nuova campagna malware utilizza il carattere hiragana giapponese “ん” (U+3093). In alcuni font e interfacce, assomiglia visivamente a una barra, facendo apparire l’URL come un normale percorso sul sito, sebbene in realtà conduca a un dominio falso.

Il ricercatore JAMESWT ha scoperto che nelle e-mail di phishing il collegamento si presenta così:

admin.booking.com/hotel/hotela…

ma in realtà indirizza l’utente a un indirizzo del tipo

account.booking.comんdetail

Tutto ciò che precede “www-account-booking[.]com” è solo un sottodominio che imita la struttura del sito reale. Il vero dominio registrato appartiene agli aggressori. Cliccandoci sopra, la vittima finisce sulla pagina

www-account-booking[.]com/c.php?a=0

da cui viene scaricato un file MSI dannoso dal nodo CDN updatessoftware.b-cdn[.]net.

Secondo l’analisi di MalwareBazaar e ANY.RUN , il programma di installazione distribuisce componenti aggiuntivi, probabilmente infostealer o strumenti di accesso remoto.

La tecnica si basa sull’uso di omoglifi ovvero simboli che sembrano altri ma appartengono ad altri alfabeti o set Unicode. Tali simboli sono spesso utilizzati in attacchi omografi e phishing. Un esempio è la “O” cirillica (U+041E), che è quasi indistinguibile dalla “O” latina (U+004F). Nonostante gli sviluppatori di browser e servizi aggiungano protezioni contro tali sostituzioni, gli attacchi continuano a verificarsi.

Non è la prima volta che Booking.com diventa un’esca per il phishing. A marzo, Microsoft Threat Intelligence ha segnalato email mascherate da servizio di prenotazione che utilizzavano la tecnica ClickFix per infettare i computer dei dipendenti degli hotel. E ad aprile, i ricercatori di Malwarebytes hanno segnalato uno schema simile.

Tuttavia, l’uso di omoglifi come “ん” può ingannare anche gli utenti più attenti, quindi è importante integrare la cautela con un software antivirus aggiornato in grado di bloccare il download di contenuti dannosi.

L'articolo È bastata una ん di troppo! Phishing che impersona Booking.com con la tecnica degli omoglifi proviene da il blog della sicurezza informatica.


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e in tutto questo la cosa che mi fa più strano è l'uso di Edge su Ubuntu

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la cosa assurda è che vedendo trump pare un soggetto talmente assurdo, pare talmente assurdo che possa esistere ed essere apprezzato, che vivo in una specie di limbo di insicurezza totale, in cui a loop mi chiedo se sono impazzita io, se ho una visione distorta del mondo, se mi sfugge una qualche qualità a cui sono ostinatamente cieca. trump è talmente un non senso che non riesco ad accettare che possa esistere senza che io stia dimenticando di considerare qualche ragione logica importante. un qualche problema reale che incredibilmente io non so come riesco a ignorare e che lui sta dimostrando di risolvere efficacemente che possa giustificare tutta questa follia sicuramente solo "apparente". vivo nell'idea che "qualcosa mi sfugga". non può essere così stupida la realtà.
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@informapirata @talksina in realtà sta facendo gli interessi delle big tech. Minaccia tariffe alte a qualsiasi stato voglia tassarle. L'unico a cui sta pestando i piedi è Melon, ma tanto ormai è diventato lo zimbello di tutti.

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@informapirata @talksina
Ok, cerchiamo di essere seri.
Se si vuole capire di chi si sta facendo gli interessi e come basta leggere “Dall’economia dell’ occupazione all’economia del genocidio” della relatrice speciale sulla situazione dei diritti umani nei territori palestinesi occupati dal 1967.
È un esempio estremo?
È un esempio circoscritto?
No.
Svela interessi, meccanismi e intrecci che ci riguardano e non solo umanamente


Nuovo articolo su giardino-punk.it: Anarchismo e modernità politica
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L'anarchismo come politica posmoderna, partendo da un testo di Nathan Jun

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trump sta riuscendo nel difficile compito di abbattere l'economia usa... proprio nel minarla alle radici.
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in realtà [!?ma davvero esiste una realtà oggettiva!?] trump-hio,(eggasi tronfio),e put-in,(leggasi in inglese)sono le due faccie della stessa medaglia,unica differenza la bandiera😑😁
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culturalmente rimangono abbastanza diversi. non ti lasciar perdere nel qualunquismo. putin è un uomo del kgb che ragiona in modo ottocentesco che pensa a conquista militari stile prima guerra mondiale. avanzate poderose. artiglieria. mezzi e uomini al macello. e pensa che questo serva a qualcosa. un "idoelogo" puro. di quelle ideologie che hanno a lungo avvelenato la storia. trump è il figlio di un uomo d'affari. che non sa fare affari. che non sa che un affare parte da un'idea innovativa. trump non ha idee. ma pensa che sia tutta una questione di soldi. sono molto diversi. a modo loro ugualmente dannosi ma certamente diversi. poi possiamo vedere trump come l'gente russo e putin con l'agente americano, ma sono tutte idee surreali più fantasie. l'unica cosa che hanno in comune è che entrambi stanno minando alla radice quello che amministrano. io vedo felicemernte distrutti entrambi gli imperi. ma peccato ci sia l'ucraina nel mezzo. ed in realtà non solo perché putin al confine russo schiavizza numerosi popoli e nazioni.


il bello è che quei coglioni dei repubblicani pensano di aver scelto un economista... attento ai temi economici... ricorda la storia in italia di berlusconi. che poi berlusconi per quanto antipatico è stato infinitamente meno dannoso di trump.


"Dan Carney del Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory ha proposto un esperimento per cercare “tremolii” gravitazionali: un pendolo torsionale accanto a una nuvola di atomi in stato quantico potrebbe rivelare irregolarità dovute a effetti entropici. La gravità tradizionale produrrebbe variazioni regolari, mentre eventuali fluttuazioni casuali indicherebbero un’origine termodinamica."

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Buon #Ferragosto dal #MIM! ☀
Quali libri vi stanno accompagnando in questi mesi estivi?


Open Source Lithium-Titanate Battery Management System


Lithium-titanate (LTO) is an interesting battery chemistry that is akin to Li-ion but uses Li2TiO3 nanocrystals instead of carbon for the anode. This makes LTO cells capable of much faster charging and with better stability characteristics, albeit at the cost of lower energy density. Much like LiFePO4 cells, this makes them interesting for a range of applications where the highest possible energy density isn’t the biggest concern, while providing even more stability and long-term safety.

That said, LTO is uncommon enough that finding a battery management system (BMS) can be a bit of a pain. This is where [Vlastimil Slintak]’s open source LTO BMS project may come in handy, which targets single cell (1S) configurations with the typical LTO cell voltage of around 1.7 – 2.8V, with 3 cells in parallel (1S3P). This particular BMS was designed for low-power applications like Meshtastic nodes, as explained on the accompanying blog post which also covers the entire development and final design in detail.

The BMS design features all the stuff that you’d hope is on there, like under-voltage, over-voltage and over-current protection, with an ATtiny824 MCU providing the brains. Up to 1 A of discharge and charge current is supported, for about 2.4 Watt at average cell voltage. With the triple 1,300 mAh LTO cells in the demonstrated pack you’d have over 9 Wh of capacity, with the connected hardware able to query the BMS over I2C for a range of statistics.

Thanks to [Marcel] for the tip.


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Cobalt Strike per tutti con CrossC2! Prestiamo attenzione ai server Linux sprovvisti di EDR


Il Giappone è stato colpito da una nuova ondata di attacchi informatici che hanno utilizzato CrossC2, uno strumento per estendere le funzionalità di Cobalt Strike alle piattaforme Linux e macOS. Il centro di coordinamento JPCERT/CC ha riferito che gli attacchi hanno avuto luogo tra settembre e dicembre 2024 e hanno interessato diversi paesi, tra cui il Giappone.

L’analisi degli artefatti caricati su VirusTotal ha mostrato che gli aggressori hanno combinato CrossC2 con altri strumenti come PsExec, Plink e lo stesso Cobalt Strike per penetrare nell’infrastruttura di Active Directory. Cobalt Strike è stato caricato utilizzando un malware appositamente sviluppato chiamato ReadNimeLoader.

CrossC2 è una versione non ufficiale di Beacon e del suo builder che consente l’esecuzione di comandi Cobalt Strike su diversi sistemi operativi dopo aver stabilito una connessione a un server remoto specificato nella configurazione. Nei casi registrati, gli aggressori hanno creato un’attività pianificata sui computer infetti per eseguire un file eseguibile legittimo java.exe, utilizzato per il sideload di ReadNimeLoader nella libreria “jli.dll“.

ReadNimeLoader è scritto in Nim e carica il contenuto di un file di testo in memoria, evitando di scrivere dati su disco. Il codice caricato è OdinLdr, un loader di shellcode aperto che decodifica il Cobalt Strike Beacon incorporato e lo esegue in memoria. Il meccanismo include tecniche anti-debug e anti-analisi che impediscono la decodifica di OdinLdr finché l’ambiente non è completamente controllato.

JPCERT/CC ha rilevato somiglianze tra questa campagna e l’attività BlackSuit/Black Basta segnalata da Rapid7 nel giugno 2025. Sono state riscontrate somiglianze nel dominio C&C utilizzato e nei nomi dei file. Inoltre, sono state rilevate diverse versioni ELF della backdoor SystemBC, che spesso precede l’installazione di Cobalt Strike e la distribuzione di ransomware.

Gli esperti hanno prestato particolare attenzione al fatto che gli aggressori hanno compromesso attivamente i server Linux all’interno delle reti aziendali. Molti di questi sistemi non sono dotati di soluzioni EDR o strumenti di rilevamento simili, il che li rende un comodo punto di ingresso per ulteriori sviluppi dell’attacco. Ciò aumenta il rischio di penetrazione su larga scala e richiede un maggiore controllo su tali segmenti infrastrutturali.

L'articolo Cobalt Strike per tutti con CrossC2! Prestiamo attenzione ai server Linux sprovvisti di EDR proviene da il blog della sicurezza informatica.





Bug da Oscar (score 10) per Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center


Una falla di sicurezza critica è stata resa pubblica da Cisco nel suo software Secure Firewall Management Center (FMC), permettendo potenzialmente a malintenzionati non autenticati di eseguire, a distanza, comandi shell a loro scelta con alti livelli di autorizzazione. La vulnerabilità, identificata come CVE-2025-20265 e a cui è stato assegnato il punteggio CVSS massimo di 10,0, rappresenta una delle falle di sicurezza più gravi scoperte quest’anno nell’infrastruttura firewall di Cisco.

Gli aggressori possono sfruttare questa vulnerabilità inviando credenziali appositamente create durante il processo di autenticazione RADIUS consentendo loro di iniettare comandi shell dannosi che vengono successivamente eseguiti dal dispositivo di destinazione. Ciò che rende questa vulnerabilità particolarmente pericolosa è il fatto che non richiede alcuna autenticazione e può essere sfruttata da remoto tramite la rete.

La vulnerabilità di sicurezza risiede nell’implementazione del sottosistema RADIUS del software Secure FMC di Cisco e colpisce in particolare la fase di autenticazione, in cui l’input dell’utente viene gestito in modo improprio.

La vulnerabilità colpisce specificamente le versioni 7.0.7 e 7.7.0 del software Cisco Secure FMC, ma solo quando l’autenticazione RADIUS è abilitata per l’interfaccia di gestione basata sul web, per la gestione SSH o per entrambe. Le organizzazioni che non utilizzano l’autenticazione RADIUS non sono vulnerabili a questo specifico vettore di attacco.

La vulnerabilità deriva da una convalida insufficiente degli input durante il processo di verifica delle credenziali, creando un’opportunità per attacchi di iniezione di comandi quando il sistema elabora le richieste di autenticazione inviate al server RADIUS configurato.

Cisco
ha rilasciato aggiornamenti le patch che risolvono la vulnerabilità e consiglia vivamente di applicare immediatamente le patch a tutti i sistemi interessati.

L'articolo Bug da Oscar (score 10) per Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center proviene da il blog della sicurezza informatica.



Sto facendo colazione guardando la messa celebrata dal papa.

Leggono un brano dell'Apocalisse, un testo a cui noi amanti dell'horror e dell'heavy metal dobbiamo moltissimo.



Normale


@Giornalismo e disordine informativo
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Mi sono abituato. Viene giù un altro condominio in Ucraina, a causa di un bombardamento deliberato russo contro i civili: prima era un crimine di guerra, ora è normale. Si ribalta un barcone di migranti con molti annegati, tra cui anche una bimba di pochi mesi: prima era un’immorale omissione di soccorso, ora è normale. […]
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Arriva la Fidanzata Robot! la nuova frontiera della tecnologia made in Cina


Mentre l’ascesa dei robot in Cina, il più grande mercato e produttore di robot al mondo, sta attirando l’attenzione dell’industria globale dell’informatica (IT), l’emergere di un “robot fidanzata” sta creando scalpore. Questo piccolo robot, modellato su una giovane donna, può cantare e ballare come un gruppo di ragazze e persino impegnarsi in scambi emotivi. È stato recentemente venduto per circa 2 milioni di won a un’asta (circa 2000 euro).

Secondo media cinesi come Kwai Technology, l’azienda di robotica con sede a Shanghai Lingdong Robotics ha recentemente lanciato il suo primo prodotto robotico, il robot umanoide “NIA-F01” (nome cinese: “Nian”), al prezzo di 9.999 yuan (circa 1500 euro).

Nian” è un robot da tavolo di 56 cm con l’aspetto di una giovane donna snella. Dotato di vista, udito e tatto, può percepire le parole e le espressioni facciali dell’utente, consentendo la comunicazione emotiva. La superficie del robot è ricoperta da un materiale in silicone che risulta molto simile alla pelle, mentre il suo scheletro è suddiviso in un totale di 34 articolazioni, che gli consentono di muovere il corpo liberamente.

Una caratteristica degna di nota è che gli utenti possono “personalizzare” il carattere del robot che desiderano. Attraverso un telaio auto-sviluppato, gli utenti possono cambiare il viso, l’acconciatura, gli abiti, ecc. a seconda dei propri gusti, e possono anche implementare il tutto inserendo una voce umana, linguaggio, movimenti, personalità, ecc. Gli utenti possono creare un “robot fidanzata personalizzato” in base ai propri gusti.

Lingdong Robot ha presentato “Nian” come “il primo robot desktop personalizzato al mondo con intelligenza artificiale“. Inoltre, alla “World Robot Conference (WRC) 2025”, tenutasi a Pechino dall’8 al 12, ha anche presentato il “primo gruppo di ragazze robot al mondo”, in cui diverse “Nian” hanno imparato canzoni e balli di gruppo e li hanno ballati e cantati direttamente.

Lingdong Robot ha attirato nuovamente l’attenzione quando ha messo “Nian” all’asta su una piattaforma. Lingdong Robot aveva fissato l’offerta minima a 1 won, ma “Nian” è stata venduto all’asta quel giorno per 15.800 yuan (circa 2 milioni di won), superando il prezzo di vendita (9.999 yuan).

I media locali hanno riferito che l’emergere di una “fidanzata robot” è un misto di attesa e scetticismo nel settore IT cinese.

I media e i blog tecnologici cinesi nutrono grandi aspettative per il futuro della robotica, considerando che non solo i robot che sostituiscono le attività umane, ad esempio quelli per l’assistenza clienti e la preparazione culinaria, ma anche quelli in grado di rispondere ai bisogni emotivi degli utenti, come i robot compagni e i robot amici, potrebbero costituire una novità importante nel campo della robotica.

I blog e le testate online cinesi si soffermano sulle potenzialità future dei robot che vanno oltre la semplice sostituzione dell’uomo nelle mansioni lavorative, prendendo in considerazione anche quelli capaci di interazione emotiva, ossia i robot amici e i robot da compagnia, che potrebbero rinnovare profondamente il panorama della robotica.

L'articolo Arriva la Fidanzata Robot! la nuova frontiera della tecnologia made in Cina proviene da il blog della sicurezza informatica.




Vulnerabilità critica in Apache Tomcat da aggiornare, altrimenti il server può andare in DoS


Una falla di sicurezza critica è stata individuata nell’implementazione HTTP/2 di Apache Tomcat. Questa vulnerabilità permette a malintenzionati di effettuare attacchi di tipo denial-of-service (DoS) dannosi sui server web.

La vulnerabilità, monitorata con la CVE-2025-48989 e soprannominata attacco “Made You Reset“, colpisce diverse versioni del popolare container dj servlet Java e pone rischi significativi per le applicazioni web in tutto il mondo. La falla di sicurezza, classificata come grave, colpisce le versioni di Apache Tomcat da 11.0.0-M1 a 11.0.9, da 10.1.0-M1 a 10.1.43 e da 9.0.0.M1 a 9.0.107.

La vulnerabilità è stata identificata dai ricercatori di sicurezza Gal Bar Nahum, Anat Bremler-Barr e Yaniv Harel dell’Università di Tel Aviv, che hanno reso noti i loro risultati il 13 agosto 2025. Anche le vecchie versioni ormai fuori produzione potrebbero essere vulnerabili, con il rischio di colpire migliaia di server web in tutto il mondo.

L’attacco “Made You Reset” sfrutta le debolezze nell’implementazione del protocollo HTTP/2 di Tomcat, prendendo di mira il meccanismo di ripristino della connessione. Se eseguito correttamente, l’attacco si manifesta come un OutOfMemoryError, che fa sì che il server preso di mira esaurisca le risorse di memoria disponibili e non risponda più alle richieste legittime.

La vulnerabilità risiede nel modo in cui Tomcat gestisce i ripristini dei flussi HTTP/2 e la gestione delle connessioni. Gli aggressori possono creare richieste HTTP/2 dannose che costringono il server ad allocare risorse di memoria eccessive senza rilasciarle correttamente. Questo comportamento di perdita di memoria può essere attivato ripetutamente, fino a sovraccaricare il pool di memoria disponibile del server e innescare una condizione di negazione del servizio.

Il vettore di attacco sfrutta la funzionalità di multiplexing HTTP/2, grazie alla quale più flussi possono essere elaborati simultaneamente su una singola connessione TCP.

Manipolando i frame di ripristino del flusso e la gestione dello stato di connessione, gli aggressori possono forzare Tomcat a mantenere numerose connessioni semiaperte o stati di flusso incompleti, con conseguente esaurimento delle risorse.

L'articolo Vulnerabilità critica in Apache Tomcat da aggiornare, altrimenti il server può andare in DoS proviene da il blog della sicurezza informatica.



“Non ci sono due amori, ma uno solo e medesimo, che ci spinge a dare sia il pane materiale sia il Pane della Parola, che, a sua volta, per il suo stesso dinamismo, dovrà suscitare fame del Pane del cielo”.


Rediscovering Microsoft’s Oddball Music Generator From The 1990s


There has been a huge proliferation in AI music creation tools of late, and a corresponding uptick in the number of AI artists appearing on streaming services. Well before the modern neural network revolution, though, there was an earlier tool in this same vein. [harke] tells us all about Microsoft Music Producer 1.0, a forgotten relic from the 1990s.

The software wasn’t ever marketed openly. Instead, it was a part of Microsoft Visual InterDev, a web development package from 1997. It allowed the user to select a style, a personality, and a band to play the song, along with details like key, tempo, and the “shape” of the composition. It would then go ahead and algorithmically generate the music using MIDI instruments and in-built synthesized sounds.

As [harke] demonstrates, there are a huge amounts of genres to choose from. Pick one, and you’ll most likely find it sounds nothing like the contemporary genre it’s supposed to be recreating. The more gamey genres, though, like “Adventure” or “Chase” actually sound pretty okay. The moods are hilariously specific, too — you can have a “noble” song, or a “striving” or “serious” one. [harke] also demonstrates building a full song with the “7AM Illusion” preset, exporting the MIDI, and then adding her own instruments and vocals in a DAW to fill it out. The result is what you’d expect from a composition relying on the Microsoft GS Wavetable synth.

Microsoft might not have cornered the generative music market in the 1990s, but generative AI is making huge waves in the industry today.

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Calibration, Good Old Calibration


Do you calibrate your digital meters? Most of us don’t have the gear to do a proper calibration, but [Mike Wyatt] shares his simple way to calibrate his DMMs using a precision resistor coupled with a thermistor. The idea is to use a standard dual banana plug along with a 3D-printed housing to hold the simple electronics.

The calibration element is a precision resistor. But the assembly includes a 1% thermistor. In addition to the banana plugs, there are test points to access the resistor and another pair for the thermistor.

In use, you plug the device into the unit you want to test. Then you clip a different temperature sensor to the integrated thermistor. Because the thermistor is in close proximity to the meter’s input, it can tell the difference between the ambient temperature and the meter. [Mike] says the bench meters get warmer than hand-held units.

This is, of course, not a perfect setup if you are a real metrology stickler. But it can be helpful. [Mike] suggests the precision resistor be over 100 ohms since anything less really isn’t a candidate for a precision measurement with two wires. Debating over calibration? We do that, too.


hackaday.com/2025/08/14/calibr…



Bench-Top Wireless Power Transmission


A photo of a the power supply, distribution board, and primary and secondary windings on a bench top.

[mircemk] has been working on wireless power transmission. Using a Class-E Tesla coil with 12 turns on the primary and 8 turns on the secondary and a 12 volt input he can send a few milliwatts to power an LED over a distance of more than 40 centimeters or power a 10 watt bulb over a distance of about 10 centimeters. With the DC input set at 24 volts the apparatus can deliver 5 watts over a distance of a few centimeters and a light is still visible after separating the primary and secondary coils by more than 30 centimeters.

There are many types of Tesla coil and we can’t go into the details here but they include Spark-Gap Tesla Coils (SGTC) and Solid-State Tesla Coils (SSTC), among others. The Class-E coil demonstrated in this project is a type of SSTC which in general is more efficient than an SGTC alternative.

Please bear in mind that while it is perfectly safe to watch a YouTube video of a person demonstrating a functional Tesla coil, building your own is hazardous and probably not a good idea unless you really understand what you’re doing! Particularly high voltages can be involved and EMI/RFI emissions can violate regulations. You can damage your body with RF burns while not feeling any pain, and without even knowing that it’s happening.

If you’d like to read more about wireless power transmission it is certainly a topic we’ve covered here at Hackaday in the past, you might like to check out Wireless Power Makes For Cable-Free Desk or Transmitting Wireless Power Over Longer Distances.

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trump si sbaglia è invece di dire "salveremo vite" dice "salveremo putin"...
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non basta il complesso biden di trump credo a spiegare tutto 😀 va bene che lo aveva sulle palle però era dopo tutto un oppositore politico legittimo. e non è che con se stesso può tirare fuori i brogli elettorali. lui sa di averli fatti lui..


Pirate Candidate Announcement: Blase Henry for AZ’s 17th Legislative District


The United States Pirate Party is excited to announce our first of many candidates for the 2026 election cycle: AZPP Captain Blase Henry shall be running for Arizona’s 17th Legislative District!

Blase has been a rising star within the ranks of the United States Pirate Party, and with this announcement, he is officially the first Pirate we will be backing during the 2026 elections.

If elected, future State Rep. Henry has laid out to us some of the bills he plans on introducing, including but not limited to:

– A digital Bill of Rights for Arizona

– A bill banning ID requirement/age verification laws on the internet, AI or otherwise

– A bill similar to the “Stop Killing Games” initiative of Europe, aiming to protect video game consumers and players

– A bill that prevents internet service providers from sharing your data without your consent and make it so police need a warrant for your data

We are excited to share what will be the first of many Pirate candidates. Some candidates will appear on the ballot as independents, some as members of major parties and some, if they are so fortunate, will have “Pirate” next to their name on the ballot. No matter what it says next to their name on the ballot, we will throw our support behind our Pirate candidates.

NOTE: the US Pirate Party recently endorsed the gubernatorial campaign of Timothy Grady for Ohio. Timothy Grady is an independent candidate but is not officially a Pirate Party candidate. Blase Henry is the first official candidate announced from the US Pirate Party.

To quote Blase Henry himself: “Let’s Hoist the Colours and Join the Pirate Revolution! For if Buying isn’t Ownership, then Piracy isn’t Theft!”

You can visit his campaign website here, or if you’re an AZ resident, you can help get Blase on the ballot here.

Blase Henry, Victory is Arrrs


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DIY Wind Turbine Gets a 3-Phase Rectifier


[Electronoobs] is using some brushless motors to make a DIY wind turbine. His recent video isn’t about the turbine itself, but a crucial electronic part: the three-phase rectifier. The reason it is so important is due to the use of brushless motors. Normal motors are not ideal for generating power for several reasons, as explained in the video below.

The brushless motors have three windings and generate three outputs, each out of phase with the others. You can’t just join them together because they are 120 degrees out of phase. But a special rectifier can merge the inputs efficiently and output a low-ripple DC voltage.

The rectifier will have to handle a lot of power, so it uses beefy devices with heat sinks. The design is very similar to a full-wave bridge rectifier, but instead of two legs, each with two diodes, this one has three legs. This is still not as efficient as you would like. A synchronous rectifier would be even more efficient but also more complicated.

Still, we have no doubt the board will do its job. We’re anxious to see the turbine come together. Want to build your own? Maybe start smaller. Too big? You can strip it down even further.

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Riepilogo del mio viaggio nel nord della Germania


Ecco i post su Mastodon con le tappe del mio viaggio di quest'estate in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern e Schleswig-Holstein (aprire sempre le didascalie/testi alternativi delle immagini per qualche particolare in più)

Ulm

Schloss Ulrichshusen (concerto)

Ankershagen (museo Schliemann)

Greifswald, Boddenlandschaft (museo Caspar David Friedrich)

Stralsund (fabbrica di carte da gioco)

Wismar, Schwerin

Lubecca

Marne (concerto)

Amburgo (Kunsthalle) - somiglianze?

Stade (Kunstautomat)

Celle

Bergen-Belsen

Hildesheim

Lipsia (itinerario musicale, San Nicola)

Norimberga

Ritratto di gatta viaggiatrice


Destinazione: Germania settentrionale. Prima tappa: Ulm con il suo incredibile Münster, il Rathaus decoratissimo e il suo cielo plumbeo e piovoso.


Oggi celebriamo l’assunzione di Maria al cielo. La sua esistenza così umana e divina ci interpella nel quotidiano per poter assumere uno stile di vita immerso nel Mistero.




2025 One Hertz Challenge: Blinking An LED With The Aid Of Radio Time


If you want to blink an LED once every second, you could use just about any old timer circuit to create a 1 Hz signal. Or, you could go the complicated route like [Anthony Vincz] and grab 1 Hz off a radio clock instead.

The build is an entry for the 2025 One Hertz Challenge, with [Anthony] pushing himself to whip up a simple entry on a single Sunday morning. He started by grabbing a NE567 tone decoder IC, which uses a phase-locked loop to trigger an output when detecting a tone of a given frequency. [Anthony] had used this chip hooked up to an Arduino to act as a Morse decoder, which picked up sound from an electret mic and decoded it into readable output.

However, he realized he could repurpose the NE567 to blink in response to output from radio time stations like the 60 KHz British and 77.5 KHz German broadcasts. He thus grabbed a software-defined radio, tuned it into one of the time stations, and adjusted the signal to effectively sound a regular 800 Hz tone coming out of his computer’s speakers that cycled once every second. He then tweaked the NE567 so it would trigger off this repetitive tone every second, flashing an LED.

Is it the easiest way to flash an LED? No. It’s complicated, but it’s also creative. They say a one hertz signal is always in the last place you look.

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For Americans Only: Estimating Celsius and Other Mental Metrics


I know many computer languages, but I’ve struggled all my life to learn a second human language. One of my problems is that I can’t stop trying to translate in my head. Just like Morse code, you need to understand things directly, not translate. But you have to start somewhere. One of the reasons metric never caught on in the United States is that it is hard to do exact translations while you are developing intuition about just how hot is 35 °C or how long 8 cm is.

If you travel, temperature is especially annoying. When the local news tells you the temperature is going to be 28, it is hard to do the math in your head to decide if you need a coat or shorts.

Ok, you are a math whiz. And you have a phone with a calculator and, probably, a voice assistant. So you can do the right math, which is (9/5) x °C + 32. But for those of us who can’t do that in our heads, there is an easier way.

Field Expedient

Close enough for a quick estimate
Most of us can’t multiply by 9/5 in our heads. But 9/5 is very nearly two. So if you double the Celsius temperature, you are halfway there. Of course, the number will be too high. But to make up for it, instead of adding 32, just add 30. For weather temperatures, this gives you a ballpark estimate. For 0 °C, you get 30 °F instead of 32. For 20 °C, you get 70 °F instead of 68. For 35 °C, you get 100 °F instead of 95. All close enough.

If you want to flip the error as the temperature goes up, you can remember to add 25 instead of 30 if the temperature is more than, say 25 °C. Then 35 °C gives you 95 °F on the dot, although other temperatures will still have some error, of course.

The error gets worse as the temperature rises, but it has to get fairly high before it gets useless. For example, my AMD CPU is currently at 48 °C. Using the +25 estimate, that’s 121 °F, instead of the correct 118. But maybe it won’t help you set up your metal smelting furnace.

Other Estimates

Centimeters to inches the easy way.
This is a useful way to embrace metric. Find rough estimates for units you deal with. For example, 2.54 cm/inch is not the easiest thing to apply. But if you remember that 5 cm is about 2 in, that works well. So a 160 mm rod is 16 cm. If you think of that as 3 x 5 + 1, you’ll know it is 6 inches plus an extra centimeter. The right answer is about 6.3 inches. Not close enough to start cutting things, but it does give you a feel for how big a thing you are talking about.

If you lived through the time when gasoline in the US went from less than $1/gallon to over, you might remember that many gas stations switched to liters because the pumps couldn’t be set for a dollar. The reason is a liter is very nearly a quart, and there are four quarts to a gallon. So 12 liters is practically 12 quarts or 3 gallons. This turns out to be very close.

Kilograms and kilometers are a bit trickier. The right way to imprecisely convert kilograms to pounds is to multiply by 2.2. But a nice mental math trick is to double it. Then remove the last digit and add the rest back in to the whole result. Then put the last digit you removed after the decimal point. So 8 kg would be 16+1 (throw away the six) or 17 pounds. Then put the 0.6 in for the correct answer of 17.6 pounds. Of course, the conversion factor isn’t exactly 2.2, but that’s what most people use anyway. If you are trying to be scientifically accurate, none of this is going to help you.
Estimating kilometers.
The factor for kilometers is roughly 0.6 km/mile or 1.6 miles/km. If you halve the kilometers, that will get you a fairly low estimate. So 35 km (21.7 miles) is easy to guess as more than 17.5 miles. That’s a pretty big difference, though. But if you then add 10% of the 35 back (3.5) you get 21 miles which is close.

Advice


I’m not trying to say that these rule-of-thumb tricks are good when you need an exact answer. But they are handy when you simply want a gut feel over some measure. Over time, you’ll just naturally know that 35 °C is summer-weather hot and you need more than a coffee mug to hold 3 liters.

Do you have a favorite fast conversion back or forth from metric? Share it in the comments. Americans love their strange measuring system. Turns out, some of the reasons we didn’t get metric was due to pirates, as you can see in the video below.

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The texts were sent to a group called “Mass Text” and show ICE using DMV and license plate reader data in an attempt to find their target, copies of the messages obtained by 404 Media show.#News


ICE Adds Random Person to Group Chat, Exposes Details of Manhunt in Real-Time


Members of a law enforcement group chat including Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and other agencies inadvertently added a random person to the group called “Mass Text” where they exposed highly sensitive information about an active search for a convicted attempted murderer seemingly marked for deportation, 404 Media has learned.

The texts included an unredacted ICE “Field Operations Worksheet” that includes detailed information about the target they were looking for, and the texts showed ICE pulling data from a DMV and license plate readers (LPRs), according to screenshots of the chat obtained and verified by 404 Media. The person accidentally added to the group chat is not a law enforcement official or associated with the investigation in any way, and said they were added to it weeks ago and initially thought it was a series of spam messages.

The incident is a significant data breach and operational security failure for ICE, which has ramped up arrest efforts across the U.S. as part of the Trump administration’s mass deportation efforts. The breach also has startling similarities to so-called Signal Gate, in which a senior administration official added the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic to a group chat that contained likely classified information. These new ICE messages were MMS, or Multimedia Messaging Service messages, meaning they weren’t end-to-end encrypted, like texts sent over Signal or WhatsApp are.

“Going to need to roll out at 1000,” one of the messages, sent at 09:25 a.m. on Wednesday to the group, called “Mass Text,” reads.

“Copy. We can break it down at 10,” comes the reply.

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Do you want to contact me securely? I would love to hear from you. Using a non-work device, you can message me securely on Signal at joseph.404 or send me an email at joseph@404media.co.

404 Media has verified that one of the members of the chat is an ICE official, and another appears to be from the U.S. Marshals Service.

The person accidentally added to the group chat, which appears to contain six people, said they had no idea why they had received these messages, and shared screenshots of the chat with 404 Media. 404 Media granted the person anonymity to protect them from retaliation.

“At first I thought it was just another series of spam messages like I get all the time from home improvement, car insurance , business loans, etc. Then I saw the rap sheet and license plate numbers and was like WTAF,” the person said in an online chat.



Screenshots of the messages. Redactions by 404 Media.

A DHS official not affiliated with the group chat told 404 Media, “This breach strikes me as indicative of the current carelessness of officers. They're concerned about pumping up arrest numbers, not about operating with the level of care and rigor we should expect from law enforcement officials.” 404 Media granted the source anonymity as they weren’t permitted to speak to the press.

404 Media only obtained text messages from the group sent on Wednesday and only learned of the issue at that time. They start early in the morning with one of the participants, which 404 Media has identified as an ICE official, sending a screenshot of the ICE field operations worksheet. This document names the target, lays out their criminal history, and includes personal information such as their Social Security Number, country of citizenship, and driver’s license number.

The target is a person who was previously convicted of attempted murder according to the document, and a search of the ICE Online Detainee Locator System returned no results.

Nearly an hour later, another member of the group replies with a series of license plates. The name registered to that number matches that of a U.S. Marshals Criminal Investigator, according to a freely available phone lookup tool and LinkedIn searches.


Screenshots of the messages. Redactions by 404 Media.

“Running those plates,” the ICE officer then replies. “In the mean time he has two vehicles,” the ICE officer adds, before uploading two photos of car registration data which appear to come from a DMV; one of the photos shows a PDF filename which includes “DMV.” ICE is able to access DMV data in many circumstances. The respective DMV for the state this investigation took place in acknowledged a request for comment but did not provide a response in time for publication.

Immediately after, the ICE official wrote “no LPR hits since March.” LPR cameras are made by various companies and are stationed all across the United States. These cameras typically scan any vehicles driving by them, recording the vehicle’s license plate, model, and color, and makes a timestamped record of where that car, and by extension person, was. For example, more than 9,000 ICE agents had access to an LPR database run by Vigilant Solutions, according to records the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) obtained in 2019. 404 Media also revealed that local police were tapping into Flock cameras on behalf of ICE and for immigration enforcement, sometimes in violation of the law.

“It’s possible it’s still a connected address. Could be family. The last name matches the female co-reg on one of his vehicles,” the ICE official writes, appearing to refer to some of the data he’s pulled up.

“Copy,” another participant replies.

“Ok I’ll call you,” another says.

By the time the chat members say they’re going to “roll out at 1000,” appearing to mean they will move at 10am, the ICE official says “I’ll have someone sit and try and get a pattern of life/pid.” Pattern of life is a general term law enforcement and intelligence agencies sometimes use to describe where someone may live, go to work, or spend their time.

The source who was accidentally added to the group chat said they haven’t received any more messages since then.

Neither DHS or the U.S. Marshals Service responded to requests for comment.

Recently ICE officials have raided incorrect addresses; potentially violated court orders banning the agency from racial profiling people at Home Depots; detained U.S. citizens (including for days without water); and deported U.S. citizen children, one of which had cancer, with their families to Honduras, all while aggressively rounding up undocumented people many of whom have no criminal record and denying due process to some. Around half the people in ICE detention, nearly 30,000 people, do not have criminal records, according to the Deportation Data Project.

Previously senior administration officials gave ICE a quota of 3,000 arrests a day. The administration has since claimed that no such quota exists.

With its new budget injection and overarching mass deportation goal, ICE is about to go on a social media ad recruiting blitz, 404 Media previously reported. On Tuesday DHS said it had received more than 100,000 applications for roles at ICE. At the end of July, the agency said it had issued more than 1,000 tentative job offers since July 4.


#News



3D Printing a Self-cleaning Water Filter


No one likes cleaning out water spouts. [NeedItMakeIt] wanted to collect rainwater and was interested in using a Coanda filter that those used on hydroelectric plants to separate out debris. Ultimately, he decided to design his own and 3D print it.

The design uses a sloping surface with teeth on it to coax water to go in one direction and debris to go in another. It fits into a typical spout, and seems like it works well enough. Some commenters note that varying volumes of rain and different types of debris behave differently, which is probably true. However, there are similar commercial products, so you’d guess there would be some value to using the technique.

The water pushes the debris off the slope, so you end up losing a little water with the debris. So as always, there’s a trade-off. You can see in the video that if the water flow isn’t substantial, the debris tends to stall on the slope. Could the filter be improved? That was the point in trying a second design.

It wasn’t a big improvement. That’s where there’s a plot twist. Well, actually, a literal twist. Instead of making a flat slope, the new design is a conic shape with a spiral channel. That improved flow quite a bit. We weren’t clear from the video of exactly where the debris was going with the last version.

Usually, when we think of the Coanda effect, we are thinking aerodynamics. It can be quite uplifting.

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“Non siamo qui per fuggire dalla storia, ma per entrarci fino in fondo con la preghiera, che è grido, invocazione, umanità, consolazione, compassione”. Lo ha detto il card.


4K Blu-Ray of 22-Year-Old 'Master and Commander' Is Sold Out Everywhere, Being Scalped on eBay#Media #News


4K Blu-Ray of 22-Year-Old 'Master and Commander' Is Sold Out Everywhere, Being Scalped on eBay


August—2025. The new limited edition 4K Blu-ray of the 2005 film Master and Commander has sold out everywhere. Secondary markets are now battlefields.

There are two kinds of people in this world: those who read the above sentences and feel an intense pain and yearning for camaraderie and combat on the high seas, and those who have never seen Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World.
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Copies of the new 4K release of the film are now selling on eBay for roughly double its MSRP, proof that physical media is not dead.

Released in 2005, Master and Commander is a war movie set in the Napoleonic period that focuses on the relationship between Captain Jack Aubrey of the Royal Navy and ship’s surgeon Stephen Maturin, played by Russell Crowe and Paul Bettany respectively. The film, which is based on a 20-book-long novel series of the same name, grossed $212 million on a $150 million budget but didn’t become a runaway hit at the time.

But in the two decades since it first hit screens, Master and Commander has grown in esteem, especially in American national security circles. It’s a cult favorite. The occasional live screenings at revival theaters routinely sell out, memes involving the film’s opening text are ubiquitous, and it often lands on lists of the the “best movies of the 2000s.” In the middle of July, a joint venture of Sony and Disney studios announced it would publish a high quality 4K UltraHD limited edition steelbook Blu-ray to be released in August. Fans went nuts.

This would be the highest quality home release of the beloved film ever seen. Fans tracked pre-orders as they went live on Amazon, Wal-Mart, and other retailers. It sold out in days, and has done so consistently every time it’s been restocked. Master and Commander heads are so hungry for 4K Crowe that they’re now paying double and triple the asking price for the steelbook copy on eBay and several notable people have posted about how they can’t find a copy.

totally missed that there was a new master and commander 4K out and naturally it is completely out of stock
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It’s rare in 2025 that the physical release of a 20 year old film is met with such fervor. Delight is especially high among members of America’s military community. Soldiers, officers, journalists, and the extremely online NatSec weirdos love Master and Commander. Like Star Wars, the movie has become a lingua franca in U.S. military circles where it’s a source of memes and concepts that drives discussion.

“There's no doubt that Master and Commander is beloved within the national security community. What's harder to explain is ‘why,’” Robert Farley, a senior lecturer at the University of Kentucky, told 404 Media. Farley said he just rewatched the movie two weeks ago after forcing a friend to watch who’d never seen it.

“If I had to hazard a guess, it's because the movie depicts the tight functioning of a community of warfighters, a community that is mostly comfortable with itself…and yet is deeply grounded in English social structure,” Farley said. “As in any well-functioning military, everyone has a place to be and a job to do. Jack Aubrey isn’t so much brilliant as ‘lucky,’ which adds to the workmanlike aspect. I'd say that there's a male bonding aspect to it (I don't believe any female character has even a single line), but I know plenty of women in the NatSec space who will quote ‘Oceans are battlefields’ in everyday conversation.”

Pauline Shanks Kaurin, a former military ethics professor at the U.S. Naval War College, told 404 Media that she’d used Master and Commander in her classes as a way to teach Aristotle’s three kinds of friendship and, separately, the Ethics of Care. “I think it’s really about the friendship between the Captain and doctor, as well as a portrayal of leadership and comradeship that is still masculine and strong, but not brutal and gratuitous,” she said.

When reached for comment about the film, Remap Radio’s Robert Zacny—famously a fan of the film—was actively debating paying $140 for a copy of the 4K steelbook. 404 Media informed Zacny that eBay had listings for half that price and asked the Remap founder for his thoughts on the movie and its enduring legacy.

“There's a moment in the film where Aubrey snaps at Maturin about the things that hold together their ‘little wooden world.’ Master and Commander is a war movie where the entire concerns of the world are reduced to the interior or a single ship. But it's also a character study about the worlds held within and between individuals. The roles people have to inhabit and the things they have to do in service to duty, the state, to ethics, to morality.
Yet this movie is also backdropped by the vastness and wonder of nature, of time considered on an evolutionary scale and the awareness that beyond that bubble of consciousness awaits eternity in the darkness of the sea. The oft-memed opening text is deceptive. It doesn't really matter that Napoleon is the master of Europe. The concept of a battlefield is meaningless to the ocean. The movie is about men waging battles inside themselves to reconcile their own contradictions and choose their own meaning. It's immaculately directed, acted, and scored, but so are a lot of movies. This one endures because it's always offering a berth on this voyage of introspection, and it's so much fun you don't even mind how insistently it reminds you to think about mortality.”


His thoughts exhausted, Remap’s founder pressed 404 Media for information. “Now link me some of these good deals on steelbooks,” he said. “I am gonna be buried with one.”