LLM Dialogue In Animal Crossing Actually Works Very Well
In the original Animal Crossing from 2001, players are able to interact with a huge cast of quirky characters, all with different interests and personalities. But after you’ve played the game for awhile, the scripted interactions can become a bit monotonous. Seeing an opportunity to improve the experience, [josh] decided to put a Large Language Model (LLM) in charge of these interactions. Now when the player chats with other characters in the game, the dialogue is a lot more engaging, relevant, and sometimes just plain funny.
How does one go about hooking a modern LLM into a 24-year-old game built for an entirely offline console? [josh]’s clever approach required a lot of poking about, and did a good job of leveraging some of the game’s built-in features for a seamless result.
The game runs on a GameCube emulator, and the first thing needed is a way to allow the game and an external process to communicate with each other. To do this, [josh] uses a modding technique called Inter-Process Communication (IPC) via shared memory. This essentially defines a range of otherwise unused memory as a mailbox that both the game state and an external process (like a Python script) can access.
[josh] then nailed down the exact memory locations involved in dialogue. This was a painstaking process that required a lot of memory scanning, but eventually [josh] found where the game stores the active speaker and the active dialogue text when the player speaks to a villager. That wasn’t all, though. The dialogue isn’t just plain ASCII, it contains proprietary control codes that sprinkle things like sounds, colors, and speaker emotes into conversations.
The system therefore watches for dialogue, and when a conversation is detected, the “Writer” LLM — furnished with all necessary details via the shared memory mailbox — is asked to create relevant dialogue for the character in question. A second “Director” LLM takes care of adding colors, facial expressions, and things of that nature via control codes.
[josh] even added a small bit of shared “gossip” memory among all villagers which keeps track of who said what to who, and how they felt about it. This perhaps unsurprisingly results in a lot of villagers grumbling about just how much currency flows directly to Tom Nook, the raccoon proprietor of the local store.
A very clever detail pointed out by [Simon Willison] is how [josh] deals with the problem of the game expecting dialogue to be immediately available at the given memory location. After all, LLMs don’t work instantly. Turns out [josh]’s code makes clever use of a built-in dialogue control code that creates a short pause. Whenever a dialogue screen opens, a few short pauses ensure that the LLM’s work is done in time.
If Animal Crossing isn’t retro enough, or you prefer your LLMs to be a little more excitable, AI commentary for Pong is totally a thing.
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2025 Hackaday Speakers, Round One! And Spoilers
Supercon is the Ultimate Hardware Conference and you need to be there! Just check out this roster of talks that will be going down. We’ve got something for everyone out there in the Hackday universe, from poking at pins, to making things beautiful, to robots, radios, and FPGAs. And this isn’t even half of the list yet.
We’ve got a great mix of old favorites and new faces this year, and as good as they are, honestly the talks are only half of the fun. The badge hacking, the food, the brainstorming, and just the socializing with the geekiest of the geeky, make it an event you won’t want to miss. If you don’t have tickets yet, you can still get them here.
Plus, this year, because Friday night is Halloween, we’ll be hosting a Sci-Fi-themed costume party for those who want to show off their best props or most elaborate spacesuits. And if that is the sort of thing that you’re into, you will absolutely want to stay tuned to our Keynote Speaker(s) announcement in a little while. (Spoiler number one.)
Joe FitzPatrick
Probing Pins for Protocol Polyglots
This talk explores stacking multiple protocols, like UART, SPI, and I2C, onto the same GPIO pins by exploiting undefined “don’t care” regions. Learn how to bitbang several devices at once, creating protocol polyglots without extra hardware.
Elli Furedy
Sandbox Systems: Hardware for Emergent Games
From Conway’s Game of Life to cyberpunk bounty hunting in the desert, this talk explores how thoughtful design in tech and hardware can lead to human connection and community. Elli Furedy shares lessons from years of building hardware and running an immersive experience at the event Neotropolis.
Andrew [Cprossu] Lewton
Cracking Open a Classic DOS Game
Take a nostalgic and technical deep dive into The Lawnmower Man, a quirky full-motion video game for DOS CD-ROM. We’ll explore the tools and techniques used to reverse-engineer the game, uncover how it was built, and wrap things up with a live demo on original hardware.
Reid Sox-Harris
Beyond RGB: The Illuminating World of Color & LEDs
RGB lighting is everywhere and allows any project to display millions of unique colors. This talk explores the physiology of the human eye that allows RGB to be so effective, when alternatives are better, and how to choose the right lighting for your project.
Cyril Engmann
What Makes a Robot Feel Alive?
This talk dives into the art and engineering of programming personality into pet robots, crafting behaviors, reactions, and quirks that turns a pile of parts into a companion with presence. Learn design tips, technical insights, and lessons from building expressive bots that blur the line between hardware and character.
Artem Makarov
Hacked in Translation: Reverse Engineering Abandoned IoT Hardware
This talk takes us on a tour of adventures reviving an abandoned IoT “AI” translator, 2025-style. From decoding peculiar protocols to reverse engineering firmware & software, discover how curiosity and persistence can breathe new life into forgotten hardware and tackle obscure technical challenges.
Samy Kamkar
Optical Espionage: Lasers to Keystrokes
We’ll learn how to identify what a target is typing from a distance through a window with an advanced laser microphone capable of converting infrared to vibrations to radio back to sound, and the electrical, optical, radio, and software components needed for cutting-edge eavesdropping.
Zachary Peterson
Cal Poly NerdFlare: Bringing #badgelife to Academia
A small experiment with PCB art and interactive badges became a campus-wide creative movement. Hear how students combined art, technology, and real-world tools to build community, develop skills, and create projects that are as accessible as they are unforgettable.
Javier de la Torre
Off the Grid, On the Net: Exploring Ham Radio Mesh Networks.
This talk dives into using outdoor wireless access points to join a ham radio mesh network (ham net). Learn how services like weather stations, video streams, email, and VOIP are run entirely over the mesh, without needing commercial internet, all within FCC Part 97 rules.
Debra Ansell
LEDs Get Into Formation: Mechanically Interesting PCB Assemblies
This talk discusses a range of projects built from custom LED PCBs combined into two and three dimensional structures. Explores methods of connecting them into creative arrangements, both static and flexible, including the “Bendy SAO” which won a prize at Supercon 2024.
Jeremy Hong
Rad Reverb: Cooking FPGAs with Gamma Rays
This talk presents research on destructive testing of commercial off-the-shelf (CoTS) FPGAs using cobalt-60 and cesium-137 radiation to study failure modes and resilience in high-radiation environments. Learn about a novel in-situ measurement method that allows real-time observation of integrated circuits during exposure, capturing transient faults and degradation without interrupting operation.
Doug Goodwin
Aurora Blue
Earth’s magnetic field is glitching out. Phones fail, satellites drop, auroras flood the skies. This talk dives into Aurora Blue, which imagines this future through post-digital imaging hacks: cyanotype prints exposed by custom light-field instruments that flow like auroras. Deep-blue works built to endure, sky relics you can hold after the cloud crashes.
Workshop News, and another Spoiler
Sadly, we’ve got to announce that the Meshtastic workshop with Kody Kinzie will not be taking place. But Spoiler Number Two is that the badge this year will have all of the capabilities of that project and much, much more. If you’re into LoRA radio, meshes, and handheld devices, you’ll want to watch out for our badge reveal in the upcoming weeks.
Oh, and go get your tickets now before it’s too late. Supercon has sold out every year, so you can’t say that we didn’t tell you.
A Trail Camera Built With Raspberry Pi
You can get all kinds of great wildlife footage if you trek out into the woods with a camera, but it can be tough to stay awake all night. However, this is a task you can readily automate, as [Luke] did with his DIY trail camera.
A Raspberry Pi Zero 2W serves as the heart of the build. It’s compact and runs on very little power, but also provides a good amount more processing power than the original Raspberry Pi Zero. It’s kitted out with the Raspberry Pi AI Camera, which uses the Sony IMX500 Intelligent Vision Sensor — providing a great platform for neural networks doing image classification and similar machine learning tasks. A Witty Pi power management module is used both for its real time clock and to schedule start-ups and shutdowns to best manage the power on offer from the batteries. All these components are wrapped up in a 3D printed housing to keep the Pi safe out in the wild.
We’ve seen some neat projects in this vein before.
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A Cut Above: Surgery in Space, Now and In the Future
In case you hadn’t noticed, we live in a dangerous world. While our soft, fleshy selves are remarkably good at absorbing kinetic energy and healing the damage that results, there are very definite limits to what we humans can deal with, beyond which we’ll need some help. Car crashes, falls from height, or even penetrating trauma such as gunshot wounds — events such as these will often land you in a trauma center where, if things are desperate enough, you’ll be on the operating table within the so-called “Golden Hour” of maximum survivability, to patch the holes and plug the leaks.
While the Golden Hour may be less of a hard limit than the name implies, it remains true that the sooner someone with a major traumatic injury gets into surgery, the better their chances of survival. Here on planet Earth, most urban locations can support one or more Level 1 trauma centers, putting huge swathes of the population within that 60-minute goal. Even in rural areas, EMS systems with Advanced Life Support crews can stabilize the severely wounded until they can be evacuated to a trauma center by helicopter, putting even more of the population within this protective bubble.
But ironically, residents in the highest-priced neighborhood in human history enjoy no such luxury. Despite only being the equivalent of a quick helicopter ride away, the astronauts and cosmonauts aboard the International Space Station are pretty much on their own when it comes to any traumatic injuries or medical emergencies that might crop up in orbit. While the ISS crews are well-prepared for that eventuality, as we’ll see, there’s only so much we can do right now, and we have a long way to go before we’re ready to perform surgery in space
Stacking the Deck
In the relatively short time that humans have been going to space, we’ve been remarkably lucky in terms of medical emergencies. Except for the incidents resulting in total loss of ship and crew, on-orbit medical events tend to be few and far between, and when they do occur, they tend to be minor, such as cuts, abrasions, nasal congestion, and “space adaptation syndrome,” a catch-all category of issues related to getting used to weightlessness. On the more serious end of the spectrum are several cases of cardiac arrhythmias, none of which required interventions or resulted in casualties.
There are a few reasons why medical incidents in space have been so few and far between. Chief among these is the stringent selection process for astronauts and cosmonauts, which tends to weed out anyone with underlying problems that might jeopardize a mission. This means that everyone who goes to space tends to be remarkably fit, which reduces the chance of anything untoward happening in orbit. Pre-flight quarantines are also used to keep astronauts from bringing infectious diseases up to orbit, where close quarters could result in rapid transmission between crew members.
Also, once these extremely fit individuals get to orbit, they’re among the most closely medically monitored people in history. Astronauts of the early Space Race programs and into the Shuttle program days were heavily instrumented, with flight surgeons constantly measuring just about every medical parameter engineers could dream up a sensor for. Continuous monitoring of crew vital signs isn’t really done much anymore, unless it’s for a particular on-orbit medical study, but astronauts are still better monitored than the average Joe walking around on the ground, and that offers the potential to pick up on potential problems early and intervene before they become mission-threatening issues.
Strangely enough, all this preoccupation with mitigating medical risks doesn’t appear to include the one precaution you’d think would be a no-brainer: preflight prophylactic appendectomy. While certain terrestrial adventures, such as overwintering in Antarctica, require the removal of the appendix, the operation isn’t mandated for astronauts and cosmonauts, probably due to the logic that anyone with a propensity toward intestinal illness will likely be screened out of the program before it becomes an issue. Also, even routine surgery like an appendectomy carries the risk of surgical complications like abdominal adhesions. This presents the risk of intestinal obstruction, which could be life-threatening if it crops up in orbit.
Mechanisms of Injury
Down here on Earth, we have a lot of room to get into trouble. We’ve got stairs to fall down, rugs to trip over, cars to crash, and through it all, that pesky acceleration vector threatening to impart enough kinetic energy to damage our fragile shelves. In the cozy confines of the ISS or any of the spacecraft used to service it, though, it’s hard to get going fast enough to do any real damage. Also, the lack of acceleration — most of the time — eliminates the risk of falling and hitting something, one of the most common mechanisms of injury here on Earth.
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Still, space is a dangerous place, and there is an increasing amount of space debris with the potential to cause injuries. Even with ballistic shielding on the ISS hull and micrometeoroid protection built into EVA suits, penetrating trauma is still possible. Blunt-force trauma is a concern as well, particularly during extravehicular activities where astronauts might be required to handle large pieces of equipment; even in free-fall, big things are dangerous to be around. Bones tend to demineralize during extended spaceflights, too, meaning an EVA could result in a fracture. EVAs can also present cardiac risks, with the stress of spacewalking potentially triggering an undetected and potentially serious arrhythmia.
Another underappreciated risk of spaceflight is urological problems. Fred Haise, lunar module pilot for the doomed Apollo 13 mission, famously developed a severe urinary tract infection due to the stress and dehydration of the crew’s long, cold return to Earth. Even in routine spaceflights, maintaining adequate hydration is difficult; coupled with excessive urination caused by the redistribution of fluids and increased excretion of calcium secondary to bone demineralization, kidney stones are a real risk.
Kidney stones aren’t just a potential problem; they have happened. A cosmonaut, reportedly Anatoly Solovyev, developed symptomatic kidney stones during a Mir mission in the 1990s. Luckily, he was able to continue the mission with just fluids and pain medications, but kidney stones can be excruciatingly painful and completely debilitating, and should a stone cause an obstruction and urinary retention, it could require surgery to resolve.
The Vertical Ambulance Ride
Given all these potential medical risks, is the ISS equipped for surgical interventions? In a word: no. While ISS crew members undergo extensive medical training, and the station’s medical kit is well-stocked, no allowance has been made for even the simplest of surgical procedures in orbit. The reasoning is simple: with at least one Soyuz or Dragon capsule berthed at the station at all times and a small, low-risk population aboard, the safest approach to a major medical issue is to evacuate the patient back to Earth.
That’s easier said than done, of course. Launching a Soyuz or Crew Dragon from the ISS takes a minimum of three to six hours, and potentially longer if a severely injured astronaut cannot easily don the required pressure suit. Recovery time once the capsule lands could be prolonged for an unplanned lifeboat return; adding in transport time to a medical facility, it could be six hours or more before advanced treatment can begin.
To make sure the astronaut survives what amounts to a protracted and very expensive ambulance ride, the crew will attempt to stabilize the patient as best as possible. The designated crew medical officer (CMO) has training in starting IVs, performing endotracheal intubation, and even thoracocentesis, or the placement of a chest tube. On top of the medications available in the station med kit and with help from flight surgeons on the ground, the crew should be able to stabilize the patient well enough for the ride home.
Practice Makes Perfect
Obviously, though, the medevac strategy only works if the accident occurs close to Earth. As we push crewed missions deeper into space, evacuation will likely be off the table, and even with a crew carefully curated for extreme fitness, eventually the law of averages will catch up to us, and it will become necessary to perform surgery in space. And even though that first space surgery will likely be performed under emergent conditions, probably by an untrained crew, that doesn’t mean future space surgeons will be flying completely blind.
Back in 2016, a multidisciplinary group in Canada undertook a unique comparative study of simulated surgery under weightless conditions. Using a Dassault Falcon 20 Research Aircraft — essentially Canada’s version of NASA’s famous “Vomit Comet” — a team of ten surgeons took turns performing a common trauma procedure: surgical hemorrhage control of an exsanguinating liver laceration. Such an injury could easily occur in space, either through blunt-force or penetrating trauma, especially on a mission that would include any sort of construction tasks.
The goal of the trial was to compare simulated blood loss between surgery performed in zero-g conditions and the same operation performed on the ground. A surgical simulator called a “Cut Suit,” which looks and acts like a human torso, was secured to a makeshift surgical table in the cramped confines of the Falcon — a good simulation of what will likely be the cramped quarters of any future interplanetary spacecraft. The surgeon and an assistant were secured in a kneeling position in front of the simulator using bungee cords, along with a technician charged with maintaining a simulated blood pressure of 80 mm Hg in the Cut Suit.
For the zero-g surgery, the Falcon flew parabolic paths that resulted in 20-second bursts of weightlessness. All airborne surgical tasks were performed only during weightlessness; for the 1-g operation, which was performed with the same aircraft parked in a hangar, the surgeons were limited to 20-second work windows at the same cadence as the zero-g surgery. The surgeries were extensively documented with video cameras for post-surgical review and corroboration with simulated blood flow measurements during the procedures.
The results were surprisingly good. All ten surgeries were completed successfully, although two surgeons had to tap out of the final closing task to keep from vomiting into the surgical field. Although all surgeons reported that the zero-g surgery was subjectively harder, objective results, such as blood loss and time needed to complete each surgical task, were all at least slightly better at zero-g than 1-g. It needs to be stressed that even for simulations, these were simplified surgeries, perhaps overly so. There was no attempt at infection control; no draping of the patient or disinfection of the field, no gowning or scrubbing, and no aseptic procedure while handling of instruments. Also, there was no simulated anesthesia, a critical step in the procedure. But still, it suggests that the basic mechanics of one kind of surgery could be manageable under deep-space conditions.
Aside from testing more realistic surgical procedures under zero-g, more testing will be required to see what weightless post-op and recovery look like. The operation selected for the trial was somewhat incomplete because packing a liver wound isn’t really an endpoint in itself, but more of a stop along the way to recovery. Packing is just what it sounds like — absorbent material packed around the wound to staunch the flow of blood and to provide some direct pressure to allow blood to clot so the wound can heal naturally. The packing material will have to be removed eventually, and while it’s possible to remove it via surgical drains placed during the packing operation, it’s more likely that another open-field or at least a laparoscopic operation will be needed to take the packing material out and tidy up any wounds that haven’t healed by themselves.
The placement of surgical drains also brings up another problem of zero-g surgery. In terrestrial surgery, drains are generally placed in locations where blood and fluids are expected to pool. For the liver packing example, drains would generally be placed posterior to the liver, since the patient would be lying in bed during recovery and the blood would tend to pool at the back of the peritoneal cavity. In space, though, how those fluids would be removed is an open question. Exploring that question might be difficult; since recovery takes days or even weeks, it would be hard to simulate in 20-second bursts. Artificial gravity might help with wound drainage, but the effects of the Coriolis force on the healing process would have to be explored, too.
Given that we’ve been doing surgery here on earth for thousands of years, it’s surprising to have question marks for doing exactly the same things in microgravity. But for surgery, space still remains the final frontier.
Microsoft lancia Agent Mode in Excel e Word! Meno formule e più intelligenza artificiale
Microsoft ha lanciato Agent Mode, una funzionalità basata sull’intelligenza artificiale in Excel e Word che crea automaticamente fogli di calcolo e documenti di testo complessi con una singola query di testo.
Copilot Chat ha anche lanciato Office Agent, basato su modelli Anthropic, che consente agli utenti di creare rapidamente presentazioni PowerPoint e documenti Word.
La modalità agent in Excel e Word è una versione più potente dell’assistente Copilot già presente nella suite Office. Uno dei compiti dell’agente è rendere accessibili agli utenti le complesse funzioni di Excel. L’agente AI è basato sul modello OpenAI GPT-5.
Quando gli viene presentato un compito complesso, lo suddivide in passaggi, crea un piano e spiegazioni, consentendo all’utente di monitorarne i progressi. Ogni passaggio è ulteriormente suddiviso in attività specifiche e ogni azione dell’agente viene visualizzata in una barra laterale.
L’agente AI ha ottenuto un punteggio del 57,2% in Excel nel test SpreadsheetBench, progettato specificamente per valutare la capacità dei modelli di modificare fogli di calcolo. Questo punteggio è superiore a quello di Shortcut.ai, dell’agente ChatGPT e di Anthropic Claude Files Opus 4.1, ma inferiore al punteggio umano del 71,3%.
La modalità Agent in Word non si limita a modificare e riassumere il testo. La modalità Agent prepara bozze di materiali, suggerisce chiarimenti e indica eventuali esigenze di finalizzazione del documento. È possibile consolidare i dati di lavoro di diversi mesi in un unico report, riassumere i risultati del mese e identificare rapidamente le differenze rispetto al report precedente.
L’Office Agent, basato su modelli Anthropic, funziona nella chat di Copilot al di fuori della suite Office, ma consente agli utenti di creare presentazioni PowerPoint e documenti Word direttamente all’interno della chat. Nel caso di PowerPoint, gli utenti ricevono una presentazione strutturata in modo logico, a cui l’IA può accedere da risorse web e visualizzare anteprime delle diapositive durante il processo.
Vale la pena notare che, mentre i modelli OpenAI sono i modelli principali nella suite Office, i modelli di un altro sviluppatore, Anthropic, stanno prendendo sempre più piede nell’ecosistema Microsoft. Lo sviluppatore ha integrato Office Agent nell’app di chat Copilot, accedendo all’API di Anthropic basata su Amazon Web Services, un concorrente diretto di Microsoft. Questo potrebbe spiegare perché la suite Office non abbia ancora una profonda integrazione dei modelli di questo sviluppatore.
La modalità agente AI in Word ed Excel è già disponibile per i partecipanti al programma di funzionalità sperimentali di Frontier: è richiesto un abbonamento a Microsoft 365 Copilot o Microsoft 365 Personal/Family. Sebbene sia attualmente disponibile solo nelle versioni web delle app, sarà presto disponibile anche per le versioni desktop. Anche Office Agent è attualmente disponibile solo per gli utenti Frontier abbonati a Microsoft 365 Copilot e Microsoft 365 Personal/Family negli Stati Uniti.
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Addio star di carne e ossa? Arriva Tilly Norwood, la prima attrice AI!
In un settore un tempo dominato da star dal vivo, i personaggi digitali si stanno facendo sempre più strada. Durante un summit a Zurigo, Ellin van der Velden, attrice, comica e tecnologa, ha annunciato che la sua agenzia di intelligenza artificiale, Xicoia, è in trattative con diversi importanti agenti per ingaggiare il suo primo talento virtuale: un’attrice di intelligenza artificiale di nome Tilly Norwood.
Ellin van der Velden ha presentato la sua iniziativa a un panel dedicato all’intelligenza artificiale nell’industria dell’intrattenimento. Ha descritto lo studio di produzione di intelligenza artificiale Particle6, che in seguito si è evoluto in Xicoia, un’agenzia specializzata nella creazione, gestione e monetizzazione di “star digitali iperrealistiche”. Tilly Norwood è la prima “attrice” di questo tipo in grado di interagire con il pubblico come un personaggio mediatico a tutti gli effetti.
Non si tratta solo di una semplice visualizzazione, ma di integrare completamente i personaggi IA nella catena di produzione. Secondo Ellin van der Velden, a febbraio molti studi erano scettici sui processi di IA :“Tutti dicevano: ‘Non è una cosa seria, non funzionerà“.
Tuttavia, a maggio, la retorica è cambiata radicalmente. Tilly ha iniziato ad attirare l’interesse delle agenzie e ora è in preparazione un annuncio pubblico su chi la prenderà sotto la propria ala protettrice. Questa sarà una delle prime volte in cui un’attrice creata interamente dall’IA avrà una rappresentanza ufficiale nel mondo dello spettacolo.
Anche Verena Pum, ex artista dell’intelligenza artificiale e attuale dipendente di Luma AI, ha confermato il cambiamento di umore nel settore. Ha ricordato che fino a poco tempo fa gli studi negavano apertamente l’utilizzo dell’intelligenza artificiale o nascondevano qualsiasi reale progresso.
“All’inizio dell’anno, i produttori hanno iniziato a contattarmi, chiedendomi di discutere dell’integrazione dell’intelligenza artificiale, chiedendomi di spiegare come costruire pipeline e adattare i flussi di lavoro “, ha detto Pum.
Secondo lei, molti importanti attori del settore stanno già sviluppando progetti utilizzando l’intelligenza artificiale, ma lo fanno sotto NDA e non sono ancora pronti a rendere pubbliche tali notizie.
Tuttavia, sia Ellin van der Velden che Poom concordano su una cosa: nei prossimi mesi possiamo aspettarci importanti annunci dagli studi di Hollywood, dove talenti dell’intelligenza artificiale come Tilly Norwood saranno utilizzati insieme ad attori veri. Poom ha aggiunto che gli studi hanno bisogno di tempo per acquisire sicurezza, ma assisteremo a una serie di annunci pubblici all’inizio del prossimo anno.
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Außergerichtliche Einigung: YouTube zahlt 25 Millionen US-Dollar an Trump
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Digitale Souveränität: Wie die Bundesregierung das Fediverse fördern könnte
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Abolition and Alternatives Conference (AAC) Starts Friday
We are proud to sponsor The Abolition and Alternatives Conference (AAC) that starts on Friday, October 3rd, and ends on the 5th. The conference is organized and hosted by The Black Response at their offices at 245 Main Street, Cambridge, MA, 02142 on Friday and Saturday. On Sunday, it will be at The Foundry – 101 Roger Street Cambridge, MA – Kendall Square. The conference schedule is available.
We encourage all Pirates to attend and support this conference, especially, but not exclusively, the ShotSpotter and Police Surveillance track. If you can not attend, or even if you can, please consider giving a donation to The Black Response or print out their poster and put it up in your neighborhood. See you next week!
Details on the conference are reproduced below. Edits are only for clarity:
This free, in-person event will bring together community members, organizers, and advocates for a weekend of in-depth learning and discussion focused on alternative public safety and community care, housing justice, and the impacts of surveillance technologies like ShotSpotter. It will include keynote addresses from Fatema Ahmad (Muslim Justice League), Stephanie Guirand (The Black Response), and Spencer Piston (Boston University).
Food will be provided, childcare will be available, and we encourage attendees to share any additional access needs via the conference interest form. TBR will be reaching out to invite participation as speakers and facilitators. For questions, please contact Stephanie at general@theblackresponsecambridge.com.
Throughout the conference, participants will have the opportunity to choose from panels in four tracks:
Housing Justice
This track features panels led by the Cambridge Housing Justice Coalition (CHJC). CHJC is a coalition of activist groups and concerned Cambridge residents who believe housing is a basic human right. The panels and workshops on this track will focus on housing justice and its intersections with the prison industrial complex.
ShotSpotter and Police Surveillance
This track will be led by the #StopShotSpotter Coalition Camberville. In this track, coalition members will provide an introduction to ShotSpotter, the audio-surveillance technology. We will examine its impact in Cambridge, the national landscape, and broader conversations about surveillance tech.
Alternatives and Community Care
This track will be led by members of the Massachusetts Community Care Network (MCCN). This track will include panels of responders, program directors, and organizers working to make alternatives to policing real. It includes a panel on the movement with Daanika Gordon, Spencer Piston, and Minali Aggarwal.
Community Concerns (Anti-Racism, Immigration Justice, Justice for Palestine, and Black Lives Matter)
This track will discuss concerns that come directly from the communities we serve and work with. These concerns also intersect with the movement for abolition and alternatives. They include Justice for Palestine, Immigration Justice, and Anti-Racism. In this tract we intend to learn from organizers leading these movements in Massachusetts.
IL PARLAMENTO METTA UN FRENO ALLA CONCENTRAZIONE DI POTERI NELLE MANI DI GUALTIERI
Oggi pomeriggio abbiamo depositato alla Camera dei deputati 24 mila firme che chiedono la fine dei poteri speciali di Gualtieri che beneficia di una concentrazione di potere senza precedenti cumulando ruolo e funzioni di Sindaco di Roma, di Sindaco della Città metropolitana e di Commissario straordinario di governo al Giubileo con poteri illimitati in materia di rifiuti. Come è arcinoto, i poteri straordinari relativi ai rifiuti sono attributi per affrontare l’afflusso dei pellegrini del Giubileo 2025 che però è sta per finire. Poteri concentrati nelle mani di Gualtieri che, da subito, li ha utilizzati in spregio alle normative di settore anche di derivazione europea per impianti che con il Giubileo non c’entrano quindi nulla e rispetto ai quali, come nel caso dell’inceneritore, in campagna elettorale si era pubblicamente dichiarato contrario in un confronto con lo sfidante Calenda.
Oggi pomeriggio davanti al Palazzo di Montecitorio abbiamo innalzato lo striscione che riafferma davanti alla Camera dei deputati che, con il Senato, approva le leggi il principio costituzionale per il quale tutti sono eguali davanti alla legge. Non a Roma dove da tre anni esatti non è così perché Roberto Gualtieri in quanto Commissario con poteri speciali può impunemente violare le leggi. Questo accade perché finora non abbiamo trovato un giudice coraggioso capace di portare la norma attributiva dei poteri davanti alla Corte costituzionale.
Allora siamo quindi tornati alla Camera, presto torneremo al Senato perché quella norma il Parlamento l’ha scritta e il Parlamento dovrà cambiarla perché una concentrazione di potere nelle mani di uno solo viola il principio democratico e non può quindi più essere tollerata laddove ci si riconosca nei principi della Costituzione della Repubblica italiana.
Con noi oggi c’erano e hanno preso lo striscione i deputati Francesco Emilio Borrelli, Filiberto Zaratti e Andrea Volpi, Sindaco di Lanuvio, unitamente ai Sindaci di Albano, Massimiliano Borelli, di Ardea, Maurizio Cremonini, di Ariccia Gianluca Staccoli e di Genzano Carlo Zoccolotti. I consiglieri regionali Alessandra Zeppieri e Adriano Zuccala, i consiglieri comunali di Albano Salvatore Tedone, di Pomezia Giacomo Castro e Luisa Navisse e Marco Cerisola consigliere del Municipio IX.
L’Unione dei Comitati contro l’inceneritore
Il messaggio di Nave Alpino alla Global Sumud Flotilla
@Giornalismo e disordine informativo
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Questo pomeriggio la nave Alpino della Marina Militare italiana, che segue la flotta, ha diramato un avviso ufficiale a tutte le imbarcazioni, dichiarandosi disponibile ad accogliere ogni persona che manifesti
#Gaza, una trappola chiamata pace
Gaza, una trappola chiamata pace
Il “piano di pace” lanciato lunedì a Washington dai due partner nel genocidio palestinese, Trump e Netanyahu, non rappresenta in nessun modo una proposta di accordo serio per mettere fine alle atrocità nella striscia e costruire una prospettiva di fu…www.altrenotizie.org
Il campo profughi di Jenin. Il reportage sulla Cisgiordania
@Giornalismo e disordine informativo
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Si conclude con il campo profughi di Jenin il reportage esclusivo per Articolo 21 di Sandra Cecchi, giornalista Rai (ex TG2) di ritorno dai Territori occupati. Quel che resta del campo profughi di
LA LEGGE SIA UGUALE PER TUTTI GUALTIERI COMPRESO
Abbiamo consegnato 24 Mila firme chiedendo alla Camera dei Deputati che la legge sia uguale per tutti, Gualtieri compreso.
Più tardi diamo comunicazione dettagliata.
#Ambiente #StopInceneritore #NoInceneritore #NoInceneritori #ZeroWaste #Rifiuti #Riciclo #EconomiaCircolare #NoAlCarbone #EnergiaPulita
Cgil: “Sciopero generale se toccano la Flotilla”. L’Odg dell’assemblea nazionale
L’Assemblea Generale della CGIL ieri ha approvato un Odg in cui si ritiene necessario intensificare ed estendere la mobilitazione per: - Fermare il genocidio del popolo palestinese in corso da parte dTommaso Galgani (CGIL Regionale Toscana)
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Trump chiarisce che trasformerà TikTok in una macchina di propaganda di destra
Dopo anni di iperventilazione sull'impatto di TikTok su privacy, propaganda e sicurezza nazionale, è probabile che TikTok venga venduto a un gruppo di miliardari tecnofascisti amici di Trump che non credono nella privacy e vogliono usare TikTok per diffondere propaganda di destra. Un lavoro scellerato per tutti, soprattutto per tutti i Democratici confusi la cui isteria sull'app ha aiutato Trump a concludere l'affare.
Tra i nuovi proprietari di TikTok ci saranno Rupert Murdoch (responsabile della creazione di Fox News, la piattaforma di propaganda di destra più efficace di sempre ) e il migliore amico di Trump, Larry Ellison, che sta trasformando CBS News praticamente nella stessa cosa.
@Politica interna, europea e internazionale
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Trump Makes It Very Clear They’re Going To Turn TikTok Into A Right Wing Propaganda Machine
After years of hyperventilation about TikTok’s impact on privacy, propaganda, and national security, TikTok is likely being sold to a bunch of Trump’s billionaire technofascist buddies …Techdirt
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Mario Paciolla, il prossimo 8 ottobre al via la Peace School intitolata al cooperante Onu
@Giornalismo e disordine informativo
articolo21.org/2025/09/mario-p…
Il nostro XVI Festival (2024), col suo titolo “Costruiamo una cultura di Pace” ci ha lasciato un’eredità
Rai, senza ascolti né legge
@Giornalismo e disordine informativo
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Altro che contro-narrazione, in grado di scalfire la presunta egemonia della sinistra nelle vicende culturali e in quelle del servizio pubblico radiotelevisivo. La destra sta contribuendo -purtroppo con qualche successo- a sfasciare la Rai. Se è vero che la televisione generalista sta
Ahead of the European Union's Regulation on Transparency and Targeting of Political Advertising, Google's Ad Transparency Center no longer shows political ads from any countries in the EU.
Ahead of the European Unionx27;s Regulation on Transparency and Targeting of Political Advertising, Googlex27;s Ad Transparency Center no longer shows political ads from any countries in the EU.#advertising #Google
Google Just Removed Seven Years of Political Advertising History from 27 Countries
Google’s Ad Transparency tool no longer shows political online advertisements that ran on its platforms, in the past or present, from any countries in the European Union, making seven years of data from 27 different countries inaccessible.Liz Carolan, who publishes Irish technology and politics newsletter The Briefing, spotted the change on September 28. Carolan noticed that until last week, Google’s Ad Transparency tool would allow visitors to search ads that have run in countries in the EU going back to 2018, including data about who was targeted, how much was spent on each ad, and for what candidates or parties. This week, political ads from Ireland as well as the other 26 countries in the EU are gone from the Ad Transparency political ads country selection page.
“We had been told that Google would try to stop people placing political ads, a ‘ban’ that was to come into effect this week. I did not read anywhere that this would mean the erasure of this archive of our political history,” Carolan wrote.
The change is in response to the EU’s upcoming Regulation on Transparency and Targeting of Political Advertising (TTPA), a law set to enter full force on October 10. The TTPA lays out new regulations for advertisers in the EU, including requirements that political ads “must be clearly labelled as such and include information on who paid for it, to which election, referendum, legislative or regulatory process it is linked and whether targeting or ad-delivery techniques have been used,” according to an EU summary of the law, and limits targeting and ad delivery of political advertising to strict conditions, including requiring consent from ads’ targets that their data be used for political advertising. Certain categories of demographic data, like racial or ethnic origin or political opinions, can’t be used for profiling by advertisers.
On August 5, Google posted new guidelines for political ads in EU countries, and said that past ads would still be accessible in the Transparency Center: “As of September 2025, the EU Political Ads Transparency report will be no longer available. However, EU Election Ads previously shown in the Political Ads Transparency Report will remain publicly accessible in the Ads Transparency Center, subject to retention policies.”
In July, Meta also announced it would no longer allow “political, electoral and social issue ads” on its platforms in the EU, “given the unworkable requirements and legal uncertainties” introduced by the TTPA. Past ads from the EU are still visible on Meta’s ad library.
The law dictates that online ads will be available in “an online European repository,” but that repository hasn’t launched yet. Researchers and journalists rely on tools like Google’s Ad Transparency platform and Meta’s similar platform for information on who was running political ads and how; now, they’ll have to wait for that repository to launch.
Google announced in November 2024 that it would stop serving political ads in the EU in October 2025, ahead of the TTPA. “Additionally, paid political promotions, where they qualify as political ads under the TTPA, will no longer be permitted on YouTube in the EU,” Google’s Vice President for Government Affairs and Public Policy for Europe Annette Kroeber-Riel wrote in a company blog post.
“The European Union’s upcoming Regulation on Transparency and Targeting of Political Advertising (TTPA) unfortunately introduces significant new operational challenges and legal uncertainties for political advertisers and platforms,” Kroeber-Riel wrote. “For example, the TTPA defines political advertising so broadly that it could cover ads related to an extremely wide range of issues that would be difficult to reliably identify at scale. There is also a lack of reliable local election data permitting consistent and accurate identification of all ads related to any local, regional or national election across any of 27 EU Member States. And key technical guidance may not be finalized until just months before the regulation comes into effect.” The law is vague, but doesn’t specifically require platforms to delete past ads. It’s likely that many of the ads stored by Google in the Transparency Center would be in violation of the law today, however; instead of combing through hundreds of thousands of ads, it’s possible Google just removed the entire EU.
Google did not respond to 404 Media’s request for comment.
playlist.megaphone.fm?p=TBIEA2…An update on political advertising in the European Union
Google will stop serving political advertising in the EU ahead of new regulation in October 2025.Annette Kroeber-Riel (Google)
Lawyers blame IT, family emergencies, their own poor judgment, their assistants, illness, and more.#AI #Lawyers #law
18 Lawyers Caught Using AI Explain Why They Did It
Earlier this month, an appeals court in California issued a blistering decision and record $10,000 fine against a lawyer who submitted a brief in which “nearly all of the legal quotations in plaintiff’s opening brief, and many of the quotations in plaintiff’s reply brief, are fabricated” through the use of ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Grok. The court said it was publishing its opinion “as a warning” to California lawyers that they will be held responsible if they do not catch AI hallucinations in their briefs.In that case, the lawyer in question “asserted that he had not been aware that generative AI frequently fabricates or hallucinates legal sources and, thus, he did not ‘manually verify [the quotations] against more reliable sources.’ He accepted responsibility for the fabrications and said he had since taken measures to educate himself so that he does not repeat such errors in the future.”
As the judges remark in their opinion, the use of generative AI by lawyers is now everywhere, and when it is used in ways that introduce fake citations or fake evidence, it is bogging down courts all over America (and the world). For the last few months, 404 Media has been analyzing dozens of court cases around the country in which lawyers have been caught using generative AI to craft their arguments, generate fictitious citations, generate false evidence, cite real cases but misinterpret them, or otherwise take shortcuts that has introduced inaccuracies into their cases. Our main goal was to learn more about why lawyers were using AI to write their briefs, especially when so many lawyers have been caught making errors that lead to sanctions and that ultimately threaten their careers and their standings in the profession.
To do this, we used a crowdsourced database of AI hallucination cases maintained by the researcher Damien Charlotin, which so far contains more than 410 cases worldwide, including 269 in the United States. Charlotin’s database is an incredible resource, but it largely focuses on what happened in any individual case and the sanctions against lawyers, rather than the often elaborate excuses that lawyers told the court when they were caught. Using Charlotin’s database as a starting point, we then pulled court records from around the country for dozens of cases where a lawyer offered a formal explanation or apology. Pulling this information required navigating clunky federal and state court record systems and finding and purchasing the specific record where the lawyer in question tried to explain themselves (these were often called “responses to order to show cause.”) We also reached out to lawyers who were sanctioned for using AI to ask them why they did it. Very few of them responded, but we have included explanations from the few who did.
What we found was incredibly fascinating, and reveals a mix of lawyers blaming IT issues, personal and family emergencies, their own poor judgment and carelessness, and demands from their firms and the industry to be more productive and take on more casework. But most often, they simply blame their assistants.
Few dispute that the legal industry is under great pressure to use AI. Legal giants like Westlaw and LexisNexis have pitched bespoke tools to law firms that are now regularly being used, but Charlotin’s database makes clear that lawyers are regularly using off-the-shelf generalized tools like ChatGPT and Gemini as well. There’s a seemingly endless number of startups selling AI legal tools that do research, write briefs, and perform other legal tasks. While working on this article, it became nearly impossible to keep up with new cases of lawyers being sanctioned for using AI. Charlotin has documented 11 new cases within the last week alone.
This article is the first of several 404 Media will write exploring the use of AI in the legal profession. If you’re a lawyer and have thoughts or firsthand experiences, please get in touch. Some of the following anecdotes have been lightly edited for clarity.
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Are you a lawyer or do you work in the legal industry? We want to know how AI is impacting the industry, your firm, and your job. Using a non-work device, you can message me securely on Signal at jason.404. Otherwise, send me an email at jason@404media.co.A lawyer in Indiana blames the court (Fake case cited)
A judge stated that the lawyer “took the position that the main reason for the errors in his brief was the short deadline (three days) he was given to file it. He explained that, due to the short timeframe and his busy schedule, he asked his paralegal (who once was, but is not currently, a licensed attorney) to draft the brief, and did not have time to carefully review the paralegal's draft before filing it.”
A lawyer in New York blamed vertigo, head colds, and malware
"He acknowledges that he used Westlaw supported by Google Co-Pilot which is an artificial intelligence-based tool as preliminary research aid." The lawyer “goes on to state that he had no idea that such tools could fabricate cases but acknowledges that he later came to find out the limitation of such tools. He apologized for his failure to identify the errors in his affirmation, but partly blames ‘a serious health challenge since the beginning of this year which has proven very persistent which most of the time leaves me internally cold, and unable to maintain a steady body temperature which causes me to be dizzy and experience bouts of vertigo and confusion.’ The lawyer then indicates that after finding about the ‘citation errors’ in his affirmation, he conducted a review of his office computer system and found out that his system was ‘affected by malware and unauthorized remote access.’ He says that he compared the affirmation he prepared on April 9, 2025, to the affirmation he filed to [the court] on April 21, 2025, and ‘was shocked that the cases I cited were substantially different.’”
A lawyer in Florida blames a paralegal and the fact they were doing the case pro bono (Fake cases and hallucinated quotes)
The lawyer “explained that he was handling this appeal pro bono and that as he began preparing the brief, he recognized that he lacked experience in appellate law. He stated that at his own expense, he hired ‘an independent contractor paralegal to assist in drafting the answer brief.’ He further explained that upon receipt of a draft brief from the paralegal, he read it, finalized it, and filed it with this court. He admitted that he ‘did not review the authority cited within the draft answer brief prior to filing’ and did not realize it contained AI generated content.
A lawyer in South Carolina said he was rushing (Fake cases generated by Microsoft CoPilot)
“Out of haste and a naïve understanding of the technology, he did not independently verify the sources were real before including the citations in the motion filed with the Court seeking a preliminary injunction”
A lawyer in Hawaii blames a New Yorker they hired
This lawyer was sanctioned $100 by a court for one AI-generated case, as well as quoting multiple real cases and misattributing them to that fake case. They said they had hired a per-diem attorney—“someone I had previously worked with and trusted,” they told the court—to draft the case, and though they “did not personally use AI in this case, I failed to ensure every citation was accurate before filing the brief.” The Honolulu Civil Beat reported that the per-diem attorney they hired was from New York, and that they weren’t sure if that attorney had used AI or not.
The lawyer told us over the phone that the news of their $100 sanction had blown up in their district thanks to that article. “ I was in court yesterday, and of course the [opposing] attorney somehow brought this up,” they said in a call. According to them, that attorney has also used AI in at least seven cases. Nearly every lawyer is using AI to some degree, they said; it’s just a problem if they get caught. “The judges here have seen it extensively. I know for a fact other attorneys have been sanctioned. It’s public, but unless you know what to search for, you’re not going to find it anywhere. It’s just that for some stupid reason, my matter caught the attention of a news outlet. It doesn’t help with business.”
A lawyer in Arizona blames someone they hired
A judge wrote “this is a case where the majority of authorities cited were either fabricated, misleading, or unsupported. That is egregious … this entire litigation has been derailed by Counsel’s actions. The Opening Brief was replete with citation-related deficiencies, including those consistent with artificial intelligence generated hallucinations.”
The attorney claimed “Neither I nor the supervising staff attorney knowingly submitted false or non-existent citations to the Court. The brief writer in question was experienced and credentialed, and we relied on her professionalism and prior performance. At no point did we intend to mislead the Court or submit citations not grounded in valid legal authority.”
A lawyer in Louisiana blames Westlaw (a legal research tool)
The lawyer “acknowledge[d] the cited authorities were inaccurate and mistakenly verified using Westlaw Precision, an AI-assisted research tool, rather than Westlaw’s standalone legal database.” The lawyer further wrote that she “now understands that Westlaw Precision incorporates AI-assisted research, which can generate fictitious legal authority if not independently verified. She testified she was unable to provide the Court with this research history because the lawyer who produced the AI-generated citations is currently suspended from the practice of law in Louisiana:
“In the interest of transparency and candor, counsel apologizes to the Court and opposing counsel and accepts full responsibility for the oversight. Undersigned counsel now understands that Westlaw Precision incorporates AI-assisted research, which can generate fictitious legal authority if not independently verified. Since discovering the error, all citations in this memorandum have been independently confirmed, and a Motion for Leave to amend the Motion to Transfer has been filed to withdraw the erroneous citations. Counsel has also implemented new safeguards, including manual cross-checking in non AI-assisted databases, to prevent future mistakes.”
“At the time, undersigned counsel understood these authorities to be accurate and reliable. Undersigned counsel made edits and finalized the pleading but failed to independently verify every citation before filing it. Undersigned counsel takes responsibility for this oversight.
Undersigned counsel wants the Court to know that she takes this matter extremely seriously. Undersigned counsel holds the ethical obligations of our profession in the highest regard and apologizes to opposing counsel and the Court for this mistake. Undersigned counsel remains fully committed to the ethical obligations as an officer of the court and the standards expected by this Court going forward, which is evidenced by requesting leave to strike the inaccurate citations. Most importantly, undersigned counsel has taken steps to ensure this oversight does not happen again.”
A lawyer in New York says the death of their spouse distracted them
“We understand the grave implications of misreporting case law to the Court. It is not our intention to do so, and the issue is being investigated internally in our office,” the lawyer in the case wrote.
“The Opposition was drafted by a clerk. The clerk reports that she used Google for research on the issue,” they wrote. “The Opposition was then sent to me for review and filing. I reviewed the draft Opposition but did not check the citations. I take full responsibility for failing to check the citations in the Opposition. I believe the main reason for my failure is due to the recent death of my spouse … My husband’s recent death has affected my ability to attend to the practice of law with the same focus and attention as before.”
A lawyer in California says it was ‘a legal experiment’
This is a weird one, and has to do with an AI-generated petition filed three times in an antitrust lawsuit brought against Apple by the Coronavirus Reporter Corporation. The lawyer in the case explained that he created the document as a “legal experiment.” He wrote:
“I also ‘approved for distribution’ a Petition which Apple now seeks to strike. Apple calls the Petition a ‘manifesto,’ consistent with their five year efforts to deride us. But the Court should be aware that no human ever authored the Petition for Tim Cook’s resignation, nor did any human spend more than about fifteen minutes on it. I am quite weary of Artificial Intelligence, as I am weary of Big Tech, as the Court knows. We have never done such a test before, but we thought there was an interesting computational legal experiment here.
Apple has recently published controversial research that AI LLM's are, in short, not true intelligence. We asked the most powerful commercially available AI, ChatGPT o3 Pro ‘Deep Research’ mode, a simple question: ‘Did Judge Gonzales Rogers’ rebuke of Tim Cook’s Epic conduct create a legally grounded impetus for his termination as CEO, and if so, write a petition explaining such basis, providing contextual background on critics’ views of Apple’s demise since Steve Jobs’ death.’ Ten minutes later, the Petition was created by AI. I don't have the knowledge to know whether it is indeed 'intelligent,' but I was surprised at the quality of the work—so much so that (after making several minor corrections) I approved it for distribution and public input, to promote conversation on the complex implications herein. This is a matter ripe for discussion, and I request the motion be granted.”
Lawyers in Michigan blame an internet outage
“Unfortunately, difficulties were encountered on the evening of April 4 in assembling, sorting and preparation of PDFs for the approximately 1,500 pages of exhibits due to be electronically filed by Midnight. We do use artificial intelligence to supplement their research, along with strict verification and compliance checks before filing.
AI is incorporated into all of the major research tools available, including West and Lexis, and platforms such as ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Grok and Perplexity. [We] do not rely on AI to write our briefs. We do include AI in their basic research and memorandums, and for checking spelling, syntax, and grammar. As Midnight approached on April 4, our computer system experienced a sudden and unexplainable loss of internet connection and loss of connection with the ECF [e-court filing] system … In the midst of experiencing these technical issues, we erred in our standard verification process and missed identifying incorrect text AI put in parentheticals in four cases in footnote 3, and one case on page 12, of the Opposition.”
Lawyers in Washington DC blame Grammarly, ProWritingAid, and an IT error
“After twenty years of using Westlaw, last summer I started using Lexis and its protege AI product as a natural language search engine for general legal propositions or to help formulate arguments in areas of the law where the courts have not spoken directly on an issue. I have never had a problem or issue using this tool and prior to recent events I would have highly recommended it. I failed to heed the warning provided by Lexis and did not double check the citations provided. Instead, I inserted the quotes, caselaw and uploaded the document to ProWritingAid. I used that tool to edit the brief and at one point used it to replace all the square brackets ( [ ) with parentheses.
In preparing and finalizing the brief, I used the following software tools: Pages with Grammarly and ProWritingAid ... through inadvertence or oversight, I was unaware quotes had been added or that I had included a case that did not actually exist … I immediately started trying to figure out what had happened. I spent all day with IT trying to figure out what went wrong.”
A lawyer in Texas blames their email, their temper, and their legal assistant
“Throughout May 2025, Counsel's office experienced substantial technology related problems with its computer and e-mail systems. As a result, a number of emails were either delayed or not received by Counsel at all. Counsel also possesses limited technological capabilities and relies on his legal assistant for filing documents and transcription - Counsel still uses a dictation phone. However, Counsel's legal assistant was out of the office on the date Plaintiffs Response was filed, so Counsel's law clerk had to take over her duties on that day (her first time filing). Counsel's law clerk had been regularly assisting Counsel with the present case and expressed that this was the first case she truly felt passionate about … While completing these items, Counsel's law clerk had various issues, including with sending opposing counsel the Joint Case Management Plan which required a phone conference to rectify. Additionally, Counsel's law clerk believed that Plaintiff’s Response to Defendant's Motion to Dismiss was also due that day when it was not.
In midst of these issues, Counsel - already missing his legal assistant - became frustrated. However, Counsel's law clerk said she had already completed Plaintiff's Response and Counsel immediately read the draft but did not thoroughly examine the cases cited therein … unbeknownst to Counsel and to his dismay, Counsel's law clerk did use artificial intelligence in drafting Plaintiff's Response. Counsel immediately instituted a strict policy prohibiting his staff from using artificial intelligence without exception - Counsel doesn't use artificial intelligence, so neither shall his staff.
Second, Counsel now requires any staff assisting in drafting documents to provide Counsel with a printout of each case cited therein with the passage(s) being relied on highlighted or marked.”
The lawyer also submitted an invoice from a company called Mainframe Computers for $480 which include line items for “Install office,” “printer not working and computer restarting,” “fixes with email and monitors and default fonts,” and “computer errors, change theme, resolution, background, and brightness.”
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Shadowleak: ecco come i cyber criminali possono colpire l’AI con attacchi zero clic
@Informatica (Italy e non Italy 😁)
La tecnica di attacco messo a punto dai ricercatori di Radware permette di eseguire un prompt injection in ChatGPT Deep Research. Ecco come funziona
L'articolo Shadowleak: ecco come i cyber criminali possono colpire l’AI con attacchi zero clic
‘Negazionista’ Lucia Goracci? Gasparri dovrebbe rispondere di fake news
@Giornalismo e disordine informativo
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Il senatore Maurizio Gasparri ha accusato di essere “negazionisti” l’inviata del Tg3 Lucia Goracci, esempio di giornalismo rigoroso e professionale, e il presidente
Ask Hackaday: What’s the Top Programming Language of 2025
We did an informal poll around the Hackaday bunker and decided that, for most of us, our favorite programming language is solder. However, [Stephen Cass] over at IEEE Spectrum released their annual post on The Top Programming Languages. We thought it would be interesting to ask you what you think is the “top” language these days and why.
The IEEE has done this since 2013, but even they admit there are some issues with how you measure such an abstract idea. For one thing, what does “top” mean anyway? They provide three rankings. The first is the “Spectrum” ranking, which draws data from various public sources, including Google search, Stack Exchange, and GitHub.
The post argues that as AI coding “help” becomes more ubiquitous, you will care less and less about what language you use. This is analogous to how most programmers today don’t really care about the machine language instruction set. They write high-level language code, and the rest is a detail beneath their notice. They also argue that this will make it harder to get new languages in the pipeline. In the old days, a single book on a language could set it on fire. Now, there will need to be a substantial amount of training data for the AI to ingest. Even now, there have been observations that AI writes worse code for lesser-used languages.
A few surprises: Visual Basic is still holding its own in the job market. Verilog outweighs VHDL, but VHDL still has more jobs than LabVIEW. Who would guess? There are still pockets of Ada. Meanwhile, Fortran and Arduino are about equally ranked, as far as jobs go (though we would argue that Arduino is really C++).
So you tell us. Do you agree with the rankings? Do you think hackers would rank languages differently? Will AI reduce us to describing algorithms instead of writing them? We aren’t holding our breath, but who knows what tomorrow brings? Discuss in the comments.
Da user a root in un secondo! il CISA avverte: milioni di OS a rischio. Patchate!
La Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) degli Stati Uniti ha aggiunto una vulnerabilità critica nella popolare utility Sudo, utilizzata su sistemi Linux e Unix-like, al suo catalogo di vulnerabilità attualmente sfruttabili (KEV).
Il bug è registrato come CVE-2025-32463 e ha un punteggio CVSS di 9,3. Riguarda le versioni di Sudo precedenti alla 1.9.17p1 e consente a un utente locale, tramite l’opzione -R (–chroot), di eseguire comandi arbitrari come root, anche se la loro esecuzione non è specificata nella configurazione di sudoers. Il problema è stato segnalato per la prima volta dal ricercatore di Stratascale Rich Mirch a fine giugno 2025.
Sebbene l’esatto sfruttamento della vulnerabilità e l’identità degli aggressori rimangano poco chiari , la CISA ha documentato casi di sfruttamento in natura. Pertanto, l’agenzia ha ordinato alle agenzie civili federali di affrontare la minaccia entro il 20 ottobre 2025, per ridurre il rischio di compromissione della rete.
Oltre al bug Sudo, altre quattro vulnerabilità sono state aggiunte all’elenco KEV. La prima è CVE-2021-21311 nello strumento Adminer, relativa a SSRF lato server.
Consente ad aggressori remoti di ottenere dati sensibili ed è stata precedentemente sfruttata dal gruppo UNC2903 contro l’infrastruttura AWS, come segnalato da Google Mandiant nel 2022.
La seconda è CVE-2025-20352 in Cisco IOS e IOS XE. Questa vulnerabilità nel sottosistema SNMP può portare sia al denial of service che all’esecuzione di codice arbitrario; Cisco ne ha confermato lo sfruttamento la scorsa settimana .
La terza vulnerabilità è CVE-2025-10035 in Fortra GoAnywhere MFT. Comporta una deserializzazione non sicura e può consentire la sostituzione di oggetti e la successiva iniezione di comandi se un aggressore utilizza una risposta di licenza contraffatta.
Questa attività è stata scoperta da watchTowr Labs. L’ultima vulnerabilità è CVE-2025-59689 in Libraesva Email Security Gateway. Questa falla consente l’iniezione di comandi tramite allegati email compressi; lo sfruttamento è stato confermato dal fornitore.
CISA sottolinea che la presenza di tali voci in KEV indica un’elevata probabilità di attacchi contro le organizzazioni che non hanno installato gli aggiornamenti. Si consiglia a fornitori e amministratori di correggere immediatamente queste vulnerabilità, poiché rappresentano già una minaccia concreta.
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