„Künstliche Intelligenz“: Ursula von der Leyen als Papagei der Tech-Bosse
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Oggi, 12 novembre, nel 2003, l'attentato alla base italiana Maestrale di Nassiriya
Alle ore 10:40 (locali), un'autocisterna carica di esplosivo, stimato tra 150 e 400 chili, fu lanciata a tutta velocità contro l'ingresso della base, che ospitava la Multinational Specialized Unit (MSU) italiana dei Carabinieri.
Il camion superò le barriere passive e esplose davanti ad una palazzina di tre piani, provocando un'esplosione di grande portata che sventrò l'edificio e innescando l'esplosione del deposito munizioni, causando gravi danni anche alla sede vicina "Libeccio".
L'attacco provocò la morte di 28 persone, di cui 19 italiani (12 carabinieri, 5 militari dell'Esercito e 2 civili, il regista Stefano Rolla e il cooperatore internazionale Marco Beci), e 9 iracheni.
Antefatto
Nel mese di marzo 2003 aveva preso il via l’operazione “IraqiFreedom” (OIF), nota anche quale Seconda Guerra del Golfo, condotta da una coalizione composta principalmente degli eserciti degli USA e della Gran Bretagna. Il 1º maggio 2003, con l’ingresso delle truppe alleate in Baghdad, la guerra ebbe ufficialmente termine, anche se di fatto gli eserciti stranieri non avevano ancora il controllo pieno del territorio, iniziando a subire da subito gravi perdite inflitte dalla resistenza irachena attraverso l’attuazione di attacchi
terroristici.
La Risoluzione ONU 1483 del 22 maggio 2003, approvata dal Consiglio di Sicurezza delle Nazioni Unite, invitò tutti gli Stati a contribuire alla rinascita dell’Iraq, favorendo la sicurezza del popolo iracheno e lo sviluppo della nazione.
L’Italia partecipò attraverso la missione “Antica Babilonia” fornendo forze armate dislocate nel sud del Paese, con base principale proprio a Nassiriya
Le indagini
Si sospettò il coinvolgimento di Abu Musab al-Zarqawi e di una cellula terroristica libanese legata ad Al-Qaeda. Un membro di al-Qaeda, Abu Omar al-Kurdi, si dichiarò responsabile dell'organizzazione dell'attacco, affermando che la base fu scelta perché situata lungo una strada principale facilmente accessibile. Tuttavia, poiché tutti i diretti responsabili risultarono morti, l'inchiesta fu archiviata per mancanza di imputati viventi.
Fu altresì aperta un’inchiesta per accertare eventuali carenze nelle misure di sicurezza della base. I comandanti militari italiani furono inizialmente coinvolti, ma furono assolti in sede penale con formula piena. Tuttavia, nel 2019 la Corte di Cassazione ha ritenuto civilmente responsabile l'ex generale Bruno Stano, allora comandante della missione italiana, condannandolo al risarcimento dei familiari delle vittime per aver sottovalutato il rischio terroristico.
OWASP Top 10 2025: le nuove minacce per le applicazioni web, Supply chain tra le prime tre
L’OWASP aggiorna dopo 4 anni la sua lista delle TOP10 relativa ai rischi più pericolosi per le applicazioni web, aggiungendo due nuove categorie e rivedendo la struttura della classifica.
L’organizzazione ha pubblicato una bozza della versione 2025 che risulta aperta ai commenti fino al 20 novembre. Questo documento è una versione quasi definitiva della Top 10 di OWASP, che riflette le attuali minacce per sviluppatori e amministratori web.
Come nell’edizione precedente, il Broken Access Control è rimasto al primo posto. Questa categoria è stata ampliata per includere anche levulnerabilità SSRF, che in precedenza si classificavano al decimo posto.
La Security Misconfiguration si classifica al secondo posto, in crescita rispetto al quinto della classifica del 2021. I problemi relativi alla supply-chain invece si classificano al terzo posto. Si tratta di una versione ampliata della categoria Componenti vulnerabili e obsoleti, che comprende problemi e compromissioni nell’ecosistema delle dipendenze, nei sistemi di build e nell’infrastruttura di distribuzione. Secondo OWASP, questi rischi erano tra le principali preoccupazioni della comunità professionale durante il sondaggio.
Seguono Cryptographic Failures, Injection (incluse XSS e SQL injection) e Insecure Design: tutte e tre le categorie hanno perso due posizioni, occupando rispettivamente il quarto, quinto e sesto posto. Authentication Failures, Software or Data Integrity Failures e Logging & Alerting Failures hanno mantenuto le posizioni precedenti, dal settimo al nono posto.
Una nuova categoria nella top ten è “Gestione errata di condizioni eccezionali”, che conclude l’elenco. Include errori nella gestione delle eccezioni, risposte errate alle anomalie, gestione impropria degli errori e guasti logici che si verificano in condizioni operative di sistema non standard.
Le 10 principali modifiche OWASP rispetto al 2021 (OWASP)
I rappresentanti dell’OWASP hanno sottolineato che la struttura dell’elenco del 2025 differisce da quella del 2021. L’analisi ora tiene conto del numero di applicazioni testate durante l’anno e del numero di sistemi in cui è stata rilevata almeno un’istanza di una specifica CWE (Common Weakness Enumeration).
Questo approccio consente di monitorare la prevalenza delle vulnerabilità nell’intera gamma di prodotti testati, indipendentemente dal numero di occorrenze dello stesso problema all’interno di una singola applicazione. Per l’analisi sono state utilizzate 589 CWE, rispetto alle sole 30 del 2017 e alle circa 400 del 2021.
Per valutare la sfruttabilità e l’impatto tecnico, OWASP ha utilizzato i dati CVE, raggruppandoli per CWE e calcolando i valori medi in base ai punteggi CVSS. A causa dei limiti dei test automatizzati, sono state selezionate solo otto categorie sulla base di questi dati. Le restanti due sono state ricavate da un sondaggio della comunità in cui gli esperti hanno identificato i rischi che consideravano più critici nella pratica.
La classifica OWASP Top 10 2025 riflette quindi uno spostamento dell’attenzione della comunità dai classici errori di implementazione ai problemi di configurazione, architettura e supply chain che portano sempre più spesso a compromessi nelle moderne applicazioni web.
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Non è il dark web a vendere i tuoi dati. Sei tu che li metti in saldo ogni giorno!
Fatto spiacevole: quello dei dati personali è un mercato molto appetibile e di particolare valore per i cybercriminali, per motivi tutt’altro che difficili da immaginare. Non parliamo solo di scam o furti d’identità, ma di un complesso di attività illecite che possono trovare impiego nei modi più disparati. Questo riguarda sia i dati esposti online sia quelli reperiti all’interno dei marketplace del dark web, con il comune intento di realizzare dei guadagni diretti o indiretti.
Appreso che un utilizzo indesiderato dei nostri dati personali esiste ed è anzi una buona fetta di mercato per i cybercriminali, a questo punto, potremmo ritenere che tutta la normativa sulla privacy sia totalmente inutile. Insomma: se un cybercriminale vuole commettere una serie di attività illecite, certamente l’essersi procurato i nostri dati personali violando le regole probabilmente non è neanche degno di essere contrassegnato come “ultimo dei suoi problemi”. Ma bisogna ragionare sul perché i nostri dati personali diventano tanto facilmente reperibili, scoprendo così attraverso pochissimi passaggi logici che una maggiore attenzione da parte di chi svolge operazioni sugli stessi a riguardo ne ridurrebbe la disponibilità.
Per quanto non sia possibile avere uno scenario in cui il rischio di vedere i nostri dati personali impiegati in attività illecite viene azzerato, può essere desiderabile quanto meno uno in cui il saccheggio degli stessi sia particolarmente difficoltoso e il bottino meno remunerativo. Insomma: è chiaro che nel momento in cui i costi superano le opportunità, solitamente un cybercriminale desiste. A meno che non sia particolarmente motivato, ovviamente.
Questo però richiede una premessa. Ogni soggetto che raccoglie e impiega i dati personali è chiamato a garantire la protezione dei dati personali per tutta la filiera in cui sono svolte operazioni sugli stessi, andando così ad attenzionare proprio quegli aspetti rilevanti individuati dalla norma. Ovverosia: verificare che i dati siano lecitamente acquisiti, ne siano definite le finalità e vengano raccolti e conservati solo i dati necessari a perseguire le stesse.
Ovviamente, tenendo conto che ogni operazione deve essere svolta in sicurezza.
Non c’è privacy senza sicurezza.
L’aspetto che emerge è indubbiamente quello della sicurezza, per logica e rilevanza. Questo è richiamato non solo dalla norma, ma si pone come premessa: il trattamento in sicurezza dei dati personali garantisce una mitigazione per i rischi che incombono sull’interessato. Senza sicurezza, non può infatti parlarsi di protezione adeguata.
Un generale e più elevato livello di sicurezza contrasta il mercato del cybercrimine, ma questo richiede un effort condiviso da più attori ovverosia tutti i soggetti che svolgono operazioni sui dati. L’orientamento è fornito dalla normativa che obbliga a ragionare su quali dati raccogliere, perché e soprattutto per quanto tempo. Motivare ogni passaggio comporta una maggiore attenzione, e una maggiore attenzione consente di superare tutta una serie di criticità collegate a inconsapevolezza, incuria e disattenzione.
Ecco dunque che il rispetto della privacy – intesa nella sua accezione di protezione dei dati personali – è la premessa affinché i dati siano trattati in modo sicuro. O meglio: più sicuro rispetto allo scenario alternativo in cui non ci sono i presidi imposti dalla norma.
Il fattore culturale.
Un approccio culturale che tiene conto dei rischi per gli interessati richiede che i soggetti che decidono sulle sorti dei dati personali sono responsabilizzati ma anche una maggiore attenzione diffusa al tema. Questo comporta che le garanzie di protezione dei dati personali sono criteri di selezione. Certo, parliamo di garanzie percepite e dunque può essere possibile una strategia di privacywashing, ma un utente o consumatore esprime una domanda di servizi più attenti al rispetto della norma e quindi maggiormente sicuri.
Questo, di fatto, aumenta il costo per il cybercrime in questo ambito.
Meno dati facilmente disponibili comporta infatti costi maggiori.
It’s the market, baby.
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Resurrecting Conquer: A Game from the 1980s
[Juan] describes himself as a software engineer, a lover of absurd humor, and, among other things, a player of Nethack. We think he should add computer game archaeologist to that list. In the 1990s, he played a game that had first appeared on USENET in 1987. Initially called “Middle-earth multiplayer game,” it was soon rebranded with the catchier moniker, Conquer.
It may not seem like a big thing today, but writing multiplayer software and distributing it widely was pretty rare stuff in the late 1980s or early 1990s. In 2006, [Juan] realized that this game, an intellectual predecessor to so many later games, was in danger of being lost forever. The source code was scattered around different archives, and it wasn’t clear what rights anyone had to the source code.
[Juan] set out to find the original authors [Edward Barlow] and [Adam Bryant]. Of course, their e-mail addresses from USENET were long dead. With persistence, he finally found [Barlow] in 2006. He was amenable to [Juan] porting the code over, but didn’t know how to contact [Bryant].
[Juan] continued to leave posts and follow up leads. He did eventually find [Bryant], who read one of the posts about the project and offered his permission to GPL the code. This was in 2011, nearly five years after the release from [Barlow]. He also discovered there was a third author who was also game. Unfortunately, [Richard Caley] had already passed away, so there was no way to obtain his release.
You can compare the original version with the new updated version from [Juan]. A software accomplishment worthy of Indiana Jones.
We love digging through old code. Especially for software that was especially influential.
Come e perché la Germania le suona a OpenAi su ChatGpt per la musica
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PPI board meeting on 18.11.2025, 14:00 UTC
Ahoy Pirates,
Our next PPI board meeting will take place on 18.11.2025, 14:00 UTC / 15:00 CET.
All official PPI proceedings, Board meetings included, are open to the public. Feel free to stop by. We’ll be happy to have you.
Where:jitsi.pirati.cz/PPI-Board
Agenda: Pad: https://etherpad.pp-international.net/p/ppi-board-meeting-2025-08-05-vnly0cj
All of our meetings are posted to our calendar: pp-international.net/calendar/
We look forward to seeing visitors.
Thank you for your support,
The Board of PPI
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Global efforts to protect the environment
PPI’s main delegate at the United Nations Office of Geneva, Mr. Carlos Polo, attended events of the Environmental Programme (UNEP) this August. We attach some pictures of his visit, and we offer some comments about the efforts of our organization in helping to shape environmental policy.
The UNEP oordinates environmental work across the UN, but it is not the only organization. The UN has now created the UN Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD), the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), and the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). Each organization deals with separate environmenal issues and hosts its own conferences that include negotiations between nations and sometimes ask for statements and opinions of NGOs like our own. Currently the UNFCCC is hosting the COP conference in Brazil.
Carlos was able to observe the UNEP negotiations, but as we are not a nation (aka Party) we do not have a voice. Furthermore, we are not yet members of any of these conventions. PPI needs to establish more direct activities that promote environmental protection so that we can be accepted as members of these organizations, in addition to the Economic and Social Affairs Committee (ECOSOC) where we are already members.
We are hoping to make a bigger impact on international environmental governance. As an NGO, our abilities are limited. NGOs often watch from the back of the room. Our speaking time is scarce. The actual negotiation where the decisions are made take place behind closed doors, and we are simply able to only provide statements at the conference or as a published policy statement. One additional opportunity is that we can host side events. We have discussed cohosting a side even with other NGOs. If anyone is interested in collaborating, please contact us.
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Wayland’s Never-Ending Opposition to Multi-Window Positioning
There are many applications out there that use more than one window, with every modern-day platform and GUI toolkit offering the means for said application to position each of its windows exactly where it wants, and to restore these exactly in the configuration and location where the user saved it for that particular session. All toolkits but one, that is, for the Wayland project keeps shooting down proposals. Most recently merge request #264 for the ext-zones protocol by [Matthias Klumpp] as it descended into a 600+ comments spree.
This follows on an attempt two years prior with MR#247, which was rejected despite laying out sound reasons why the session protocol of Wayland does not cover many situations. In the breakdown video of the new ext-zones protocol discussion by [Brodie Robertson] the sheer absurdity of this whole situation becomes apparent, especially since KDE and others are already working around the Wayland project with their own extensions such as via KWin, which is being used commercially in e.g. the automotive world.
In a January 2024 blog post [Matthias] lays out many of his reasonings and views regarding the topic, with a focus on Linux desktop application usage from a scientific application perspective. When porting a Windows-, X11- or MacOS application to Wayland runs into compatibility issues that may necessitate a complete rewrite or dropping of features, the developer is more likely to stick to X11, to not port to Linux at all, or to use what eventually will amount to Wayland forks that patch around these missing API features.
Meanwhile X11 is definitely getting very long in the tooth, yet without it being a clean drop-in replacement it leaves many developers and end-users less than impressed. Perhaps the Wayland project should focus more on the needs of developers and end-users, and less about what it deems to be the One True Way?
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Emulating a 74LS48 BCD-to-7-Segment Decoder/Driver with an Altera MAX 7000 “S” Series Complex Programmable Logic Device
![[Gerry] holding up a DIP IC](https://poliverso.org/photo/link/365647 "[Gerry] holding up a DIP IC")
Over on the [Behind The Code with Gerry] YouTube channel our hacker [Gerry] shows us how to emulate a 74LS48 BCD-to-7-segment decoder/driver using an Altera CPLD Logic Chip From 1998.
This is very much a das blinkenlights kind of project. The goal is to get a 7-segment display to count from 0 to 9, and that’s it. [Gerry] has a 74LS193 Up/Down Binary Counter, a 74LS42 BCD to Decimal Decoder, and some 74LS00 NAND gates, but he “doesn’t have” an 74LS48 to drive the 7-segment display so he emulates one with an old Altera CPLD model EPM7064SLC44 which dates back to the late nineties. A CPLD is a Complex Programmable Logic Device which is a kind of precursor to FPGA technology.
This fun video runs for nearly one hour and there are all sorts of twists and turns. The clock is made from a 555 timer. The Altera USB Blaster is used to program the CPLD via JTAG. But before he can do that he has to re-enable JTAG on his CPLD because JTAG LOCKOUT has been used on his secondhand chip. JTAG LOCKOUT is something you can do so that you can use the various JTAG pins for other purposes in your design, at the cost of no longer being about to access via JTAG! Fortunately [Gerry] has the right equipment to do a full reset of his chip and thus reinstate JTAG support.
Just as he’s nearly finished his project he manages to short out and destroy his CPLD by dropping a wire into the wall power socket! Talk about unlucky! He has to go back to the drawing board with a similar model. And in the end he realizes he used the the 7447 (common anode) but actually needed the 7448 (common cathode), so he has to fix that up too. All in all it’s fun to see what was state-of-the-art back in 1998. If you’re interested in such things you might like to read Not Ready For FPGAs? Try A CPLD.
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Il senso dell’umano, riflessioni a Città della Pieve
@Giornalismo e disordine informativo
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Il 9 novembre a Città della Pieve grazie a Domenico Iannacone abbiamo dialogato sul “Senso dell’umano”. Un incontro di due ore e mezza presso il Teatro degli Avvaloranti, che ha scavato nella profondità del reale, dove
“Fuori la politica dei teatri”, lo slogan che ha animato il corteo degli orchestrali a Venezia
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Un messaggio, netto come accaduto pochissime altre volte, quello arrivato dal corteo di Venezia
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Presentazione molto partecipata, a Roma, del saggio di Bertoni e Vita sulla RAI
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Presentazione di ottimo livello del saggio di Roberto Bertoni e Vincenzo Vita sulla RAI e le sue prospettive. “L’occupazione. Dell’editto
Quel che ci toglie la riforma della giustizia. Intervista a Rocco Maruotti
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Come Articolo 21, siamo e saremo al fianco dell’Associazione Nazionale Magistrati (ANM) nella battaglia referendaria contro la “riforma” imposta dalla
Alberto Trentini, conferenza stampa a Milano ad un anno dall’arresto in Venezuela
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Sabato 15 novembre, alle 12, nella sala stampa del Comune di Milano si terrà la conferenza stampa sul tema “Alberto Trentini da un
Via alle Giornate del Premio Luchetta
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Dal 21 al 23 novembre prossimi Trieste ospita professioniste e professionisti del giornalismo nazionale e internazionale, testimoni di drammi e di storie provenienti da tutto il mondo. Il giornalismo d’inchiesta torna protagonista sul palco del Teatro Miela in
Have a Slice of Bumble Berry Pi
[Samcervantes] wanted a cyberdeck. Specifically, he wanted a Clockwork Pi uConsole, but didn’t want to wait three months for it. There are plenty of DIY options, but many of them are difficult to build. So [Sam] did the logical thing: he designed his own. The Bumble Berry Pi is the result.
The design criteria? A tactile keyboard was a big item. Small enough to fit in a pants pocket, but big enough to be useful. What’s more is he wanted to recycle some old Pi 3Bs instead of buying new hardware.
The result looks good. There’s a 4.3″ touch screen, a nice keyboard, and enough battery to run all day. If you already have the Pi, you are looking at about $60 and two 3D-printed parts. There is some soldering, but nothing that should put off the average Hackaday reader.
Does it run Doom? From the photo on the GitHub repo, yes, yes, it does. This would be a fun build, although we have to admit, the beauty of doing a build like this is making it your own. Maybe your pants have differently shaped pockets, we don’t know.
Either way, though, you can get some ideas from [Sam] or just clone his already good-looking deck. If we’re being honest, we are addicted to multiple screens. Plus, we want a built-in radio.
2025 Component Abuse Challenge: The Slip Ring In Your Parts Bin
If you’re familiar with electrical slip rings as found in motors and the like you’ll know them as robust assemblies using carefully chosen alloys and sintered brushes, able to take the load at high RPM for a long time. But not all slip ring applications need this performance. For something requiring a lot less rotational ability, [Luke J. Barker] has something from his parts bin, and probably yours too. It’s an audio jack.
On the face of it, a 1/4″ jack might seem unsuitable for this task, being largely a small-signal audio connector. But when you consider its origins in the world of telephones it becomes apparent that perhaps it could do so much more. It works for him, but we’d suggest if you’d like to follow his example, to use decent quality plugs and sockets.
This is an entry in our 2025 Component Abuse Challenge, and we like it for thinking in terms of the physical rather than the electrical. The entry period for this contest will have just closed by the time you read this, so keep an eye out for the official results soon.
Adesso basta! Chatcontrol 2.0 rientra dalla porta di servizio – Breyer avverte: “L’UE ci sta prendendo in giro”
Riportiamo la traduzione del post pubblicato da Patrick Breyer sul suo blog Poco prima di un incontro decisivo a Bruxelles, l’esperto di diritti digitali ed ex membro del Parlamento europeo, il Dott. Patrick Breyer, lancia l’allarme. Con un “ingannevole gioco di prestigio”, un controllo obbligatorio e ampliato della messaggistica privata viene imposto dalla porta sul retro…
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VPN e verifica dell'età online: essere consapevoli per non fare cazzate.
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Per accedere ai siti porno e di gioco d’azzardo è ora necessaria la verifica online dell’età… P A N I C O ! L’allarme è stato lanciato da tempo, ma solo ora le persone si stanno rendendo conto delle implicazioni in termini di privacy. La…
Perché SoftBank ha venduto l’intera partecipazione in Nvidia?
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SoftBank ha venduto la sua intera partecipazione in Nvidia per 5,8 miliardi di dollari. La holding giapponese vuole aumentare gli investimenti nell'intelligenza artificiale, puntando su OpenAi, Ampere e non solo. Numeri e dettagli.
L’Eccidio di Kindu – 11 novembre 1961: il sacrificio dimenticato dei 13 aviatori italiani - Difesa Online
Nel 1960 il Congo, da poco indipendente dal Belgio, era precipitato in una violenta crisi interna. Le Nazioni Unite inviarono un contingente internazionale. L’Italia partecipò alla missione con personale dell’Aeronautica Militare, impiegato per il trasporto umanitario e logistico.
L’11 novembre, due velivoli da trasporto C-119 “Flying Boxcar” della 46ª Aerobrigata dell’Aeronautica Militare Italiana atterrarono presso l’aeroporto di Kindu con carichi di rifornimenti destinati ai caschi blu malesi.
Dopo lo scarico dei materiali, gli equipaggi, disarmati e in abiti militari, si recarono alla mensa della guarnigione ONU. In quel momento, un’unità di militari congolesi ammutinatisi che aveva preso posizione contro il governo centrale e contro il contingente ONU intervenne. Gli aviatori furono catturati, portati in un locale carcere della città e in poche ore trucidati brutalmente: alcuni furono uccisi a colpi di mitra, altri furono mutilati o assassinati con macete.
Una fotografia di un giornale mostra un titolo in grassetto su sfondo bianco. Il titolo principale recita: "ORRENDO ECCIDIO DAVANTI ALLA FOLLA IN KINDU". Sotto, in caratteri più grandi, c'è la frase: "FATTI A PEZZI E GETTATI IN UN FIUME I TREDICI AVIATORI ITALIANI NEL CONGO".
Sotto il titolo principale, si trova un testo più piccolo. La prima riga recita: "Furono massacrati sabato scorso, dopo essere stati catturati dalla soldataglia congolese - L'annuncio dato dal portavoce delle Nazioni Unite. Scarse speranze di ritrovare i resti mortali - L'ONU chiede al governo Adula di condurre un'inchiesta sull'eccidio e punire i colpevoli: se la richiesta non verrà esaudita agirà «immediatamente e per conto proprio»".
In fondo, in caratteri più piccoli, c'è la frase: "ORA BASTA È GIUNTA DALLA RADIO LA NOTIZIA ALLE SPOSE".
In basso a destra si trova un sito web e loghi.
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"Origine di 3I/Atlas, ora abbiamo la conferma che l'enigmatico oggetto interstellare non è un'astronave aliena"
ahahahaha ma no... ma davvero? mannaggia. e io che avevo già formato il comitato di benvenuto...
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Obsolescenza tecnologica e cyber security: un rischio che pesa sui bilanci aziendali
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L’84% delle imprese italiane utilizza sistemi obsoleti, aumentando rischi e costi delle violazioni. Dati e strategie mostrano perché l’obsolescenza tecnologica va considerata priorità nei budget 2025 tra sicurezza, ROI e continuità operativa
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È rimasto qualcosa che non sia tutelato dall'UNESCO, a parte il petrolio, l'herpes e Mario Giordano?
Per la cucina italiana patrimonio dell'Unesco arriva il primo semaforo verde
https://www.wired.it/article/cucina-italiana-patrimonio-unesco-documento-iscrizione/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypubPubblicato su Cultura @cultura-WiredItalia
Per la cucina italiana patrimonio dell'Unesco arriva il primo semaforo verde
Un documento tecnico dell'organizzazione culturale dell'Onu riconosce il valore del dossier e spiana la strada verso il voto finale a dicembre in IndiaPietro Deragni (Wired Italia)
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Shutdown, il salvagente di Trump
La fine dello “shutdown” più lungo della storia americana sembra essere a portata di mano dopo l’approvazione al Senato di Washington, con l’appoggio decisivo del Partito Democratico, di una misura semi-temporanea per sbloccare il bilancio federale.www.altrenotizie.org
Gene Therapy Aims To Slow Huntington’s Disease To A Crawl
Despite the best efforts of modern medicine, Huntington’s disease is a condition that still comes with a tragic prognosis. Primarily an inherited disease, its main symptoms concern degeneration of the brain, leading to issues with motor control, mood disturbance, with continued degradation eventually proving fatal.
Researchers have recently made progress in finding a potential treatment for the disease. A new study has indicated that an innovative genetic therapy could hold promise for slowing the progression of the disease, greatly improving patient outcomes.
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Huntington’s disease stems from a mutation in the huntingtin gene, which is responsible for coding for the huntingtin protein. This gene contains a repeated sequence referred to as a trinucleotide repeat, where the same three DNA bases repeat multiple times. The repeat count varies between individuals, and can change from generation to generation due to genetic mutation. If the number of repeats becomes too long, the gene no longer codes for huntingtin protein, and produces mutant huntingtin protein instead. The mutated protein eventually leads to neural degeneration. This genetic basis is key to the heritability of Huntington’s disease. If one parent carries a faulty gene, their children have a fifty percent chance of inheriting it and eventually developing the disease themselves. Over generations, the number of repeats can increase and lead to symptoms appearing at an earlier age.
The new treatment relies on advanced genetic techniques to slow the disease in its tracks. It involves the use of a custom designed virus, which is inserted into the brain itself in specific key areas. It’s a delicate surgical process that takes anywhere from 12 to 18 hours, using real-time scanning to ensure the viral payload is placed exactly where it needs to go. The virus carries a DNA sequence and delivers it to brain cells, which begin processing the DNA to produce small fragments of genetic material called microRNA. These fragments intercept the messenger RNA that is produced from the body’s own DNA instructions, which is responsible for producing the mutant huntingtin protein which causes the degenerative disease. In this way, mutant huntingtin levels are reduced, drastically slowing the progression of the disease.
The effects of the treatment are potentially game changing, with progression of the disease slowed by 75% in study patients. Results indicate that with effective treatment, the decline expected over one year would instead take a full four years. In more qualitative areas, some patients in the trial have managed to maintain the ability to walk at a point when they would typically be expected to require wheel chairs. In typical Huntington’s cases, the onset occurs between 30 to 50 years old, with a life expectancy of just 15 to 20 years after diagnosis. The hope is that by delaying the progression of the disease, affected patients could have a greater quality of life for much longer, without suffering the worst impacts of the condition.
The initial trial involved just twenty-nine patients, but results were promising. Data indicated consistent benefit to patients three years after the initial surgery. Crucially, the treatment isn’t just slowing symptoms, but there is also evidence it helped to preserve brain tissue. Markers of neuronal death in spinal fluid, which would typically increase as Huntington’s disease progresses, were actually lower than before treatment in study patients.
The therapy isn’t without complications. Beyond the complicated and highly invasive brain surgery required to get the virus where it needs to go, some patients developed inflammation from the virus causing some side effects like headaches and confusion. There’s also the expense — advanced gene therapies don’t come cheap. However, on the positive side, it’s believed the treatment could potentially be a one-off matter, as the brain cells that produce the critical microRNA fragments are not replaced regularly like other more disposable cells in the body. While it’s a new and radical treatment, pharmaceutical company UniQure has plans to bring it to market as soon as late 2026 in the US, with the European market to follow.
It’s not every day that scientists discover a new viable cure for a disease that has long proven fatal. However, through genetic techniques and a strong understanding of the causative factors of the disease, it appears scientists have made progress in tackling the spectre that is Huntington’s disease. For the many thousands of patients grappling with the disease, and the many descendents who struggle with potentially having inherited the condition, news of a potential treatment is a very good thing indeed.
Featured image: “Huntington” by Frank Gaillard.
CHAT CONTROL 2.0 THROUGH THE BACK DOOR – Breyer warns: “The EU is playing us for fools – now they’re scanning our texts and banning teens!”
Just before a decisive meeting in Brussels, digital rights expert and former Member of the European Parliament Dr. Patrick Breyer is sounding the alarm. Using a “deceptive sleight of hand,” a mandatory and expanded Chat Control is being pushed through the back door, in a form even more intrusive than the originally rejected plan. The legislative package could be greenlit tomorrow in a closed-door EU working group session.
“This is a political deception of the highest order,” warns Breyer. “Following loud public protests, several member states including Germany, the Netherlands, Poland, and Austria said ‘No’ to indiscriminate Chat Control. Now it’s coming back through the back door – disguised, more dangerous, and more comprehensive than ever. The public is being played for fools.”
According to Breyer, the new compromise proposal is a Trojan horse containing three poison pills for digital freedom:
1. MANDATORY CHAT CONTROL – MASKED AS “RISK MITIGATION”
Officially, explicit scanning obligations have been dropped. But a loophole in Article 4 of the new draft obliges providers of e-mail, chat and messenger services like WhatsApp to take “all appropriate risk mitigation measures.” This means they can still be forced to scan all private messages – including on end-to-end encrypted services.
“The loophole renders the much-praised removal of detection orders worthless and negates their supposed voluntary nature,” says Breyer. “Even client-side scanning (CSS) on our smartphones could soon become mandatory – the end of secure encryption.”
2. TOTAL SURVEILLANCE OF TEXT CHATS: A “DIGITAL WITCH HUNT”
The supposedly voluntary “Chat Control 2.0” goes far beyond the previously discussed scanning of photos, videos, and links. Now, algorithms and AI can be used to mass-scan the private chat texts and metadata of all citizens for suspicious keywords and signals.
“No AI can reliably distinguish between a flirt, sarcasm, and criminal ‘grooming’,” explains Breyer. “Imagine your phone scanning every conversation with your partner, your daughter, your therapist and leaking it just because the word ‘love’ or ‘meet’ appears somewhere. This is not child protection – this is a digital witch hunt. The result will be a flood of false positives, placing innocent citizens under general suspicion and exposing masses of private, even intimate, chats and photos to strangers.” Under the current voluntary “Chat Control 1.0” scanning scheme, German federal police (BKA) already warn that around 50% of all reports are criminally irrelevant, equating to tens of thousands of leaked chats per year.
3. DIGITAL HOUSE ARREST FOR TEENS & THE END OF ANONYMOUS COMMUNICATION
In the shadow of the Chat Control debate, two other disastrous measures are being pushed through:
- The End of Anonymous Communication: To reliably identify minors as required by the text, every citizen would have to present their ID or have their face scanned to open an email or messenger account. “This is the de facto end of anonymous communication online – a disaster for whistleblowers, journalists, political activists, and people seeking help who rely on the protection of anonymity,” warns Breyer.
- “Digital House Arrest”: Teens under 16 face a blanket ban from WhatsApp, Instagram, online games, and countless other apps with chat functions. “Digital isolation instead of education, protection by exclusion instead of empowerment – this is paternalistic, out of touch with reality, and pedagogical nonsense.”
URGENT APPEAL: GOVERNMENTS MUST NOW USE THEIR VETO!
Several EU governments—including those of Germany, the Netherlands, Poland, Czechia, Luxembourg, Finland, Austria, and Estonia—have previously voiced strong opposition to indiscriminate mass scanning.
“Now, these governments must show some backbone!” demands Breyer. “Block this sham compromise in the Council and demand immediate corrections to save the fundamental rights of all citizens. The EU Parliament has already shown, across party lines, how child protection and digital freedom can be achieved together.”
Breyer demands the following immediate corrections before any government should agree:
- No mandatory chat control through the back door: Clarify that scans cannot be enforced as “risk mitigation.”
- No AI chat police: Restrict scanning to known child sexual abuse material (CSAM).
- No mass surveillance: Only allow targeted surveillance of suspects based on a court order.
- Preserve the right to anonymity: The mandatory age verification requirement must be scrapped entirely.
“They are selling us security but delivering a total surveillance machine,” Breyer concludes. “They promise child protection but punish our children and criminalize privacy. This is not a compromise – this is a fraud against the citizen. And no democratic government should make itself an accomplice.”
About Dr. Patrick Breyer:
Dr. Patrick Breyer is a jurist, digital rights expert, and a former Member of the European Parliament (Pirate Party) until 2024. As a co-negotiator of the Parliament’s position on the Chat Control regulation (CSAR), he is a leading European critic of indiscriminate mass surveillance.
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Waves within Earth’s mantle can carry traces of past continents across hundreds of miles, explaining why their chemical fingerprints appear in unlikely places.#TheAbstract
Remnants of Lost Continents Are Everywhere. Now, We Finally Know Why.
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Subscribe to 404 Media to get The Abstract, our newsletter about the most exciting and mind-boggling science news and studies of the week.Tiny remnants of long-lost continents that vanished many millions of years ago are sprinkled around the world, including on remote island chains and seamounts, a mystery that has puzzled scientists for years.
Now, a team has discovered a mechanism that can explain how this continental detritus ends up resurfacing in unexpected places, according to a study published on Tuesday in Nature Geoscience.
When continents are subducted into Earth’s mantle, the layer beneath the planet’s crust, waves can form that scrape off rocky material and sweep it across hundreds of miles to new locations. This “mantle wave” mechanism fills in a gap in our understanding of how lost continents are metabolized through our ever-shifting planet.
“There are these seamount chains where volcanic activity has erupted in the middle of the ocean,” said Sascha Brune, a professor at the GFZ Helmholtz Centre for Geosciences and University of Potsdam, in a call with 404 Media. “Geochemists go there, they drill, they take samples, and they do their isotope analysis, which is a very fancy geochemical analysis that gives you small elements and isotopes which come up with something like a ‘taste.’”
“Many of these ocean islands have a taste that is surprisingly similar to the continents, where the isotope ratio is similar to what you would expect from continents and sediments,” he continued. “And there has always been the question: why is this the case? Where does it come from?”
These continental sprinkles are sometimes linked to mantle plumes, which are hot columns of gooey rock that erupt from the deep mantle. Plumes bring material from ancient landmasses, which have been stuck in the mantle for eons, back to the light of day again. Mantle plumes are the source of key hot spots like Hawai’i and Iceland, but there are plenty of locations with enriched continental material that are not associated with plumes—or any other known continental recycling mechanisms.
The idea of a mantle wave has emerged from a series of revelations made by Brune’s team, including a 2023 study that identified evidence of similar dynamics occurring within continents. By studying patterns in the distribution of diamonds across South Africa, the researchers showed that slow cyclical motions in the mantle dislodge chunks off the keel of landmasses as they plunge into the mantle. Their new study confirms that these waves can also explain how the elemental residue of the supercontinent Gondwana, which broke up over 100 million years ago, resurfaced in seamounts across the Indian Ocean and other locations.
In other words, the ashes of dead continents are scattered across extant landmasses following long journeys through the mantle. Though it’s not possible to link these small traces back to specific past continents or time periods, Brune hopes that researchers will be able to extract new insights about Earth’s roiling past from the clues embedded in the ground under our feet.
“What we are saying now is that there is another element, with this kind of pollution of continental material in the upper mantle,” Brune said. “It is not replacing what was said before; it is just complementing it in a way where we don't need plumes everywhere. There are some regions that we know are not plume-related, because the temperatures are not high enough and the isotopes don't look like plume-affected. And for those regions, this new mechanism can explain things that we haven't explained before.”
“We have seen that there's quite a lot of evidence that supports our hypothesis, so it would be interesting to go to other places and investigate this a bit more in detail,” he concluded.
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Convective erosion and lateral transport of metasomatized continental keels may generate enriched mantle geochemical domains sampled by oceanic volcanism, according to a geodynamic modelling study.Nature
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Software engineer Hector Dearman built a zoomable map of every issue of BYTE magazine.#archives #magazines #publishing #byte
Visualize All 23 Years of BYTE Magazine in All Its Glory, All at Once
Fifty years ago—almost two decades before WIRED, seven years ahead of PCMag, just a few years after the first email ever passed through the internet and with the World Wide Web still 14 years away—there was BYTE. Now, you can see the tech magazine's entire run at once. Software engineer Hector Dearman recently released a visualizer to take in all of BYTE’s 287 issues as one giant zoomable map.The physical BYTE magazine published monthly from September 1975 until July 1998, for $10 a month. Personal computer kits were a nascent market, with the first microcomputers having just launched a few years prior. BYTE was founded on the idea that the budding microcomputing community would be well-served by a publication that could help them through it.
“You need the hardware before you can progress through the first gate of a system. A virgin computer is useless so you add some software to fill it out. And the whole point of the exercise—in many but not all cases—is to come up with some interesting and exotic applications,” editor Carl Helmers wrote in the first issue’s introduction. “The technical content of BYTE is roughly divided into the trilogy of hardware, software and applications. Each component of the trilogy is like a facet of a brilliant gem—the home brew computer applied to personal uses.”
Dearman told me his first attempt at the site was in September of last year, but this version launched in August 2025. “Once I had a workable strategy it took a couple of weekends to put it all together,” he said.
Dearman told me he first became interested in BYTE after his dad Chris, also a software engineer, died in early 2022. Right out of university, Chris Dearman worked at a London computer company called Whitechapel Computer Works.
“There was very little on the internet about the computers he worked on (now mostly famous for being named after a computer in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy),” Hector Dearman said. He came across an article titled “Realizing a Dream” by Dick Pountain in the February 1985 issue of BYTE in the Internet Archive’s scans that covered the Whitechapel Computer Works MG-I, named after the fictional computer called the “Milliard Gargantubrain” in Hitchhiker’s Guide.
“The article was amazing but I was captivated by the adverts,” Dearman said. “I kept coming back to them and the more I did the more I realized what an incredible core sample BYTE was—both of the personal computing revolution and of the changes in graphic design and printing over those decades. That compulsion eventually turned into this project.”
Pages from the February 1985 issue of BYTE
Dearman said he was inspired by the Image Quilts tool that makes collages of images, and Jef Raskin’s “zoomable user interfaces.” To create the BYTE visualizer, Dearman sourced scans from the Vintage Apple archive (the Internet Archive also has a massive searchable repository of BYTE magazine issues) and converted the archive’s PDFs to image tiles. He then put the image tiles into Seadragon—around 500,000 tiles at 1024x1024 pixels each. “I wrote some custom software for this. I tried locally on my computer for a while but ran out of patience pretty quickly. Luckily it's a very parallel problem, I ended up with something that could do every tile for a given layer of the Seadragon image pyramid in parallel,” Dearman told me. “According to my Google Cloud bill I used around 500 hours of CPU time that month. For the final run I think I used 200 instances for ~20 minutes to generate the tiles—the future is pretty cool sometimes.”
On the BYTE visualizer site’s about page, Dearman quotes pioneering computer scientist Alan Kay: "[...] pop culture holds a disdain for history. Pop culture is all about identity and feeling like you’re participating. It has nothing to do with cooperation, the past or the future—it’s living in the present. I think the same is true of most people who write code for money. They have no idea where [their culture came from]—and the Internet was done so well that most people think of it as a natural resource like the Pacific Ocean, rather than something that was man-made.”
Looking at the massive map of BYTE issues means looking at almost 23 years of computer history, at a time when the technology was exploding from hobby to household essential. When BYTE launched in 1975, it catered to a niche group of hackers, engineers, and people trying to tinker with expensive, chunky kits. By its final issue in 1998, it was publishing a Y2K survival guide and reviews of the hot new operating system Windows 98, and running ads for the world’s first 19 inch CRT computer monitor alongside an editorial about LCD monitors asking “Does Your Future Look Flat?”
“The relationship between Computing and its history is that of a willful amnesiac,” Dearman writes on the site. “We discard the past as fast as possible, convinced it cannot possibly contain anything of value. This is a mistake. The classic homilies are accurate: Failing to remember the past we are condemned to repeat it—as often as tragedy as farce.”
playlist.megaphone.fm?p=TBIEA2…Zoomable Interfaces
Asa Raskin, the son of the late Jef Raskin, recently gave a presentation at Google on the work his company, Humanized, is doing. It’s largely a continuation of the work of his father.Jeff Atwood (Coding Horror)
Real-Time BART in a Box Smaller Than Your Coffee Mug
Ever get to the train station on time, find your platform, and then stare at the board showing your train is 20 minutes late? Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) may run like clockwork most days, but a heads-up before you leave the house is always nice. That’s exactly what [filbot] built: a real-time arrival display that looks like it was stolen from the platform itself.
The mini replica nails the official vibe — distinctive red text glowing inside a sheet-metal-style enclosure. The case is 3D printed, painted, and dressed up with tiny stickers to match the real deal. For that signature red glow, [filbot] chose a 20×4 character OLED. Since the display wants 5 V logic, a tiny level-shifter sits alongside an ESP32-C6 that runs the show. A lightweight middleware API [filbot] wrote simplifies grabbing just the data he needs from the official BART API and pushes it to the little screen.
We love how much effort went into shrinking a full-size transit sign into a desk-friendly package that only shows the info you actually care about. If you’re looking for more of an overview, we’re quite fond of PCB metro maps as well.
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Alt-text: Sei persone in uniforme scura e con cappelli stanno portando una bara ricoperta da una bandiera verde, bianca e rossa. I portatori camminano in una fila mentre una folla di persone guarda sullo sfondo. Le persone in uniforme indossano guanti. I portatori sono di fronte a un edificio scuro.
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L'immagine mostra un edificio parzialmente distrutto, ripreso in un ambiente esterno con un cielo azzurro. L'edificio è a più piani, con una struttura in cemento scheletrica e pareti in gran parte assenti. Un escavatore giallo è posizionato di fronte all'edificio. Il terreno circostante è costituito da terra e detriti. Nell'angolo inferiore sinistro, si può vedere una parte di un elmetto militare verde con un distintivo tricolore italiano. Sul terreno, in primo piano, si vede un nastro di delimitazione blu con la scritta "POLIZEI".
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