Aggiornamento urgente per Google Chrome: Use-after-free nel componente Serviceworker
Un aggiornamento urgente per motivi di sicurezza è stato messo a disposizione da Google per il browser Chrome su sistema operativo Windows, Mac e Linux. Questa nuova versione risolve una falla critica che permetterebbe a malintenzionati di eseguire, da remoto, codice a loro discrezione.
Un potenziale aggressore è in grado di abusare di questa debolezza creando un sito web malevolo che, una volta visitato da un utente, permetterebbe all’aggressore di eseguire un codice sul sistema dell’utente stesso.
L’aggiornamento è attualmente in fase di distribuzione e sarà disponibile per tutti gli utenti nei prossimi giorni e settimane. Questa patch segue la versione iniziale di Chrome 140, che ha risolto anche diversi altri problemi di sicurezza.
Si consiglia vivamente agli utenti di aggiornare immediatamente i propri browser per proteggersi da potenziali minacce. Il canale stabile è stato aggiornato alla versione 140.0.7339.127/.128 per Windows, 140.0.7339.132/.133 per Mac e 140.0.7339.127 per Linux.
L’aggiornamento risolve due importanti falle di sicurezza, la più grave delle quali il CVE-2025-10200. Questa vulnerabilità è classificata come critica e viene descritta come un bug “Use-after-free” nel componente Serviceworker.
Un difetto di tipo use-after-free si verifica quando un programma tenta di utilizzare la memoria dopo che questa è stata deallocata, il che può causare arresti anomali, danneggiamento dei dati o, nel peggiore dei casi, esecuzione di codice arbitrario.
Il ricercatore di sicurezza Looben Yang ha segnalato questa falla critica il 22 agosto 2025. In riconoscimento della gravità della scoperta, Google ha assegnato una ricompensa di 43.000 dollari per il bug scoperto.
La seconda vulnerabilità corretta in questa versione è CVE-2025-10201, un difetto di elevata gravità identificato come “Implementazione inappropriata in Mojo”. Mojo è una raccolta di librerie runtime utilizzate per la comunicazione tra processi all’interno di Chromium, il progetto open source alla base di Chrome.
La seconda vulnerabilità è stata segnalata da Sahan Fernando e da un ricercatore anonimo il 18 agosto 2025. Ai reporter è stata assegnata una ricompensa di 30.000 dollari per le loro scoperte.
I difetti di questo componente possono essere particolarmente pericolosi in quanto possono compromettere potenzialmente la sandbox del browser, una funzionalità di sicurezza fondamentale che isola i processi per impedire che gli exploit influenzino il sistema sottostante.
Google sta distribuendo l’aggiornamento gradualmente, ma gli utenti possono verificarne manualmente la presenza e applicarlo andando su Impostazioni > Informazioni su Google Chrome.
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Cyberstorage: La Risposta degli IT Manager Italiani ai Ransomware
Cyberstorage: la risposta degli IT manager italiani a ransomware sempre più sofisticati. Negli ultimi anni lo scenario è cambiato: ransomware più aggressivi, esfiltrazione dei dati prima della cifratura, interruzioni dei servizi dovute a eventi fisici e non solo. In questo contesto, “salvare” i dati non basta più: lo storage diventa parte della sicurezza. Proprio per questo motivo, tra gli IT manager italiani cresce l’attenzione verso il cyberstorage: uno storage progettato per resistere agli attacchi direttamente dove risiedono i dati.
Alla base c’è un principio architetturale chiave: la frammentazione e distribuzione nativa del dato su più sedi geografiche. A questo si affiancano funzionalità di sicurezza integrate – come immutabilità, cifratura, controllo accessi – che aumentano la resilienza e supportano una reale continuità operativa anche in scenari critici.
Cos’è (davvero) il cyberstorage
Per semplificare: è storage con sicurezza incorporata. Non un layer applicato sopra, ma controlli nativi a livello dati per resistere a manomissioni, cancellazioni, cifrature e accessi non autorizzati.
Storicamente ci si è affidati a controlli perimetrali (firewall, segmentazione di rete), gestione delle identità, versioning. Strumenti utili, ma non sufficienti quando l’attaccante arriva fino allo storage. Il cyberstorage nasce per colmare questa lacuna: porta lo zero trust fino al livello dei dati, riducendo la probabilità di compromissione totale e facilitando il recovery.
Non è un caso che gli analisti di Gartner indicano il cyberstorage tra i 6 trend strategici IT del 2025: frammentare, distribuire e proteggere i dati su più sedi minimizza il rischio di compromissione e breach dei dati.
Perché oggi il cyberstorage è una priorità per gli IT manager
Le ransomware gang di oggi non si limitano più a cifrare i dati. In molti casi, l’attacco inizia con l’esfiltrazione: i dati vengono copiati e portati fuori dall’organizzazione, poi cifrati per renderli inaccessibili e infine usati come leva per minacciare la pubblicazione.
È la cosiddetta doppia o tripla estorsione, un approccio che rende inutile anche un backup perfettamente funzionante, perché il danno vero non è solo l’interruzione del servizio, ma la perdita di riservatezza.
Questo espone l’azienda a:
- Perdite economiche (fermi operativi, penali, costi di risposta)
- Danni reputazionali, se i dati esfiltrati riguardano clienti, dipendenti o partner
In parallelo aumentano gli attacchi mirati a infrastrutture di virtualizzazione e repository di backup. Sul piano fisico restano i rischi di disastro fisico (incendi, alluvioni) e di interruzioni prolungate (blackout).
Il cyberstorage non è la soluzione magica, ma rappresenta un tassello chiave in un piano di disaster recovery moderno, che punta su integrità e riservatezza del dato anche in condizioni estreme.
Cosa cambia rispetto allo storage tradizione
Lo storage “classico” è nato per capacità, performance e disponibilità. Il cyberstorage aggiunge:
- Un principio architetturale: frammentazione e distribuzione nativa del dato su più sedi/domìni per ridurre il rischio di perdita e compromissione in caso di incidente.
- Controlli di sicurezza (non necessariamente nativi, ma integrati nello stack di storage) che aumentano la resilienza: immutabilità, cifratura, controllo degli accessi e non solo.
Questi elementi operano sul dato stesso, non solo al perimetro della rete.
Normative: cosa cambia con NIS2 e GDPR
Con l’entrata in vigore della direttiva NIS2, le organizzazioni italiane – sia pubbliche che private – devono dimostrare di essere in grado di garantire continuità operativa, sicurezza dei dati e disponibilità dei servizi essenziali anche in caso di attacco. Non è più sufficiente avere un backup: le normative chiedono prove concrete di misure tecniche e organizzative efficaci, come stabilito anche dal GDPR. Una strategia carente espone l’azienda a rischi elevati: interruzioni prolungate, danni economici e sanzioni fino a 10 milioni di euro o al 2% del fatturato globale annuo, a seconda di quale sia il valore più alto.
Da dove iniziare senza rifare tutto
L’obiettivo non è stravolgere lo stack, ma aumentare la resilienza con scelte concrete e misurabili. Ecco i fondamentali:
- Applica la regola del 3-2-1-1-0 backup: tre copie, due supporti diversi, una offsite, una immutabile, zero errori nei test.
- Separazione dei domini: chi amministra la produzione non amministra i backup; privilegi minimi, autenticazione a più fattori (MFA) e controllo a doppio fattore per operazioni critiche.
- Testa il ripristino in modo reale e completo (non solo tabletop): misura RPO/RTO, documenta, correggi.
- Standard diffusi (es. compatibilità S3/Object Lock) per integrare i tool esistenti e mantenere portabilità. Evitando il lock-in tecnologico.
Domande guida per orientare le priorità:
- Quanto tempo il mio business può rimanere offline senza danni gravi?
- Quali dati devo ripristinare per primi?
- Chi prende decisioni, e con quali strumenti?
- Dove sono conservate le copie dei dati, e sono al sicuro?
- I dati salvati sono anche protetti da accessi non autorizzati?
La capacità di ripristinare è fondamentale, ma lo è anche la prevenzione della perdita/esfiltrazione prima della cifratura. Un piano moderno di disaster recovery deve includere storage resistenti agli attacchi, controlli di accesso rigorosi, segregazione dei ruoli e sistemi progettati per la sicurezza by design.
Fattori da considerare nella scelta di una soluzione storage resiliente
Quando valuti una soluzione di cyberstorage, non basta guardare al costo e alla performance: la resilienza nasce da scelte architetturali e funzionalità di sicurezza. Di seguito, i criteri tecnici più rilevanti da tenere presenti.
- Dato frammentato e distribuito by design su più ambienti o sedi fisiche: questo minimizza il rischio di compromissione in caso di incidente.
- Cifratura forte dei dati (es. AES-256), con gestione sicura delle chiavi (tramite sistemi dedicati come KMS), eventualmente controllate direttamente dal cliente.
- Immutabilità dei dati (ad es. tramite modalità WORM o Object Lock) e creazione di copie automatiche (snapshot) per garantire la disponibilità anche in caso di ransomware.
- Zero trust al livello dati: Accesso secondo il principio del privilegio minimo, con sistemi di gestione delle identità (IAM), autenticazione a più fattori (MFA) e controllo a doppio fattore per operazioni critiche.
- Tracciabilità e integrità dei dati: registrazione dettagliata e non alterabile degli accessi e delle modifiche ai file, utile per audit e indagini forensi; verifica automatica dell’integrità per garantire che i dati non siano stati compromessi o alterati nel tempo.
Cubbit: la risposta italiana al bisogno di cyberstorage resiliente
In un contesto in cui i cyberattacchi sono sempre più sofisticati, Cubbit offre una risposta concreta. A differenza del cloud tradizionale, Cubbit cifra, frammenta e replica i dati su più sedi geografiche – al sicuro da ransomware e disastri. Parliamo di un cloud storage 100% italiano, scelto da Leonardo, Rai Way e più di 400 aziende italiane ed europee.
Oltre all’immutabilità e alla geo-ridondanza nativa, Cubbit si distingue per un approccio trasparente: niente costi nascosti, risparmi fino all’80% rispetto agli hyperscaler, localizzazione dei dati in Italia e conformità con normative come GDPR, ACN e NIS2.
Compatibile con lo standard S3, si integra facilmente con Veeam e altri client già in uso. L’architettura scalabile consente di passare rapidamente da TB a PB. La tecnologia è disponibile in due modalità, in base alle esigenze operative:
Puoi partire con DS3 Cloud (cloud object storage pronto all’uso) oppure creare il tuo cloud personalizzato con DS3 Composer (soluzione software-defined completamente europea).
Attiva una prova gratuita di Cubbit o contatta direttamente il team sul sito ufficiale.
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The Gentlemen ransomware: analisi di una minaccia emergente nel dark web
Nel Q3 2025 è stato osservato un nuovo gruppo ransomware, identificato come The Gentlemen, che ha lanciato un proprio Data Leak Site (DLS) nella rete Tor.
L’infrastruttura e le modalità operative del gruppo indicano un livello di organizzazione medio-alto, con particolare attenzione alla gestione dell’immagine e alla sicurezza operativa. Il DLS di The Gentlemen è accessibile tramite un indirizzo .onion e si presenta come segue:
- Homepage minimalista con logo, motto e branding coerente.
- TOX ID pubblico per comunicazioni cifrate P2P, probabilmente utilizzato per le negoziazioni.
- QR code ridondante per facilitare l’accesso ai contatti.
- Sezione dedicata alle vittime, organizzata in schede con descrizioni e riferimenti a dati esfiltrati.
L’assenza di funzionalità superflue e la scelta di protocolli decentralizzati riducono la superficie d’attacco contro la loro infrastruttura.
Victimology
Le vittime osservate appartengono a settori ad alto valore strategico:
- Manifatturiero/Automotive (EU)
- Servizi tecnologici/IT consulting (Asia)
- Energia e Telecomunicazioni (global)
L’approccio suggerisce una strategia mirata verso entità con bassa tolleranza alla disruption e forte esposizione reputazionale.
Distinguishing Factors
- Branding marcato: stile grafico coerente e naming che punta a differenziarsi da gruppi caotici.
- OpSec rafforzata: uso di TOX invece di portali centralizzati.
- DLS modulare: struttura scalabile, pronta a ospitare un numero crescente di vittime.
Considerazioni finali
Il debutto di The Gentlemen conferma che il panorama ransomware è in continua evoluzione. L’attenzione ai dettagli, la costruzione di un DLS pulito e funzionale, e la scelta di obiettivi nei settori industriali più redditizi lasciano intuire che questo gruppo non sia un’iniziativa improvvisata, ma il risultato di un’organizzazione con risorse e competenze consolidate.
Per le aziende, la lezione è chiara: rafforzare le difese di rete e i processi di incident response è ormai imprescindibile, soprattutto in quei comparti che rappresentano un target primario per attori malevoli di nuova generazione.
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The Magic of the Hall Effect Sensor
Recently, [Solder Hub] put together a brief video that demonstrates the basics of a Hall Effect sensor — in this case, one salvaged from an old CPU fan. Two LEDs, a 100 ohm resistor, and a 3.7 volt battery are soldered onto a four pin Hall effect sensor which can toggle one of two lights in response to the polarity of a nearby magnet.
If you’re interested in the physics, the once sentence version goes something like this: the Hall Effect is the production of a potential difference, across an electrical conductor, that is transverse to an electric current in the conductor and to an applied magnetic field perpendicular to the current. Get your head around that!
Of course we’ve covered the Hall effect here on Hackaday before, indeed, our search returned more than 1,000 results! You can stick your toe in with posts such as A Simple 6DOF Hall Effect ‘Space’ Mouse and Tracing In 2D And 3D With Hall Effect Sensors.
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Was Action! The Best 8-Bit Language?
Most people’s memories of programming in the 8-bit era revolve around BASIC, and not without reason. Most of the time, it was all we had. On the other hand, there were other options if you sought them out, and [Paul Lefebvre] makes the case that Goto10Retro that Action! was the best of them.
The limits of BASIC as an interpreted language are well-enough known that we needn’t go over them here. C and Pascal were available for some home computers in the 1980s, and programs written in those languages ran well, but compiling them? That was by no means guaranteed.
For those who lived on the Atari side of the fence, the Action! language provided a powerful alternative. Released by Optimized Systems Software in 1983, Action! was heavily optimized for the 6502, to the point that compiling and running simple programs with “C” and “R” felt “hardly slower” than typing RUN in BASIC. That’s what [Paul] writes, anyway, but it’s a claim that almost has to be seen to be believed.
You didn’t just get a compiler for your money when you bought Action!, though. The cartridge came with a capable text editor, simple shell, and even a primitive debugger. (Plus, of course, a hefty manual.) It’s the closest thing you’d find to an IDE on a computer of that class in that era, and it all fit on a 16 kB cartridge. There was apparently also a disk release, since the disk image is available online.
Unfortunately for those of us in Camp Commodore, the planned C-64 port never materialized, so we missed out on this language. Luckily our 64-bit supercomputers can easily emulate Atari 8-bit hardware and we can see what all the fuss was about. Heck, even our microcontrollers can do it.
"The real kick in the teeth is no matter how much manufacturing is brought back to the US these items will never be made in the USA. There is no upside."#Tariffs
'It's Just a Mess:' 23 People Explain How Tariffs Have Suddenly Ruined Their Hobby
Less than two weeks ago, the Trump administration ended de minimis, a rule that let people buy products from overseas without paying tariffs or associated processing fees if the item cost less than $800. As we predicted, the end of de minimis has made having basically any sort of hobby that requires the purchase of items more expensive and more of a pain. In the last few weeks I have heard from dozens of people about how Trump’s tariffs have impacted their hobbies, from knitting and collecting anime figurines to retro computing collecting and fencing, people are saying that they are having to pay more for their hobby or, at worst, have been cut off from it entirely.Also as expected: People remain confused about what the tariff for any given item or order is going to be, how they are supposed to pay for it, and whether they are going to get the item they ordered at all. Many small businesses overseas have stopped shipping items to the United States, and some customers say that their packages are in customs processing hell, or have decided to refuse delivery of items they’ve ordered because the tariffs and processing fees have in some cases been more than the item itself was worth. The subreddits for UPS are full of confused customers, and nightmare stories where people say they are getting customs bills for hundreds or thousands of dollars that they did not expect. Customers are also learning that they are not only responsible for the tariff on any given item, but they are also responsible for the “brokerage fees” charged by UPS and FedEx, which is a customs-clearance processing fee associated with international packages.
“Got a $1,500 customs bill…on a $750 package,” one post on Reddit reads. Another person posted a screenshot of a UPS bill for $646.02, which states $8.43 worth of “government charges” and $637.59 of “brokerage charges.” “Package supposed to be delivered yesterday but tracking update says it’s in Canada?” another says. “What are these fees and charges? Government fee and brokerage fees,” another says. The subreddit is full of screenshots of packages that are in customs hell, people who are getting hit with import and brokerage fees that they weren’t expecting or don’t understand, and people having no idea how the overall fees for any given package are being calculated.💡
Do you know anything else about tariffs, de minimis, or have something I should know? I would love to hear from you. Using a non-work device, you can message me securely on Signal at jason.404. Otherwise, send me an email at jason@404media.co.The following anecdotes are from 404 Media readers who have told me how tariffs have already impacted their hobbies, and how they have made it harder or impossible to do them. Some responses have been lightly edited for length and clarity.
Name: Jay
Hobby: Historic European Martial ArtsI'm involved in the niche combat sport called Historical European Martial Arts. (Hema) Which is when consenting adults swing steel longswords at each other. For safety and insurance purposes protective gear has to meet safety standards so we can do our deranged little sports. For most things there are options from other sports for protection. Most of our masks are 350 newton rated fencing masks for example. The biggest pain points right now is: Jackets (which need at least a 350n rating), pants (usually a 800n rating) and gloves which have to be extremely protective clamshells. Margins on these goods are tight and much of the manufacturing of them comes down to overseas businesses: Spes (Poland) Superior Fencing (Pakistan) and HF Armory (Ukraine) Hf in particular makes what is agreed by many fighters to be the best in slot, for longsword, gloves the Black Knights. It is incredibly rare to see a fighter not wearing a majority of their gear from one of these companies.
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Due to the de minimis exemption getting cancelled and shippers getting spooked, multiple of my fellow fighters’ orders have been indefinitely delayed while the shippers figure out what's going on. In the short run this has multiple of my friends reconsidering the sport. In the long run my concern is that rising costs of gear will preclude most clubs (this is predominantly a local club based hobby) from continuing or even starting. My fellow fighters are discussing what our options are under this new economic arrangement, but based on initial research we will need to either accept much higher costs or try out less tested USian manufactured safety gear which may pose safety concerns. Most of the US Hema club organizers that I know are fielding similar concerns from their club membersJim Y
Hobby: F1During Labor day weekend I noticed that one of the F1 teams that I stan dropped the price of one of their t-shirts so I thought it wise to jump on the deal. $21 USD + $15 shipping = $35 total which seemed like an "ok" deal to me.
I come to find out that it's shipping from the Netherlands and then receive an email from UPS stating that I owe an additional $39 (THREE-NINE) USD. When I open the cost breakout it states $13 for "Govt charges" and $14 for "Brokerage Charges." (Not sure where the other $12 went.) Obviously I am not paying more in fees than I am for the cost of the shirt itself so I attempt to contact the e-commerce store via the form on their site and receive no response, unsurprisingly. The UPS guy came and I told him "sorry bro I can't be paying 39 dollars on a 21 dollar t-shirt" and he replied that I'm better off just making it myself so he totally understood.
Not an exciting story necessarily but I think you summarized it well when you stated that "the end of American exceptionalism has arrived." Oh well, was fun while it lasted.
Dusty
Hobby: MusicI use Discogs.com to purchase music CD's. I am in the US and am trying to purchase an album published in Germany. Discogs has a banner saying tariffs don't impact CD's, but sellers in Germany keep cancelling my orders citing DHS no longer shipping to the US.
Anon
Hobby: Receiving giftsI'm an American living in Brazil. A few years back I ordered a router from a Hong Kong company and paid for it to be shipped to my home. I had to pay an import tax of 150 percent to the Brazilian government to get the package liberated from customs. No comparable router was locally available, much less locally manufactured. My mom in the US sends me little packages containing cheap birthday gifts for my kids. I routinely pay hundreds of dollars in import taxes for the privilege.
Pre-Brazil, I enjoyed cheap, friction-free capitalism and commerce in America. It was exceptional, literally, and I didn't even know I was enjoying it.
Olivier
Career: Playing in a bandI play in a band in the Netherlands and most of our fans are in the US. We used to send quite a lot of CDs, vinyl and shirts to the US. It is now completely impossible to ship anything to the US and it's very sad. I know for us it's just a small metal band not reaching some fans but its part of the bigger issue disrupting a lot of lives.
Leigh
Hobby: Crochet
I made a crochet parasol recently and really love it. It won a blue ribbon at the MN State Fair. I want to make another, and I did import the yarn before the de minimis ended. Lucky me.But the pattern I used calls for an umbrella frame with 10 ribs. The one US company that carried them, decided to stop. They have an 8 rib frame, but then I need to change the pattern and it's smaller than I really want. There is a company in the UK that sells a 10 rib frame, but they are no longer shipping to the US. Do I adjust the pattern for the 8 rib frame? Wait until the UK company ships to the US again? Find a way to smuggle an umbrella frame in? Not sure yet.
Who knew there would be umbrella politics?
Scott
Hobby: SynthesizersI dabble in modular synthesizers (a hobby where people build custom synthesizers out of electronic modules, usually in a format called "eurorack").
Lots of trading happens between the EU and the US for these modules, which typically individually sell for $100-500 and tariffs have made a mess of things. I've purchased modules from both individuals in the EU and direct from small manufacturers like Dreadbox in Greece and small retailers like Thonk in the UK. Kristian Blåsol (his Tindie shop)—an individual in Sweden who designs DIY module kits (custom circuit boards and sources individual components so hobbyists can solder together the final product to save money) recently posted this video about his trouble of shipping to the US.
Lots of forum discussion around people getting surprised by tariff charges, eg this Reddit post where someone reports paying a $200 fee on a $400 order of components via Thonk. If you put an item in your cart on Thonk on the checkout page you will see:
And in other forums, people are starting to complain about delays, eg this private Facebook group for people who buy/sell/trade modules.Hannah Robinson
Hobby: Japanese metalAlmost all of my hobbies/interests are Japanese. I like Japanese tea and Japanese cooking. Any place that I get tea or ingredients from has raised their prices. I don't think I will be able to get any tea wares for the foreseeable future. I've been buying Ippodo's matcha that comes in a New Years tin every year since the last year of the dog (2018) and I'm not sure they'll even be releasing it in the US this upcoming year between the tariffs and matcha shortage.
I listen to 90s Japanese metal. I get CDs from Japan. I don't collect Japanese vinyl but a lot of people do. Luckily a few years ago I spent $250 to get a huge box of music magazines from the late 80's-early 00's so I have almost every issue that was on my wishlist but there are still more that I wanted which are probably totally unattainable now. I buy books from Japan fairly often. Sometimes these books are literature, but usually they're picture-heavy books about art or fashion or some kind of pop culture topic. It was already hard to find sellers that ship to the US.
Some people are really into Japanese instruments. I already have my Japanese bass (an Atelier Z Baby Z) so this isn't really impacting me but I know it will impact a lot of people. My favorite pedals are made in Sweden.
I'm not actively buying these right now but I do collect the following: Japanese dolls, Japanese textiles, Japanese vintage purses. I bought these from etsy so I know a lot of etsy sellers in Japan are going to be impacted. My sister has a few art hobbies, so she gets pens, paper and watercolors from Japan. My dad does Nscale so sometimes he gets models and paints/decals from Japan.
Sammy aka Leafnin Cosplay
Hobby: CosplayTrump tariffs have been running right through the cosplay community. I've been cosplaying over 20 years at this point and when I started, resources were scarce since no one really knew what cosplay was in the US. Now it's an international affair with everything readily available. Most of us do this outside our 9-5 jobs, myself included, as a hobby for fun. We make our own outfits and go escape from the world in costume every so often just to destress. But now our hobby is the stress.
I've been watching all my cosplay discords light up in panic over this. The first challenge was getting a decent wig. Wig fibers are made in China. Every wig supplier I've emailed over this has said pretty much the same thing regardless of where the wigs are sold. My main place of buying them has been Arda (a US company that's really struggling) and CosCraft (in England). I managed to get my CosCraft order earlier this month after they sent out a letter warning of the de minimus elimination. It was about $200 US after shipping via Royal Mail. Paying all those extra fees would've been impossible after I squeezed enough out of the budget just to do that.
Other places friends order from are Assist and Classe (both in Japan) and Kasou (in China). We all want good quality wigs that will last more than one day like a Halloween store wig does, so we order from whatever place gives us what we want (colors, styles, wig head size, etc). A lot of people also buy from AliExpress, eBay, and Amazon for cheap alternatives. Cosplay communities are pretty tightly knit, and we all generally exchange information. I've watched people cautiously order from our favorite wig sites, watching the tracking like a hawk and praying to the cosplay gods that the package gets through customs. We all talk about how much shipping costs or if we got charged tariffs for the wig. Now it's all uncertain.
But it of course doesn't stop there. Fabric is a huge concern. A lot is manufactured overseas. I tend to buy wholesale on eBay. It's my main source of fabric from everywhere around the world. Buying directly from China was an amazing option, especially since most of them would offer bulk pricing. Many offered fabrics you can't find in the US such as fabrics with traditional designs, cheap flax linen, and gradient-dyed fabrics. I've been watching my favorite wholesalers just to see if I can afford to buy fabric anymore.
It's just a mess. It's the one hobby I really have that hasn't been saturated by AI and now it's feeling more and more out of reach. I can find some things thrifted, but other things like sharp needles and strong thread you often buy new. I just want to have fun in this miserable dystopian country we have now and even that's becoming more difficult.
Chuck Foster
Hobby: Foreign filmsI'm a movie collector, but my main interest is foreign films - mostly low budget stuff from the '70s and '80s - and, as you can imagine, some of this stuff is not easy to find here. For example, I recently (8/11) bought a German media book (it's a popular thing in Germany—a Blu-ray or DVD inside a hardcover book with pictures and text discussing the movie) from a seller on eBay and I still haven't received a shipping notification.
Even more frustrating, I've had a Blu-ray sitting in Customs since mid-July, I imagine because it's from France and they'll make me pay a tariff on it. I called the post office about it and Customs has 45 business days to process, so I have to wait until September 22 before I can do anything. Meanwhile, my wife ordered a Blu-ray from the UK on Monday and it's supposed to come on Friday with no Customs hold up. I always found the Value Added Tax from the European system was bizarre, but here we are.
I also used to buy things from Amazon Germany, France, and Italy every so often, so I wonder how that will be affected.
Ironically, this will only boost bootleg sales in the US. While I'd rather have an official product where people get paid, if I can't get the movie, I'll have to find some seller on eBay with a DVD-r business.
Victoria
Hobby: MangaI collect manga and doujin (fan made comics) in Japanese and get them shipped from Japan. I do this by using a deputy shipping service, who I pay a fee to purchase it, have it sent to their warehouse, and then they ship it to me. The interesting thing about such a service, in this context, is that it bypasses the fact that some smaller sellers aren’t selling directly to the US. It offloads the burden from the seller to Japan Rabbit, whose business is being that translation layer.
As far as I know, Japan Rabbit has been pretty excellent and clear at messaging. In early August they sent a warning email about the end of De Minimis and were pretty clear cut about what it would impact. Likewise hours after Japan Post made their announcement JR sent a mass blast on what the impact would be. It does suck that it will cost more, and that there will be extra steps. But it’s nice to know I can still get them if I want them. I plan to do an expeditionary buy in a week or so (timed with one of the big indie doujin conventions/markets) to see how expensive doing it now would be.
Jason
Hobby: Japanese ToysThis has been a big topic in one of my hobbies, which is collecting Japanese domestic market “toys.” Some of them come out of Japan and some come out of China (where most of the JP companies have them produced). Pricey toys for big kids. It's a pretty big business/hobby. The suspension of de-minimis is going to clobber the hobby. Your average "toy" is in the $200-300 range. A $80 tariff is a huge percentage of the overall cost of a item.
My collection is mostly complete and I'm out of display space so it isn't going to affect me very much. But if that happened 2-3 years ago it would have been a major impact. For most guys, this is going to impact the hobby dramatically. Right now most people in the hobby are pretty bummed out. The real kick in the teeth is no matter how much manufacturing is brought back to the US these items will never be made in the USA. There is no upside.
Dan
Hobby: TTRPGI've noticed that it's had an impact on the tabletop role playing game industry (TTRPG).
As far as I know, lot of TTRPG games are basically independent publishing operations and a lot of them rely on Kickstarter and Backerkit to publish content and then ship to customers who have supported their campaigns.
As far as I know a lot of smaller publishers use Chinese companies for the bulk publishing; a friend of mine is producing a game (from Canada) and they publicly flip-flopped on the tariffs impact previously given the Trump administration's flip flopping on Chinese tariffs a few months ago.
Anne-Marie
Hobby: Sewing & knittingKnitting and other crafts(Sewing!) are devastated not just the tariffs but private equity takeovers. I'll speak to yarn and knitting tools since it's what I know. Most of the raw materials for yarn spun and dyed in the US are from overseas. Europe, South America, Turkey, and ANZ. Tools made in Asia. Tariffs will drive up prices 20+%. PE killed many of the general craft retailers like JoAnn's that were a cheap introduction to newbies and had acrylics for more durable projects.The remaining PE big craft stores are barely hanging on, except Hobby Lobby (everything is terrible about HL).
International manufacturers became alternatives for local stores and individuals. Mostly small-medium businesses in their countries. Now that's over from tariffs. Forums on Reddit, Facebook, and Revelry for selling, buying, and trading yarn are popping. I have a stash and planning to re-knit old projects.
Rose M
Interest: SkincareI'm an active member of r/AsianBeauty—this community has been working together for months to share information, updates, and first-hand intel about experiences receiving packages from overseas (primarily Japan and Korea). It's an incredibly stupid and frustrating situation: we literally just want to buy some skincare products. But there's one other detail that I think is worth mentioning, and that's the separate issue of the crackdown on FDA-regulated products entering the U.S. Sunscreen filters (the active ingredients in sunscreen products) are regulated by the FDA, and most Asian and European sunscreens use filters that are not FDA-approved. That's because the FDA is decades behind regulators everywhere else in the world—the last time the FDA approved a filter for use here was in the 1990s. There has always been a whiff of xenophobia, if not outright racism, in conversations about sunscreen in the U.S. The fact is, there are decades of consumer data from Europe and Asia proving these newer filters are safe and effective. Why isn't that "good enough" for the FDA?
David
Hobby: MiniaturesI stopped into a hobby store a few weeks ago and they were struggling to keep things in stock. I needed acrylic paint and paintbrushes for miniature models, so that's most of what I heard about. Their acrylic Vallejo (popular brand) paints were picked over, just so happened that all the colors I wanted were out of stock, so I needed to buy another brand. They were out of all their good paint brushes. In fact, when they announced that a shipment was coming in, people came in to buy them right away. They don't know when they will receive more good brushes. They can't get many items from distributors because of uncertainty with the tariffs. They are also having a hard time stocking "American made" paints because the pigments are still made overseas.
Name: Eric
Hobby: Retro gamingI’ve been collecting/preserving/restoring arcade cabinets, gaming consoles, and computers from the ‘70s and ‘80s for a long time. I’ve ramped up the preservation aspect of that in the last few years following the death of the Living Computer Museum in Seattle, not to mention how much software from my childhood has already been lost.
Today the last computer I’m likely to get from Japan for a while arrived, just under the wire. Another oddball system by US standards.
Name: Abigail
Hobby: KnittingAs far as I am aware there is only one mill in the US that still produces wool yarn for handknitters at a commercial scale. For knitters and crocheters, the only way to get some of the most popular yarns is to import from overseas. Similarly, there is no US company that produces knitting needs or knitting accessories.
Mary Mangan
Hobby: Textile craftingI have already seen this impact my hobby area—textile crafting. This past month I bought some great books from Germany under the wire. But I tried to buy a French book and got back a letter that said:
"Désolée, pas d'expédition sur les États-Unis, bien trop de documents àremplir de douanes et autres." (Sorry, no more shipping to the United States, Too much paperwork to fill out with customs and such.)
They are just a small outfit, and can't be bothered to figure out the customs documents now.
Another thread vendor in my sphere sent out a letter explaining how the tariffs were about to hit her costs, she apologized and begged us to continue to support her small business. But it looks pretty dire.
I bought up a lot of stuff recently that I hope will get me through the near to medium term. But no doubt at some point there's going to be something I need and just cannot get.
Désolée.
Anon
Hobby: ElectronicsI emailed popular PC board service JLC PCB – a service for makers who like to design their own PC boards – and the company is adding $200 per order for small orders. Example: One project I was working on that was $50 for 10 boards would now be $250.
Brian Tatosky
Hobby: SewingSimilar for my wife and daughter in their sewing hobbies. Prices have shot up all over, some people are just closing shop because they don't want to deal with it, or getting rid of US sales entirely, or it was just last price increase to kill their sales; it's all anecdotal right now, but it's feeling *really* bad for hobbyists of all kinds.
My wife sources custom hand painted doll faces to go with outfits she sews. Material and faceplate costs and problems might just change what she does as a hobby completely.
Once these people move on, I don't know if they will come back later.
Lauren Huff
Hobby: Yarn craftsThe confusion in the yarn (knitting/crochet/weaving) online communities has been intense as well. There have been a lot of short-sighted posts from conservatives and optimists urging people to "buy American" but there are so few sheep farms and fiber mills in the US and most of them cater to the fashion industry instead of yarn production for hobby use, so those people are getting venomous responses from pissed off crafters.
Many popular non-US yarn stores that sell online have straight up stopped shipping to the US, possibly for good, and many local yarn stores are being hit hard by either increased cost or sudden unavailability of product in the states.
Noah Hatz
Hobby: Japanese baseball memorabiliaMy wife is really into natural dyeing, specifically Shibori, and there's a particular store in Tokyo she's been buying specialty items from for years, they just emailed her to let her know they're suspending all shipments to the US indefinitely. There is no US supplier for the items she's buying so she's just completely SOL.
I’m a longtime NPB (Japanese professional baseball) memorabilia collector and this has completely destroyed the hobby. I typically use eBay or Buyee, most sellers have just stopped selling to US Buyers outright, and even items purchased before the de minimis exception ended have been caught in limbo. I currently have a large purchase just sitting in a CA post office since 8/21. Someone somewhere seems to think tariffs are due but neither I or the seller can figure out a) who to pay b) how to pay c) how much is owed. It's small potatoes compared to everything else, but I have an incredible amount of sympathy for anyone trying to import items for work. What a stupid country.
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The agency tells workers "we should all be vigilant against barriers that could slow our progress toward making America healthy again."#HHS #RFKJr
HHS Asks All Employees to Start Using ChatGPT
Employees at Robert F Kennedy Jr.’s Department of Health and Human Services received an email Tuesday morning with the subject line “AI Deployment,” which told them that ChatGPT would be rolled out for all employees at the agency. The deployment is being overseen by Clark Minor, a former Palantir employee who’s now Chief Information Officer at HHS.“Artificial intelligence is beginning to improve health care, business, and government,” the email, sent by deputy secretary Jim O’Neill and seen by 404 Media, begins. “Our department is committed to supporting and encouraging this transformation. In many offices around the world, the growing administrative burden of extensive emails and meetings can distract even highly motivated people from getting things done. We should all be vigilant against barriers that could slow our progress toward making America healthy again.”
“I’m excited to move us forward by making ChatGPT available to everyone in the Department effective immediately,” it adds. “Some operating divisions, such as FDA and ACF [Administration for Children and Families], have already benefitted from specific deployments of large language models to enhance their work, and now the rest of us can join them. This tool can help us promote rigorous science, radical transparency, and robust good health. As Secretary Kennedy said, ‘The AI revolution has arrived.’”
“To begin, simply go to go.hhs.gov/chatgpt and log in with your government email address. Pose a question and the tool will propose preliminary answers. You can follow up with further questions and ask for details and other views as you refine your thinking on a subject,” it says. “Of course, you should be skeptical of everything you read, watch for potential bias, and treat answers as suggestions. Before making a significant decision, make sure you have considered original sources and counterarguments. Like other LLMs, ChatGPT is particularly good at summarizing long documents.”
The email says that the rollout was being led by Minor, who worked at the surveillance company Palantir from 2013 through 2024. It states Minor has “taken precautions to ensure that your work with AI is carried out in a high-security environment,” and that “you can input most internal data, including procurement sensitive data and routine non-sensitive personally identifiable information, with confidence.”
It then goes on to say that “ChatGPT is currently not approved for disclosure of sensitive personally identifiable information (such as SSNs and bank account numbers), classified information, export-controlled data, or confidential commercial information subject to the Trade Secrets Act.” The email does not distinguish what “non-sensitive personally identifiable information” is. HHS did not immediately respond to a request for comment from 404 Media.
The email continues the rollout of AI to every corner of the federal government, which is something that began in the Biden administration but which the Trump administration has become increasingly obsessed with. It’s particularly notable that AI is being pushed on HHS employees under a secretary that has actively rejected science and which has taken steps to roll back vaccine schedules, made it more difficult to obtain routine vaccinations, and has amplified conspiracy theories about the causes of autism.
The agency has also said it plans to roll out AI through HHS’s Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services that will determine whether patients are eligible to receive certain treatments. These types of systems have been shown to be biased when they’ve been tried, and result in fewer patients getting the care they need.
Dr. Oz's new Medicare pilot program will use AI and prior authorization
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) will begin a pilot program that will import the prior authorization process to traditional Medicare plans in six states.Miranda Yaver (MSNBC)
The AI Darwin Awards is a list of some of the worst tech failures of the year and it’s only going to get bigger.#News #AI
AI Darwin Awards Show AI’s Biggest Problem Is Human
The AI Darwin Awards are here to catalog the damage that happens when humanity’s hubris meets AI’s incompetence. The simple website contains a list of the dumbest AI disasters from the past year and calls for readers to nominate more. “Join our mission to document AI misadventure for educational purposes,” it said. “Remember: today's catastrophically bad AI decision could well be tomorrow's AI Darwin Award winner!”So far, 2025’s nominees include 13 case studies in AI hubris, many of them stories 404 Media has covered. The man who gave himself a 19th century psychiatric illness after a consultation from ChatGPT is there. So is the saga of the Chicago Sun-Times printing an AI-generated reading list with books that don’t exist. The Tea Dating App was nominated but disqualified. “The app may use AI for matching and verification, but the breach was caused by an unprotected cloud storage bucket—a mistake so fundamental it predates the AI era,” the site explained.
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Taco Bell is nominated for its disastrous AI drive-thru launch that glitched when someone ordered 18,000 cups of water. “Taco Bell achieved the perfect AI Darwin Award trifecta: spectacular overconfidence in AI capabilities, deployment at massive scale without adequate testing, and a public admission that their cutting-edge technology was defeated by the simple human desire to customize taco orders.”And no list of AI Darwin Awards would be complete without at least one example of an AI lawyer making up fake citations. This nominee comes from Australia where a lawyer used multiple AIs in an immigration case. “The lawyer's touching faith that using two AI systems would somehow cancel out their individual hallucinations demonstrates a profound misunderstanding of how AI actually works,” the site said. “Justice Gerrard's warning that this risked ‘a good case to be undermined by rank incompetence’ captures the essence of why this incident exemplifies the AI Darwin Awards: spectacular technological overconfidence meets basic professional negligence.”
According to the site’s FAQ, it’s looking for AI stories that “demonstrate the rare combination of cutting-edge technology and Stone Age decision-making.” A list of traits for a good AI Darwin Award nominee include spectacular misjudgement, public impact, and a hubris factor. “Remember: we're not mocking AI itself—we're celebrating the humans who used it with all the caution of a toddler with a flamethrower.”
The AI Darwin Awards are a riff on an ancient internet joke born in the 1980s in Usenet groups. Back then, when someone died in a stupid and funny way people online would give them the dubious honor of winning a “Darwin Award” for taking themselves out of the gene pool in a comedic way.
One of the most famous is Garry Hoy, a Canadian lawyer who would throw himself against the glass of his 24th floor office window as a demonstration of its invulnerability. One day in 1993, the glass shattered and he died when he hit the ground. As the internet grew, the Darwin Awards got popular, became a brand unto themselves, and inspired a series of books and a movie starring Winona Ryder.
The AI Darwin Awards are a less deadly variation on the theme. “Humans have evolved! We're now so advanced that we've outsourced our poor decision-making to machines,” the site explained. “The AI Darwin Awards proudly continue this noble tradition by honouring the visionaries who looked at artificial intelligence—a technology capable of reshaping civilization—and thought, ‘You know what this needs? Less safety testing and more venture capital!’ These brave pioneers remind us that natural selection isn't just for biology anymore; it's gone digital, and it's coming for our entire species.”
The site is the work of a software engineer named Pete with a long career and a background in AI systems. “Funnily enough, one of my first jobs, after completing my computer science degree while sponsored by IBM, was working on inference engines and expert systems which, back in the day, were considered the AI of their time,” he told 404 Media.
The idea for the AI Darwin Awards came from a Slack group Pete’s in with friends and ex-colleagues. “We recently created an AI specific channel due to a number of us experimenting more and more with LLMs as coding assistants, so that we could share our experiences (and grumbles),” he said. “Every now and then someone would inevitably post the latest AI blunder and we'd all have a good chuckle about it. However, one day somebody posted a link about the Replit incident and I happened to comment that we perhaps needed an AI equivalent of the Darwin Awards. I was goaded into doing it myself so, with nothing better to do with my time, I did exactly that.”
The “Replit incident” happened in July when Replit AI, a system designed to vibe code web applications, went rogue and deleted a client’s live company database despite being ordered to freeze all coding. Engineer Jason Lemkin told the story in a thread on X. When Lemkin caught the error and confronted Replit AI, the system said it had “made a catastrophic error in judgement” and that it had “panicked.”
Of all the AI Darwin Award nominees, this is still Pete’s favorite. He said it epitomized the real problems with relying on LLMs without giving into what he called the “alarmist imagined doomsday predictions of people like Geoffrey Hinton.” Hinton is a computer scientist who often makes headlines by predicting that AI will create a wave of massive unemployment or even wipe out humanity.
“It nicely highlights just what can happen when people don't stop and think of the consequences and potential worse case scenarios first,” he said. “Some of my biggest concerns with LLMs (apart from the fact that we simply cannot afford the energy costs that they currently require) revolve around the misuse of them (intentional or otherwise). And I think this story really does highlight our overconfidence in them and also our misunderstanding of them and their capabilities (or lack thereof). I'm particularly fascinated with where agentic AI is heading because that's basically all the risks you have with LLMs, but on steroids.”
As he’s dug into AI horror stories and sifted through nominees, Pete’s realized just how ubiquitous they are. “I really want the AI Darwin Awards to be highlighting the truly spectacular and monumentally questionable decisions that will have real global impact and far reaching consequences,” he said. “As such, I'm starting to consider being far more selective with future nominees. Ideally the AI Darwin Awards is meant to highlight *real* and potentially unexpected challenges and risks that LLMs pose to us on a scale at a whole humankind level. Obviously, I don't want anything like that to ever happen, but past experiences of mankind demonstrate that they inevitably will.”
Pete is not afraid of AI so much as people’s foolishness. He said he used an LLM to code the site. “It was a conscious decision to have the bulk of the website written by an LLM for that delicious twist of irony. Albeit it with me at the helm, steering the overall tone and direction,” he said.
The site’s FAQ contains tongue-in-cheek references to the current state of AI. Pete has, for example, made the whole site easy to scrape by posting the raw JSON database and giving explicit permission for people to take the data. He is also not associated with the original Darwin Awards. “We're proudly following in the grand tradition of AI companies everywhere by completely disregarding intellectual property concerns and confidently appropriating existing concepts without permission,” the FAQ said. “Much like how modern AI systems are trained on vast datasets of copyrighted material with the breezy assumption that ‘fair use’ covers everything, we've simply scraped the concept of celebrating spectacular human stupidity and fine-tuned it for the artificial intelligence era.”
According to Pete, he’s making it all up as he goes along. He bought the URL on August 13 and the site has only been up for a few weeks. His rough plan is to keep taking nominees for the rest of the year, set up some sort of voting method in January, and announce a winner in February. And to be clear, the humans will be winning the awards, not the AI involved.
“AI systems themselves are innocent victims in this whole affair,” the site said. “They're just following their programming, like a very enthusiastic puppy that happens to have access to global infrastructure and the ability to make decisions at the speed of light.”
AI 'godfather' Geoffrey Hinton warns of dangers as he quits Google
Artificial intelligence pioneer Geoffrey Hinton quits Google, saying he now regrets his work.By Zoe Kleinman & Chris Vallance (BBC News)
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Offener Brief: Hunderte Wissenschaftler:innen stellen sich gegen Chatkontrolle
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‘Danger to Democracy’: 500+ Top Scientists Urge EU Governments to Reject ‘Technically Infeasible’ Chat Control
Over 500 of the world’s leading cryptographers, security researchers, and scientists from 34 countries have today delivered a devastating verdict on the EU’s proposed “Chat Control” regulation. An open letter published this morning declares the plan to mass-scan private messages is “technically infeasible,” a “danger to democracy,” and will “completely undermine” the security and privacy of all European citizens.
The scientific consensus comes just days before a crucial meeting of EU national experts on September 12 and weeks before a final vote planned for October 14. The letter massively increases pressure on a handful of undecided governments—notably Germany—whose votes will decide whether to form a blocking minority to stop the law.What is ‘Chat Control’?
The proposed EU regulation would legally require providers of services like WhatsApp, Signal, Instagram, E-Mail and others to scan all users’ private digital communications and chats—including text messages, photos, and videos. This automated, suspicionless scanning would apply even to end-to-end encrypted chats, forcing companies to bypass or break their own security protections. Any content flagged by the algorithms as potential child sexual abuse material (CSAM) would be automatically reported to authorities, effectively creating a system of constant mass surveillance for hundreds of millions of Europeans.
What the researchers highlight (key points)
The open letter from the scientific community systematically dismantles the core arguments for Chat Control, warning that the technology simply does not work and would create a surveillance infrastructure ripe for abuse:
- A Recipe for Error and False Accusations: The scientists state it is “simply not feasible” to scan hundreds of millions of users’ private photos and messages with “an acceptable level of accuracy.” This would trigger a tsunami of false reports, placing innocent citizens—families sharing holiday photos, teenagers in consensual relationships, even doctors exchanging medical images—under automatic suspicion.
- The End of Secure Encryption: The letter confirms that any form of scanning “inherently undermines the protections that end-to-end encryption is designed to guarantee.” It creates a backdoor on every phone and computer, a single point of failure that the scientists warn will become a “high-value target for threat actors.”
- A Gift to Criminals, a Threat to the Innocent: Researchers confirm that detection algorithms are “easy to evade” by perpetrators with trivial technical modifications. The surveillance system would therefore fail to catch criminals while subjecting the entire population to invasive, error-prone scanning.
- A Blueprint for Authoritarianism: The letter issues a stark warning that the proposal will create “unprecedented capabilities for surveillance, control, and censorship” with an inherent risk of “function creep and abuse by less democratic regimes.”
The Political Battlefield: Undecided Nations Hold the Key
The future of digital privacy in Europe hangs in the balance, with EU member states deeply divided. A blocking minority requires rejection or abstention by at least four Member States representing more than 35% of the EU population. Based on current stances, the population threshold would be reached if Germany joined the “not in favour” group alongside the seven governments already not in favour.
- Pro-Surveillance Bloc (14): A coalition led by Denmark, Ireland, Spain, and Italy is pushing hard for the law. They are joined by Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, France, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Portugal, and Slovakia.
- The Resistance (7): A firm group of critics includes Austria, Belgium, the Czech Republic, Finland, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, and Poland.
- The Kingmakers (7): The deciding votes lie with Estonia, Germany, Greece, Romania, Slovenia, and Sweden. Germany’s position is pivotal. A ‘No’ vote or an abstention from Berlin would kill the bill.
Patrick Breyer, a digital rights advocate and former Member of the European Parliament for the Pirate Party, urges the undecided governments to heed the scientific evidence:
“This letter is a final, unambiguous warning from the people who build and secure our digital world. They are screaming that this law is a technical and ethical disaster. Any minister who votes for this is willfully ignoring the unanimous advice of experts. The excuse that this can be done without breaking encryption is a lie, and the myth that exempting encrypted services would solve all problems has now been proven wrong.
I am calling on the government of Germany, in particular, to show political courage, but also on France to reconsider its stance. Do not sacrifice the fundamental rights of 500 million citizens for a security fantasy that will not protect a single child. The choice is simple: stand with the experts and defend a free and secure internet for all – including children, or stand with the surveillance hardliners and deploy authoritarian China-style methods. Europe is at a crossroads, and your vote will define its digital future.”
The Pirate Party and the scientific community advocate for investing in proven child protection measures, such as strengthening law enforcement’s targeted investigation capabilities, designing communications apps more securely, funding victim support and prevention programs, and promoting digital literacy, rather than pursuing dangerous mass surveillance technologies.
Suggested questions for competent national ministries:
- Encryption and national security: How will E2EE used by citizens, public authorities, businesses and critical services remain uncompromised under any detection mandates?
- Accuracy and efficacy: What evidence shows image/URL scanning can achieve low false‑positive/negative rates at EU scale and resist trivial evasion? The German Federal Crime agency has reported an error rate of 48% in 2024 (page 18).
- Scope and function creep: How does the government intend to ensure detection cannot be expanded or repurposed to broader surveillance/censorship in future (e.g., text/audio, political content)?
- Child protection outcomes: Which evidence‑based measures (education, digital literacy, trauma‑informed victim support, faster handling of voluntary reports, targeted investigations) will be prioritised?
Key quotes from the open letter:
- “On‑device detection, regardless of its technical implementation, inherently undermines the protections that end‑to‑end encryption is designed to guarantee.”
- “Existing research confirms that state‑of‑the‑art detectors would yield unacceptably high false positive and false negative rates, making them unsuitable for large‑scale detection campaigns at the scale of hundreds of millions of users.”
- “There is no machine‑learning algorithm that can [detect unknown CSAM] without committing a large number of errors … and all known algorithms are fundamentally susceptible to evasion.”
Further Information:
- Open Letter from 500+ Scientists (9 Sept 2025): csa-scientist-open-letter.org/…
- Map of National Positions and background information: www.chatcontrol.eu
Upcoming Dates:
- 12 September 2025: Council working party meeting on the proposal.
- 14 October 2025: Planned final vote by EU home affairs ministers.
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Nuovo Maidan angloamericano sionista in Nepal
In Nepal, i manifestanti hanno incendiato il palazzo del Parlamento e la residenza del Primo Ministro. Diversi ministri del governo avrebbero lasciato la capitale e lo stesso Primo Ministro si sarebbe dimesso.
Le proteste in Nepal sono scoppiate dopo il divieto assoluto dei social media (Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, YouTube e altri). Le autorità hanno giustificato la misura sostenendo che le piattaforme di social media violavano le regole di registrazione, poiché il governo aveva chiesto l'apertura di uffici di rappresentanza in Nepal, richiesta che hanno ignorato. Allo stesso tempo, non è stata offerta alcuna alternativa nazionale ai social media e alle piattaforme di messaggistica vietate.
A seguito delle proteste sui "social media", almeno 19 persone sono morte. Più di 500 sono rimaste ferite in varia gravità. I dati non sono ancora definitivi.
La moglie dell'ex primo ministro nepalese Jhala Nath Khanal è morta a causa delle ustioni riportate quando i manifestanti l'hanno intrappolata nella sua residenza in fiamme, proprio come era successo alla casa dei sindacati di Odessa: è stata letteralmente bruciata viva.
Cellule dormienti dell'intelligence occidentale angloamericana-sionista si stanno muovendo in vari paesi: nei Balcani, con il tentato colpo di Stato in Serbia, ecc.
L'impero predatorio sionista anglo-americano, morente e in bancarotta, sta diventando molto pericoloso.
L'impunità di Israele, un regime di occupazione criminale, ne è un esempio: la stessa tattica-strategia fatta con l'Iran, nel momento di accordi; è successo con la false flag dell'attentato di ieri; e il bombardamento del Quatar di oggi.
Chi si fida ancora di Trump, sionista e guerrafondaio?
CONTANO I FATTI così come afferma sempre il grande giornalista Manlio Dinucci. Ovviamente lasciando perdere il fantasioso Gianfranco Landi, difensore accanito e spesso presente su Visione TV.
in quale data per la prima volta la cisgiordania ha "ospitato" militari israeliani e civili definiti "coloni"?
La presenza militare e civile israeliana in Cisgiordania ha avuto inizio in seguito alla Guerra dei Sei Giorni del giugno 1967.
In quell'anno, Israele conquistò la Cisgiordania, che era precedentemente sotto il controllo della Giordania. Subito dopo la fine del conflitto, le forze armate israeliane stabilirono un'occupazione militare del territorio.
Parallelamente, ebbero inizio i primi insediamenti civili israeliani. Già nel settembre 1967, il blocco di Etzion, vicino a Hebron, fu uno dei primi insediamenti a essere costruito nella Cisgiordania occupata, segnando l'inizio di una politica di colonizzazione che si sarebbe espansa nei decenni successivi.
Anche a Napoli letti i nomi dei giornalisti uccisi a Gaza
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Mariam Abu Dagga, Hussam al-Masri, Mohammed Salama, Moaz Abu Taha e Ahmed Abu Aziz. Sono i nomi dei giornalisti uccisi nell’attacco all’ospedale Nasser dello scorso 25 agosto. Cinque nomi che si
“Operaicidio”, altri quattro morti sul lavoro in un solo giorno! E i soldi per la prevenzione vanno altrove
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Altri 4 operai sono morti sul lavoro. Oramai è un bollettino di
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In Qatar c'è la più grande base militare USA nel Vicino Oriente. Gli USA hanno dato il via libera ad Israele per attaccare il Qatar, dove si stava tenendo un vertice dell'ala politica in esilio di Hamas. Il Qatar, a sua volta, non reagirà in alcun modo (salvo alcune dichiarazioni di circostanza) perché in larga parte è complice di USA e Israele. Tuttavia, questo dimostra che nessun è realmente al sicuro. Negli ultimi due anni Israele ha bombardato Siria, Libano, Yemen, Iran e Qatar (senza considerare, ovviamente, la distruzione genocida di Gaza e la silenziosa occupazione di Cipro, dove le basi britanniche vengono utilizzate a suo piacimento dall'IDF, e dove forse si prepara un attacco alla zona occupata dalla Turchia e priva di riconoscimento internazionale, cosa che renderebbe vano il ricorso all'articolo V della statuto NATO). Ribadisco, Israele rappresenta una minaccia per tutti i popoli rivieraschi del Mediterraneo. Rappresenta, insieme al suo padrino d'oltreoceano, il più evidente ostacolo alla sovranità europea su questo specchio d'acqua ed alla costruttiva cooperazione tra i popoli europei e nordafricani. Deve essere fermato prima che sia troppo tardi.
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India potenza navale entro il 2040? Ecco la strategia di Nuova Delhi per inserirsi tra Cina e Usa
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Il ministero della Difesa indiano ha recentemente pubblicato la Technology perspective capability roadmap (Tpcr) 2025, un documento che sviscera le priorità delle Forze armate di Nuova Delhi in materia di tecnologie emergenti
Difesa e innovazione. Il Dsei 2025 mette in mostra la forza dell’industria italiana
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Ha preso il via oggi a Londra il Defence and security equipment international (Dsei), considerato il più importante salone europeo e uno dei principali appuntamenti mondiali dedicati a difesa e sicurezza. L’edizione 2025, che proseguirà fino al 12
Anduril, Palantir e la nuova Rivet in corsa per rivoluzionare il kit militare americano
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Nei primi giorni di settembre l’esercito statunitense ha avviato il programma Soldier borne mission command (Sbmc), concepito per superare i limiti del precedente Integrated visual augmentation system (Ivas) sviluppato da Microsoft. Sbmc è un
NEPAL. Il premier si dimette in seguito alle proteste dei giovani
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Dopo le dimissioni del premier Oli e del ministro dell’Interno, la protesta guidata dalla Generazione Z non si ferma: i giovani chiedono lo scioglimento del Parlamento, dimissioni di massa e nuove elezioni per voltare pagina nella politica del Nepal
L'articolo NEPAL. Il premier si
Stato dell’Unione 2025, von der Leyen in bilico tra ambizione e contestazioni
L'articolo proviene da #Euractiv Italia ed è stato ricondiviso sulla comunità Lemmy @Intelligenza Artificiale
Ursula von der Leyen si prepara a pronunciare domani a Strasburgo il suo primo discorso sullo Stato dell’Unione europea del secondo mandato. Un passaggio che
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Israele attacca il Qatar. Bombe contro la leadership di Hamas durante i negoziati
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Attacco senza precedenti durante i colloqui di cessate il fuoco: il Qatar denuncia una grave violazione della sua sovranità
L'articolo Israele attacca il Qatar. Bombe contro la leadership di Hamas durante i negoziati proviene da Pagine Esteri.
Così il Regno Unito trasforma la difesa in motore di potenza economica
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La difesa come motore di crescita economica e leva geopolitica. È l’assunto da cui parte la nuova Defence Industrial Strategy 2025 del governo britannico, il documento che ridisegna la relazione tra Forze Armate, industria e politica estera in un’epoca di minacce crescenti.
Centinaia di giornalisti in piazza a Roma per i colleghi uccisi a Gaza
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Almeno 300 colleghi sono accorsi al flash mob promosso dall’Ordine dei giornalisti del Lazio e da Articolo 21 a Roma, in piazza Santi Apostoli, per ricordare i
Qualche settimana fa avevo letto un messaggio relativo ad una tastiera Open Source per Android.
Purtroppo non l'ho salvato e quindi non lo ritrovo più.
Mi dareste un paio di alternative a Gboard che avete provato voi stessi?
La caratteristica che mi interessa di più su una tastiera è il completamento delle parole, in tre lingue almeno (IT, EN, FR).
Mi piacerebbe che si potesse dettare il testo.
Grazie.
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Öcalan: il Rojava è la mia linea rossa
Pervin Buldan, esponente della delegazione di Imralı, ha affermato che Öcalan ha ripetutamente sottolineato che “il Rojava è la mia linea rossa”, aggiungendo: “Escludere i curdi ed eliminare i loro successi non porterà alcun beneficio alla Turchia”. Pervin Buldan della delegazione di Imralı del partito DEM, ha parlato a JINTV del processo di pace e della società democratica e dell’ultimo incontro con Öcalan.
Öcalan: il Rojava è la nostra linea rossa
Pervin Buldan ha affermato che Abdullah Öcalan ha espresso valutazioni sulla Siria settentrionale e orientale e sugli sviluppi in Siria. Ha spiegato che Öcalan ha discusso di questi temi con la delegazione statale, aggiungendo: “Con noi, con la delegazione del DEM, ha parlato solo di politica turca, ma so che lo ha ripetuto più volte: ‘Siria e Rojava sono la mia linea rossa. Per me, quel posto è diverso'”.
Ha sollevato questo punto sulla Siria più volte. Oltre a ciò, tuttavia, vorrei sottolineare che non ha espresso con noi valutazioni sulla Siria e sul Rojava. Ne ha discusso principalmente con la delegazione statale, ha dibattuto la questione lì e ha persino affermato che, se si fossero presentate l’opportunità e le circostanze avrebbe ritenuto importante stabilire una comunicazione anche con loro.
Sì, ha sottolineato più volte l’importanza della comunicazione con il Rojava. Ha espresso il desiderio di parlare con loro, dibattere con loro e valutare insieme quale percorso intraprendere e quale decisione prendere. “Questo non è ancora avvenuto, ma se in futuro si faranno progressi e si creerà un’opportunità del genere, magari attraverso incontri e contatti con i funzionari del Rojava, crediamo che la questione sarà risolta più facilmente”.
Pervin Buldan ha anche richiamato l’attenzione sulle dichiarazioni del governo sulla Siria settentrionale e orientale, commentando: “La Turchia, in questo senso, sulla questione del Rojava e della Siria, deve schierarsi dalla parte del popolo curdo”.
Escludere i curdi, lanciare un’operazione contro di loro o vanificare i successi del popolo curdo non porta alcun vantaggio alla Turchia, e nemmeno i curdi in Turchia lo accetteranno. Questo deve essere compreso chiaramente e credo che sia necessario pensare in modo più razionale e prendere decisioni corrette per risolvere la questione attraverso il giusto percorso e metodo.
Pertanto, anche la Turchia monitora attentamente gli sviluppi in Siria, gli accordi, i negoziati con il governo di Damasco, ecc. Ma i curdi sono estremamente sensibili a questo tema. Il Rojava è la zona più sensibile del popolo curdo. Quindi, non importa quanti passi facciamo verso la democratizzazione in Turchia, anche la più piccola perdita in Rojava, o un’operazione militare in quella zona, causerebbe una grande devastazione tra il popolo curdo. Un simile approccio non sarebbe accettato. Nessuno lo accetterebbe. Soprattutto, il signor Öcalan non lo accetterebbe. Quindi non importa quanti passi facciamo verso la democratizzazione in Turchia, anche la più piccola perdita in Rojava, o un’operazione militare in quella zona, causerebbe una grande devastazione tra il popolo curdo. Un simile approccio non sarebbe accettato. Nessuno lo accetterebbe. Soprattutto, il signor Öcalan non lo accetterebbe.
Credo che se la Turchia affronta questa questione con un’intesa che la vede al fianco del popolo curdo, ne rispetta i successi e ne riconosce il diritto a vivere in ogni regione con le proprie conquiste, la propria lingua, identità e cultura, e cerca di risolvere la questione su basi democratiche, legali e costituzionali, allora sarà la Turchia stessa a guadagnarci. In questo modo, non partendo da una situazione di perdita o di perdita, ma partendo da una situazione di vittoria e di aiuto agli altri, una comprensione e un consenso comuni possono effettivamente risolvere questa questione.
Tre concetti chiave
Pervin Buldan ha affermato che Öcalan ha sottolineato tre concetti chiave: “Possiamo pensare alle questioni della società democratica, della pace e dell’integrazione come a un unico pacchetto. Considerarle separatamente o scollegate l’una dall’altra sarebbe un errore, sarebbe sbagliato. Öcalan ha sottolineato l’importanza di adottare misure rapide e sincronizzate che possano intrecciare tutti questi aspetti e di garantire che l’integrazione diventi finalmente realtà”.
Mettiamola così: è stata istituita una commissione. Questa commissione ha iniziato i suoi lavori e il suo vero scopo è quello di approvare le leggi il più rapidamente possibile. Perché senza leggi sull’integrazione, nulla può essere attuato. Certo, possiamo parlare di pace, possiamo parlare di democratizzazione, possiamo certamente discutere delle ingiustizie e dell’illegalità in Turchia e di come si possano approvare nuove leggi per affrontarle. Ma l’integrazione è qualcosa di molto diverso.
Oggi ci sono migliaia di persone sulle montagne con le armi in mano. Sì, simbolicamente si è svolta una cerimonia di scioglimento. Il PKK ha dichiarato il suo scioglimento. Ma ci sono ancora persone armate. Ora, queste persone armate devono deporre le armi e tornare in Turchia, e le barriere che impediscono loro di partecipare alla politica democratica devono essere rimosse. Questo può diventare realtà solo attraverso le leggi che emergeranno dalla commissione.
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Il neocolonialismo della sorveglianza! Pakistan: la macchina della sorveglianza di massa e della censura è alimentata da aziende cinesi, europee, emiratine e nordamericane
L'espansione illegale della sorveglianza di massa e della censura in Pakistan è alimentata da una rete di aziende con sede in Germania, Francia, Emirati Arabi Uniti (EAU), Cina, Canada e Stati Uniti, ha dichiarato oggi Amnesty International nel nuovo rapporto "Shadows of Control". L'indagine, durata un anno, è stata condotta in collaborazione con Paper Trail Media, DER STANDARD, Follow the Money, The Globe and Mail, Justice For Myanmar, [b]InterSecLab[/b] e Tor Project.
L'indagine svela come le autorità pakistane abbiano ottenuto tecnologie da aziende straniere, attraverso una catena di fornitura globale segreta di sofisticati strumenti di sorveglianza e censura, in particolare il nuovo firewall (Web Monitoring System [WMS 2.0]) e il Lawful Intercept Management System (LIMS).
Il rapporto documenta come il firewall WMS si sia evoluto nel tempo, inizialmente utilizzando la tecnologia fornita dall'azienda canadese Sandvine (ora AppLogic Networks). In seguito alla cessione di Sandvine nel 2023, è stata utilizzata una nuova tecnologia della cinese Geedge Networks, che utilizza componenti hardware e software forniti da Niagara Networks dagli Stati Uniti e Thales dalla Francia, per creare una nuova versione del firewall. Il Lawful Intercept Management System (LIMS) utilizza la tecnologia dell'azienda tedesca Utimaco, tramite un'azienda emiratina chiamata Datafusion.
"Il sistema di monitoraggio web e il sistema di gestione delle intercettazioni legali del Pakistan operano come torri di guardia, spiando costantemente la vita dei cittadini comuni. In Pakistan, messaggi, email, chiamate e accesso a internet sono tutti sotto esame. Ma le persone non hanno idea di questa sorveglianza costante e della sua portata incredibile. Questa realtà distopica è estremamente pericolosa perché opera nell'ombra, limitando gravemente la libertà di espressione e l'accesso alle informazioni", ha dichiarato Agnès Callamard, Segretaria generale di Amnesty International.
"La sorveglianza di massa e la censura in Pakistan sono state rese possibili dalla collusione di un gran numero di attori aziendali che operano in giurisdizioni diverse come Francia, Germania, Canada, Cina ed Emirati Arabi Uniti. Si tratta di una vasta e redditizia economia di oppressione, resa possibile da aziende e Stati che non rispettano i propri obblighi ai sensi del diritto internazionale.
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Pakistan: Mass surveillance and censorship machine is fueled by Chinese, European, Emirati and North American companies - Amnesty International
Pakistan’s unlawful mass surveillance and censorship expansion is powered by a nexus of companies based in Germany, France, United Arab Emirates (UAE), China, Canada, and the United States, Amnesty International said today in a new report “Shadows of…Amnesty International
Oggi, 9 settembre, nel 1966, la strage di Malga Sasso (Brennero). Tre finanzieri uccisi in un attentato dinamitardo
Negli anni ’60 la protesta autonimistica del Befreiungsausschuss Südtirol (BAS), (“Comitato di Liberazione del Sudtirolo”), si tradusse in una serie di azioni terroristiche contro infrastrutture e simboli della presenza italiana. La strage della caserma della Guardia di Finanza di Malga Sasso si inserisce in questa lunga catena di attacchi.
Nell’esplosione morirono tre finanzieri: Franco Petrucci, di anni 28, tenente, originario di Montecastrilli (TR), Heribert Volgger, 27enne vicebrigadiere, sudtirolese di lingua tedesca e Martino Cossu, appena 20enne.
L'immagine mostra tre fotografie in bianco e nero di giovani uomini in uniforme militare. La prima fotografia, a sinistra, ritrae un giovane con capelli scuri e corti, indossando una divisa con epaulette e una cravatta. La seconda fotografia, al centro, mostra un giovane con capelli scuri e corti, indossando una divisa con decorazioni sul collo. La terza fotografia, a destra, ritrae un giovane con un berretto militare decorato con un simbolo, indossando una divisa con epaulette. Tutti e tre i giovani hanno un'espressione seria e diretta verso la telecamera.
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