The Great ADS1115 Pricing and Sourcing Mystery
Following up on the recent test of a set of purported ADS1115 ADCs sourced from Amazon [James Bowman] didn’t just test a genuine Ti part, but also dug into some of the questions that came up after the first article. As expected, the AdaFruit board featuring a presumed genuine Ti ADS1115 part performed very well, even performing significantly better on the tested parameters than the datasheet guarantees.
Thus we can confirm that when you get the genuine Ti part, you can expect very good and reliable performance for your ADC purposes. Which leaves the unaddressed questions about what these cheapo Amazon-sourced ADS1115 ICs are, and how it can be that LCSC has what should be the same parts for so much cheaper than US distributors?
As far as LCSC pricing is concerned, these are likely to be genuine parts, but also the subject of what is known as price discrimination. This involves pricing the same product differently depending on the targeted market segment, with e.g. Digikey customers assumed to be okay with paying more to get the brand name assurance and other assumed perks.
Regarding the cheapo parts off Amazon, these could be QA failed parts, ‘third shift’ or other grey zone parts being sold for less, as well as outright fakes. The Analogy ADX111 for example is basically a drop-in clone of the ADS1115, down to parts of the datasheet, with the heading image showing a section to compare the two. Interestingly, the ADX111 is sold for $1.77 in 1,000 quantities on LCSC.
Ultimately it’s hard to tell the true origin of the ‘ADS1115’ ICs on one of these cheap boards. They could have fallen off a genuine ADS1115 production line, be QA failed ADX111 parts or something else entirely. Without decapping a few samples and further in-depth research we’ll likely never know.
Yet as some already commented, does it truly matter? You get the cheapo parts when you’re just screwing around with a prototype rather than splurging for the gold-plated AdaFruit version, and source from LCSC or Digikey when it’s time for PCBA. In the end everyone is happy, even without knowing whether it’s truly meat a Ti part that we’re using.
Rights remain under attack by ICE
Dear Friend of Press Freedom,
It’s been 213 days since Rümeysa Öztürk was arrested for co-writing an op-ed. Read on for news from Illinois and California, and tips on how to limit exposing your location.
Rights remain under attack by immigration officers
Freedom of the Press Foundation (FPF) is helping communities in California and Illinois fight back against attacks on the press during the recent immigration crackdowns. Our deputy director of advocacy, Adam Rose, joined the American Constitution Society, the Center for Media and Democracy, and Common Cause for a briefing about federal immigration officers’ recent attacks on the press, as well as efforts to fight back in court in both Chicago, Illinois, and Los Angeles, California. Journalists in both cities were able to obtain court injunctions ordering law enforcement to stop targeting the press. Rose is also the press freedom chair for the Los Angeles Press Club, one of the plaintiffs in the LA court case.
Unfortunately, those orders have not stopped U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s rampage against the First Amendment. Rose cited repeated violations of journalists’ rights during “No Kings” protests in LA this weekend, even after LA’s city council ordered lawyers to withdraw a ridiculous motion seeking to lift the injunction.
And yesterday, the Chicago plaintiffs filed a notice with the court that agents violated the order by assaulting and attempting to seize a phone from a bystander exercising her right to record their operations. Another notice flags video of top Border Patrol official Gregory Bovino tossing a tear gas canister into a crowd as if he’s throwing out a ceremonial first pitch. These are just a couple of several violations they’ve raised with the court.
Help us fight for private prison transparency
ICE’s network of for-profit detention facilities is expanding rapidly under the Trump administration. Even though these private facilities hold human beings in federal custody under federal law, they operate in secret and are not subject to the Freedom of Information Act. That needs to change.
Use our action center to tell your member of Congress that FOIA should apply to private facilities. And for more on FOIA — particularly, how to use it during a government shutdown — read the latest issue of our secrecy newsletter, The Classifieds.
Write to your member of Congress here.
Deported journalist speaks out from El Salvador
Earlier this month, the Trump administration deported journalist Mario Guevara following his June arrest while livestreaming a protest. The government proceeded with the deportation despite Guevara’s work permit and even though the baseless charges against him were dropped, arguing that his livestreaming law enforcement presents a “safety threat.”
This week, the U.S. Press Freedom Tracker, a project of FPF, interviewed Guevara from El Salvador. “It’s not the way I want to come back to my country — deported like a criminal,” he told the Tracker’s Briana Erickson. “I was frustrated, but until the last minute, I still had the hope to stay in the United States because I believe in the justice of the country.
“I was the first one, but I don’t think I will be the only one,” he added.
How to limit exposing your location
Not every journalist needs to worry about location tracking — but when it matters, it really matters.
Our digital security team’s latest guide helps you assess when location tracking risks apply to your work — and what steps you can take to mitigate those risks when they do. Read it here.
What we’re reading
The press leaves the Pentagon (Columbia Journalism Review). The Pentagon’s demand that reporters surrender their right to publish news in exchange for access to press conferences is “a classic case of unconstitutional prior restraint,” FPF’s Seth Stern told CJR.
Judge orders ex-police chief who led raid on Kansas newspaper to stand trial for deleted texts (Kansas Reflector). Yes, deleting those texts was a crime, but this reminds us of prosecuting Al Capone for tax evasion. The former police chief has done a lot worse, like illegally raiding the Marion County Record’s newsroom and its publisher’s home, likely resulting in co-owner Joan Meyer’s death.
He tracked and posted videos of ICE raids in LA. Now this TikTok streamer is in federal custody (Los Angeles Times). Carlitos Ricardo Parias, who documented immigration raids, was shot during an altercation with immigration officers and is now in federal custody. FPF’s Rose explained to the Los Angeles Times that the First Amendment protects everyone’s right to record law enforcement, from journalists to cop watchers.
The secretive office approving Trump’s boat strikes (The New York Times). We shouldn’t have to guess what the law is. The Justice Department must release its memo authorizing these deadly strikes.
Disney+ cancellations surged as boycotts for Jimmy Kimmel’s suspension kicked in — here’s how big the spike was (Business Insider). Censorship is bad for America and bad for business. When companies stifle free expression, customers will take their money elsewhere.
Upcoming events
Oct. 29: FPF’s Caitlin Vogus will join an online panel of experts to break down how the Federal Communications Commission and Federal Trade Commission are targeting journalists and the First Amendment, and how to fight back. Register here for the Center for Democracy and Technology’s Future of Speech Online 2025, “Working the Refs” panel on Oct. 29 at 12:10 p.m. EDT.
That same day, join us for a conversation about making public records-based reporting free, featuring Vogus as well as our Chair on Government Secrecy Lauren Harper, in conversation with leadership at Wired and 404 Media, including Wired Global Editorial Director and FPF board member Katie Drummond. The event starts at 2 p.m. EDT; RSVP on Zoom here.
Oct. 30: Join an online discussion on Oct. 30 at 1 p.m. EDT about digital safety and legal rights for journalists reporting on immigration in the U.S., featuring FPF Director of Digital Security Harlo Holmes and several other experts from the U.S. Journalist Assistance Network. Register here.
Making a Cardboard Airplane Wing
Ideally, an aircraft would be made of something reasonably strong, light, and weather resistant. Cardboard, is none of those things. But that did not stop [PeterSripol] from building an ultralight wing out of cardboard.
Firstly, he wanted to figure out the strongest orientation of the cardboard flutes for the wing spars. He decided on a mix of horizontal and vertical flutes for the wing spar, with the horizontal flutes resisting vertical deformations and the vertical flutes resisting chord wise deformations.
The main spar is made up of two long strips of these cardboard pieces, glued together with a single sheet of cardboard on the top and bottom to create a structural beam. Unfortunately, the glue had not fully dried on one of the sheets before making the spar resulting in the final spar warping. Fortunately, the first wing was always intended to be tested to destruction. The wing’s ribs are made of laser cut cardboard, with doublers on the inside providing greater surface area for hot glue and a stronger rib.
Testing revealed the aft wing spar failed around 200 lbs, approximately equivalent to a 2G wing loading with a fully weighted aircraft. Since the aft wing spar broke, for the final production wings, that spar was reinforced with an separate piece of cardboard positioned perpendicular to the spar creating more of an I beam shape.
After the lessons learned from the cardboard flute orientation tests and the first wing destruction, the two wings for the final ultralight could be built. Minor changes were made from the prototype wing. After testing one wing to 150 pounds of loading, they were skinned in butcher paper to match the esthetic of cardboard. The wings came out weighing 21.8 lbs, more then ideal, but certainly workable for a single flight ultralight aircraft.
We look forward to seeing this plane fly, so stay tuned for more coverage! While you wait, make sure to check out his previous ultralight build!
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RFF20. La Petite Cuisine de Mehdi: Il gusto amaro della doppia vita, tra couscous e crème brûlée
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Una riflessione profonda sul conflitto di identità proposta con leggerezza in una
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Anthropic (contesa da Amazon) si affida ai microchip di Google
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Anthropic annuncia un nuovo accordo multimiliardario per utilizzare i microchip proprietari di Google. Anche un'altra "big tech", Amazon, ha grandi progetti per la startup di intelligenza startmag.it/innovazione/anthro…
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The Canadian Centre for Child Protection found more than 120 images of identified or known victims of CSAM in the dataset.
The Canadian Centre for Child Protection found more than 120 images of identified or known victims of CSAM in the dataset.#News
AI Dataset for Detecting Nudity Contained Child Sexual Abuse Images
A large image dataset used to develop AI tools for detecting nudity contains a number of images of child sexual abuse material (CSAM), according to the Canadian Centre for Child Protection (C3P).The NudeNet dataset, which contains more than 700,000 images scraped from the internet, was used to train an AI image classifier which could automatically detect nudity in an image. C3P found that more than 250 academic works either cited or used the NudeNet dataset since it was available download from Academic Torrents, a platform for sharing research data, in June 2019.
“A non-exhaustive review of 50 of these academic projects found 13 made use of the NudeNet data set, and 29 relied on the NudeNet classifier or model,” C3P said in its announcement.
C3P found more than 120 images of identified or known victims of CSAM in the dataset, including nearly 70 images focused on the genital or anal area of children who are confirmed or appear to be pre-pubescent. “In some cases, images depicting sexual or abusive acts involving children and teenagers such as fellatio or penile-vaginal penetration,” C3P said.
People and organizations that downloaded the dataset would have no way of knowing it contained CSAM unless they went looking for it, and most likely they did not, but having those images on their machines would be technically criminal.
“CSAM is illegal and hosting and distributing creates huge liabilities for the creators and researchers. There is also a larger ethical issue here in that the victims in these images have almost certainly not consented to have these images distributed and used in training,” Hany Farid, a professor at UC Berkeley and one of the world’s leading experts on digitally manipulated images, told me in an email. Farid also developed PhotoDNA, a widely used image-identification and content filtering tool. “Even if the ends are noble, they don’t justify the means in this case.”
“Many of the AI models used to support features in applications and research initiatives have been trained on data that has been collected indiscriminately or in ethically questionable ways. This lack of due diligence has led to the appearance of known child sexual abuse and exploitation material in these types of datasets, something that is largely preventable,” Lloyd Richardson, C3P's director of technology, said.
Academic Torrents removed the dataset after C3P issued a removal notice to its administrators.
"In operating Canada's national tipline for reporting the sexual exploitation of children we receive information or tips from members of the public on a daily basis," Richardson told me in an email. "In the case of the NudeNet image dataset, an individual flagged concerns about the possibility of the dataset containing CSAM, which prompted us to look into it more closely."
C3P’s findings are similar to 2023 research from Stanford University’s Cyber Policy Center, which found that LAION-5B, one of the largest datasets powering AI-generated images, also contained CSAM. The organization that manages LAION-5B removed it from the internet following that report and only shared it again once it had removed the offending images.
"These image datasets, which have typically not been vetted, are promoted and distributed online for hundreds of researchers, companies, and hobbyists to use, sometimes for commercial pursuits," Richardson told me. "By this point, few are considering the possible harm or exploitation that may underpin their products. We also can’t forget that many of these images are themselves evidence of child sexual abuse crimes. In the rush for innovation, we’re seeing a great deal of collateral damage, but many are simply not acknowledging it — ultimately, I think we have an obligation to develop AI technology in responsible and ethical ways."
Update: This story has been updated with comment from Lloyd Richardson.
Largest Dataset Powering AI Images Removed After Discovery of Child Sexual Abuse Material
The model is a massive part of the AI-ecosystem, used by Stable Diffusion and other major generative AI products.Samantha Cole (404 Media)
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Tiny UPS Keeps WiFi Online
For any mission-critical computer system, it’s a good idea to think about how the system will handle power outages. At the very least it’s a good idea to give the computer enough time to gracefully shut down if the power outage will last for an indefinite time. But for extremely critical infrastructure, like our home Wi-Fi, we might consider a more long-term battery backup that can let us get through the longest of power outages.
Part of why this project from [ ] works so well is that most off-the-shelf routers don’t actually use that much energy. Keeping that and a modem online when the power is out only requires a few lithium batteries. To that end, three lithium ion cells are arranged in series to provide the router with between 9 and 12 volts, complete with a battery management system (BMS) to ensure they aren’t over- or under-charged and that they are balanced. The router plugs directly into a barrel jack, eliminating any switching losses from having to use an inverter during battery operation.
While [ ] is a student who lives in an area with frequent interruptions to the electricity supply, this does a good job of keeping him online. If you’re planning for worse or longer outages, a design like this is easily adapted for more batteries provided the correct BMS is used to keep the cells safely charged and regulated. You can also adapt much larger UPS systems to power more of your home’s electrical system, provided you can find enough batteries.
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The Isetta TTL Computer Makes Some Noise
Our Hackaday colleague [Bil Herd] is known for being the mind behind the Commodore 128, a machine which famously had both a 6502 and a Z80 processor on board. The idea of a machine which could do the job of both those processors in hardware while containing neither would have blown the mind of any 1980s computer enthusiast, yet that’s exactly what [Roelh]’s Isetta TTL computer does. It’s an extremely clever design whose targeted microcode allows the processor-swap trick, and since he’s brought it from prototype to production and has it running SymbOS since we last saw it, it’s time we gave it another look.
The video below the break shows the machine in action, with the Windows 95-like SymbOS GUI running a series of sound tests in the emulated AY-3-8910 sound generator, as well as a Lemmings-like game. It also runs Sinclair ZX Spectrum software, giving it access to a huge library.
We were lucky enough to see some of this in person when we encountered it for a second time on our travels during the summer — and it’s just as impressive in the real as it looks in the video. The feeling really hits you of how this would have blown away anything on the 8-bit market in 1985, made more impressive by the silicon in use being not too far from what was available at the time.
We’re told you can now buy one for yourself as a kit, and we’re looking forward to seeing it generate an ecosystem. We’re particularly curious as to whether that retargetable microcode could allow it to support other archetctures of the day.
Our original coverage can be read here, and we’ve also touched upon SymbOS.
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Andreessen Horowitz is funding a company that clearly violates the inauthentic behavior policies of every major social media platform.#News #AI #a16z
a16z-Backed Startup Sells Thousands of ‘Synthetic Influencers’ to Manipulate Social Media as a Service
A new startup backed by one of the biggest venture capital firms in Silicon Valley, Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), is building a service that allows clients to “orchestrate actions on thousands of social accounts through both bulk content creation and deployment.” Essentially, the startup, called Doublespeed, is pitching an astroturfing AI-powered bot service, which is in clear violation of policies for all major social media platforms.“Our deployment layer mimics natural user interaction on physical devices to get our content to appear human to the algorithims [sic],” the company’s site says. Doublespeed did not respond to a request for comment, so we don’t know exactly how its service works, but the company appears to be pitching a service designed to circumvent many of the methods social media platforms use to detect inauthentic behavior. It uses AI to generate social media accounts and posts, with a human doing 5 percent of “touch up” work at the end of the process.
On a podcast earlier this month, Doublespeed cofounder Zuhair Lakhani said that the company uses a “phone farm” to run AI-generated accounts on TikTok. So-called “click farms” often use hundreds of mobile phones to fake online engagement of reviews for the same reason. Lakhani said one Doublespeed client generated 4.7 million views in less than four weeks with just 15 of its AI-generated accounts.
“Our system analyzes what works to make the content smarter over time. The best performing content becomes the training data for what comes next,” Doublespeed’s site says. Doublespeed also says its service can create slightly different variations of the same video, saying “1 video, 100 ways.”“Winners get cloned, not repeated. Take proven content and spawn variation. Different hooks, formats, lengths. Each unique enough to avoid suppression,” the site says.
One of Doublespeed's AI influencers
Doublespeed allows clients to use its dashboard for between $1,500 and $7,500 a month, with more expensive plans allowing them to generate more posts. At the $7,500 price, users can generate 3,000 posts a month.The dashboard I was able to access for free shows users can generate videos and “carousels,” which is a slideshow of images that are commonly posted to Instagram and TikTok. The “Carousel” tab appears to show sample posts for different themes. One, called “Girl Selfcare” shows images of women traveling and eating at restaurants. Another, called “Christian Truths/Advice” shows images of women who don’t show their face and text that says things like “before you vent to your friend, have you spoken to the Holy Spirit? AHHHHHHHHH”
On the company’s official Discord, one Doublespeed staff member explained that the accounts the company deploys are “warmed up” on both iOS and Android, meaning the accounts have been at least slightly used, in order to make it seem like they are not bots or brand new accounts. Doublespeed cofounder Zuhair Lakhani also said on the Discord that users can target their posts to specific cities and that the service currently only targets TikTok but that it has internal demos for Instagram and Reddit. Lakhani said Doublespeed doesn’t support “political efforts.”A Reddit spokesperson told me that Doublespeed’s service would violate its terms of service. TikTok, Meta, and X did not respond to a request for comment.
Lakhani said Doublespeed has raised $1 million from a16z as part of its “Speedrun” accelerator program “a fast‐paced, 12-week startup program that guides founders through every critical stage of their growth.”
Marc Andreessen, after whom half of Andreessen Horowitz is named, also sits on Meta’s board of directors. Meta did not immediately respond to our question about one of its board members backing a company that blatantly aims to violate its policy on “authentic identity representation.”
What Doublespeed is offering is not that different than some of the AI generation tools Jason has covered that produce a lot of the AI-slop flooding social media already. It’s also similar, but a more blatant version of an app I covered last year which aimed to use social media manipulation to “shape reality.” The difference here is that it has backing from one of the biggest VC firms in the world.
AI-Powered Social Media Manipulation App Promises to 'Shape Reality'
A prototype app called Impact describes “A Volunteer Fire Department For The Digital World,” which would summon real people to copy and paste AI-generated talking points on social media.Emanuel Maiberg (404 Media)
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Per anni si è detto che nella storia della Sicilia vi fosse un prima ed un dopo, racchiuso in una data: 6 gennaio 1980. La data dell’uccisione di uno dei politici migliori e perbene della mia Terra, Piersanti Mattarella. È uno sbaglio. Quella data ha dentro una storia – che ho
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This week, we discuss Pavlovian Chartbeat response, when to say "cum," and the wave of making things for humans, by humans.#BehindTheBlog
Behind the Blog: Making Things for Humans
This is Behind the Blog, where we share our behind-the-scenes thoughts about how a few of our top stories of the week came together. This week, we discuss Pavlovian Chartbeat response, when to say "cum," and the wave of making things for humans, by humans.JOSEPH: Right now I’m in the midst of upgrading a bunch of my podcasting and related gear. I’m using the same kinda cheap to midrange web cam I got when we first launched 404 Media. My mic is fine but now that a fair number of people listen to the pod, and we want to grow it, it’s time to invest in some new tech. Jason has already done this, I’m more following his lead. I used to be very into cameras, tech, gadgets, mics, but it’s been a few years.
Because the four of us are spread all over, we can’t do the popular aesthetic of everyone sitting on a chair or sofa chatting in a podcast studio. That stuff obviously performs better on video/YouTube, which is where podcast discovery often happens now. But we can try to make our remotely recorded podcast look as good as we can. Give people something to actually look at.
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Deep, la scommessa subacquea di Fincantieri tra AI, droni e sicurezza
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Nella profondità dei fondali si gioca una parte crescente della sicurezza globale, tra reti energetiche, infrastrutture, comunicazioni e servizi essenziali per la vita di tutti. È in questo scenario che Fincantieri ha presentato Deep, un sistema di droni subacquei integrati con intelligenza artificiale e controllo digitale.
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Mi hanno spedito un pacco con UPS, al mio indirizzo di casa. Vorrei cambiare l'indirizzo e farlo depositare ad un UPS Point, tanto me lo consegneranno sicuramente quando non sono a casa quindi meglio farlo andare lì e poi me lo vado a prendere con calma.
Vado sul sito UPS, l'opzione è disponibile, scelgo quindi di ricevere il pacco presso un UPS Point. Il sito mi propone quello più vicino a casa ma c'è anche una mappa con tutti gli altri in zona, scelgo quello che per me è più comodo.
Nella pagine del riepilogo finale, prima di confermare il cambiamento di destinazione, trovo scritto l'UPS Point più vicino a casa.
Rifaccio e rifaccio e rifaccio la procedura, niente, nonostante io scelga sempre quell'UPS Point alla fine della procedura mi ricompare sempre l'UPS più vicino a casa.
Chiedo assistenza, mi risponde il cretino digitale in chat che ovviamente non capisce nulla.
Dai e dai riesco a farmi dare un numero di telefono, mi risponde un cretino digitale sotto forma di voce registrata che mi fa le domande del caso poi ad un certo punto mi fa una domanda a cui rispondo "sì". Non capisce e mi chiede di ripetere, ripeto "sì" (da notare che fino a quel punto ci ero arrivato, quindi la parte prima l'aveva capita bene).
A questo punto comincia a parlare in inglese, ma non in inglese-inglese... sono frasi inglesi ma pronunciate come se le leggesse in italiano, e quindi diventano incomprensibili.
Niente, rinuncio.
Però che bello il servizio assistenza di UPS... proprio roba di qualità.
#UPS
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è il bello dell'era dell'IA, si pensa che gli esseri umani non servano più.
Prova con Bartolini e fammi sapere 😐
Hackaday Podcast Episode 343: Double Component Abuse, a Tinkercad Twofer, and a Pair of Rants
This week, Hackaday’s Elliot Williams and Kristina Panos met up across the universe to bring you the latest news, mystery sound, and of course, a big bunch of hacks from the previous seven days or so.
On What’s That Sound, Kristina failed spectacularly. Will you fare better and perhaps win a Hackaday Podcast t-shirt? Mayhap you will.
After that, it’s on to the hacks and such, beginning with a really cool entry into the Component Abuse Challenge wherein a simple transmission line is used to multiply a voltage. We watch as a POV globe takes to the skies, once it has enough motors.
Then we discuss several awesome hacks such as an incredible desk that simulates beehive activity, a really great handheld PC build, and a Tinkercad twofer. Finally, we discuss the future of removable batteries, and the history of movable type.
Check out the links below if you want to follow along, and as always, tell us what you think about this episode in the comments!
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Interesting Hacks of the Week:
- 2025 Component Abuse Challenge: Boosting Voltage With Just A Wire
- 2025 Component Abuse Challenge: Conductive Filament Makes A Meltable Fuse
- POV Globe Takes To The Skies
- Classy Desk Simulates Beehive Activity
- What Happened To Running What You Wanted On Your Own Machine?
- Handheld PC Build Is Pleasantly Chunky
Quick Hacks:
- Elliot’s Picks:
- Open Source Hack Lets The Razer Nari Headset Work With Linux
- Making A Clock With A Retooled Unihiker K10
- Tinkercad In Color
- Tinkercad Continues To Grow Up
- Kristina’s Picks:
- Building A Minecraft Lantern For Halloween
- Kitchen Bench Splash Guard Powered By Arduino
- 2025 Component Abuse Challenge: Nail Your Next Decal
Can’t-Miss Articles:
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Microreattori e sicurezza nazionale. La scommessa del Pentagono
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Basi militari americane alimentati in territorio (continentale) statunitense da small modular reactors entro l’autunno del 2028. È l’obiettivo del Janus Program, iniziativa congiunta del Dipartimento della Guerra e del Dipartimento dell’Energia annunciata dal segretario dell’Esercito Daniel P.
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There is no evidence the Instagram and Facebook account, called Montcowatch, sells anything. Lawyers from the ACLU say the move is "wild outside the scope" of DHS' authority.
There is no evidence the Instagram and Facebook account, called Montcowatch, sells anything. Lawyers from the ACLU say the move is "wild outside the scope" of DHSx27; authority.#ICE #DHS
DHS Tries To Unmask Ice Spotting Instagram Account by Claiming It Imports Merchandise
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is trying to force Meta to unmask the identity of the people behind Facebook and Instagram accounts that post about Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) activity, arrests, and sightings by claiming the owners of the account are in violation of a law about the “importation of merchandise.” Lawyers fighting the case say the move is “wildly outside the scope of statutory authority,” and say that DHS has not even indicated what merchandise the accounts, called Montcowatch, are supposedly importing.“There is no conceivable connection between the ‘MontCo Community Watch’ Facebook or Instagram accounts and the importation of any merchandise, nor is there any indicated on the face of the Summonses. DHS has no authority to issue these summonses,” lawyers with the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) wrote in a court filing this month. There is no indication on either the Instagram or Facebook account that the accounts are selling any type of merchandise, according to 404 Media’s review of the accounts. “The Summonses include no substantiating allegations nor any mention of a specific crime or potential customs violation that might trigger an inquiry under the cited statute,” the lawyers add.
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Do you know anything else about this case or others like it? We would love to hear from you. Using a non-work device, you can message Joseph securely on Signal at joseph.404 or Jason at jason.404A judge temporarily blocked DHS from unmasking the owners last week.
“The court now orders Meta [...] not to produce any documents or information in response to the summonses at issue here without further order of the Court,” the judge wrote in a filing. The move to demand data from Meta about the identities of the accounts while citing a customs statute shows the lengths to which DHS is willing to go to attempt to shut down and identify people who are posting about ICE’s activities.
Montcowatch is, as the name implies, focused on ICE activity in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. Its Instagram posts are usually titled “Montco ICE alert” and include details such as where suspected ICE agents and vehicles were spotted, where suspected agents made arrests, or information about people who were detained. “10/20/25 Eagleville,” one post starts. “Suspected dentention [sic] near Ollies on Ridge Pike sometime before 7:50 am. 3 Agents and 3 Vehicles were observed.”
The Instagram account has been posting since June, and also posts information about peoples’ legal rights to film law enforcement. It also tells people to not intervene or block ICE. None of the posts currently available on the Instagram account could reasonably be described as doxing or harassing ICE officials.
On September 11, DHS demanded Meta provide identifying details on the owners of the Montcowatch accounts, according to court records. That includes IP addresses used to access the account, phone numbers on file, and email addresses, the court records add. DHS cited a law “focused on customs investigations relating to merchandise,” according to a filing from the ACLU that pushed to have the demands thrown out.
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“The statute at issue here, 19 U.S.C. § 1509, confers limited authority to DHS in customs investigations to seek records related to the importation of merchandise, including the assessment of customs duties,” the ACLU wrote. “Identifying anonymous social media users critical of DHS is not a legitimate purpose, and it is not relevant to customs enforcement.” As the ACLU notes, a cursory look at the accounts shows they are “not engaged in commerce.” The court record points to an 2017 Office of the Inspector General report which says Customs and Border Protection (CBP) “regularly” tried much the same thing with its own legal demands, and specifically around the identity of an anonymous Twitter user.“Movant now files this urgent motion to protect their identity from being exposed to a government agency that is apparently targeting their ‘community watch’ Facebook and Instagram accounts for doing nothing more than exercising their rights to free speech and association,” those lawyers and others wrote last week.
“Movant’s social media pages lawfully criticize and publicize DHS and the government agents who Movant views as wreaking havoc in the Montgomery County community by shining a light on that conduct to raise community members’ awareness,” they added.
The judge has not yet ruled on the ACLU’s motion to quash the demands altogether. This is a temporary blockage while that case continues.
The Montocowatch case follows other instances in which DHS has tried to compel Meta to identify the owners of similar accounts. Last month a judge temporarily blocked a subpoena that was aiming to unmask Instagram accounts that named a Border Patrol agent, The Intercept reported.
Earlier this month Meta took down a Facebook page that published ICE sightings in Chicago. The move came in direct response to pressure from the Department of Justice.
Both Apple and Google have removed apps that people use to warn others about ICE sightings. Those removals also included an app called Eyes Up that was focused more on preserving videos of ICE abuses. Apple’s moves also came after direct pressure from the Department of Justice.
Montcowatch directed a request for comment to the ACLU of Pennsylvania, which did not immediately respond.
Courts Block Meta From Sharing Anti-ICE Activists’ Instagram Account Info With Feds
For now, Meta cannot disclose to federal investigators the identities of Instagram users who named and shamed a Border Patrol agent.Shawn Musgrave (The Intercept)
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Obesità, il presidente di Aifa Robert Nisticò a TPI: “La prevenzione è un dovere dello Stato”
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Presidente Nisticò, con l’approvazione della Legge Pella, l’Italia è il primo e unico Paese al mondo ad avere una norma per la prevenzione e la cura dell’obesità. Cosa comporta? «L’obesità è una vera e propria malattia, molto
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Chi teme le indagini su Mattarella? Incendiata la sede di “42 Parallelo” a Roma
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Il deputato di Forza Italia Roberto Pella a TPI: “La mia legge contro l’obesità? Pensa al domani”
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On. Pella, l’Italia è il primo Paese al mondo a riconoscere l’obesità come malattia, grazie alla legge recentemente approvata di cui Lei è il primo firmatario. «È un motivo di grande soddisfazione. Indubbiamente a ognuno di noi fa piacere
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DSA: EU-Kommission bemängelt Verstöße bei Instagram, Facebook und TikTok
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Traffico illegale di gas fluorurati ad effetto serra stoppato in Spagna
Sono state le informazioni fornite dall'Ufficio europeo per la lotta antifrode (#OLAF) a consentire il sequestro di 12.000 kg di gas fluorurati illegali nel sud-est della Spagna. Le autorità spagnole hanno confiscato un camion con bombole, del valore di circa 413.000 euro, nella provincia spagnola di Alicante. L'OLAF ha monitorato da vicino il traffico internazionale di gas fluorurati ad effetto serra verso l'UE da paesi terzi.
L'intelligence condivisa con il Servizio di Sorveglianza Doganale dell'Agenzia delle Entrate spagnola (AEAT) e le sue unità operative di Catalogna, Valencia e Alicante ha evidenziato un movimento sospetto di gas fluorurati diretti in Africa.
Le autorità spagnole sono riuscite a intercettare il camion contenente i gas fluorurati in un magazzino di Alicante, dove venivano scaricate bombole di gas refrigerante con l'obiettivo di immagazzinarle e successivamente distribuirle utilizzando furgoni a noleggio più piccoli.
Gas fluorurati e preoccupazioni ambientali
I gas fluorurati sono soggetti a quote rigorose e a una riduzione graduale ai sensi delle normative ambientali dell’UE a causa del loro impatto significativo sul riscaldamento globale. La spedizione sequestrata proveniva da paesi extra-UE e l’OLAF, in collaborazione con le autorità nazionali, sta lavorando per interrompere le reti illegali che trafficano questi potenti gas serra in Europa.
Mentre l’UE applica norme sempre più rigorose sull’uso e l’importazione di gas fluorurati, il mercato nero di questi gas si è ampliato. Dispositivi come condizionatori d’aria e sistemi di refrigerazione industriale, che si basano sui gas fluorurati, stanno alimentando questo commercio illegale. L'OLAF resta in prima linea negli sforzi volti a proteggere l'integrità ambientale dell'UE reprimendo il traffico illegale di gas fluorurati.
La missione dell'OLAF è individuare, indagare e fermare gli illeciti relativi ai fondi dell'UE.
Nella sua funzione investigativa indipendente, l'OLAF può indagare su questioni relative a frode, corruzione e irregolarità che ledono gli interessi finanziari dell'UE riguardanti: \
• tutta la spesa dell'UE: le principali categorie di spesa sono i Fondi strutturali, la politica agricola e i fondi per lo sviluppo rurale, la spesa diretta e gli aiuti esterni; \
• alcuni settori delle entrate dell'UE, principalmente i dazi doganali; \
• sospetti di cattiva condotta grave da parte del personale dell'UE e dei membri delle istituzioni dell'UE.
Una volta che l'OLAF ha completato l'indagine, spetta alle competenti autorità nazionali e dell'UE esaminare e decidere il seguito dato alle raccomandazioni dell'OLAF.
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“Lasciatemi morire ridendo” – Proiezione e dibattito a Vicenza con Diego Silvestri
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In collaborazione con la Cellula Coscioni Vicenza-Padova, Mescalito Film presenta “Lasciatemi morire ridendo”, il documentario di Massimiliano Fumagalli che racconta la storia di Stefano Gheller, giovane veneto che ha chiesto di poter accedere all’aiuto medico alla morte volontaria in Italia.
Dopo la proiezione è previsto un dibattito pubblico con la partecipazione di Diego Silvestri, in rappresentanza dell’Associazione Luca Coscioni, per approfondire i temi legati al diritto al fine vita e all’autodeterminazione.
Un appuntamento di sensibilizzazione e confronto sui diritti ancora negati e sulle battaglie civili per la libertà di scelta.
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La space economy, le filiere strategiche e il ruolo delle Pmi. Intervista a Jacopo Recchia (Aviorec)
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Il settore aerospaziale e della difesa sta vivendo una trasformazione rapida e complessa. Nuove tecnologie, supply chain sempre più integrate e il ruolo centrale delle Pmi nella filiera nazionale delineano un panorama in continua evoluzione.
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ricordo che i no vax sostenevano che il vaccino doveva essere addirittura tossico e che chiunque si fosse vaccinato sarebbe morto al 100% entro un paio di anni...
Un inatteso effetto collaterale dei vaccini contro il COVID-19
Un gruppo di ricerca ha trovato indizi sulla capacità dei vaccini a mRNA di far funzionare meglio alcune terapie contro il cancroIl Post
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Caso Regeni, processo sospeso e quel fastidioso odore di affari. L’impegno del popolo giallo non si ferma
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Big Daddy Wilson ci presenta il suo nuovo disco con una considerazione che così riassumiamo. “Si può immaginare la vita senza musica? Nessuna ninna nanna rilassante, nessuna serenata romantica, nessuna canzone pop vivace, nessuna sinfonia emozionante e nessuna melodia ispiratrice. La maggior parte delle persone considererebbe questa prospettiva noiosa e poco attraente. La
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“Sanzioni ostili ma inutili” ci sono molte affermazioni di putin di questo genere.
è vero che negli ultimi 5 anni c'è stato un sovvertimento di qualsiasi più basilare regola di logica, con la scheggia impazzita di israele che pensa di poter ridisegnare i confini mondiali per legge ordinaria del proprio parlamento. nello stesso raggruppamento rientra sia le leggi russe sui propri confini nazionali che si espandono continuamente, che pure eventuali referendum russi fake... ma sentire un capo di stato che sostiene che si sente "ferito" da "sanzioni" che però comunque non hanno alcun effetto è una ulteriore escalation di questa che può essere solo definita una ridicola farsa.
veramente... è un'affermazione che va a deperimento della dignità di chi la fa. della serie rendersi ridicoli. perché alla fine puoi dire solo una delle 2 cose. 1) o è una minaccia ed è dannosa 2) o non ha effetto e non ha neppure sentito parlarne o sentirsene offesi
l'ordine nuovo portato avanti da putin, alternativo a quello usa, non pare migliore del modello precedente, in sostanza. e quando si deve cambiare per rimanere come prima per quanto mi riguarda io voto per nessun cambiamento. cambiare per in cambiamento fine a se stesso senza progresso non ha senso. o c'è progresso o non c'è progresso. solo questo conta. a livello globale chiaramente. non locale.
La “lotta antidroga” di Trump punta con forza alla guerra con Caracas
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Allo scopo di mettere sotto pressione Maduro, la Casa Bianca ha trasferito sul piano militare un problema che fino a ieri veniva gestito dalle forze di polizia e dalla Guardia Costiera
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