Vulnerabilità in ChatGPT Atlas consente di manipolare la memoria dell’AI: come difendersi
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È stata scoperta una vulnerabilità nel browser agentico ChatGPT Atlas di OpenAI che, qualora venisse sfruttata, consentirebbe a un attaccante di iniettare istruzioni malevole nella memoria dell’IA ed eseguire codice remoto sul
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There’s Nothing Boring About Web Search on Retro Amigas
Do you have a classic Amiga computer? Do you want to search the web with iBrowse, but keep running into all that pesky modern HTML5 and HTTPS? In that case, [Nihirash] created BoringSearch.com just for you!
BoringSearch was explicitly inspired by [ActionRetro]’s FrogFind search portal, and works similarly in practice. From an end-user perspective, they’re quite similar: both serve as search engines and strip down the websites listed by the search to pure HTML so old browsers can handle it.
The biggest difference we can see betwixt the two is that FrogFind will link to images while BoringSearch either loads them inline or strips them out entirely, depending on the browser you test with and how the page was formatted to begin with. (Ironically, modern Firefox doesn’t get images from BoringSearch’s page simplifier.) BoringSearch also gives you the option of searching with DuckDuckGo or Google via the SerpAPI, though note that poor [Nihirash] is paying out-of-pocket for google searches.
BoringSearch is explicitly aimed at the iBrowse browser for late-stage Amigas, but should work equally well with any modern browser. Apparently this project only exists because FrogFind went down for a week, and without the distraction of retrocomptuer websurfing, [Nihirash] was able to bash out his own version from scratch in Rust. If you want to self-host or see how they did it, [Nihirash] put the code on GitHub under a donationware license.
If you’re scratching your head why on earth people are still going on about Amiga in 2025, here’s one take on it.
Il Mossad, la supply chain truccata e i giudici intimiditi
Yossi Cohen, ex direttore del Mossad, ha detto pubblicamente due cose che di solito restano chiuse in una stanza senza registratori.
Primo: Israele avrebbe piazzato nel tempo una rete globale di sabotaggio e sorveglianza inserendo hardware manomesso in dispositivi commerciali usati dai suoi avversari. Parliamo di radio, pager, apparati di comunicazione “normali” che in realtà possono localizzare, ascoltare o esplodere. Questa infrastruttura, dice lui, è stata distribuita “in tutti i paesi che puoi immaginare”. Lo ha detto in un’intervista recente, rilanciata da testate come Middle East Monitor e da media israeliani che citano il podcast “The Brink”.
Secondo: lo stesso Cohen viene accusato di aver preso parte a una campagna di pressione e intimidazione contro magistrati e funzionari delle corti internazionali dell’Aia la Corte penale internazionale (ICC) e la Corte internazionale di giustizia (ICJ) per frenare indagini su possibili crimini di guerra israeliani. Queste accuse, pubblicate già nel 2024 dal Guardian insieme a +972 Magazine e Local Call, parlano di sorveglianza personale sui procuratori della Corte, raccolta di informazioni private e messaggi molto poco diplomatici, fino a minacce velate.
C’è poi un’altra voce pesante: Tamir Pardo, che è stato direttore del Mossad prima di Cohen, ha definito queste presunte tecniche “stile mafia”, quindi fuori da quello che lui considera accettabile per il servizio segreto israeliano.
Questo quadro, sabotaggio fisico attraverso la supply chain e pressione diretta sulla magistratura internazionale, non è folklore. È il modo in cui viene raccontata oggi, in pubblico, la sicurezza nazionale israeliana. E ci riguarda più di quanto ci piaccia ammettere.
1. Sabotaggio integrato nella filiera
Cohen descrive così la tecnica, che lui chiama “metodo del pager”: intercettare l’hardware che un avversario comprerà e userà, modificarlo prima della consegna, riconsegnarlo “come nuovo”, e tenerlo in campo come arma remota.
Secondo la sua versione, questo lavoro è iniziato tra il 2002 e il 2004, quando lui guidava le operazioni speciali del Mossad. Il sistema sarebbe stato usato contro Hezbollah nel 2006, e sarebbe poi diventato un modello operativo stabile. Oggi, dice Cohen, dispositivi manipolati in questo modo sono operativi “in tutti i paesi che puoi immaginare”.
Non stiamo parlando di un malware infilato in una rete aziendale. Qui il concetto è molto più diretto: prendo il tuo apparato di comunicazione, lo trasformo in un localizzatore, in un microfono e, se serve, in un detonatore.
Questa è supply chain interception applicata a strumenti fisici, non solo a software e firmware. È l’arma perfetta per conflitti asimmetrici: ti lascio usare la tua infrastruttura, ma quella infrastruttura in realtà è mia. Quando voglio, ti ascolto. Se serve, ti elimino.
Chi conosce la storia dei servizi occidentali non cade dalla sedia. Gli Stati Uniti (NSA/CIA) e il Regno Unito (GCHQ) sono stati accusati e documentati mentre intercettavano apparati di rete durante le spedizioni internazionali per inserirci componenti hardware clandestini o firmware manipolato, e poi lasciarli arrivare “intatti” al bersaglio. Questo è uscito negli Snowden leaks anni fa e non è mai stato seriamente smentito sul piano tecnico. L’unica differenza è che loro non lo raccontavano così apertamente davanti a un microfono.
Cohen sì. E questa è già un’operazione psicologica: farti sapere che potrebbe essere successo anche a te.
2. L’arma psicologica è parte della strategia
Annunciare al mondo “abbiamo disseminato hardware truccato ovunque” non serve solo a intimidire Hezbollah o Hamas. Serve a qualcos’altro, molto più sottile: introdurre paranoia diffusa nelle catene di approvvigionamento tecnologico di tutti gli altri.
Il messaggio indiretto verso l’Europa è questo: guardate i vostri apparati radio tattici, le vostre reti di campo, i vostri droni commerciali, i vostri sensori industriali. Quanti di questi device sono davvero “puliti”? Quanti possono essere stati aperti, modificati, richiusi e spediti?
Obiettivo: costringerti a dubitare del tuo stesso hardware, cioè a spendere soldi e capitale politico per ricontrollare tutto. È sabotaggio economico indiretto. E fa parte del gioco.
Questo è un concetto chiave del 2025: la guerra non è solo sparare. È costringere il nemico a spendere.
3. Il fronte giudiziario: pressione sui tribunali internazionali
Passiamo all’altro pezzo, che è quello più tossico dal punto di vista diplomatico.
Secondo l’inchiesta pubblicata dal Guardian Israele avrebbe condotto per anni una campagna sistematica per indebolire e intimidire la Corte penale internazionale (ICC) e, più in generale, per limitare l’azione delle corti internazionali dell’Aia sulle responsabilità israeliane nei conflitti.
La ricostruzione racconta questo: il Mossad avrebbe monitorato, spiato e fatto pressione sulla procuratrice dell’ICC Fatou Bensouda e, successivamente, su altri funzionari, per dissuaderli dall’andare avanti su possibili crimini di guerra israeliani nei Territori occupati. Parliamo di pedinamenti, profiling personale e familiare, raccolta di materiale potenzialmente ricattabile e messaggi recapitati direttamente, senza troppi giri di parole.
In queste ricostruzioni Cohen è indicato come l’uomo incaricato di “parlare” direttamente con la Corte. “Parlare” qui non è inteso come canale diplomatico. È inteso come far capire che certe indagini non devono andare avanti.
Tamir Pardo, suo predecessore al vertice del Mossad, ha commentato queste accuse in modo netto: roba “da Cosa Nostra”, inaccettabile per quello che secondo lui dovrebbe essere il perimetro operativo del servizio.
Tradotto senza filtri: se queste ricostruzioni sono corrette, Israele non si è limitato a fare pressione politica sugli organismi internazionali. Ha trattato la Corte come un bersaglio ostile da neutralizzare. È un salto di qualità. E lo hanno capito tutti.
4. Il quadro reale del 2025
Sommiamo le due cose:
- Sabotaggio fisico piazzato nella supply chain degli avversari (e, volendo, di chiunque), con capacità di intercettazione e distruzione selettiva.
- Pressione diretta su chi, nelle istituzioni giudiziarie internazionali, potrebbe qualificare quelle stesse operazioni come crimini di guerra.
Questo è il paradigma operativo che sta emergendo allo scoperto: intelligence tecnica + sabotaggio fisico + lawfare aggressivo. Tutto insieme. E dichiarato pubblicamente.
Non c’è più separazione tra campo di battaglia, cyberspazio, logistica industriale e tribunale dell’Aia. È la stessa storia, con gli stessi protagonisti.
5. Perché ci riguarda (sì, anche qui)
Quando Cohen dice “abbiamo piazzato dispositivi manipolati in tutti i paesi che puoi immaginare”, non sta dicendo “in Libano e basta”. Sta dicendo: ovunque. Quindi anche in Paesi europei. Anche in contesti NATO. Anche in filiere industriali e infrastrutturali dove passa tecnologia dual use, civile-militare.
Questo apre un punto critico per l’Europa: la sicurezza delle nostre infrastrutture tecnologiche non è più solo una questione di patch e antivirus. È una questione di controllo reale della filiera hardware. Parliamo di radio tattiche, droni commerciali, apparati di rete, sensori industriali, componenti OT/SCADA. Tutte cose che usiamo ogni giorno in energia, trasporti, telecomunicazioni, sanità.
Domanda secca: chi ci garantisce che quello che arriva in casa nostra non sia già stato toccato da qualcuno, da qualche parte, prima di arrivare qui?
Secondo punto. Se è vero e le inchieste lo raccontano con estrema dovizia di nomi e date — che un servizio di intelligence nazionale è disposto a mettere pressione personale sui magistrati internazionali, allora siamo fuori dalla normalità diplomatica. Siamo in un mondo dove la legalità internazionale diventa un altro fronte operativo. Chi ha più leve, detta il perimetro di ciò che è “accettabile”.
È il 2025. La sicurezza non è più discussione astratta. È potere materiale.
Conclusione
Cohen oggi si sta costruendo un profilo pubblico: l’uomo che ha protetto Israele usando tutti i mezzi. Sta normalizzando un messaggio molto chiaro: sabotaggio nella supply chain, sorveglianza permanente, azione chirurgica sul campo e pressione diretta su chi prova a qualificare tutto questo come “crimine di guerra”.
Tradotto: la guerra moderna non è più separata in “cyber”, “intelligence”, “diplomazia” e “diritto internazionale”. È un unico blocco operativo.
La vera notizia non è che Israele faccia queste cose. Chiunque abbia seguito gli ultimi vent’anni di operazioni clandestine sa benissimo che tutti i player di fascia alta lavorano così, dagli Stati Uniti alla Russia, passando per la Cina e l’Iran. La vera notizia è che ora lo si dice ad alta voce, davanti alle telecamere, con la stessa naturalezza con cui si presenta un prodotto.
Quando un ex capo del Mossad ti guarda e ti dice: abbiamo dispositivi modificati “in ogni paese che puoi immaginare”, il messaggio è uno solo.
Non è avviso. È avvertimento.
L'articolo Il Mossad, la supply chain truccata e i giudici intimiditi proviene da Red Hot Cyber.
Nvidia investe 1 miliardo di dollari in Nokia per lo sviluppo delle reti 6G con AI
Jen-Hsun Huang ha lanciato una bomba: Nvidia avrebbe investito 1 miliardo di dollari in Nokia. Sì, è proprio la Nokia che ha reso i telefoni Symbian così popolari 20 anni fa.
Nel suo discorso, Jensen Huang ha affermato che le reti di telecomunicazione stanno attraversando una profonda trasformazione, passando dalle architetture tradizionali ai sistemi nativi basati sull’intelligenza artificiale, e l’investimento di Nvidia accelererà questo processo.
Pertanto, Nvidia, attraverso il suo investimento, sta collaborando con Nokia per creare una piattaforma di intelligenza artificiale per le reti 6G, potenziando le reti RAN tradizionali con l’intelligenza artificiale.
La forma specifica dell’investimento è che Nvidia sottoscriverà circa 166 milioni di nuove azioni Nokia al prezzo di 6,01 dollari ad azione, il che darà a Nvidia una partecipazione di circa il 2,9% in Nokia.
Nel momento in cui è stata annunciata la partnership, il prezzo delle azioni Nokia è aumentato del 21%, registrando il guadagno maggiore dal 2013.
Che cos’è AI-RAN?
RAN sta per Radio Access Network, mentre AI-RAN è una nuova architettura di rete che integra direttamente le capacità di elaborazione basate sull’intelligenza artificiale nelle stazioni base wireless. I sistemi RAN tradizionali sono principalmente responsabili della trasmissione dei dati tra stazioni base e dispositivi mobili, mentre AI-RAN aggiunge funzionalità di edge computing e di elaborazione intelligente.
Ciò consente alle stazioni base di applicare algoritmi di intelligenza artificiale per ottimizzare l’utilizzo dello spettro e l’efficienza energetica, migliorare le prestazioni complessive della rete e sfruttare le risorse RAN inutilizzate per ospitare servizi di intelligenza artificiale edge, creando nuovi flussi di entrate per gli operatori.
Gli operatori possono eseguire applicazioni di intelligenza artificiale direttamente presso la stazione base, senza dover inviare tutti i dati al data center centrale per l’elaborazione, il che riduce notevolmente il carico di rete.
L’esempio di Huang
Huang ha fatto un esempio: quasi il 50% degli utenti di ChatGPT accede tramite dispositivi mobili. Inoltre, ChatGPT conta oltre 40 milioni di download mensili da dispositivi mobili. In un’epoca di crescita esponenziale delle applicazioni di intelligenza artificiale, i sistemi RAN tradizionali non sono in grado di gestire l’intelligenza artificiale generativa e le reti mobili basate su agenti.
AI-RAN, fornendo funzionalità di inferenza AI distribuite, consente risposte più rapide da parte delle future applicazioni di intelligenza artificiale, come agenti intelligenti e chatbot. Allo stesso tempo, AI-RAN prepara le applicazioni integrate di rilevamento e comunicazione nell’era del 6G.
Huang ha citato una previsione della società di analisi Omdia, secondo cui il mercato RAN crescerà fino a superare i 200 miliardi di dollari entro il 2030, con l’AI-RAN come segmento in più rapida crescita.
Una riprogettazione completa del 5G e 6G
In una dichiarazione congiunta, il presidente e CEO di Nokia Justin Hotard ha affermato che la partnership metterà i data center AI alla portata di tutti, consentendo una riprogettazione radicale dal 5G al 6G.
Ha menzionato specificamente che Nokia sta collaborando con tre diverse tipologie di aziende: Nvidia, Dell e T-Mobile. T-Mobile, uno dei primi partner, inizierà i test sul campo della tecnologia AI-RAN nel 2026, concentrandosi sulla verifica dei miglioramenti in termini di prestazioni ed efficienza.
Justin ha affermato che questi test forniranno dati preziosi per l’innovazione del 6G, aiutando gli operatori a costruire reti intelligenti che si adattino alle esigenze dell’intelligenza artificiale.
Basato su AI-RAN, NVIDIA ha rilasciato un nuovo prodotto chiamato Aerial RAN Computer Pro (ARC-Pro), una piattaforma di elaborazione accelerata predisposta per il 6G. La sua configurazione hardware principale include due tipi di GPU NVIDIA: Grace CPU e Blackwell GPU
L'articolo Nvidia investe 1 miliardo di dollari in Nokia per lo sviluppo delle reti 6G con AI proviene da Red Hot Cyber.
Parole condivise per esplorare il nostro patrimonio culturale
La Biblioteca nazionale centrale di Firenze e il Museo Galileo uniscono le forze in un progetto innovativo che unisce musei, archivi e biblioteche per viaggiare nel sapere in modo semplice e smart.
Vincitore del bando Digital MAB, promosso dalla Scuola nazionale del patrimonio e delle attività culturali, nell’ambito di Dicolab – Cultura al digitale, il progetto intende svolgere ricerche integrate tra patrimoni differenti (fotografie, stampe, manoscritti, oggetti). A partire dalla interoperabilità dei dati, l’obiettivo è la realizzazione di un modello di archivio iconografico di risorse di varia tipologia consultabile in modo trasversale con un’interfaccia di ricerca per l’accesso alla teca digitale del Museo Galileo tramite parole chiave controllate nel Thesaurus della Biblioteca nazionale centrale di Firenze per creare collegamenti con risorse di altre biblioteche, di archivi e di musei.
L'articolo Parole condivise per esplorare il nostro patrimonio culturale proviene da Biblioteca nazionale centrale di Firenze.
Bug nel Task Manager di Windows 11: come risolverlo
Gli aggiornamenti di Windows 11 di Microsoft spesso contengono bug inspiegabili, in particolare patch per nuove funzionalità, come la KB5067036 rilasciata di recente. Sebbene KB5067036 sia un aggiornamento facoltativo, ha introdotto un menu Start completamente nuovo e aggiornamenti alla barra delle applicazioni e a Esplora file, rendendolo molto atteso.
Tuttavia, è stato riscontrato un bug nel Task Manager.
Il bug è che quando un utente chiude la finestra del Task Manager come di consueto, il programma non viene effettivamente chiuso e rimane in background.
Se il programma viene riaperto, verrà rigenerato. Nel test, sono stati generati un massimo di 100 processi in background.
Considerando che consuma anche memoria e risorse della CPU, questo bug può rallentare il sistema e persino causare il blocco dei computer.
Come risolvere questo bug?
Ci sono soluzioni sul forum di Reddit, dove è stato segnalato il problema. Una soluzione è utilizzare la funzione “Termina processo” in Task Manager per terminare i processi in esecuzione in background. Basta terminare ogni processo in background.
Se hai più finestre aperte, i passaggi precedenti potrebbero risultare un po’ macchinosi. In tal caso, puoi provare la riga di comando: apri CMD e digita il seguente comando:
taskkill /im taskmgr.exe /f
Questo comando può terminare contemporaneamente tutti i programmi in background in Task Manager, portando pace e tranquillità nel mondo.
Naturalmente, la soluzione definitiva dipende ancora da Microsoft. Questa patch è ancora un’anteprima e la versione finale verrà rilasciata entro due settimane. Microsoft dovrebbe avere il tempo di risolvere il problema. Non preoccuparti se non hai ancora effettuato l’aggiornamento: potrebbero esserci altri bug non ancora scoperti. Non c’è fretta di provare il nuovo menu Start.
L'articolo Bug nel Task Manager di Windows 11: come risolverlo proviene da Red Hot Cyber.
Half-good new Danish Chat Control proposal
Denmark, currently presiding over the EU Council, proposes a major change to the much-criticised EU chat control proposal to search all private chats for suspicious content, even at the cost of destroying secure end-to-end encryption: Instead of mandating the general monitoring of private chats (“detection orders”), the searches would remain voluntary for providers to implement or not, as is the status quo. The presidency circulated a discussion paper with EU country representatives today, aiming to gather countries’ views on the updated (softened) proposal. The previous Chat Control proposal had even lost the support of Denmark’s own government.
“The new approach is a triumph for the digital freedom movement and a major leap forward when it comes to saving our fundamental right to confidentiality of our digital correspondence”, comments Patrick Breyer (Pirate Party), a former Member of the European Parliament and digital freedom fighter. “It would protect secure encryption and thus keep our smartphones safe. However, three fundamental problems remain unsolved:
1) Mass surveillance: Even where voluntarily implemented by communications service providers such as currently Meta, Microsoft or Google, chat control is still totally untargeted and results in indiscriminate mass surveillance of all private messages on these services. According to the EU Commission, about 75% of the millions of private chats, photos and videos leaked every year by the industry’s unreliable chat control algorithms are not criminally relevant and place our intimate communication in unsafe hands where it doesn’t belong. A former judge of the European Court of Justice, Ninon Colneric (p. 34-35), and the European Data Protection Supervisor (par. 11) have warned that this indiscriminate monitoring violates fundamental rights even when implemented at providers’ discretion, and a lawsuit against the practice is already pending in Germany.
The European Parliament proposes a different approach: allowing for court orders mandating the targeted scanning of communications, limited to persons or groups connected to child sexual abuse. The Danish proposal lacks this targeting of suspects.
2) Digital house arrest: According to Article 6, users under 16 would no longer be able to install commonplace apps from app stores to “protect them from grooming”, including messenger apps such as WhatsApp, Snapchat, Telegram or Twitter, social media apps such as Instagram, TikTok or Facebook, games such as FIFA, Minecraft, GTA, Call of Duty, and Roblox, dating apps, video conferencing apps such as Zoom, Skype, and FaceTime. This minimum age would be easy to circumvent and would disempower as well as isolate teens instead of making them stronger.
3) Anonymous communications ban: According to Article 4 (3), users would no longer be able to set up anonymous e-mail or messenger accounts or chat anonymously as they would need to present an ID or their face, making them identifiable and risking data leaks. This would inhibit, for instance, sensitive chats related to sexuality, anonymous media communications with sources (e.g. whistleblowers), and political activity.
All things considered, the new Danish proposal represents major progress in terms of keeping us safe online, but it requires substantially more work. However, the proposal likely already goes too far already for the hardliner majority of EU governments and the EU Commission, whose positions are so extreme that they will rather let down victims altogether than accept a proportionate, court-proof and politically viable approach.”
Andrew Cuomo Uses AI MPREG Schoolhouse Rock Bill to Attack Mamdani, Is Out of Ideas#AISlop
Andrew Cuomo Uses AI MPREG Schoolhouse Rock Bill to Attack Mamdani, Is Out of Ideas
I am haunted by a pregnant bill in Andrew Cuomo’s new AI-generated attack ad against Zohran Mamdani.Cuomo posted the ad on his X account that riffed on the famous Schoolhouse Rock! song “I’m just a bill.” In Cuomo’s AI-generated cartoon nightmare, Zohran Mamdani lights money on fire while a phone bearing the ChatGPT logo explains, apparently, that Mamdani is not qualified.
The ad bears all the hallmarks of the sloppiest of AI trash: weird artifacting, strange voices that don’t sync with the mouths talking, and inconsistent animation. It feels both surreal and of the moment and completely ancient.
🎶“I’m Just A Shill” (FT. Zohran) pic.twitter.com/ga3JxnYO7B
— Andrew Cuomo (@andrewcuomo) October 30, 2025
And then there’s the pregnant bill.The Schoolhouse Rock! Bill is an iconic cartoon character that has been parodied by everyone from The Simpsons to Saturday Night Live. There are thousands, perhaps millions, of pictures of the cartoon bill online, all available to be gobbled up by scrapers and turned into training data for AI.
For some reason, the bill in Cuomo’s ad has thick red lips (notably absent in the original) and appears to be pregnant. Adding to the discordant AI jank of the image, the pregnancy is only visible when the bill is standing up. Sometimes it’s leaning against the steps and in those shots it has the slim figure characteristic of its inspiration. But when the bill stands it looks positively inflated, almost as if the video generator used to make Cuomo’s ad was trained on MPREG fetish art of the bill and not the original cartoon itself. The thick and luscious red lips are present whether the bill is leaning or standing.
Towards the end of the ad, an anthropomorphic phone with a ChatGPT logo wanders into the scene. Standing next to the pregnant bill, I could not but help but think that the phone is the father of whatever child the bill carried.
My observation led to an argument in the 404 Media Slack channel and opinions were split. “It does not seem pregnant to me,” said Emanuel Maiberg.
Jason Koebler, however, came to my defense. He circled the pregnant belly of the cartoon bill and shared it. “Baby is stored in the circle area,” he said.Perplexed by all this, I reached out to Cuomo’s campaign for an explanation. I wanted a response to the ad and to get his thoughts on AI-generated political content. More importantly, I needed to know their opinion on the pregnancy. “Does that bill look pregnant to you?” I asked. “I think it looks pregnant, but my editors are split. I would love for the Campaign to weigh in.” Out of journalist due diligence, I also reached out to Mamdani’s press office. Neither campaign has responded to my request for it to weigh in on the pregnancy of the AI-generated cartoon bill.
This is not the first time the Cuomo campaign has used AI. An ad in early October featured a deepfaked Cuomo working as a train operator, stock trader, and a stagehand. A week ago, the Cuomo campaign released a long, racist video depicting criminals endorsing Mamdani. Critics called the ad racist. The campaign deleted it shortly after it was posted and blamed the whole thing on a junior staffer.
It is worth noting that Cuomo's AI slop is being deployed most likely because the candidate has been utterly incapable of generating any authentic excitement about his campaign in New York City or on the internet, and he is facing a digitally native, younger candidate who just seems effortlessly Good At the Internet and Posting.
This is, unfortunately, how a lot of politics works in 2025. Desperate campaigns and desperate presidents are in a slop-fueled arms race to make the most ridiculous possible ads and social media content. It looks cheap, is cheap, and is the realm of politicians who are totally out of ideas, but increasingly it feels like slop is the dominant aesthetic of our time.
AI-generated imagery takes New York politics by storm
Andrew Cuomo's AI campaign ad sparked criticism.Bobby Cuza (Spectrum News NY1)
In a series of experiments, chimpanzees revised their beliefs based on new evidence, shedding light on the evolutionary origins of rational thought.#TheAbstract
Chimps Are Capable of Human-Like Rational Thought, Breakthrough Study Finds
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Subscribe to 404 Media to get The Abstract, our newsletter about the most exciting and mind-boggling science news and studies of the week.Chimpanzees revise their beliefs if they encounter new information, a hallmark of rationality that was once assumed to be unique to humans, according to a study published on Thursday in Science.
Researchers working with chimpanzees at the Ngamba Island Chimpanzee Sanctuary in Uganda probed how the primates judged evidence using treats inside boxes, such as a “weak” clue—for example, the sound of a treat inside a shaken box—and a "strong" clue, such as a direct line of sight to the treat.
The chimpanzees were able to rationally evaluate forms of evidence and to change their existing beliefs if presented with more compelling clues. The results reveal that non-human animals can exhibit key aspects of rationality, some of which had never been directly tested before, which shed new light on the evolution of rational thought and critical thinking in humans and other intelligent animals.
“Rationality has been linked to this ability to think about evidence and revise your beliefs in light of evidence,” said co-author Jan Engelmann, associate professor at the department of psychology at the University of California, Berkeley, in a call with 404 Media. “That’s the real big picture perspective of this study.”
While it’s impossible to directly experience the perspective of a chimpanzee, Engelmann and his colleagues designed five controlled experiments for groups of anywhere from 15 to 23 chimpanzee participants.
In the first and second experiments, the chimps received a weak clue and a strong clue for a food reward in a box. The chimpanzees consistently made their choices based on the stronger evidence, regardless of the sequence in which the clues were presented. In the third experiment, the chimps were shown an empty box in addition to the strong and weak clues. After this presentation, the box with the strong evidence was removed. In this experiment, the chimpanzees still largely chose the weak clue over the empty box.
In the fourth experiment, chimpanzees were given a second “redundant” weak clue—for instance, the experimenter would shake a box twice. Then, they were given a new type of clue, like a second piece of food being dropped into a box in front of them. They were significantly more likely to change their beliefs if the clue provided fresh information, demonstrating an ability to distinguish between redundant and genuinely new evidence.
Finally, in the fifth experiment, the chimpanzees were presented with a so-called “defeater” that undermined the strong clue, such as a direct line of sight to a picture of food inside the box, or a shaken box containing a stone, not a real treat. The chimps were significantly more likely to revise their choice about the location of the food in the defeater experiments than in experiments with no defeater. This experiment showcased an ability to judge that evidence that initially seems strong can be weakened with new information.
“The most surprising result was, for sure, experiment five,” Engelmann said. “No one really believed that they would do it, for many different reasons.”
For one thing, he said, the methodology of the fifth experiment demanded a lot of attention and cognitive work from the chimpanzees, which they successfully performed. The result also challenges the assumption that complex language is required to update beliefs with new information. Despite lacking this linguistic ability, chimpanzees are somehow able to flexibly assign strength to different pieces of evidence.
Speaking from the perspective of the chimps, Engelmann outlined the responses to experiment five as: “I used to believe food was in there because I heard it in there, but now you showed me that there was a stone in there, so this defeats my evidence. Now I have to give up that belief.”
“Even using language, it takes me ten seconds to explain it,” he continued. “The question is, how do they do it? It’s one of the trickiest questions, but also one of the most interesting ones. To put it succinctly, how to think without words?”
To hone in on that mystery, Engelmann and his colleagues are currently repeating the experiment with different primates, including capuchins, baboons, rhesus macaques, and human toddlers and children. Eventually, similar experiments could be applied to other intelligent species, such as corvids or octopuses, which may yield new insights about the abundance and variability of rationality in non-human species.
“I think the really interesting ramification for human rationality is that so many people often think that only humans can reflect on evidence,” Engelmann said. “But our results obviously show that this is not necessarily the case. So the question is, what's special about human rationality then?”
Engelmann and his colleagues hypothesize that humans differ in the social dimensions of our rational thought; we are able to collectively evaluate evidence not only with our contemporaries, but by consulting the work of thinkers who may have lived thousands of years ago. Of course, humans also often refuse to update beliefs in light of new evidence, which is known as “belief entrenchment” or “belief perseveration” (many such cases). These complicated nuances add to the challenge of unraveling the evolutionary underpinnings of rationality.
That said, one thing is clear: many non-human animals exist somewhere on the gradient of rational thought. In light of the recent passing of Jane Goodall, the famed primatologist who popularized the incredible capacities of chimpanzees, the new study carries on a tradition of showing that these primates, our closest living relatives, share some degree of our ability to think and act in rational ways.
Goodall “was the first Western scientist to observe tool use in chimpanzees and really change our beliefs about what makes humans unique,” Engelmann said. “We're definitely adding to this puzzle by showing that rationality, which has so long been considered unique to humans, is at least in some forms present in non-human animals.”
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Everyone loses and nobody wins if America decides to resume nuclear testing after a 30 year moratorium.#News #nuclear
Trump Orders Nuclear Testing As Nuke Workers Go Unpaid
Last night Trump directed the Pentagon to start testing nukes again. If that happens, it’ll be the first time the US has detonated a nuke in more than 30 years. The organization that would likely be responsible for this would be the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), a civilian workforce that oversees the American nuclear stockpile. Because of the current government shutdown, 1,400 NNSA workers are on furlough and the remaining 375 are working without pay.America detonated its last nuke in 1992 as part of a general drawn down following the collapse of the Soviet Union. Four years later, it was the first country to sign the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) which bans nuclear explosions for civilian or military purposes. But Congress never ratified the treaty and the CTBT never entered into force. Despite this, there has not been a nuke tested by the United States since.
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Trump threatened to resume nuclear testing during his first term but it never happened. At the time, officials at the Pentagon and NNSA said it would take them a few months to get tests running again should the President order them.The NNSA has maintained the underground tunnels once used for testing since the 1990s and converted them into a different kind of space that verifies the reliability of existing nukes without blowing them up in what are called “virtual tests.” During a rare tour of the tunnel with journalists earlier this year, a nuclear weapons scientist from Los Alamos National Laboratory told NPR that “our assessment is that there are no system questions that would be answered by a test, that would be worth the expense and the effort and the time.”
Right now, the NNSA might be hard pressed to find someone to conduct the test. It employs around 2,000 people and the shutdown has seen 1,400 of them furloughed and 375 working without pay. The civilian nuclear workforce was already having a tough year. In February, the Department of Government Efficiency cut 350 NNSA employees only to scramble and rehire all but 28 when they realized how essential they were to nuclear safety. But uncertainty continued and in April the Department of Energy declared 500 NNSA employees “non-essential” and at risk of termination.
That’s a lot of chaos for a government agency charged with ensuring the safety and effectiveness of America’s nuclear weapons. The NNSA is currently in the middle of a massive project to “modernize” America’s nukes, an effort that will cost trillions of dollars. Part of modernization means producing new plutonium pits, the core of a nuclear warhead. That’s a complicated and technical process and no one is sure how much it’ll cost and how dangerous it’ll be.
And now, it may have to resume nuclear testing while understaffed.
“We have run out of federal funds for federal workers,” Secretary of Energy Chris Wright said in a press conference announcing furlough on October 20. “This has never happened before…we have never furloughed workers in the NNSA. This should not happen. But this was as long as we could stretch the funds for federal workers. We were able to do some gymnastics and stretch it further for the contractors.”
Three days later, Rep. Dina Titus (D-NV) said the furlough was making the world less safe. “NNSA facilities are charged with maintaining nuclear security in accordance with long-standing policy and the law,” she said in a press release. “Undermining the agency’s workforce at such a challenging time diminishes our nuclear deterrence, emboldens international adversaries, and makes Nevadans less safe. Secretary Wright, Administrator Williams, and Congressional Republicans need to stop playing politics, rescind the furlough notice, and reopen the government.”
Trump announced the nuclear tests in a post on Truth Social, a platform where he announces a lot of things that ultimately end up not happening. “The United States has more Nuclear Weapons than any other country. This was accomplished, including a complete update and renovation of existing weapons, during my First Term in office. Because of the tremendous destructive power, I HATED to do it, but had no choice! Russia is second, and China is a distant third, but will be even within 5 years. Because of other countries testing programs, I have instructed the Department of War to start testing our Nuclear Weapons on an equal basis. That process will begin immediately. Thank you for your attention to this matter! PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP,” the post said.
Matt Korda, a nuclear expert with the Federation of American Scientists, said that the President’s Truth social post was confusing and riddled with misconceptions. Russia has more nuclear weapons than America. Nuclear modernization is ongoing and will take trillions of dollars and many years to complete. Over the weekend, Putin announced that Russia had successfully tested a nuclear-powered cruise missile and on Tuesday he said the country had done the same with a nuclear-powered undersea drone. Russia withdrew from the CTBT in 2023, but neither recent test involved a nuclear explosion. Russia last blew up a nuke in 1990 and China conducted its most recent test in 1996. Both have said they would resume nuclear testing should America do it. Korda said it's unclear what, exactly, Trump means. He could be talking about anything from test firing non-nuclear equipped ICBMs to underground testing to detonating nukes in the desert. “We’ll have to wait and see until either this Truth Social post dissipates and becomes a bunch of nothing or it actually gets turned into policy. Then we’ll have something more concrete to respond to,” Korda said.
Worse, he thinks the resumption of testing would be bad for US national security. “It actually puts the US at a strategic disadvantage,” Korda said. “This moratorium on not testing nuclear weapons benefits the United States because the United States has, by far, the most advanced modeling and simulation equipment…by every measure this is a terrible idea.”
The end of nuclear detonation tests has spurred 30 years of innovation in the field of computer modeling. Subcritical computer modeling happens in the NNSA-maintained underground tunnels where detonations were once a common occurrence. The Los Alamos National Laboratories and other American nuclear labs are building massive super computers that are, in part, the result of decades of work spurred by the end of detonations and the embrace of simulation.
Detonating a nuclear weapon—whether above ground or below—is disastrous for the environment. There are people alive in the United States today who are living with cancer and other health conditions caused by American nuclear testing. Live tests make the world more anxious, less safe, and encourage other nuclear powers to do their own. It also uses up a nuke, something America has said it wants to build more of.
“There’s no upside to this,” Korda said. He added that he felt bad for the furloughed NNSA workers. “People find out about significant policy changes through Truth social posts. So it’s entirely possible that the people who would be tasked with carrying out this decision are learning about it in the same way we are all learning about it. They probably have the exact same kinds of questions that we do.”
Opinion | America Is Updating Its Nuclear Weapons. The Price: $1.7 Trillion.
The $1.7 trillion overhaul is already underway.W.J. Hennigan (The New York Times)
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Someone Snuck Into a Cellebrite Microsoft Teams Call and Leaked Phone Unlocking Details
Someone recently managed to get on a Microsoft Teams call with representatives from phone hacking company Cellebrite, and then leaked a screenshot of the company’s capabilities against many Google Pixel phones, according to a forum post about the leak and 404 Media’s review of the material.The leak follows others obtained and verified by 404 Media over the last 18 months. Those leaks impacted both Cellebrite and its competitor Grayshift, now owned by Magnet Forensics. Both companies constantly hunt for techniques to unlock phones law enforcement have physical access to.
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Why it might have been and may continue to be harder to get new releases from your local library.#News #libraries #Books
Libraries Scramble for Books After Giant Distributor Shuts Down
This story was reported with support from the MuckRock foundation.One of the largest distributors of print books for libraries is winding down operations by the end of the year, a huge disruption to public libraries across the country, some of which are warning their communities the shut down will limit their ability to lend books.
“You might notice some delays as we (and more than 6,000 other libraries) transition to new wholesalers,” the Jacksonville Public Library told its community in a Facebook post. “We're keeping a close eye on things and doing everything we can to minimize any wait times.”
The libraries that do business with the distributor learned about the shut down earlier this month via Reddit.
Upon learning of her company’s closure, Jennifer Kennedy, a customer services account manager with Baker & Taylor, broke the news on October 6 on r/Libraries Reddit community.
“I just wanted the libraries to know,” Kennedy told 404 Media. “I didn’t want them to be held hostage waiting for books that would never come. I respect them too much for all this nonsense.”
Kennedy’s post prompted other current and former B&T employees to confirm the announcement and express concern for the competitors about to be inundated with requests from the libraries who would be scrambling for new suppliers.
B&T in Memoriam
Baker & Taylor has been in the book business just short of 200 years. Its primary focus was distributing physical copies of books to public libraries. The company also provided librarians with tools that helped them do their jobs more effectively related to collection development and processing.But the company has spent decades being acquired by and divested from private equity firms, served as a revolving door for senior leadership, and was sued by a competitor earlier this year for alleged data misuse and was almost acquired again in September, this time by a distributor that works with mass-market retailers like Walmart and Target. That deal fell through.
On October 7, Publishers Weekly reported B&T let go of more than 500 employees the day the internal announcement was made. At least one law firm is currently investigating B&T for allegedly violating the federal Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) Act, and it took the company weeks to let account holders know.
Since the internal announcement, Kennedy says customer service staff at B&T have not received guidance on how to respond to inquiries from libraries, leaving them on the frontline and in the dark on issues ranging from whether existing orders would be fulfilled to securing refunds for materials they may have already paid for.
“Some libraries didn’t realize we are much closed as of right now,” Kennedy added.
B&T did not respond when asked for comment.
Kennedy has been with B&T for 16 years. At a time when it's uncommon to remain with one company more than a few years, that’s exactly what many of B&T’s employees have been able to do, until now. The same was true of the libraries who did business with them. Andrew Harant, director of Cuyahoga Falls Library had to consider the library's longstanding business relationship with the company against the roughly 20 percent of books the library had ordered from the beginning of the year they had never received.
“For us, that was about 1,500 items,” which Harant told 404 Media that for a small library is a lot of books they were ordering and not receiving.
Release dates for new books come and go on B&T’s main software platform for viewing and managing orders, Title Source 360. Better known as TS360, Harant realized the platform was updating preordered books never received to on backorder, which was “not sustainable”.
In September, Cuyahoga Falls Library canceled all outstanding orders with B&T.
“We needed to step up and make sure that we’re getting the books for our patrons that they needed,” he said.
Cuyahoga Falls Library was fortunate to have an existing account with the other main distributor on the scene, Ingram Content Group. This has been true for many of the libraries 404 Media reached out to for this story.
“The easier part is re-ordering the book,” Shellie Cocking, Chief of Collections and Technical Services for the San Francisco Public Library, told 404 Media. “The harder part is replacing the tools you use to order books.”
Integrated Fallout
Of the ancillary services B&T offered customers, TS360 was Cocking’s favorite. It helped her streamline collection development tasks, for instance, anticipating how popular a title might be or determining how many quantities of a book to purchase, which for larger libraries with dozens of branches, could be complicated to figure out manually. Once titles were ordered in TS360, B&T shared a Machine-Readable Cataloging (MARC) record that was automatically shared with the library’s API integration using data derived from B&T’s record set. This product, BTCat, was the subject of a lawsuit brought by OCLC earlier this year.OCLC owns WorldCat, the global union catalog of library collections that lets anyone see what libraries own what items. OCLC alleged in a U.S. district court filing that B&T misused their proprietary bibliographic records to populate its own competing cataloguing database. OCLC also accused B&T of inserted clauses into its contracts where there was overlap with the businesses and customers, requiring libraries to grant B&T access to their cataloging records so the libraries could then license the records back to B&T for BTCat. B&T has denied these claims, accusing OCLC of stifling fair competition in an already consolidated marketplace.
Marshall Breeding, an independent consultant who monitors library vendor mergers has been following all of this rather closely. He says B&T's closure creates a number of bottlenecks for libraries, the primary one being whether suppliers like Ingram or Brodart can absorb thousands of libraries as customers all at once.
“Maybe, maybe not,” Breeding told 404 Media. “It’s going to take them a while to set up the business relationships and technical things that have to be set up for libraries to automatically order books from the providers.”
But one thing is evident.
“Libraries are kind of in a weaker position just scrambling to find a vendor at all,” he added.
Less competition in the market makes for more challenging working conditions all around. Just ask Erin Hughes, director of the Wood Ridge Memorial Library in New Jersey, made the move over to Ingram after a series of negative experiences with B&T in 2021 from late and damaged deliveries to customer service calls that went poorly, to say the least. Hughes worries her experience with B&T will happen again, only this time with Ingram.
Since the Reddit announcement, she's noticed it's a little more difficult to get a rep on the phone and the number of shipments to the library is smaller. But the other way Hughes is seeing the problem play out involves the consortium her library belongs to. While she may have foregone B&T years ago, her network hasn't, which affects the operability of InterLibrary Loan lending.
“The resource sharing is going to be off for a bit,” Hughes told 404 Media.
Amazon Incoming
If Ingram’s service stagnates due to the B&T cluster, Hughes says she'll use Amazon, which recently launched its own online library hub, offering competitive pricing. One downside, says Hughes, is that it's Amazon.“No, we do have a little bit of pause around Amazon,” she added. “But we’re at a point now where Ingram actually does supply most of the books for Amazon. So we’re already in the devil’s pocket. It’s all connected. It’s all integrated. And as much as I personally don’t care for the whole thing, I don’t really see a lot of other options.”
It's hard not to think this outcome was predictable and also preventable. We know what happens when private equity gets involved with businesses not expected to generate high growth or returns, as well as what happens when there's too little market competition in any given sector. It can't be a cautionary tale because market consolidation is in itself a cautionary tale.
But it’s also worth acknowledging how the timing could not be worse. Library use is way up right now, which is indicative of the times. People are buying less for various reasons. People also seem to like the idea of putting a little friction between their media consumption habits and Big Brother, even at the expense of a little convenience.
“We kind of made our own bed a little bit because we didn’t branch out,” said Hughes. “We didn’t find other solutions to this, and we were relying essentially on two giant companies, one of which folded so quick it was not even funny.”
Key findings about Americans and data privacy
71% of adults say they are very or somewhat concerned about how the government uses the data it collects about them, up from 64% in 2019.Beshay (Pew Research Center)
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Sudan: il satellite racconta ciò che il mondo ignora
Le immagini pubblicate dalla Yale University documentano massacri di massa nella città sudanese di El-Fasher, conquistata dalle Forze di Supporto Rapido (RSF) domenica scorsa al termine di un assedio durato oltre 18 mesi. Pozze di sangue e cumuli di corpi testimoniano l’avvio di un processo sistematico e intenzionale di pulizia etnica delle comunità non arabe.
“Le azioni delle RSF documentate in questo rapporto potrebbero configurare crimini di guerra e crimini contro l’umanità e potrebbero raggiungere il livello di genocidio”, si legge.
Quella che sconvolge il Sudan dall’aprile 2023 non è però una guerra dimenticata. È diventata la più grave catastrofe umanitaria mondiale, con oltre 30 milioni di persone bisognose di assistenza e civili trasformati in bersagli di una violenza indiscriminata.
Oggi si assiste a una nuova escalation genocidiaria. Le condizioni che rendono possibili tragedie come l’eccidio di El-Fasher non sorgono dunque per caso. Sono il risultato del ridimensionamento incessante della diplomazia e della cooperazione internazionale, del cinismo di fronte a gravi violazioni dei diritti umani e del diritto umanitario, e della costante anteposizione del profitto dei mercanti di armi alla costruzione della pace. Da chi, insomma, si trincera dietro il principio per cui il diritto internazionale valga fino ad un certo punto.
Invece, la sicurezza e la pace si costruiscono guardando nella direzione opposta, quella dei diritti fondamentali. Prima di tutto.
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Wired and 404 Media make FOIA reporting free. Other news outlets should too
When Wired published the contents of 911 calls coming from inside Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention centers, revealing shocking reports of overcrowding and sexual assault, the story wasn’t just harrowing. It was also freely available to anyone who wanted to read it.
And when 404 Media reported that law enforcement agents were tapping into a nationwide network of license plate readers — including one Texas officer who used the system to track a woman who’d self-administered an abortion — it made sure the news story and every record it was based on were unpaywalled.
Wired and 404 Media are two of the news organizations leading the way in removing paywalls for public records-based reporting. Recently, Freedom of the Press Foundation (FPF) sat down with Katie Drummond, global editorial director of Wired and an FPF board member; Joseph Cox, co-founder of 404 Media; and FPF’s Lauren Harper to discuss why reporting based on public records should be free.
Drummond, Cox, and Harper described how unpaywalling reporting based on records obtained through the Freedom of Information Act or other public records laws not only serves democracy but also strengthens journalism itself.
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‘A very valuable public service’
For both Wired and 404 Media, the reasons for removing paywalls for public records-based reporting are self-evident.
“It’s a very valuable public service to make people aware of what tools and tactics are being deployed to monitor and surveil people,” said Drummond, speaking about some of Wired’s public records reporting. “They should know what’s sort of happening that they may not be aware of, and to be able, again, to make that available to our audience without a paywall is important.”
Similarly, Cox described how reporting based on public records can lead to real-world reforms, especially when it’s widely available to the public and lawmakers. For instance, 404 Media’s reporting on Flock Safety, the license plate reader company, didn’t just expose surveillance abuses. It also caused Flock to make “radical changes to its product” and triggered congressional investigations, Cox said.
Additionally, by making the reporting and records about Flock freely available, 404 Media helped other journalists. The free access “created this sort of wave of local media coverage where now local journalists are doing basically the same public records request, but for their own communities or towns or cities,” Cox said.
Free access to public records-based reporting at 404 Media “created this sort of wave of local media coverage where now local journalists are doing basically the same public records request, but for their own communities or towns or cities.”
Joseph Cox, co-founder of 404 Media
Flagging new sources for future reporting
Free access to public records-based reporting also builds trust and relationships with readers and sources.
“There’s just something about being able to have a government document,” Cox said. “It’s real. You got it from the government through a FOIA request, or a lawsuit, or whatever, and you can then show that to readers. We don’t want to get in the way of that.”
Making this reporting and the records it’s based on free can also draw the attention of important sources for future reporting. Cox described how his reporting based on FOIA requests sends a signal to readers and sources that he’s interested in particular companies or topics.
Sources reading the free articles realize, Cox said, “‘Oh, this journalist is interested in Flock, in Palantir, or whatever it might be.’ And then, lo and behold, because we make it so easy for potential sources to reach us securely, on Signal or through other methods, we’ll probably end up getting a leak from one of those companies as well.”
Harper, who often writes about her FOIA requests for FPF, shared how publishing FOIA work openly can attract new sources and deepen reporting. “The more obvious I make my FOIA work, the more feedback I get from folks” about what to file future FOIA requests for, she explained.
That kind of transparency fuels better journalism, she said. “It is a virtuous cycle. The more we talk about and advertise FOIA, the better our FOIA requests become as a result.”
The economics of openness
Yet, the public records reporting that Wired and 404 Media have made freely available isn’t free to produce. Both news outlets rely on subscriptions and paywalls to fund their journalism.
As Drummond explained, “The FOIA process can often be labor-intensive, resource-intensive, time-consuming — all of the things that would increase your incentive to put a paywall up on that work,” she said.
But both Wired and 404 Media have found that removing paywalls for public records-based reporting is actually the better decision, financially.
“We made a calculated bet that our audience would show up for us when we did this,” Drummond said. “That bet paid off above and beyond what I could have possibly imagined.”
“That bet paid off above and beyond what I could have possibly imagined.”
Katie Drummond, global editorial director of Wired
After Wired announced it would unpaywall its public records-based stories, Drummond said it saw a “huge increase in subscribers” and received “hundreds of emails from people thanking us for doing it.” Far from hurting the bottom line, she said, “It has been additive to the business rather than taking anything away, from a financial point of view.”
For Cox, the same principle holds true: Transparency drives reader trust, and trust drives support. Every FOIA-based story on 404 Media’s website includes a short note explaining that it’s free but inviting readers to support the outlet’s work through a subscription or one-time donation.
“Look, we’re trying to run a business,” Cox said. “But we’re in it for the journalism. That’s literally why we wake up every single morning, to go write articles and put them on the internet.” He added, “And it does pay off, I think, journalistically, ethically, and businesswise as well.”
‘It’s very hard for me to think of a compelling reason not to do this’
If public records laws like FOIA are tools for public accountability, then journalism that relies on them should be public too. Simply put, “Public records belong to the public,” as Harper said. In a moment when the public’s access to government information is being increasingly curtailed, Wired and 404 Media are proving that openness isn’t just ethical — it’s effective.
Other news outlets should follow their lead. “It is of tremendous value for your audience,” said Drummond. “It’s very hard for me to think of a compelling reason not to do this.”
Cox echoed the sentiment: “There’s a public interest in getting those documents in front of more people. And there is, maybe counterintuitively, but there definitely is, a business benefit to it as well.”
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Gli ultimi mammut della Terra
Un piccolo gruppo continuò a vivere per millenni su una sperduta isola nel circolo polare artico: la sua estinzione è ancora un misteroIl Post
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Sono i più guerrafondai però per loro vogliono l'esenzione... comodo.
Le foto di Gerusalemme pienissima di ebrei ultraortodossi - Il Post
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Le foto di Gerusalemme pienissima di ebrei ultraortodossi
In centinaia di migliaia hanno manifestato contro una proposta di legge che potrebbe obbligarli alla leva militareIl Post
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Boh... io so che i falchi del governo Netanyahu, quelli che più di tutti si stanno impegnando per eliminare fisicamente i palestinesi e prendersi le loro terre pescano voti tra gli ultraortodossi.
Poi la situazione è talmente complicata e io ho letto così poco sulla materia che potrei dire una solenne sciocchezza, però mi sembra strano.
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Oggi è stata definitivamente approvata la legge di revisione costituzionale dal titolo Norme in materia di ordinamento giurisdizionale e di istituzione della Corte disciplinare. Nelle dichiarazioni di voto finali, i senatori delle opposizioni hanno lamentato che per la prima volta una riforma costituzionale sia stata
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Le immagini pubblicate dalla Yale University documentano massacri di massa nella città sudanese di El-Fasher, conquistata dalle Forze di Supporto Rapido (RSF) domenica scorsa al termine di un assedio durato oltre 18 mesi. Pozze di sangue e cumuli di corpi testimoniano
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Oggi è stata definitivamente approvata la legge di revisione costituzionale dal titolo Norme in materia di ordinamento giurisdizionale e di istituzione della Corte disciplinare. Nelle dichiarazioni di voto finali, i senatori delle opposizioni hanno lamentato che per la prima volta una riforma costituzionale sia stata
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Intelligenza artificiale e PMI: a Bruxelles il confronto sulle sfide europee e regionali
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L’intelligenza artificiale non è più soltanto un tema per esperti o grandi multinazionali. A Bruxelles, presso la Camera di Commercio
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No alla legge illiberale sulla Giustizia
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Copio questa definizione dall’intelligenza artificiale: La divisione dei poteri (o separazione dei poteri) è un principio fondamentale dello stato di diritto che suddivide il potere statale in tre funzioni distinte: legislativo, esecutivo e
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Wall Street in uniforme. Il nuovo patto tra finanza e difesa americana
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Tra gli uffici del Pentagono e i grattacieli di New York si sta evolvendo un dialogo inedito. L’America della difesa chiama quella della finanza per costruire il prossimo ciclo di potenza industriale. Generali e analisti discutono di fabbriche, algoritmi e catene di approvvigionamento con la stessa urgenza riservata
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Tutte le iniziative africane di PagoPa
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PagoPA ai tavoli internazionali per la digitalizzazione della Pubblica amministrazione in Africa
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Che succede a Prysmian in borsa?
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I risultati di Prysmian nel terzo trimestre del 2025 superano le attese e la società alza le previsioni per l'intero anno. Il titolo, però, crolla in borsa: ecco cosa è successo.
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Sulla separazione delle carriere, la campagna di Pd e Anm è faziosa e falsificante
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In principio fu Giovanni Falcone. “Chi, come me, richiede che giudice e pubblico ministero siano due figure strutturalmente differenziate nelle competenze e nella carriera viene bollato come nemico dell’indipendenza del magistrato, un
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Corte dei Conti blocca il Ponte sullo Stretto: nuovo scontro con il Governo Meloni
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Alla vigilia del voto decisivo del Senato sulla ‘soluzione finale’ per i ‘nemici’ della magistratura condannati alla
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“Più difesa, più Europa”: la tavola rotonda di TPI in collaborazione con il Parlamento europeo | DIRETTA
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The Post Internazionale (TPI), in collaborazione con il Parlamento europeo, ha organizzato la tavola rotonda “Più difesa, più Europa – Per un’Europa più unita serve una difesa comune?”. La conferenza si tiene venerdì 30 ottobre, alle ore 15.00,
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Microsoft batte le attese ma spende (troppo) per l’AI
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Microsoft cresce (oltre le attese) ma spende troppo per il cloud AI: titolo giù del 4% dopo la trimestrale
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PODCAST vertice Usa-Cina. Trump canta vittoria ma il successo politico è di Pechino
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Cina e Stati Uniti trovano l'accordo su terre rare, fentanyl e soia. L'intesa favorisce un disgelo commerciale ma è prigioniera della competizione strategica tra i due Paesi. La corrispondenza da Shanghai è di Michelangelo Cocco.
L'articolo
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Washington si riprende la Bolivia e minaccia Venezuela e Colombia
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Gli Stati Uniti hanno a lungo subito il protagonismo economico cinese in America Latina, ma per recuperare il suo ex cortile di casa l'amministrazione Trump sembra essere passata decisamente all'offensiva, puntando contro Colombia e Venezuela
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