Il 2 novembre sit in per la “strega” Francesca Albanese sotto la statua di Giordano Bruno a Roma
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2025 Component Abuse Challenge: A Transistor As A Voltage Reference
For our 2025 Component Abuse Challenge there have been a set of entries which merely use a component for a purpose it wasn’t quite intended, and another which push misuse of a part into definite abuse territory, which damages or fundamentally changes it. [Ken Yap]’s use of a transistor base-emitter junction as a voltage reference certainly fits into the latter category.
If you forward bias a base-emitter junction, it will behave as a diode, which could be used as a roughly 0.7 volt reference. But this project is far more fun than that, because it runs the junctions in reverse biased breakdown mode. Using one of those cheap grab bags of transistor seconds, he finds that devices of the same type maintain the same voltage, which for the NPN devices he has works out at 9.5 volts and the PNP at 6.5. We’re told it damages their operation as transistors, but with a grab bag, that’s not quite the issue.
We’ve got a few days left before the end of the contest, and we’re sure you can think of something worth entering. Why not give it a go!
DIY Pinball Machine Uses Every Skill
Pinball machines have something for everyone. They’re engaging, fast-paced games available in a variety of sizes and difficulties, and legend has it that they can be played even while deaf and blind. Wizardry aside, pinball machines have a lot to offer those of us around here as well, as they’re a complex mix of analog and digital components, games, computers, and artistry. [Daniele Tartaglia] is showing off every one of his skills to build a tabletop pinball machine completely from the ground up.
This is the latest in a series of videos documenting [Daniele]’s project, so he already has the general arrangement of the game set up. He has some improved ball-counting devices to enhance the game’s ability to keep track of ball position. [Daniele] also builds a few chutes and chimneys for the ball to pass outside of the play field. Next up are flippers and some of the bumpers. The video is rounded out with conductive targets built completely from scratch using metal zip ties. With a machine as complex as this, there are many points during the build where he has to stop and redesign parts. Prototyping as he goes, [Daniele] adds to the distinctive flair of this unique game.
This build truly puts every tool in [Daniele]’s toolbox to work, from a laser cutter, lathe, and 3D printer to various microcontrollers, solenoids, and electronics. He seamlessly blends the analog world of steel ball bearings and rubber bumpers with the digital world of scoring, automation, lighting, and sound. Pinball machines are experiencing a bit of a resurgence, meaning many of the classic tables are expensive collector’s items. If you want to build your own, we featured a great resource for others like [Daniele] who want to build one of these intricate machines themselves.
Thanks to [Aaron] for the tip!
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Non riuscendo a trovare un interlocutore umano che seguisse il mio pensiero e che chiarisse i miei dubbi, ho pensato di consultare Gemini.
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il problema di questa riforma da quello che ho capito è che in sostanza l'elettore vota un progetto, la cui pericolosità o meno non è contenuta nella riforma, ma in regolamenti attuativi esterni che il parlamento dovrà redarre successivamente. questo è estremamente pericoloso. la scelta della rossa dei candidati non togati dei 2 csm, come dei membri dell'alta corte disciplinare è estremamente critica e in quello sta l'indipendenza della magistratura dal potere esecutivo, pur con tutti i difetti e i disequilibri dell'attuale magistratura, certamente stra-potente.
come scrive gemini stesso: "In sintesi, la garanzia di imparzialità si riduce drasticamente, perché la casualità del sorteggio viene neutralizzata dalla selezione preventiva e mirata della lista di base (la "rosa")."
Alla fine è come quando fanno le elezioni in russia o iran, dove tu voti MA i candidati sono prima scelti dal governo o sa una sola parte politica... è lo stesso tipo di difetto originale.
Sarebbe molto diverso se la riforma contenesse criteri rigorosi e vincolanti sa parte del parlamento per la scelta della rosa. Ma così non è. Ed è grave perché si chiede all'elettore di votare una riforma costituzionale "incompleta" e "indefinita" fidandosi di un parlamento.
Mandando alle ortiche l'indipendenza democratica tra potere esecutivo, parlamento e magistratura.
Invito a leggere il mio "dialogo" con Gemini o magari andare su gemini a fare domande alternative.
Supercon 2025: Streaming Live
While we’d love to have you all join us in Pasadena, the next best thing is to connect up to the festivities through the magic of the Internet. As always, the main stage talks will be streamed live to our YouTube channel, while the talks taking place in the DesignLab will be recorded and posted afterwards.
Though it’s not quite as immersive as being in the alleyway and listening to the dogs bark (if you know, you know), you can also join the #supercon-chat channel in the official Hackaday Discord server if you want to virtually rub shoulders with some of our favorite people in the world.
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Android protegge gli utenti dalle frodi, ma fate attenzione al Lunedì
Google ha condiviso nuovi dati sulle protezioni integrate di Android contro le frodi tramite messaggi e chiamate. Secondo l’azienda, il sistema blocca oltre 10 miliardi di contatti sospetti ogni mese, nel tentativo di prevenire il furto di dati e le frodi degli utenti prima che le attività dannose raggiungano il loro obiettivo.
Una delle principali funzionalità di sicurezza era un filtro per Rich Communication Services, il protocollo che ha sostituito gli SMS tradizionali. Oltre 100 milioni di numeri di telefono sono stati bloccati prima che potessero inviare un singolo messaggio. Inoltre, l’app Google Messaggi utilizza un meccanismo di filtraggio antispam che sfrutta una rete neurale locale: i messaggi sospetti vengono immediatamente inviati alla cartella “spam e bloccati“, senza disturbare il proprietario del telefono.
Da ottobre, inoltre, è disponibile in tutto il mondo un’ulteriore funzionalità di sicurezza: il sistema avvisa della presenza di link dannosi nei messaggi, impedendo di cliccarvi finché non viene confermata la non spam.
L’azienda ha specificamente osservato che le truffe più comuni rimangono le false offerte di lavoro. Questi messaggi utilizzano un tono affidabile e promettono un’offerta di lavoro per indurre gli utenti a fornire informazioni personali o dati bancari. Il secondo gruppo più comune è costituito dalle truffe finanziarie: dalle false notifiche su debiti e abbonamenti in sospeso a falsi schemi di investimento. Occasionalmente si riscontrano anche messaggi su pacchetti, tentativi di impersonare agenzie governative, truffe di supporto tecnico e schemi di incontri online.
Google ha notato un’interessante tendenza nella distribuzione di messaggi tramite chat di gruppo. Questi messaggi coinvolgono più destinatari contemporaneamente, spesso incluso un partecipante “fittizio”, anch’esso affiliato ai criminali. Il loro scopo è creare l’illusione di una conversazione dal vivo e rafforzare la credibilità del messaggio. Questo riduce i sospetti e aumenta la probabilità che la vittima prenda sul serio le informazioni.
Un’analisi dell’attività mostra che i truffatori seguono una rigida struttura oraria. Le e-mail iniziano intorno alle 5:00 del mattino (ora del Pacifico) e raggiungono il picco tra le 8:00 e le 10:00. L’orario di punta è il lunedì, l’inizio della settimana lavorativa, quando gli utenti sono particolarmente vulnerabili a causa della fretta e della scarsa concentrazione.
Gli schemi stessi spaziano da quelli di massa a quelli personalizzati. La prima categoria consiste in tentativi caotici di raggiungere il maggior numero possibile di destinatari, utilizzando oggetti come avvisi di consegna, multe o notifiche urgenti. Queste e-mail contengono spesso link abbreviati che mascherano siti web dannosi. La seconda categoria consiste in tentativi lenti e calcolati di guadagnare la fiducia: il truffatore può spacciarsi per un conoscente di lunga data o un reclutatore, utilizzare informazioni pubbliche sulla vittima e prepararla gradualmente a perdite finanziarie. Uno schema chiamato “Pig Butchering” rientra in questa categoria .
Secondo il team di Google, l’obiettivo di tutti questi scenari è ottenere denaro o informazioni, e la fonte delle informazioni di contatto è spesso costituita da database trapelati acquistati sul darknet. Esiste un’intera infrastruttura a supporto di queste operazioni: fornitori di attrezzature SIM farm, kit di phishing come servizio (PhaaS) e servizi di mailing di massa. Collegano l’intera catena, dai truffatori alla vittima finale.
Inoltre, le dinamiche di attacco sono in continua evoluzione: se un Paese rafforza i controlli, gli aggressori si spostano semplicemente in un’altra giurisdizione senza spostarsi fisicamente. Questo consente loro di mantenere un’attività costante, trasferendo i propri centri operativi secondo necessità.
L'articolo Android protegge gli utenti dalle frodi, ma fate attenzione al Lunedì proviene da Red Hot Cyber.
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Simple Device Can Freeze Wi-Fi Camera Feeds
Wi-Fi cameras are everywhere these days, with wireless networking making surveillance systems easier to deploy than ever. [CiferTech] has been recently developing the RF Clown—a tool that can block transmissions from these cameras at some range.
The build is based around an ESP32, with three tactile switches and an OLED display for the user interface. The microcontroller is hooked up to a trio of GT—24 Mini radio modules, which feed a bank of antennas on top of the device. Depending on the mode the device is set to, it will command these modules to jam Bluetooth, BLE, or Wi-Fi traffic in the area with relatively crude transmissions.
The use of multiple radio modules isn’t particularly sophisticated—it just makes it easier to put out more signal on more bands at the same time, flooding the zone and making it less likely legitimate transmissions will get through. Specifically, [CiferTech] demonstrates the use case of taking out a Wi-Fi camera—with the device switched on, the video feed freezes because packets from the camera simply stop making it through.
It’s perhaps impolite to interfere with the operation of somebody else’s cameras, so keep that in mind before you pursue a project like this one. Files are on GitHub for the curious. Video after the break.
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The mummified remains of two duck-billed dinosaurs exposing skin, spikes, flesh, the first reptilian hooves ever discovered.
There’s a Dinosaur ‘Mummy Zone.’ Here’s What Scientists Found There.
Welcome back to a special scary installment of the Abstract! Is Halloween over? Technically yes. But as lovers of spooky season will know, the fallout from Halloween—when dawn reveals the remains of the festivities—is an extension of the day itself. That is why I have assembled a parade of horrors for you this morning.First, ancient mummies from a watery grave. Then: : let’s get tangled up in one of the great mysteries of spider webs; watch out for the venomous snakes; and lastly, scientists literally ask where the bodies are buried.
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And now, Halloween is over but the darkness lingers on…
Prepare to enter the “mummy zone”
If you think human mummies are scary, wait until you meet dinosaur mummies.
Paleontologists have discovered the mummified remains of two duck-billed dinosaurs that belong to the species Edmontosaurus (go Oilers!) annectens, which lived 66 million years ago in what is now Wyoming.
The immaculate preservation of the animals—a 2-year-old juvenile and young adult that was roughly 5 to 8 years old—exposed unprecedented corporeal details, such as intricate polygonal scales, spinal spikes, fleshy contours, skin wrinkles, and the first hooves ever identified in a dinosaur (or any reptile), making them the oldest hooves in the fossil record.
The scaly skin of a crest over the back of the juvenile duck-billed dinosaur Edmontosaurus annectens, nicknamed "Ed Jr." Image: Tyler Keillor/Fossil Lab
“The late juvenile is the first subadult dinosaur mummy on record and the first large-bodied dinosaur preserving the fleshy midline over the trunk,” said researchers led by Paul Sereno of the University of Chicago. “The early adult is the first hadrosaurid to preserve the entire spike row from hips to tail tip and the first reptile preserving wedge-shaped pedal hooves.”
These “end-Cretaceous E. annectens preserve the oldest hoof renderings for any tetrapod, the first record of hooves in a reptile” and “the first instance of a hooved tetrapod capable of bipedal locomotion,” the team added.
Dinosaur hoof. Image: Tyler Keillor/UChicago Fossil Lab
For more than a century, paleontologists have discovered dinosaur mummies in what the team delightfully calls the “mummy zone” of the Lance Formation of east-central Wyoming. In addition to adding new specimens to this collection, Sereno and his colleagues have also shed light on the rare process of “clay templating” that produces this preservation of mummified flesh, skin, and other soft tissues.
As the carcasses of these Edmontosaurs dried in the Cretaceous sun, they were suddenly immersed under a flash flood that left a thin biofilm over their skin, preserving the three-dimensional soft tissues in time. The team concluded that “the extraordinary preservation of the ‘mummy zone’ is due to rapid subsidence in a coastal setting subject to seasonal drought-flood cycles.”
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While it’s sad that these dinos died young, it’s a miracle that we can observe their flesh, skin, and hooves 66 million years later. Anyway, it’s not as if they had much to look forward to, since the die was already cast for the non-avian dinosaurs. In this case, the die is an apocalyptic space rock to which we humans owe our existence—and the reality of these cosmic gambles of fate is frankly scarier than any mummy, even a dinosaur mummy, ever could be.In other news…
Deck the halls with stabilimenta
Halloween revelers will be taking down their decorative spider-web today, but real spiders keep their web decor up all year long. Researchers have long struggled to make sense of the silky zigzag ornaments that some spiders weave, known as “stabilimenta,” which could serve as insect attractors, predator defense, thermal protection, or water collection. Nobody is really sure!
An example of stabilimentum in Argiope bruennichi web. Image: Pierluigi Rizzo (member of Aracnofilia - Italian Society of Arachnology), CC-BY 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/b…)
Now, a team has suggested that stabilimenta might be vibrational amplifiers that help alert spiders to prey impacting the web. “No studies have yet investigated how web decorations affect vibration propagation in orb webs,” said researchers led by Gabriele Greco of the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences. By studying wasp spiders in Sardinia, the team found that in certain cases, ”the presence of the stabilimentum enhances the spider’s ability to detect prey location…compared to webs without a stabilimentum.”
“However, from a biological standpoint, the high variability in stabilimentum geometry suggests that the observed differences in elastic wave propagation are unlikely to have a consistent or significant functional role,” the team added.
In other words, these web decorations still defy a one-size-fits-all explanation. My own hypothesis is that they are just the dorm room posters of the spider world.
A new antivenom bites back
Though I am a militant ophiophilist, even I can see how a clade of dangerous limbless weirdos ended up becoming so widely feared and maligned. Snakes kill tens of thousands of people per year, an ongoing tragedy that has galvanized researchers to develop antivenom “cocktails” that could treat snakebit emergencies across many species while also mitigating adverse immunological reactions.
A new study has now addressed this challenge “by immunizing an alpaca and a llama with the venoms of 18 different snakes, including mambas, cobras and rinkhals,” said researchers led by Shirin Ahmadi of the Technical University of Denmark.
The cocktail “effectively prevented venom-induced lethality in vivo across 17 African elapid snake species” and “shows considerable promise for comprehensive, continent-wide protection against snakebites by all medically relevant African elapids,” the team added.
While it will take much more research to prove it is safe and effective in humans, the antivenom is a significant step toward preventing snakebite deaths and injuries. It's also about the only cocktail that you hope you’ll never have the desire to order.
The more (dead), the merrier
We’ll close on that most hallowed of Halloween traditions—a trip to the haunted cemetery.
In an unprecedented study, researchers mapped out tens of thousands of ancient Chinese tombs spanning the past 4,000 years since the Xia Dynasty. The team used mapping software to analyze the age and location of the tombs to search for clues about the social and political impacts on burial locations.
The shift trajectory of burials across different historical periods. Image: Ma et al., 2025, PLOS One, CC-BY 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/b…)
“The number of ancient tombs varied significantly across historical periods” with the Qing dynasty (1644 - 1912) accounting for 47.012 percent of the national total, while the Sui dynasty (581 - 618) had only 0.134 percent, according to researchers led by Quanbao Ma of the Beijing University of Civil Engineering and Architecture.
“From a temporal perspective, periods of frequent dynastic transitions and wars in Chinese history were often accompanied by significant population declines and migrations,” the team added. “However, during post-war recovery and periods of societal stability, population numbers typically rebounded and grew rapidly, which was also reflected in the increasing number of deceased individuals requiring burial.”
In other words, contrary to Halloween lore, it can be a good sign to find a lot of dead bodies in one place because it’s often an indicator of more peaceful and stable times (dead bodies, after all, are the product of living ones). What might be more creepy is an absence of graves in your general vicinity. With that in mind, go visit your local ghosts; they are great company this time of year.
Thanks for reading! See you next week.
First Contact
A narrative and visual exploration of humanity’s age-old search for and fixation with extraterrestrials.First Contact explores the ancient idea—and epic ...Hachette Book Group
Dolcetto o scherzetto?
Ecco cosa dice il Global Peace index del 2025 - Info Data
I decessi causati dai conflitti globali hanno raggiunto il livello più alto degli ultimi venticinque anni.Enrico Calabrese (Info Data)
Un ponte sul mare dei conti.
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Il dibattito sul ponte sullo stretto di Messina di questi giorni va oltre la politica. I rilievi della Corte dei conti non sono un atto di ostruzionismo, ma l’esercizio di una funzione di garanzia che tutela la legalità, la trasparenza e la corretta gestione delle risorse pubbliche. In un sistema democratico equilibrato, il controllo non è un freno, ma uno strumento di responsabilità.
Il progetto del ponte muove circa 14 miliardi di euro, coinvolge interessi strategici e incide sull’ambiente, sull’economia e sulla coesione territoriale. È naturale, e necessario, che la Corte chieda chiarezza su piani finanziari, sostenibilità economica e conformità giuridica degli atti, per assicurare che ogni fase rispetti le norme sui contratti pubblici e sulla spesa dello Stato.
Nel caso del governo Meloni, la spinta verso una realizzazione rapida dell’opera è ovvia: il ponte è diventato un simbolo politico, un progetto identitario che promette infrastrutture e sviluppo. Tuttavia, l’urgenza non può sostituire la trasparenza né giustificare forzature amministrative. Il ruolo della Corte è proprio quello di ricordare che una grande opera vive solo se fondata su basi legali solide e su una gestione finanziaria sostenibile.
Parlare di “attacco” o “ostacolo” da parte della Corte significa travisare la sua missione costituzionale. La funzione di controllo serve a rafforzare la credibilità dell’azione di governo, non a limitarla. In un periodo in cui il debito pubblico pesa e i margini di spesa sono stretti, è fondamentale che ogni euro investito sia tracciabile e coerente con i vincoli di legge.
La correttezza dei rilievi contabili sta nel richiamare l’attenzione su elementi tecnici che non possono essere ignorati: la revisione dei contratti con i concessionari, la copertura finanziaria pluriennale, la valutazione dei rischi ambientali e la trasparenza delle gare. Sono queste le condizioni per evitare arbitrio, sprechi o contenziosi futuri che rallenterebbero ulteriormente i lavori. La vera modernizzazione non è solo costruire infrastrutture, ma farlo rispettando le regole e garantendo che la spesa pubblica sia un investimento per tutti, non un rischio collettivo.
Ora serve che il governo Meloni abbandoni la retorica distrattiva. Se davvero la priorità è costruire il futuro dell’Italia, si dimostri di saperlo fare passando dal rispetto delle leggi e dall’ascolto delle istituzioni di controllo. Solo così questa opera potrà essere il simbolo di un paese credibile, non di una stagione di scorciatoie, e non divenire l’ennesimo fallimento di un esecutivo che, per ora, non ha portato a casa quasi nulla.
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Cosa è successo al Linux Day Fabriano 2025 👀
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Sabato 25 ottobre abbiamo celebrato insieme la 22ª edizione del Linux Day Fabriano, in contemporanea con la
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E bravo Crosetto...
«Quelle persone vanno prese a calci e mandate via» - Il Post
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«Quelle persone vanno prese a calci e mandate via»
L'ha detto il ministro della Difesa Guido Crosetto, di Fratelli d'Italia, del gruppo che cantava cori fascisti nella sede del suo partito a ParmaIl Post
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La Gaza Cola è una bibita che ho scoperto oggi grazie ad un video di cui lascio il link a seguire. Il nome già da sé indica il suo obiettivo umanitario: il ricavato della vendita andrà per la ricostruzione di Gaza. In Italia è in vendita da poco quindi la sua diffusione è ancora limitata.
Sito italiano di Gaza Cola
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Anduril accelera sul suo loyal wingman. Effettuati i primi test di volo del “Fury”
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Il loyal wingman di Anduril prende ufficialmente il volo. Venerdì scorso, secondo quanto affermato dalla stessa Us Air Force, il prototipo dell’Yfq-44A “Fury” realizzato dalla start-up americana avrebbe iniziato ufficialmente i test di volo in una località
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Presentazione del volume di Antonella Attanasio “Don Diego alla corte roveresca di Casteldurante: l’Historia naturale dell’elefante” 12 novembre 2025, ore 17.00
Conoscete la storia dell’elefante Don Diego?
Venite a scoprirla il 12 novembre alla Biblioteca Universitaria Alessandrina!
Verrà presentato il volume “Don Diego alla corte roveresca di Casteldurante: l’Historia naturale dell’elefante” di Antonella Attanasio.
Primo dei “Quaderni” della collana “Immaginare i Saperi” per De Luca Editori d’Arte
Interventi di:
Daniela Fugaro, direttrice della Biblioteca Universitaria Alessandrina
Massimo Moretti, Sapienza Università di Roma
Lucia Tomasi Tongiorgi, Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei
Antonella Sbrilli, Sapienza Università di Roma
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io credo (ma non è che ci si possa basare alcuna strategia) che l'arsenale atomico russo, dopo tutti questi anni di incuria, sia ormai da considerare per lo più "scaduto". per mancanza di manutenzione e rinnovamento. le atomiche non sono cose che metto in un magazzino e durano secoli. il materiale fissile è instabile per necessità stessa di essere bomba e generare un'esplosione. un'instabilità "finemente" "calibrata". e tutti questi proclami di putin, non fanno che alimentare questi dubbi. le atomiche nel mondo sono in dato "acquisito" e ovvio, e pure parlarne rende per certi versi più dubbia l'esistenza. se puoi già nuclearizzare tutto il mondo perché hai bisogno di nuove armi? esiste la possibilità, ma spero di non dovermi mai cacare sotto per provarlo, che in caso di vero conflitto atomico, la russia sia nuclearizzata (2-3 città in tutto, tanto basta) ma sospetto che in europa o usa arriverebbero i classici missili armati di bandierina con la scritta ("il materiale fissile si trova nel magazzino AB92S").
ovviamente ripeto, non è il caso di provare questa cosa.
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Sotto i ghiacci dell’Antartide scoperto un enorme corpo granitico sepolto da 175 milioni di anni
Sotto il ghiacciaio di Pine Island, in Antartide occidentale, è stato scoperto un enorme corpo granitico largo circa 100 km e spesso circa 7 km, nascosto da 175 milioni di anni.Ilaria Polastro (Geopop)
Il grande Indiano che sconfigge BlackRock con la non-violenza e dà inizio allo... scoppio della bolla dei fondi di investimento.
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Nuova Delhi:
In quello che viene descritto come un atto di frode finanziaria "mozzafiato", la divisione di investimento nel credito privato della società di investimenti globale BlackRock e diversi importanti istituti di credito stanno ora cercando di recuperare più di 500 milioni di dollari persi in una frode sui prestiti presumibilmente orchestrata dal dirigente indiano del settore delle telecomunicazioni Bankim Brahmbhatt.
Secondo un rapporto esclusivo del Wall Street Journal , i creditori, tra cui HPS Investment Partners di BlackRock, hanno accusato Brahmbhatt, proprietario delle società di servizi di telecomunicazione Broadband Telecom e Bridgevoice, di aver falsificato fatture e crediti commerciali che erano stati dati in garanzia per prestiti ingenti. La causa, intentata ad agosto negli Stati Uniti, sostiene che la rete di società di Brahmbhatt abbia costruito sulla carta l'illusione di una solida situazione finanziaria, trasferendo denaro all'estero, in India e Mauritius.
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Porno, AI, big tech: un approccio adeguato alla rivoluzione digitale è indispensabile
L'articolo proviene da #StartMag e viene ricondiviso sulla comunità Lemmy @Informatica (Italy e non Italy 😁)
L’intelligenza artificiale è uno strumento formidabile per chi lo sappia usare tecnicamente e possieda la consapevolezza adeguata dei contenuti da reperire,
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Public records are for the public
Dear Friend of Press Freedom,
It’s been 220 days since Rümeysa Öztürk was arrested for co-writing an op-ed the government didn’t like. Read on for news from California, Washington D.C. and Maryland as the government shutdown drags on.
Public records are for the public
When Wired made public records-based stories free, subscriptions went up.
When 404 Media published reporting that relied on the Freedom of Information Act without a paywall, new sources came forward.
Freedom of the Press Foundation (FPF) spoke to Wired Global Editorial Director and FPF board member Katie Drummond, and 404 Media co-founder Joseph Cox about why giving the public access to public records reporting is good for journalism — and for business. Read more here.
Shutting down the government doesn’t shut down the First Amendment
It’s absurd and unconstitutional to exclude reporters from immigration hearings unless they get government permission to attend, especially when it’s impossible to obtain permission due to the government shutdown, and particularly when the current government despises First Amendment freedoms and will use any opportunity to evade transparency.
And yet that’s exactly what an immigration court in Maryland did this week. We wrote a detailed letter to the top judge at the courthouse explaining why they need to reverse course, both to comply with the law and for the sake of democracy. The next day, Capital News Service reported that the court had backed down and lifted the ban. Read the letter here.
No secret police in LA
Award-winning journalist Cerise Castle sued Los Angeles County in July and obtained a court order for the department to release the sheriff’s deputy ID photographs.
But now the county is appealing. Its objection to allowing the public to identify law enforcement officers is especially striking when Angelenos and others across the country are outraged by unidentified, masked federal immigration officers abducting their neighbors. It also comes on the heels of the city of Los Angeles embarrassing itself with its failed effort to sue a journalist for publishing officer photographs.
We connected with Castle’s lawyer, Susan Seager, to try to figure out what the department is thinking. Read more here.
Top three questions about the White House ballroom
FPF’s Daniel Ellsberg Chair on Government Secrecy Lauren Harper has lots of questions about the demolition of a section of the White House to construct a ballroom.
She wrote about three of them for our government secrecy site, The Classifieds: (1) Is there a budget? (2) Who are the donors, and what do they get in return? and (3) Where should we look for answers about what’s going on at the East Wing? Read more here.
What we’re reading
U.S. assessment of Israeli shooting of journalist divided American officials (The New York Times). A retired U.S. colonel has gone public with his concern that the Biden administration’s findings about the 2022 killing of Palestinian-American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh by the Israeli military were “soft-pedaled to appease Israel.” There has been “a miscarriage of justice,” he says.
ICE detains British journalist after criticism of Israel on US tour (The Guardian). The detention of Sami Hamdi by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement solely for his views while on a speaking tour in the U.S. is a blatant assault on free speech. These are the tactics of the thought police.
Trump and Leavitt watch with glee as the press is crumbling (Salon). “As the press becomes more subservient and less independent, the firsthand knowledge needed to even stage a fight to get our mojo back is a whisper in the ether,” writes Brian Karem. That’s why veteran journalists who know how abnormal this all is need to be extra vocal these days.
Atlanta journalist says he ‘won’t be the only’ one deported by Trump officials (The Guardian). “It’s not the way I wanted to come back to my country – deported like a criminal,” journalist Mario Guevara told Briana Erickson of FPF’s U.S. Press Freedom Tracker from El Salvador. Read The Guardian’s story, based on reporting by the Tracker.
One third of all journalists are creator journalists, new report finds (Poynter). It’s no time for gatekeeping. There aren’t enough traditional J-School trained journalists to adequately document every ICE abduction – let alone everything else going on. We appreciate everyone who is exercising their press freedom rights, no matter how they’re categorized.
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LA sheriff ducks journalist’s request for deputy photographs
Award-winning journalist Cerise Castle has some history with the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department. In 2021, she chronicled how deputies formed violent gangs within the department. She then turned “A Tradition of Violence,” her 15-part series for Knock LA, into a podcast by the same name.
Perhaps that’s why the department was spooked when Castle submitted a Public Records Act request for names and official ID photographs of all sworn personnel, “excluding those in undercover assignments.” Or maybe the department was merely committed to following its routine practice of delaying and denying records requests.
In any case, the department produced the names of about 8,500 deputies but refused to produce any photographs except of the sheriff and his undersheriffs. They claimed that producing photographs of the deputies would violate their right to privacy and might endanger them in the future, if they ever go undercover.
But the department’s rationale seemed suspect because it also refused to comply with separate requests for headshots of three deputies who have been convicted of serious felonies, fired, and obviously won’t be sent on any future undercover operations for the department.
Castle won her Los Angeles County Superior Court Public Records Act lawsuit in July, and the court ordered the department to release the deputy ID photographs. But now the county is appealing. Its objection to allowing the public to identify law enforcement officers is especially striking when Angelenos and others across the country are outraged by unidentified, masked federal immigration officers abducting their neighbors.
The timing is also particularly odd after the California Legislature just enacted Sen. Scott Wiener’s new law, the No Secret Police Act, barring law enforcement officers operating in the state from masking their faces when working in public, beginning on Jan. 1, 2026.
We spoke to Castle’s lawyer, Susan Seager, to learn more about the case and her client’s opposition to the county’s appeal.
What is the county’s basis for its opposition to producing pictures of law enforcement officers who operate in public and serve the public at the public’s expense?
They claim that no deputy will ever work undercover again because if a deputy’s photo is posted online, and if that deputy works undercover in the future, and if a “criminal” uses facial recognition technology, then that future undercover deputy will be recognized by criminals. But the court rejected this argument because it’s all speculation. Los Angeles Superior Court Judge James Chalfant followed decisions by the California Supreme Court, such as Commission on Peace Officer Certification Standards and Training v. Superior Court, which held that ordinary police officers don’t have a right to privacy in their identities and mere “speculation” about safety risks to the general police force is not enough to block disclosure of public records containing individual police officers’ identities.
The top brass at the LA Sheriff’s Department don’t want their deputies to be accountable to the public they serve. The Sheriff’s Department fights all Public Records Act cases. It’s a knee-jerk reaction.
Susan Seager
Have similar arguments been rejected by the courts before?
No. As far as I know, this is the first case where a court decided that official police department officer ID photos are disclosable under the Public Records Act. The city of LA and city of Santa Ana both voluntarily gave journalist Ben Camacho official police officer ID photos in response to his Public Records Act legal actions, but they did so before a court ruled on his request. The LAPD photos are now online for public use at Watch the Watchers.
It seems notable that LA County is pursuing this appeal so soon after the city of Los Angeles wasted its time and the taxpayers’ money, and embarrassed itself in the Camacho case. Why is the county repeating the city’s mistakes?
The problem is that both the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors and the Los Angeles City Council appear to be very hands-off on the litigation against them, including cases involving their sheriff’s department and police department, respectively. The elected officials seem to let their lawyers make all the decisions on litigation strategies, appeals, etc., without asking for any updates or to be involved in any decisions to appeal in cases against the government agencies. LA’s elected officials need to take more control over litigation involving their police officers. They need to stop wasting taxpayer money fighting Public Records Act cases like this, especially after a superior court orders the police agency to release the records.
Many people in Los Angeles and around the country have been outraged in recent months by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents wearing masks, and other efforts by the Trump administration to discourage and even criminalize identifying law enforcement officers. What do you make of LA County litigating the right to keep deputies’ identities secret against that backdrop?
LA deputies probably wish they could wear masks as well. And the top brass at the LA Sheriff’s Department don’t want their deputies to be accountable to the public they serve. The Sheriff’s Department fights all Public Records Act cases. It’s a knee-jerk reaction. And the lawyers hired by the county don’t care about public accountability — they are hired to fight and win.
What’s your theory about why the county is pursuing this? Where is the pressure coming from? Do they seriously believe that this is a meritorious appeal that they have a real chance of winning? Or do they just not care because taxpayers are funding it?
This is typical for the county of Los Angeles and the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department. They fight all Public Records Act cases. In this case, there is extra pressure coming from the labor unions representing the deputies. The deputies’ labor unions actually joined in the case as intervenors, so we are fighting against the county and the labor unions.
If journalists are not able to obtain photos of law enforcement officers through public records requests, what kind of reporting will the public lose out on?
In the age of everyone carrying a smartphone and filming police, and posting images of police on social media or news sites, the public and the press can use those images to identify officers and investigate their past history. There may be instances where deputies use excessive force or threaten members of the public, but the victim doesn’t know the name of the deputy. Photographs help identify officers.
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Behind the Blog: Ray-Bans Are No Longer Cool or Timeless
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 keeping FOIA reporting in front of a paywall, Ray-Bans, and what pregnate Schoolhouse Rock bills say about our current AI-driven hellscape.JOSEPH: Yesterday I did a livestreamed event with Freedom of the Press Foundation and WIRED. It was called Unpaywalled: The case for making public records-based reporting free and you can check it out here.
As you might know, we made a decision very early on with 404 Media, I think in the first week maybe, to not paywall our Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) reporting. There are a few reasons, but the main one simply is that with public records, we think people should be able to see those records without paying. It’s like a government agency publishing certain databases, or census data, or whatever. These are public records and should be published or re-published as such.
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Photos captured by Mobile Fortify will be stored for 15 years, regardless of immigration or citizenship status, the document says.#FOIA #ICE #CBP
You Can't Refuse To Be Scanned by ICE's Facial Recognition App, DHS Document Says
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The document provides new details about the technology behind Mobile Fortify, how the data it collects is processed and stored, and DHS’s rationale for using it. On Wednesday 404 Media reported that both ICE and Customs and Border Protection (CBP) are scanning peoples’ faces in the streets to verify citizenship.
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Gli Stati Uniti sono pronti a colpire il Venezuela. Ecco cosa sta succedendo
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Gli Stati Uniti sono pronti a colpire il Venezuela e Donald Trump ha dato il via libera per procedere alle azioni militari all’interno del Paese. Potrebbe accadere già nelle prossime ore. Questo è quanto riporta il Miami Herald – rapidamente ripreso da Forbes e altri
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I've just received my Bark Sweden wooden case, it's the second one, as I got one for my FP5 too. This time I bought the Masur birch, with reinforced corners.
It's absolutely beautiful!
It's a real piece of art and it fits like a glove on my FP6.
It's about 1 mm over the glass screen so the screen should be well protected. The grip is more secure than with the original Fairphone cover (which is also good).
It's not cheap, but I think it's really worth the money.
If you're thinking about a Christmas gift for yourself think of this case. 😁
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Stato Palestinese, ecco quali Paesi lo riconoscono ufficialmente. LA MAPPA INTERATTIVA
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Ora che non sono riusciti a cancellarla e zittirla coi fatti stanno provano ad infangare la sua integrità con false accuse di aver ricevuto finanziamenti da alcune associazioni ProPal vicine ad Hamas da loro definite "terroriste".
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