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PALESTINA. Campo di Jenin: “Questa Nakba è più dolorosa della prima”
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Demoverbotszone Gießen: DGB legt Beschwerde gegen Beschluss des Verwaltungsgerichts ein
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A Friendly Reminder That Your Unpowered SSDs Are Probably Losing Data
Save a bunch of files on a good ol’ magnetic hard drive, leave it in a box, and they’ll probably still be there a couple of decades later. The lubricants might have all solidified and the heads jammed in place, but if you can get things moving, you’ll still have your data. As explained over at [XDA Developers], though, SSDs can’t really offer the same longevity.
It all comes down to power. SSDs are considered non-volatile storage—in that they hold on to data even when power is removed. However, they can only do so for a rather limited amount of time. This is because of the way NAND flash storage works. It involves trapping a charge in a floating gate transistor to store a single bit of data. You can power down an SSD, and the trapped charge in all the NAND flash transistors will happily stay put. But over longer periods of time, from months to years, that charge can leak out. When this happens, data is lost.
Depending on your particular SSD, and the variety of NAND flash it uses (TLC, QLC, etc), the safe storage time may be anywhere from a few months to a few years. The process takes place faster at higher temperatures, too, so if you store your drives in a warm area, you could see surprisingly rapid loss.
Ultimately, it’s worth checking your drive specs and planning accordingly. Going on a two-week holiday? Your PC will probably be just fine switched off. Going to prison for three to five years with only a slim chance of parole? Maybe back up to a hard drive first, or have your cousin switch your machine on now and then for safety’s sake.
On a vaguely related note, we’ve even seen SSDs that can self-destruct on purpose. If you’ve got the low down on other neat solid-state stories, don’t hesitate to notify the tipsline.
Benchmarking Chinese CPUs
When it comes to PCs, Westerners are most most familiar with x86/x64 processors from Intel and AMD, with Apple Silicon taking up a significant market share, too. However, in China, a relatively new CPU architecture is on the rise. A fabless semiconductor company called Loongson has been producing chips with its LoongArch architecture since 2021. These chips remain rare outside China, but some in the West have been benchmarking them.
[Daniel Lemire] has recently blogged about the performance of the Loongson 3A6000, which debuted in late 2023. The chip was put through a range of simple benchmarking tests, involving float processing and string transcoding operations. [Daniel] compared it to the Intel Xeon Gold 6338 from 2021, noting the Intel chip pretty much performed better across the board. No surprise given its extra clock rate. Meanwhile, the gang over at [Chips and Cheese] ran even more exhaustive tests on the same chip last year. The Loongson was put through typical tasks like compressing archives and encoding video. The outlet came to the conclusion that the chip was a little weaker than older CPUs like AMD’s Zen 2 line and Intel’s 10th generation Core chips. It’s also limited as a four-core chip compared to modern Intel and AMD lines that often start at 6 cores as a minimum.
If you find yourself interested in Loongson’s product, don’t get too excited. They’re not exactly easy to lay your hands on outside of China, and even the company’s own website is difficult to access from beyond those shores. You might try reaching out to Loongson-oriented online communities if you seek such hardware.
Different CPU architectures have perhaps never been more relevant, particularly as we see the x86 stalwarts doing battle with the rise of desktop and laptop ARM processors. If you’ve found something interesting regarding another obscure kind of CPU, don’t hesitate to let the tipsline know!
“It was like playing the lottery,” said astronomer Tomonori Totani, adding that he hopes other scientists will verify the possible detection of a new dark matter signature.#TheAbstract
A Lone Astronomer Has Reported a Dark Matter ‘Annihilation’ Breakthrough
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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.An astronomer has reported a possible new signature of dark matter, a mysterious substance that makes up most of the universe, according to a study published on Tuesday in the Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics.
Dark matter accounts for 85 percent of all matter in the universe, but its existence has so far been inferred only from its indirect effects on the familiar “baryonic” matter that makes up stars, planets, and life.
Tomonori Totani, a professor of astronomy at the University of Tokyo and the author of the study, believes he has spotted novel indirect traces of dark matter particles in the “halo” surrounding the center of our galaxy using new observations from NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope. When these speculative particles collide—a process called dark matter annihilation—the crash is predicted to emit bright gamma rays, which is the light that Totani thinks he has identified.
“The discovery was made possible by focusing on the halo region (excluding the galactic center), which had received little attention, and by utilizing data accumulated over 15 years from the Fermi satellite,” Totani told 404 Media in an email. “After carefully removing all components other than dark matter, a signal resembling dark matter appeared.”
“It was like playing the lottery, and at first I was skeptical,” he added. “But after checking meticulously and thinking it seemed correct, I got goosebumps!”
If the detection is corroborated by follow-up studies, it could confirm a leading hypothesis that dark matter is made of a hypothetical class of weakly interacting massive particles, or “WIMPs”—potentially exposing the identity of this mysterious substance for the first time. But that potential breakthrough is still a ways off, according to other researchers in the field.
“Any new structure in the gamma-ray sky is interesting, but the dark matter interpretation here strikes me as quite preliminary,” said Danielle Norcini, an experimental particle physicist and
assistant professor at Johns Hopkins University, in an email to 404 Media.
Gamma-ray intensity map excluding components other than the halo, spanning approximately 100 degrees in the direction of the Galactic center. The horizontal gray bar in the central region corresponds to the Galactic plane area, which was excluded from the analysis to avoid strong astrophysical radiation. Image: Tomonori Totani, The University of Tokyo
Dark matter has flummoxed scientists for almost a century. In the 1930s, astronomer Fritz Zwicky observed that the motions of galaxies hinted that they are much more massive than expected based solely on visible baryonic matter. Since then, astronomers have confirmed that dark matter, which accumulates into dense halos at the centers of galaxies, acts like a gravitational glue that holds structures together. Dark matter is also the basis of a vast cosmic web of gaseous threads that links galaxy clusters across billions of light years.But while dark matter is ubiquitous, it does not interact with the electromagnetic force, which means it does not absorb, reflect, or emit light. This property makes it difficult to spot with traditional astronomy, a challenge that has inspired the development of novel instruments designed to directly detect dark matter such as the subterranean LUX-ZEPLIN in South Dakota and the forthcoming DAMIC-M in France.
For years, scientists have been probing possible emission from dark matter annihilation at the center of the Milky Way, which is surrounded by a halo of densely-clustered dark matter. Those previous studies focus on an excess emission pattern of about 2 gigaelectronvolts (GeV). Tontani’s study spotlights a new and different pattern with extremely energetic gamma rays at 20 GeV.
“A part of the Fermi data showed a peculiar excess that our model couldn't explain, leading me to suspect it might be due to radiation originating from dark matter,” he said. “The most difficult part is removing gamma-ray emissions of origins other than dark matter, such as those from cosmic rays and celestial objects.”
This tentative report may finally fill in a major missing piece of our understanding of the universe by exposing the true nature of dark matter and confirming the existence of WIMPs. But given that similar claims have been made in the past, more research is needed to assess the significance of the results.
“For any potential indirect signal, the key next steps are independent checks: analyses using different background models, different assumptions about the Milky Way halo, and ideally complementary data sets,” Norcini said.
“Gamma-ray structures in the halo can have many astrophysical origins, so ruling those out requires careful modeling and cross-comparison,” she continued. “At this point the result seems too new for that scrutiny to have played out, and it will take multiple groups looking at the same data before a dark matter interpretation could be considered robust.”
Though Totani is confident in his interpretation of his discovery, he also looks forward to the input of other dark matter researchers around the world.
“First, I would like other researchers to independently verify my analysis,” he said. “Next, for everyone to be convinced that this is truly dark matter, the decisive factor will be the detection of gamma rays with the same spectrum from other regions, such as dwarf galaxies. The accumulation of further data from the Fermi satellite and large ground-based gamma-ray telescopes, such as the Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory (CTAO) will be crucial.”
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Artist Tega Brain is fighting the internet’s enshittification by turning back the clock to before ChatGPT existed.#AISlop #GoogleSearch #searchengines
'Slop Evader' Lets You Surf the Web Like It’s 2022
It’s hard to believe it’s only been a few years since generative AI tools started flooding the internet with low quality content-slop. Just over a year ago, you’d have to peruse certain corners of Facebook or spend time wading through the cultural cesspool of Elon Musk’s X to find people posting bizarre and repulsive synthetic media. Now, AI slop feels inescapable — whether you’re watching TV, reading the news, or trying to find a new apartment.That is, unless you’re using Slop Evader, a new browser tool that filters your web searches to only include results from before November 30, 2022 — the day that ChatGPT was released to the public.
The tool is available for Firefox and Chrome, and has one simple function: Showing you the web as it was before the deluge of AI-generated garbage. It uses Google search functions to index popular websites and filter results based on publication date, a scorched earth approach that virtually guarantees your searches will be slop-free.
Slop Evader was created by artist and researcher Tega Brain, who says she was motivated by the growing dismay over the tech industry’s unrelenting, aggressive rollout of so-called “generative AI”—despite widespread criticism and the wider public’s distaste for it.
Slop Evader in action. Via Tega Brain
“This sowing of mistrust in our relationship with media is a huge thing, a huge effect of this synthetic media moment we’re in,” Brain told 404 Media, describing how tools like Sora 2 have short-circuited our ability to determine reality within a sea of artificial online junk. “I’ve been thinking about ways to refuse it, and the simplest, dumbest way to do that is to only search before 2022.”
One under-discussed impact of AI slop and synthetic media, says Brain, is how it increases our “cognitive load” when viewing anything online. When we can no longer immediately assume any of the media we encounter was made by a human, the act of using social media or browsing the web is transformed into a never-ending procession of existential double-takes.
This cognitive dissonance extends to everyday tasks that require us to use the internet—which is practically everything nowadays. Looking for a house or apartment? Companies are using genAI tools to generate pictures of houses and rental properties, as well as the ads themselves. Trying to sell your old junk on Facebook Marketplace? Meta’s embrace of generative AI means you may have to compete with bots, fake photos, and AI-generated listings. And when we shop for beauty products or view ads, synthetic media tools are taking our filtered and impossibly-idealized beauty standards to absurd and disturbing new places.
In all of these cases, generative AI tools further thumb the scales of power—saving companies money while placing a higher cognitive burden on regular people to determine what’s real and what’s not.
“I open up Pinterest and suddenly notice that half of my feed are these incredibly idealized faces of women that are clearly not real people,” said Brain. “It’s shoved into your face and into your feed, whether you searched for it or not.”
Currently, Slop Evader can be used to search pre-GPT archives of seven different sites where slop has become commonplace, including YouTube, Reddit, Stack Exchange, and the parenting site MumsNet. The obvious downside to this, from a user perspective, is that you won’t be able to find anything time-sensitive or current—including this very website, which did not exist in 2022. The experience is simultaneously refreshing and harrowing, allowing you to browse freely without having to constantly question reality, but always knowing that this freedom will be forever locked in time—nostalgia for a human-centric world wide web that no longer exists.
Of course, the tool’s limitations are part of its provocation. Brain says she has plans to add support for more sites, and release a new version that uses DuckDuckGo’s search indexing instead of Google’s. But the real goal, she says, is prompting people to question how they can collectively refuse the dystopian, inhuman version of the internet that Silicon Valley’s AI-pushers have forced on us.
“I don’t think browser add-ons are gonna save us,” said Brain. “For me, the purpose of doing this work is mostly to act as a provocation and give people examples of how you can refuse this stuff, to furnish one’s imaginary for what a politics of refusal could look like.”
With enough cultural pushback, Brain suggests, we could start to see alternative search engines like DuckDuckGo adding options to filter out search results suspected of having synthetic content (DuckDuckGo added the ability to filter out AI images in search earlier this year). There’s also been a growing movementpushing back against the new AI data centers threatening to pollute communities andraise residents’ electricity bills. But no matter what form AI slop-refusal takes, it will need to be a group effort.
“It’s like with the climate debate, we’re not going to get out of this shitshow with individual actions alone,” she added. “I think that’s the million dollar question, is what is the relationship between this kind of individual empowerment work and collective pushback.”
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Building a Low-Cost Satellite Tracker
Looking up at the sky just after sunset or just before sunrise will reveal a fairly staggering amount of satellites orbiting overhead, from tiny cubesats to the International Space Station. Of course these satellites are always around, and even though you’ll need specific conditions to view them with the naked eye, with the right radio antenna and only a few dollars in electronics you can see exactly which ones are flying by at any time.
[Josh] aka [Ham Radio Crash Course] is demonstrating this build on his channel and showing every step needed to get something like this working. The first part is finding the correct LoRa module, which will be the bulk of the cost of this project. Unlike those used for most Meshtastic nodes, this one needs to be built for the 433 MHz band. The software running on this module is from TinyGS, which we have featured here before, and which allows a quick and easy setup to listen in to these types of satellites. This build goes much further into detail on building the antenna, though, and also covers some other ancillary tasks like mounting it somewhere outdoors.
With all of that out of the way, though, the setup is able to track hundreds of satellites on very little hardware, as well as display information about each of them. We’d always favor a build that lets us gather data like this directly over using something like a satellite tracking app, although those do have their place. And of course, with slightly more compute and a more directed antenna there is all kinds of other data beaming down that we can listen in on as well, although that’s not always the intent.
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FLOSS Weekly Episode 856: QT: Fix It Please, My Mom is Calling
This week Jonathan chats with Maurice Kalinowski about QT! That’s the framework that runs just about anywhere, making it easy to write cross-platform applications. What’s the connection with KDE? And how has this turned into a successful company? Watch to find out!
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Il Risarcimento per Danno Biologico non è Reddito! Il TAR Napoli dà ragione ai cittadini disabili.
Il Tribunale Amministrativo Regionale (TAR) della Campania, Sezione Nona, con la recente Sentenza N. 06288/2025, ha stabilito un principio fondamentale a tutela delle persone con disabilità, accogliendo il ricorso di un cittadino che si è visto revocare l’assegno di cura a causa di un ISEE gonfiato.
La Controversia: Assegno di Cura Revocato per ISEE “Falsato”
Il caso ha origine dalla revoca dell’assegno di cura da parte del Comune di Teano (Comune capofila dell’Ambito territoriale dei servizi sociali C03) nei confronti del coniuge del ricorrente. La misura era stata revocata a seguito di un’attestazione ISEE rilasciata dall’INPS ritenuta errata.
L’errore risiedeva nell’aver incluso nel calcolo dell’Indicatore della Situazione Economica Equivalente (ISEE) le somme percepite a titolo di risarcimento per danno biologico. Secondo l’INPS, tale risarcimento avrebbe dovuto figurare come componente reddituale o patrimoniale mobiliare.
I ricorrenti hanno impugnato tale decisione, lamentando la violazione dell’art. 4 del DPCM 159/2013. La loro tesi era chiara: le somme risarcitorie non sono tassabili e non sono reddito. In ricorso, si è dedotto che la dicitura “ogni altro componente reddituale esente da imposta” si riferisce ad un reddito e non già ad un risarcimento per perdite “non reddituali”.
Il Principio Giuridico: Funzione Compensativa, Non di Arricchimento
Il TAR della Campania ha dato pieno accoglimento al ricorso, aderendo all’orientamento consolidato del Consiglio di Stato (sentenza n. 838/2016).
Il Collegio ha ribadito che il regolamento ISEE (D.P.C.M. 5 dicembre 2013 n. 159) è illegittimo nella parte in cui include, tra i trattamenti fiscalmente esenti ma rilevanti, l’indennità o il risarcimento a favore delle situazioni di « disabilità ». Tali somme, inclusi gli indennizzi da danno biologico invalidante, devono essere considerate per ciò che essi sono, perché poste a fronte di una condizione di disabilità grave e già in sé non altrimenti rimediabile.
Il TAR ha respinto la tesi dell’INPS secondo cui il risarcimento del danno costituirebbe comunque componente patrimoniale mobiliare nell’ambito dell’attestazione ISEE.
Il ragionamento seguito dal Giudice di appello e fatto proprio dal TAR è il seguente:
- Le forme risarcitorie e l’indennità di accompagnamento non servono a remunerare alcunché, né all’accumulo del patrimonio personale.
- La loro funzione è compensare un’oggettiva ed ontologica situazione d’inabilità che provoca in sé e per sé disagi e diminuzione di capacità reddituale.
- Il risarcimento viene accordato per pervenire in una posizione uguale rispetto a chi non soffre di quest’ultimo ed a ristabilire una parità morale e competitiva.
Di conseguenza, lo strumento ISEE, che misura il livello economico del nucleo familiare, non può definire reddito ma neppure patrimonio un’indennità o un risarcimento.
Ripercussioni e Normativa Successiva
L’accoglimento del ricorso comporta che il coniuge dei ricorrenti ha diritto ad essere reinserito nell’elenco degli ammessi alla erogazione dell’assegno di cura. Il Collegio ha altresì condannato l’INPS e il Comune di Teano al pagamento delle spese di lite.
È importante sottolineare, come rilevato nella sentenza, che l’orientamento giurisprudenziale è stato recepito anche a livello normativo dal d.P.C.M n. 13 del 14 gennaio 2025. Tale decreto ha modificato l’art. 4 del D.P.C.M. 159/2013, escludendo esplicitamente dal calcolo dell’ISEE i trattamenti percepiti in condizione di disabilità laddove non rientranti nel reddito complessivo ai fini IRPEF.
In sintesi: La sentenza del TAR conferma che i risarcimenti per danno biologico e le indennità di disabilità non sono strumenti di arricchimento, ma di ristoro, e pertanto la loro inclusione nell’ISEE penalizza ingiustamente le famiglie che già vivono una condizione di svantaggio, distorcendo l’accesso alle prestazioni sociali agevolate.
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Elli Furedy Brings Cyberpunk Games to Life
When you’re designing a bounty hunter game for a five-day cyberpunk live-action-role-play out in the middle of the Mojave desert, you’ve got to bring something extra cool. But [Elli]’s Hackaday Supercon talk isn’t just about the hardware; it’s as much about the design philosophy behind the game – how you bring something immersive and exciting to hundreds of players.
Sandbox Systems
The game itself is fairly simple: bounty hunters try to find the bounty, and when they do, they have a quick-draw to see who wins. Everyone is issued a color-coded Portable Data Node device, and when a hunter jacks into a bounty’s Node, a countdown begins, and the first to press the button after the display say “Go” wins.
But the simplicity of the game is by design, and [Elli] talks about the philosophy that she and her team followed to make it a success. If you’re designing a conference badge or an immersive game for a large group of people, take note.
The first principle is to focus on the people first before the tech. Here, that essentially means making the experience as simple as possible in order to leave room for the players to put their own spin on it – it’s a role-play event after all.
Next is providing opportunities over demands. In this game, for instance, if you’re playing the bounty hunter role, you have to deliver a “Declaration of Intent to Seize” when you encounter a bounty player, but what deciding on your personal catchphrase for this is left up to you.
Selling the story of the game with the tech is also important. For instance, there is a part of the Node that [Elli] calls “the doodad” which is just pure LED and greebles. It doesn’t do anything, but it looks cool.
Finally, [Elli] mentions that her team puts an effort into making the game as accessible for everyone as possible. The onboarding video has cyberpunk-styled closed captioning, for instance. While originally designed for folks who don’t hear well, it ended up providing an aesthetic that everyone can enjoy – an example of the curb-cut effect at work.
The end result? 374 players played 3,838 matches over five days, but that’s just the stats. As [Elli] points out, the real point of the game is as an ice-breaker, to allow people room to explore whatever character they’re playing, and to connect people in real-space. It sounds like it was a complete success on all fronts.
The Sandbox
This is a talk on design principles, but it’s also a talk at Supercon, and [Elli] gets pulled into the hardware side of things many times throughout the talk. The Nodes have OLEDs and haptic motors for feedback, they use and ESP32 with WiFi for the score reporting, and there’s even discussion of the serial protocol that they speak to each other when they get connected up via an audio jack.
[Elli] gets some great questions about ways to expand the game, and you’re just going to have to watch the video to appreciate them all. Or join in: after all, it’s an open-source project and it’s intended to be a sandbox!
There seems to be a lot of room to play along, and [Elli]’s talk is definitely food for thought if you’re designing hardware with the end goal of creating and encouraging human interaction through building up an engaging story.
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Datenspende: „Digitaler Omnibus“ könnte Forschung zu Big-Tech erschweren
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Digital Omnibus – A Single Rulebook or a License to Trespass Fundamental Rights?
What is Digital Omnibus?
Digital policy lobbies across the European Union are buzzing with one word: Digital Omnibus, a proposal aimed at consolidating and simplifying the existing EU digital framework. The idea, according to the proposal’s advocates, is to reduce overlap in obligations and the compliance burden on businesses.
The Digital Omnibus is presented as a measure to simplify Europe’s complex digital rulebook. The aim is to streamline a wide array of Digital rules into a coherent, updated framework. It touches several key areas, including the GDPR, the AI Act, the Data Act, and cybersecurity reporting frameworks.
The Commission proposed the Digital Omnibus on 19 November 2025. The core idea behind pushing for the digital Omnibus is to eliminate red tape and boost EU competitiveness. Thirteen EU Member States have argued that tech companies in the EU face a higher degree of regulation and greater hassles than their counterparts across the Atlantic.
A Quick Look at What the Proposal Includes
- Clarifying GDPR concepts such as pseudonymised vs non-personal data
- Allowing limited use of sensitive data for detecting AI bias
- Adjusting some obligations under the AI Act and delaying certain requirements
- Creating a European Business Wallet for corporate digital identities
- Merging various data laws into a more unified Data Act
- Introducing a single entry point for cybersecurity incident reporting
These are framed as efficiency measures, cost-reduction initiatives, and efforts to make Europe more attractive to digital innovation.
Critics Warn: What Does Streamlining Actually Mean for OurRights?
For policymakers looking at the issue from strictly a business perspective, the digital Omnibus is a proposal long overdue. But as with any sweeping reform, the details matter, and this is where the debate becomes intense.
This is where concerns sharpen, especially among civil society groups, privacy advocates, and parties committed to defending digital freedoms such as the European Pirates.
European Digital Rights (EDRI) and other Digital rights advocates warn that simplifying the rulebook will come with a quiet erosion of our rights that were hard-won over the past decade.
Key Concerns Raised Against the Digital Omnibus
1. Roll-Back of Digital Protection Laws
The Omnibus is seen as reopening and weakening major protections, including the GDPR, ePrivacy, and the AI Act. This is viewed as a blow to the decades of work on digital rights.
2. Weakening of ePrivacy Rules
According to EDRi, the proposal would shift some “device access” rules from ePrivacy into GDPR, reducing mandatory consent in some cases. It is feared that this could permit tracking on devices without users’ explicit approval.
3. Narrowing the Definition of “Personal Data”
A redefinition of personal data could give companies more leeway to process information. Critics argue that this redefinition could reduce transparency and control for individuals.
4. Undermining AI Accountability
According to TechPolicy.Press article, amendments that give AI providers too much discretion, including a loophole that allows them to opt out of certain “high-risk” obligations without publicly declaring it. Rights groups argue this removes a key transparency check, weakening the AI Act’s purpose of managing risk.
5. Privileging Business Over People
Supporters of digital rights strongly believe that these reforms will shift power toward companies, thereby reducing individuals’ leverage under data protection laws. Precisely, these reforms have corporate interests as their focal point rather than citizens’ rights.
6. Weak Democratic Process
The way Omnibus is being fast-tracked with limited consultation and impact assessment, EDRi and others argue that such sweeping changes deserve more thorough democratic scrutiny.
7. Risk to Minoritised and Vulnerable Groups
EDRi highlights that under the proposed changes, marginalised communities could face a higher risk of profiling or automated discrimination. Reduced oversight and transparency could make it harder to challenge unfair or biased automated decisions.
So, Where Does This Leave Us?
For the European Pirates, the question is not whether Europe should innovate, but how. Efficiency cannot come at the cost of loosening the protections that set the EU apart in the global digital landscape.
The Digital Omnibus, on the surface, may appear to be an effort to overcome the hurdles that impede the EU’s innovation and growth. However, the implications of this proposal have far-reaching consequences from a social perspective.
The debate around the Digital Omnibus is only beginning. What is at stake is the balance between modernising Europe’s digital framework and guarding the rights of the people who live within it.
Reality Check: EU Council Chat Control Vote is Not a Retreat, But a Green Light for Indiscriminate Mass Surveillance and the End of Right to Communicate Anonymously
Contrary to headlines suggesting the EU has “backed away” from Chat Control, the negotiating mandate endorsed today by EU ambassadors in a close split vote paves the way for a permanent infrastructure of mass surveillance. Patrick Breyer, digital freedom fighter and expert on the file, warns journalists and the public not to be deceived by the label “voluntary.”
While the Council removed the obligation for scanning, the agreed text creates a toxic legal framework that incentivizes US tech giants to scan private communications indiscriminately, introduces mandatory age checks for all internet users, and threatens to exclude teenagers from digital life.
“The headlines are misleading: Chat Control is not dead, it is just being privatized,” warns Patrick Breyer. “What the Council endorsed today is a Trojan Horse. By cementing ‘voluntary’ mass scanning, they are legitimizing the warrantless, error-prone mass surveillance of millions of Europeans by US corporations, while simultaneously killing online anonymity through the backdoor of age verification.”
The Three Hidden Dangers of the Council’s “Voluntary” Deal
The Council’s mandate stands in sharp contrast to the European Parliament’s position, which demands that surveillance be targeted only at suspects and age checks are to remain voluntary. The Council’s approach introduces three critical threats that have largely gone unreported:
1. “Voluntary” Means Indiscriminate Mass Scanning (The Chat Control 1.0 Trap)
The text aims to make the temporary “Chat Control 1.0” regulation permanent. This allows providers like Meta or Google to scan all private chats, indiscriminately and without a court order.
- The Reality: This is not just about finding known illegal images. The mandate allows for the scanning of private text messages, unknown images, and metadata using unreliable algorithms and AI.
- The Failure: These algorithms are notoriously unreliable. The German Federal Police (BKA) has warned that 50% of all reports generated under the current voluntary scheme are criminally irrelevant.
- Breyer’s comment: “We are talking about tens of thousands of completely legal, private chats being leaked to police annually due to faulty algorithms and AI. This is no more reliable than guessing. Calling this ‘voluntary’ does not make the violation of the digital secrecy of correspondence any less severe.”
2. The Death of anonymous communications: Age Checks for Everyone
To comply with the Council’s requirement to “reliably identify minors,” providers will be forced to verify the age of every single user.
- The Reality: This means every citizen will effectively have to upload an ID or undergo a face scan to open an email or messenger account.
- The Consequence: This creates a de facto ban on anonymous communication—a vital lifeline for whistleblowers, journalists, political activists, and abuse victims seeking help.
- Unworkable alternative: Experts have warned that other methods for “Age assessment cannot be performed in a privacy-preserving way with current technology due to reliance on biometric, behavioural or contextual information… In fact, it incentivizes (children’s) data collection and exploitation. We conclude that age assessment presents an inherent disproportionate risk of serious privacy violation and discrimination, without guarantees of effectiveness.”
3. “Digital House Arrest” for Teenagers
Under the guise of protection, the Council text proposes barring users under 17 from using apps with chat functions—including WhatsApp, Instagram, and popular online games—unless stringent conditions are met.
- The Reality: This amounts to a “Digital House Arrest,” isolating youth from their social circles and digital education.
- Breyer’s comment: “Protection by exclusion is pedagogical nonsense. Instead of empowering teenagers, the Council wants to lock them out of the digital world entirely.”
A Dangerous Road to 2026
Today’s vote was far from unanimous, with the Czech Republic, the Netherlands, and Poland voting against, and Italy abstaining, reflecting deep concerns within the EU about the legality and proportionality of the measure.
Negotiations (“Trilogues”) between the Council and the European Parliament will soon begin, with the aim of finalizing the text before April 2026.
“We must stop pretending that ‘voluntary’ mass surveillance is acceptable in a democracy,” Breyer concludes. “We are facing a future where you need an ID card to send a message, and where foreign black-box AI decides if your private photos are suspicious. This is not a victory for privacy; it is a disaster waiting to happen.”
Background Information & Contact
About the Vote: The Council mandate was today endorsed by the Committee of Permanent Representatives (COREPER).
About the Procedure: The text will now be negotiated with the European Parliament. The Parliament’s mandate (adopted in Nov 2023) explicitly rules out indiscriminate scanning and demands targeted surveillance based on suspicion.
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Barco Teatro, Via Orto Botanico 12 – Padova
10 dicembre 2025
Ore 20:00 aperitivo | Ore 21:00 inizio evento
Tania Re, psicoterapeuta, antropologa, terapista complementare e consigliera generale dell’Associazione Luca Coscioni, parteciperà al dialogo aperto sul tema del fine vita tra etica, psicologia e diritti, organizzato dall’Università degli Studi di Padova nell’ambito del Progetto Terza Missione 2024.
Insieme a lei interverranno: Ines Testoni, psicologa e docente Università di Padova Edoardo Camurri, giornalista e scrittore e Daniele Costa, autore e regista.
Durante la serata sarà proiettato materiale video tratto dal documentario Seeing beyond fading di Daniele Costa.
Prenotazione tramite il sito Eventbride.
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La gravidanza per altri a un anno dall’entrata in vigore del reato universale
Sono passati dodici mesi dall’entrata in vigore della legge n. 169 del 2024, la cosiddetta “legge Varchi”, che ha esteso il reato di surrogazione di maternità anche quando compiuto all’estero da cittadini italiani. Una norma formalmente efficace da dicembre 2024, ma che nella realtà ha iniziato a produrre effetti solo nove mesi dopo: lo stesso tempo di una gravidanza. Eppure, alcune Procure hanno provato a forzarne un’applicazione immediata, fingendo di non sapere ciò che tutta la dottrina penalistica ripete da anni: il reato non “nasce” con il bambino, ma con il trasferimento dell’embrione — o, al limite, con la sua formazione.
Proprio ora, dunque, stanno arrivando i primi casi concreti, con famiglie che rischiano fino a due anni di reclusione e un milione di euro di multa per essersi rivolte alla gravidanza per altri per ragioni mediche o sociali. L’Italia si propone così come esportatrice di un “reato universale”, calpestando i principi fondamentali del nostro ordinamento, come fatto in fondo molteplici volte con la legge 40. Non a caso: la legge 40 è stata dichiarata incostituzionale almeno quattro volte. Eppure eccoci qui, a ripetere gli stessi errori, tentando addirittura di imporli al resto del mondo. Una vera universalizzazione dell’assurdo.
Non sorprende, quindi, che la ministra Roccella abbia sfruttato la presentazione alle Nazioni Unite del rapporto della Special Rapporteur Reem Alsalem per rilanciare una narrazione priva di basi solide. Il rapporto parla di gravidanza per altri mescolando luoghi comuni e timori astratti; interrogata sui dati, la stessa Alsalem ha ammesso che non ce ne sono. E certo che mancano: il proibizionismo crea clandestinità, e dunque procedure sommerse che spesso determinano abusi. Inoltre il rapporto afferma che molto spesso il consenso delle donne gestanti non c’è, e se c’è, non è valido, perché viziato dal solo fatto di essere una gestante. Un corto circuito di cui sarebbe interessante sapere cosa pensa anche Giorgia Meloni a seguito della riforma del reato di violenza sessuale che introduce il consenso come elemento per il quale “se non c’è consenso è violenza sessuale.” Secondo quanto afferma il rapporto di Reem Alsalem, nonché tutti i sostenitori del reato universale, il reato di surrogazione di maternità, a tutela della dignità della gestante, si applica anche quanto il consenso c’è. Dunque il consenso assume caratteristiche e valore completamente diverso a seconda dell’uso strumentale e ideologico che la politica ne sta facendo. Sarebbe come dire che in certi casi non graditi al governo, il reato di violenza sessuale che tutela solo ed esclusivamente la libertà personale, si applica anche se c’è il pieno consenso della donna.
In Europa, la direttiva anti-tratta condanna solo la surrogazione che comporta sfruttamento, lasciando agli Stati la possibilità di regolare la GPA. La recente risoluzione del Parlamento europeo, nell’ambito della Gender Equality Strategy (Strategia per l’eguaglianza di genere) però, ha aggiunto ambiguità: il passaggio secondo cui “la maternità surrogata, che comporta sfruttamento, deve essere condannata” può essere interpretato in modi diversi. La lettura più coerente è quella che distingue chiaramente tra pratiche sfruttative — da condannare — e percorsi autodeterminati e tutelati. Ma resta urgente una chiarezza normativa e linguistica che oggi manca.
Ecco perché, su un tema tanto delicato, dovremmo tornare alla realtà, ai dati, ai diritti. Oggi si respira una profonda preoccupazione nell’affrontare i temi legati alla surrogazione di maternità, è difficile trovare o promuovere dibattiti pubblici perché la formulazione del reato, che estende la perseguibilità anche a varie e ambigue forme di pubblicizzazione, di fatto spaventa con effetti deterrenti. Occorre quindi riportare il tema tra le persone, non per promuovere una procedura di fecondazione assistita che sicuramente coinvolge molti aspetti personali e delicati, ma per informare correttamente le persone che esistono forme regolamentate e rispettose dei diritti e le volontà di tutte le persone coinvolte.
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