Dalla guerra dei chip al Mar Nero: perché la geopolitica sta riscrivendo le regole del cyber
Negli ultimi due anni il cyber ha smesso di essere una dimensione “tecnica” del conflitto ed è diventato infrastruttura strategica. La conseguenza è un effetto domino: parte dalla competizione USA-Cina sui semiconduttori e sull’AI, attraversa la guerra Russia-Ucraina (e i corridoi energetici del Mar Nero), e arriva alla governance europea, che prova a mettere ordine con regolazione e compliance mentre la minaccia accelera.
Questo articolo propone una lettura OSINT orientata ai meccanismi (non alle narrazioni), con indicatori pratici utili per chi lavora in cybersecurity, risk e intelligence economica.
USA–Cina: la supply chain dei chip AI come terreno di scontro
La competizione USA-Cina è sempre meno una gara commerciale e sempre più una partita sui colli di bottiglia: chip avanzati, tool di fabbricazione, cloud/AI e controlli export. Il fattore destabilizzante non è solo il “divieto”, ma la volatilità della policy: licenze, eccezioni, enforcement e ritorsioni diventano variabili operative per intere filiere.
Implicazione cyber: quando l’hardware diventa geopolitica, la sicurezza di filiera (provenance, audit, SBOM, trusted suppliers) non è più una best practice. È una condizione di accesso al mercato e una leva di resilienza nazionale.
Europa: governance e compliance mentre la minaccia corre
In Europa la risposta strutturale è regolatoria: NIS2 (governance e obblighi per settori/entità) e Cyber Resilience Act (sicurezza dei prodotti digitali “by design”). Il tema, però, è il tempo: recepimenti e implementazioni disomogenei producono una postura a macchia di leopardo, con differenze di obblighi, reporting ed enforcement tra Paesi.
Implicazione cyber: l’UE sta costruendo un perimetro serio, ma nel breve periodo molte organizzazioni devono alzare maturità e resilienza senza poter contare su un quadro uniforme in tutti i mercati in cui operano.
Mar Nero: energia, logistica e guerra ibrida
Il Mar Nero è un punto di contatto tra interessi militari, energetici e logistici. È anche l’area in cui cyber e ibrido si intrecciano: porti, raffinerie, shipping, assicurazioni, tracciamento, droni e sabotaggi.
In un contesto sanzionatorio, la pressione su rotte e snodi diventa leva economica e leva politica.
Implicazione cyber: la parola chiave è infrastruttura. Anche senza “hacking spettacolare”, basta rendere più costosi e rischiosi trasporto, assicurazione, manutenzione e compliance per ottenere effetti strategici.
Israele: stress operativo, ma il cyber resta un asset strategico
Il sistema israeliano è sotto stress per la situazione regionale, ma il comparto cyber continua a rappresentare un asset di capacità e di mercato: talenti, prodotti e M&A restano un magnete globale.
Questo produce, da un lato, accelerazione tecnologica; dall’altro, maggiore attenzione a export compliance, supply chain e rischio di escalation informativa.
Indicatori pratici (OSINT) per chi lavora in sicurezza
Se la dinamica geopolitica deve diventare una checklist operativa, alcuni indicatori ricorrenti sono:
Volatilità normativa su export controls e controlli tecnologici (licenze, eccezioni, enforcement).
Concentrazione dei colli di bottiglia (pochi fornitori per chip, tool, cloud, componenti critici).
Disruption fisica su nodi logistici ed energetici (porti, raffinerie, shipping) come segnali di guerra ibrida.
Frammentazione regolatoria nell’UE (divergenze di posture minime e responsabilità tra Stati).
Consolidamento del mercato su identity e cloud security come segnale di spostamento della superficie d’attacco.
Conclusione
La tesi è semplice: cyber e geopolitica condividono ormai la stessa supply chain. Gli Stati gestiscono tecnologia e infrastrutture come leve strategiche; le imprese devono trattare la cybersecurity come risk management geopolitico, non come sola IT security.
Per le organizzazioni, il vantaggio competitivo nei prossimi anni passerà dalla capacità di leggere policy, filiere e logistica con lo stesso rigore con cui si legge un threat report.
Questo articolo adotta un approccio OSINT e si basa su fonti pubbliche (atti e comunicazioni istituzionali UE, copertura stampa economico-finanziaria internazionale e report di settore su cyber/tech).
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Vulnerabilità in .NET: eseguire codice remoto tramite messaggi SOAP
I ricercatori di sicurezza hanno scoperto una vulnerabilità in .NET che potrebbe colpire diversi prodotti aziendali e causare l’esecuzione di codice remoto. Il problema deriva dal modo in cui le applicazioni Microsoft basate su .NET gestiscono i messaggi SOAP e Microsoft, secondo i ricercatori, si rifiuta di risolvere il problema, scaricando la colpa su sviluppatori e utenti.
Piotr Bazydło di watchTowr ha segnalato la scoperta alla conferenza Black Hat Europe . Ha affermato che diverse soluzioni commerciali e interne sono vulnerabili agli attacchi di esecuzione di codice remoto ( RCE ) a causa di errori nella gestione dei messaggi SOAP nelle applicazioni .NET.
Il problema chiave era la classe SoapHttpClientProtocol. Il ricercatore ha spiegato che può essere utilizzata dagli aggressori in vari modi, a seconda dei loro obiettivi. Questa classe eredita da HttpWebClientProtocol, come altri client proxy, ma SoapHttpClientProtocol è la più comune nel codice sorgente, quindi watchTowr si è concentrato su di essa.
Sulla carta, tutto sembra innocuo: sia il nome della classe che la documentazione ufficiale indicano che dovrebbe gestire messaggi SOAP tramite HTTP. Uno scenario “semplice, prevedibile e sicuro” , come osserva ironicamente Bazydło. In pratica, le cose sono più complicate.
La classe è responsabile dell’impostazione dell’URL di destinazione del servizio SOAP e dell’invocazione del metodo SOAP. La vulnerabilità si verifica quando un aggressore riesce a influenzare questo URL e il modo in cui SoapHttpClientProtocol crea il client. Sebbene sia progettata per funzionare con richieste HTTP, utilizza internamente un meccanismo generalizzato che supporta più protocolli: HTTP/HTTPS, FTP e persino FILE.
Se un aggressore sostituisce l’indirizzo web con un URL del file system, la classe non genererà un errore, ma scriverà semplicemente la richiesta SOAP (inviata tramite il metodo POST) direttamente nel file. “Perché un proxy SOAP dovrebbe ‘inviare’ richieste a un file locale? Nessuna persona sana di mente si aspetterebbe di ricevere una risposta SOAP valida dal file system“, osserva il ricercatore.
Questo comportamento può essere sfruttato per scrivere file arbitrari, inclusi dati XML da una richiesta SOAP. Uno scenario meno distruttivo, ma comunque spiacevole, potrebbe riguardare attacchi di relay NTLM.
Bazydło ha inizialmente segnalato il problema a Microsoft tramite la Zero Day Initiative (ZDI). Secondo lui, l’azienda ha risposto che non avrebbe risolto il bug perché gli sviluppatori non dovrebbero consentire l’utilizzo di dati di input non attendibili.
“Come prevedibile, Microsoft ha considerato questa una ‘funzionalità’ piuttosto che una vulnerabilità “, scrive. “La risposta ha attribuito la colpa agli sviluppatori e agli utenti. Secondo Microsoft, l’URL passato a SoapHttpClientProtocol non dovrebbe mai essere controllato dall’utente e la convalida dell’input è interamente responsabilità dello sviluppatore.”
Bazydło aggiunge sarcasticamente che, ovviamente, “tutti gli sviluppatori decompilano regolarmente gli assembly .NET Framework e studiano l’implementazione interna, ben sapendo che un ‘proxy client HTTP’ può essere convinto a scrivere dati su disco. Come potrebbe essere altrimenti? “
Un anno dopo, il team di watchTowr ha iniziato ad analizzare Barracuda Service Center , una “piattaforma RMM ampiamente utilizzata”, anch’essa risultata vulnerabile alla tecnica descritta in precedenza. I ricercatori hanno scoperto che la sua API SOAP poteva essere chiamata senza autenticazione e hanno quindi trovato una via di exploit alternativa: importando file WSDL (Web Services Description Language).
Il punto chiave è che un aggressore può fornire a un’applicazione un URL che punta a un file WSDL sotto il suo controllo. L’applicazione vulnerabile utilizza questa descrizione per generare un proxy client HTTP, dopodiché Bazydło è riuscito a ottenere l’esecuzione di codice remoto in due modi: caricando una web shell ASPX sul server e inserendo il payload (una web shell CSHTML o uno script PowerShell) nello spazio dei nomi del corpo della richiesta SOAP.
Questa tecnica basata sullo spazio dei nomi, afferma, ha consentito lo sfruttamento efficace di Ivanti Endpoint Manager e Umbraco 8 CMS. Sebbene il rapporto di WatchTowr menzioni specificamente questi prodotti, i ricercatori sottolineano che l’elenco effettivo delle soluzioni interessate è molto più ampio.
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Why Games Work, and How to Build Them
Most humans like games. But what are games, exactly? Not in a philosophical sense, but in the sense of “what exactly are their worky bits, so we know how to make them?” [Raph Koster] aims to answer that in a thoughtful blog post that talks all about game design from the perspective of what, exactly, makes them tick. And we are right into that, because we like to see things pulled apart to learn how they work.
On the one hand, it’s really not that complicated. What’s a game? It’s fun to play, and we generally feel we know a good one when we see it. But as with many apparently simple things, it starts to get tricky to nail down specifics. That’s what [Raph]’s article focuses on; it’s a twelve-step framework for how games work, and why they do (or don’t) succeed at what they set out to do.
[Raph] says the essentials of an engaging game boil down to giving players interesting problems to solve, providing meaningful and timely feedback, and understanding player motivation. The tricky part is that these aren’t really separate elements. Everything ties together in a complex interplay, and [Raph] provides insights into how to design and manage it.
It’s interesting food for thought on a subject that is, at the very least, hacker-adjacent. After all, many engaging convention activities boil down to being games of some kind, and folks wouldn’t be implementing DOOM on something like KiCAD’s PCB editor or creating first-person 3D games for the Commodore PET without being in possession of a healthy sense of playfulness.
Watch a Recording Lathe From 1958 Cut a Lacquer Master Record
Most of us are familiar with vinyl LPs, and even with the way in which they are made by stamping a hot puck of polyvinyl chloride (PVC) into a record. But [Technostalgism] takes us all the way back to the beginning, giving us a first-hand look at how a lacquer master is cut by a specialized recording lathe.
Cutting a lacquer master is the intricate process by which lacquer disks, used as the masters for vinyl records, are created. These glossy black masters — still made by a company in Japan — are precision aluminum discs coated with a special lacquer to create a surface that resembles not-quite-cured nail polish and, reportedly, smells like fresh paint.
The cutting process itself remains largely unchanged over the decades, although the whole supporting setup is a bit more modernized than it would have been some seventy years ago. In the video (embedded below), we get a whole tour of the setup and watch a Neumann AM32B Master Stereo Disk Recording Lathe from 1958 cut the single unbroken groove that makes up the side of a record.
The actual cutting tool is a stylus whose movement combines the left and right channels and is heated to achieve the smoothest cuts possible. The result is something that impresses the heck out of [Technostalgism] with its cleanliness, clarity, and quality. Less obvious is the work that goes into arranging the whole thing. Every detail, every band between tracks, is the result of careful planning.
It’s very clear that not only is special equipment needed to cut a disk, but doing so effectively is a display of serious craftsmanship, experience, and skill. If you’re inclined to agree and are hungry for more details, then be sure to check out this DIY record-cutting lathe.
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Mentra Brings Open Smart Glasses OS With Cross-Compat
There are a few very different pathways to building a product, and we gotta applaud the developers taking care to take the open-source path. Today’s highlight is [Mentra], who is releasing an open-source smart glasses OS for their own and others’ devices, letting you develop your smart glasses ideas just once, a single codebase applicable for multiple models.
Currently, the compatibility list covers four models, two of them Mentra’s (Live and Mach 1), one from Vuzix (Z100), and one from Even Realities (G1) — some display-only, and some recording-only. The app store already has a few apps that cover the basics, the repository looks lively, and if the openness is anything to go by, our guess is that we’re sure to see more.
While smart glasses have their critics, many of those stem from closed-source software running on them, so the ability to easily develop your own is always welcome, and it’s even better to see it done in an open, cross-compatible manner. Want to learn more about the underlying tech? Check out this iFixit coverage of Meta’s Ray-Ban glasses display technology.
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la difficoltà generalizzata dirompente che riscontro, che mi fa vedere il genere umano come sempre più incapace di esprimere pensieri complessi (quale che sia l'ambito o lo strumento utilizzato) e composto più da involucri vuoti che persone, deriva forse dal cessato mancato sforzo di dover scrivere lunghi e "tediosi" testi per descrivere le proprie idee e anche le proprie necessità.
la semplificazione e la brevità imposta spesso da ticktock o tutti i social media in generale, e non l'uso del social medio stesso, costituisce secondo me il vero pericolo concreto.
le persone che su social media esprimono solo pensieri semplici, o si astengono, per pigrizia di dover scrivere, poi di persona non mostrano nessun riscatto o risveglio o voglia di stupire con pensieri super-complessi e super-articolati. se ne deduce che la perdita cognitiva non è relativa solo all'ambito limitato dello smarphone/social media ma più generalizzata.
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Normally, it’s bad news to be next to an exploding star. But ancient supernovae may have aided the formation of our home world—and perhaps Earthlike planets elsewhere.#TheAbstract
Earth-Like Planets Are More Common Than We Thought, Study Says
Welcome back to the Abstract! These are the studies this week that got hosed with star spray, mounted a failed invasion, declined to comment, and achieved previously unknown levels of adorability.First, a study about how the solar system wasn’t destroyed 4.5 billion years ago (phew!). Then: a human touch on an ancient boat, the duality of posters and lurkers, and an important update on toadlets.
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Sink into a warm cosmic-ray bath
Earth was cosmically conceived in part by a massive shockwave from a nearby supernova, which seeded our home world and neighboring rocky planets with telltale radioactive signatures, according to a new study.
The solar system’s rocky planets contain short-lived radionuclides (SLRs), which are ancient elements that were likely barfed out from exploding stars. For this reason, scientists have long suspected that stars must’ve detonated next to the gassy disk that gave rise to the solar system. The heat generated from these radioactive elements helped the building blocks of the rocky planets—Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars—melt together so they could become whole worlds, which means we owe our existence to these ancient supernovas.
Now, a team has developed a new model to explain how the primordial pyrotechnics didn’t just blow up the nascent solar system. The results suggest that rocky Earth-like worlds may be common in the universe, with potential implications for the search for extraterrestrial life.
“A key question in astronomy is how ubiquitous Earth-like rocky planets are,” said researchers led by Ryo Sawada of the University of Tokyo. “The formation of terrestrial planets in our Solar System was strongly influenced by the radioactive decay heat of SLRs, particularly aluminum-26, likely delivered from nearby supernovae.”
“However, the supernova injection scenario faces an unresolved problem in that existing supernova models could not reproduce both the relative and absolute abundances of SLRs without disrupting the protosolar disk,” an event that “would likely prevent the Solar System formation altogether,” the team added.
In other words, it’s hard to explain how the solar system got its high abundance of SLRs without killing it in the cradle. Sawada and his colleagues propose a solution that involves at least one star exploding about three light years of the disk, sparking a shockwave that created a cosmic-ray “bath.”
Schematic picture of the system assumed in this study. Image: Sawada et al., Sci. Adv. 11, eadx7892
In this “immersion mechanism,” energetic cosmic rays trapped in the bath triggered SLR-producing reactions directly within the disk. This contrasts with the hypothesis that the SLRs were largely injected and then mixed up in the disk through some unknown process. This new solution can account both for the high abundance of certain SLRs, like aluminum-26, and the fact that the solar system was not destroyed, as evidenced by its apparent continued existence.“Our results suggest that Earth-like, water-poor rocky planets may be more prevalent in the
Galaxy than previously thought,” the team said, noting that many disks are rocked by similar supernova-shockwaves. “This challenges previous interpretations that classified the Solar System as an outlier with a particularly high [aluminum-26] abundance.”
In addition to offering a new hypothesis for an old astronomical problem, the study gets bonus points for its extremely poetic title: “Cosmic-ray bath in a past supernova gives birth to Earth-like planets.” If you say this enchanted phrase three times, somewhere an Earth-like world will be born.
In other news…
The biometrics of a Baltic boatsman
Stars aren’t the only things leaving their dirty fingerprints in unexpected places this week. Archeologists working on the mysterious Hjortspring boat, a 2,400-year-old Scandinavian vessel, discovered a tantalizing partial human fingerprint in its caulking, providing “a direct link to the ancient seafarers who used this boat,” according to the study.
Photo of caulking fragment showing fingerprint on the left and high-resolution x-ray tomography scan of fingerprint region on the right. Image: Photography by Erik Johansson, 3D model by Sahel Ganji
The ridges of the fingerprint “fall within average distributions for both adult male and females as well as for juvenile adults, making it difficult to say much about the individual who produced the print,” said researchers led by Mikael Fauvelle of Lund University. “The most likely interpretation, however, is that it was made during repairs by one of the crew members on the boat itself, providing a direct link to the seafarers of the ancient vessel.”Regardless of this person’s identity, their voyage didn’t end well. Researchers think the crew of the Hjortspring boat probably sailed from the eastern Baltic Sea to attack the Danish island of Als, where they were defeated. “The victors [deposited] the weapons of their vanquished foes together with one of their boats into the bog,” where they remained for millennia until they were rediscovered in the 1880s, the team said.
It’s a timeless reminder for would-be invaders: Don’t get caulky.
Long-time lurker, first-time poster
At last, scientists have investigated the most elusive online demographic: the humble lurker. A team recruited 520 Redditors in the U.S. to participate in small subreddits focused on a variety of political topics during the summer of 2024. The aim was to probe why some people became prolific “power-users” that post with voluminous confidence, while others remained wallflowers.
“Online political discussions are often dominated by a small group of active users, while most remain silent,” said researchers led by Lisa Oswalt of the Max Planck Institute for Human Development. “This visibility gap can distort perceptions of public opinion and fuel polarization.”
The team found that “lurking (posting nothing) was most common among users who perceived discussions as toxic, disrespectful, or unconstructive.” Lurkers were offered small payments to post in the experiment, which succeeded in motivating some to contribute to discussions. As a result, the study concluded that “future interventions may be able to make online political discussions more representative by offering more positive social rewards for lurkers to post.”
At last, an opportunity to unionize the lurkers of the world. Solidarity (in silence) forever.
It’s the great pumpkin toadlet, Charlie Brown
We will close, as we have before, with an impossibly cute toadlet. Scientists have discovered this new species of “pumpkin toadlet” in the “cloud forests” of Brazil, a sentence so twee that it’s practically its own fairy tale. The tiny toad Brachycephalus lulai, pictured below on a pencil tip, belongs to a family of “flea toads” that are among the smallest vertebrates on Earth.
Basically it is very smol: Brachycephalus lulai is a tiny pumpkin toadlet measuring less than 14 mm in length. Photo: Luiz Fernando Ribeiro. Image credit 1: Luiz Fernando Ribeiro, CC-BY 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/b…)
“Our team sought to better document the individual variation of all Brachycephalus species in southern Brazil, looking for them in the field over the past seven years,” said researchers led by Marcos R. Bornschein of São Paulo State University. “As a result of this work, we discovered and herein described a population collected on the eastern slope of Serra do Quiriri as a new species.”The team also reported that the toads are actively colonizing newly formed cloud forests, which are high-altitude woods shrouded in mist. The researchers propose making these unique habitats into refuges for the adorable anurans.
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GAZA. La tempesta fa 14 morti ma Israele blocca ancora gli aiuti
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La tempesta Byron causa la morte di 14 gazawi mentre le tendopoli sono sommerse da fango e liquami. L'assemblea dell'ONU vota una risoluzione per obbligare Israele a sbloccare gli aiuti ma Trump prepara altre sanzioni per l'UNRWA
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Jesus Gutiérrez told immigration agents he was a U.S. citizen. Only after they scanned his face, did the agents let him go.#ICE #Privacy
How a US Citizen Was Scanned With ICE's Facial Recognition Tech
This article is a partnership between Reveal and 404 Media.Jesus Gutiérrez, 23, was walking home one morning from a Chicago gym when he noticed a gray Cadillac SUV with no license plates. He kept walking, shrugging it off. Then the car pulled over and two men got out.
The federal immigration officials told him not to run. They then peppered Gutiérrez with questions: Where are you going? Where are you coming from? Do you have your ID on you?
Gutiérrez is a U.S. citizen. He told the officials this. He didn’t have any identification on him, but, panicking, he tried to find a copy on his phone. The agents put him into the car, where another two agents were waiting, and handcuffed him. Just sit there and be quiet, they said.
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Perché il lancio di SuperSim cambierà l’intelligenza artificiale
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Stop the gatekeeping. The First Amendment is for all of us
Dear Friend of Press Freedom,
Rümeysa Öztürk has been facing deportation for 262 days for co-writing an op-ed the government didn’t like, and journalist Ya’akub Vijandre remains locked up by Immigration and Customs Enforcement over social media posts about issues he reported on. Read on for more on what we’re working on this week.
Stop the gatekeeping. The First Amendment’s for all of us
In the early days of the internet, online news confused analog-era judges, who pondered questions like, “If this is journalism then why are there no ink smudges on my fingers?” These days, First Amendment advocates tend to chuckle when thinking back on that era. But apparently it’s not quite over yet.
Freedom of the Press Foundation (FPF) Senior Adviser Caitlin Vogus wrote for the Sun-Sentinel about a judge in Florida’s unfortunate ruling that YouTube-based outlet Popcorned Planet can’t avail itself of the state’s reporter’s privilege to oppose a subpoena from actor Blake Lively. The court’s decision would “effectively exclude any independent journalist who publishes using online platforms from relying on the privilege to protect their sources.” If it stands, “vital information will stay buried,” she explained.
And FPF Executive Director Trevor Timm spoke to Columbia Journalism Review about another subpoena from Lively that’s testing whether celebrity blogger Perez Hilton can claim the privilege. “Hilton is gathering information, talking to sources, and publishing things in order to have the public consume them. That fits the definition of a journalist,” Timm explained. As CJR noted, FPF’s U.S. Press Freedom Tracker “was one of the few to highlight the Hilton case.”
It’s not a question of whether Popcorned Planet and Hilton are great journalists or if they pass some editorial purity test. It’s a question of whether the courts will allow litigants to chip away at First Amendment rights that protect all journalists, no matter what platform they use to report or what subjects they cover.
Administration is trolling America with its FOIA responses
As The New York Times reported this week, Immigration and Customs Enforcement claimed it has no body-worn camera footage from Operation Midway Blitz in Chicago, Illinois, despite a federal judge’s explicit order that agents wear and activate those cameras.
And as The Daily Beast reported, the Department of Homeland Security told FFP’s Daniel Ellsberg Chair on Government Secrecy Lauren Harper that Kristi Noem had no Truth Social Direct messages, despite her millions of followers. Harper requested cabinet officials’ messages in a Freedom of Information Act request after President Donald Trump accidentally publicly posted correspondence with Attorney General Pam Bondi.
As Harper told the Times, “They are trolling citizens and judges … ICE continues to feel increasing impunity and that it has the right to behave as a secret police that’s exempt from accountability.” FPF is, of course, appealing.
Don’t weaken Puerto Rico’s public records law
When the U.S. Navy quietly reactivated Roosevelt Roads Naval Station in Puerto Rico earlier this year, some residents saw the promise of new jobs, while others saw it as a painful reminder of past harms from the American military presence on the island.
Puerto Ricans — and Americans everywhere — deserve basic answers about what the military is up to as tensions escalate with Venezuela and whether Puerto Rico’s government is coordinating with the Pentagon and whether their concerns are being taken into account. And of course, there are countless local issues Puerto Ricans are entitled to be informed about.
But at the moment when transparency is most essential, lawmakers are trying to slam the door shut.
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Throughout 2025 we’ve been hosting online events platforming journalists impacted by anti-press policies at the national and local levels, so you can hear directly from the people we hope will benefit from our work.
Read about three of our recent events. This week’s panel features journalists whose reporting is complicated by sources unwilling to come forward due to fear of retaliation. Last week we spoke with journalists about the difficulties of covering the immigration beat during Trump 2.0, and last month we talked about the immigration cases against journalists Sami Hamdi and Ya’akub Vijandre over their support for Palestinian rights (shoutout to our friends at The Dissenter for writing up that event). And there are even more past events on our YouTube channel.
WHAT WE'RE READING
Chokehold: Donald Trump’s war on free speech and the need for systemic resistance
Free Press
In a comprehensive new report, Free Press’s Nora Benavidez analyzes how Trump and his political enablers have sought to undermine and chill the most basic freedoms protected by the First Amendment.
Press freedom advocates sound alarm over Ya’akub Vijandre, stuck for over two months in ICE custody in Georgia
WABE
We cannot just accept that “every so often the administration is going to abduct some lawful resident who said something it doesn’t like about Israel or Palestine,” FPF’s Seth Stern told WABE.
Watched, tracked, and targeted: Life in Gaza under Israel’s all-encompassing surveillance regime
New York Magazine
A powerful essay by Palestinian journalist Mohammed Mhawish about life in Gaza “under Israel’s all-encompassing surveillance regime.”
ICEBlock creator sues Trump administration officials saying they pressured Apple to remove it from the app store
CNN
Threatening to punish app stores if they don’t remove apps the government dislikes is unconstitutional. This time it’s ICEBlock, but tomorrow it could be a news app.
Longtime LA radio exec Will Lewis dies; Went to prison in Hearst case
My News LA
Many heroes work behind the scenes on press freedom. Will Lewis was one of them. A radio executive who championed public media, he spent 15 days in prison to protect sources. RIP.
‘Heroic excavators of government secrets’
National Security Archive
Congratulations to the indefatigable National Security Archive on 40 years of clawing back the self-serving veil of government secrecy.
Cos’è la Agentic Ai Foundation per l’intelligenza artificiale aperta
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L'Aaif punta a creare uno standard universale e un linguaggio comune per gli agenti di intelligenza artificiale, con l’obiettivo di garantire interoperabilità, sicurezza e trasparenza. L'intervento startmag.it/innovazione/aaif-i…
#Ucraina: l'Europa in trappola
Ucraina: l’Europa in trappola
La recente intervista di Trump alla testata on-line Politico ha fatto salire l’isteria dei governi europei a livelli senza precedenti, dal momento che il presidente americano ha ribadito per una platea decisamente più ampia la marginalità del vecchio…www.altrenotizie.org
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Spazio, Leonardo ambisce al mercato dei lanciatori? Ecco cosa lo fa pensare
@Notizie dall'Italia e dal mondo
Se l’Europa politica stenta ancora a dare segnali concreti di unità, l’industria, dal canto suo, sembra avere le idee chiare sul futuro. Anche più di quanto non racconti apertamente, almeno finora. Dal palco di Atreju, Roberto Cingolani ha rivelato ulteriori dettagli su
This week, we discuss conversational AI, a behind the scenes of the zine, and more.#BehindTheBlog
Behind the Blog: Is This Headline 'Clickbait'?
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 conversational AI, a behind the scenes of the zine, and more.EMANUEL: I made the terrible mistake of looking at some Hacker News comments this week for my story about a developer whose Google accounts were banned after he uploaded training data to Google Drive. Unbeknownst to him, the training data contained CSAM.
As we’ve explained in previous stories, CSAM is a subject we dread covering not only because it’s one of the most awful things one could think about, but because it’s extremely difficult and legally risky. For understandable reasons, the laws around viewing, let alone possessing CSAM, are strict and punishing, which makes verification for reporting reasons challenging. For similar reasons, it’s something we need to write about very carefully, making sure we don’t wrongfully associate or whitewash someone when it comes to such horrible behavior.
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Dati, reti e deterrenza. Cosa emerge dall’esercitazione Cyber eagle
@Notizie dall'Italia e dal mondo
Si è chiusa una delle principali esercitazioni italiane dedicate alla difesa digitale, un appuntamento che restituisce una fotografia concreta di come il dominio cibernetico sia ormai parte integrante della sicurezza nazionale. L’Aeronautica militare ha presentato i risultati di
BOLIVIA. Arrestato l’ex presidente Luis Arce, timori per Evo Morales
@Notizie dall'Italia e dal mondo
In Bolivia la procura ha arrestato l'ex presidente di centrosinistra Luis Arce per malversazione di fondi pubblici. I sostenitori di Evo Morales temono che il prossimo ad essere arrestato sia l'ex leader del Movimento al Socialismo
L'articolo BOLIVIA. Arrestato l’ex
Ministero dell'Istruzione
#ScuolaFutura, dal 12 al 15 dicembre, il campus itinerante sull’innovazione didattica promosso dal #MIM farà tappa a #Sanremo con i laboratori nazionali di orientamento dedicati alla musica e alle #STEM.Telegram
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Componenti cinesi nelle auto americane? L’allarme del Congresso per la sicurezza nazionale
@Notizie dall'Italia e dal mondo
La catena globale della produzione automobilistica è ormai diventata un fronte della competizione strategica tra Stati Uniti e Cina. E il messaggio è emerso con chiarezza durante un’audizione della House Select Committee on China, in cui i vertici della
Dal gas russo al Green Deal, passando per il riarmo: i nodi politici della plenaria di dicembre
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La plenaria del Parlamento europeo che si terrà dal 16 al 18 dicembre si conferma come il passaggio istituzionale più rilevante dell’anno
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FinTech und Datenschutz: PayPal sammelt die sexuellen Vorlieben von Kunden
netzpolitik.org/2025/fintech-u…
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I conti volano ma Xiaomi tira giù le serrande dei suoi negozi
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Come molte Big Tech americane, pure la cinese Xiaomi razionalizza i costi nonostante abbia conti in costante crescita. A farne le spese oltrehttps://www.startmag.it/innovazione/i-conti-volano-ma-xiaomi-tira-giu-le-serrande-dei-suoi-negozi/
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56 anni fa, la strage di piazza Fontana a Milano. Strage fascista, dove morirono 17 persone e ne vennero ferite 88. Lo stato accusò gli anarchici, arrestarono il ferroviere Giuseppe Pinelli, che guarda caso morì cadendo dalla finestra della questura di Milano. Dissero che si era buttato... Una preghiera per le vittime della stage e per Pinelli, vittima innocente di un omicidio di stato.
La storia della strage di Piazza Fontana: perché cambiò l’Italia
geopop.it/strage-di-piazza-fon…
strage di Piazza Fontana, strage di Stato, strage fascista
12 dicembre, Piazza Fontana, strage di stato: non dimentichiamo
differx.noblogs.org/2025/12/12…
#piazzafontana #stragidistato #ordinenuovo #stragifasciste #stragedistato
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