[2026-01-18] Tanta Salute: Presentazione bollettino n. 8, aperitivo e proiezione del documentario GAZA: Doctors under attack @ COX18
Tanta Salute: Presentazione bollettino n. 8, aperitivo e proiezione del documentario GAZA: Doctors under attack
COX18 - Via Conchetta 18, Milano
(domenica, 18 gennaio 16:00)
36 ospedali completamente rasi al suolo;
1677 operatori sanitari uccisi dal 7 ottobre 2023 a settembre 2025;
90 sanitari detenuti nelle carceri israeliane.
– Rete Tanta salute a Tutti/e
– Sanitari per Gaza
– Csoa Cox 18
ore 16.00: – Presentazione del Bollettino n. 8 della
Rete Tanta salute a Tutti/e;
ore 19.30 aperitivo;
ore 20.00 proiezione: GAZA DOCTORS UNDER ATTACK
elenco completo dei numeri del Bollettino Tanta Salute a tutti/e
[2026-03-22] Norman bates + Pushing Forward @ Baitattack
Norman bates + Pushing Forward
Baitattack - chiedilo: baitattack.diy@gmail.com
(Sunday, 22 March 16:00)
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[2026-02-22] Scemo @ Baitattack
Scemo
Baitattack - chiedilo: baitattack.diy@gmail.com
(Sunday, 22 February 16:00)
[2026-01-23] K100 Jam Session @ Cantiere Sociale Camilo Cienfuegos
K100 Jam Session
Cantiere Sociale Camilo Cienfuegos - Via Chiella, 4, 50013 Campi Bisenzio FI
(venerdì, 23 gennaio 21:45)
Anno nuovo, grafica nuova... Ma stesse Vibes!
🎸🎺🥁 K100 JAM! 🪕🪗🎻
Ormai sapete cosa vi aspetta... Una serata di brio, birra, buona compagnia e presaabbene!
⏰VENERDI 23 GENNAIO
🕤 ore 21.45
📍 Cantiere Sociale Camilo Cienfuegos - Campi Bisenzio
🎸PORTA IL TUO STRUMENTO
Sul palco troverai microfoni, batteria completa, 2 ampli per chitarra, 1 ampli per basso e basso elettrico. Porta quello che vuoi!
🎙 COME SALIRE SUL PALCO
Non ci sono prenotazioni: arrivi, aspetti la fine del pezzo in esecuzione, alzi la mano, e sali! Chi prima arriva prima suona, 2-3 pezzi a testa, e tutti salgono sul palco, nessuno viene lasciato indietro!
🎶 COSA SUONARE
Potete fare quello che volete: intere cover, gorgheggi a caso, riff famosi, inventare su scale mai tentate... Il motto è "no virtuosismi, sì presobenismi": non importa essere dei draghi, anche con poco può sempre nascere qualcosa di bellissimo! ...Poi bhé se siete dei draghi viene ancora meglio!
🥁 HOUSE BAND
Ci saranno sempre 3 musicistə (batteria, chitarra e basso) che apriranno le danze e se necessario durante la serata prenderanno posto per non lasciare mai nessuna postazione scoperta!
Salite sul palco e divertitevi!
[2026-01-16] JAM SESSION @ Barocchio squat
JAM SESSION
Barocchio squat - - strada del Barocchio 27 - Grugliasco (TO)
(venerdì, 16 gennaio 20:00)
[2026-01-15] Luigi Chiarella presenta “Risto Reich” @ https://arcibrescia.it/2026/01/15/luigi-chiarella-presenta-risto-reich/
Luigi Chiarella presenta “Risto Reich”
arcibrescia.it/2026/01/15/luig… - arcibrescia.it/2026/01/15/luig…
(giovedì, 15 gennaio 09:24)
Luigi Chiarella presenta “Risto Reich”sabato 31 gennaio ore 21 Sabato 31 gennaio ore 21.00 alla Casa del Popolo Arci Cremlino, si terrà un evento imperdibile: Luigi Chiarella, autore di testi teatrali, racconti e romanzi, presenterà il suo nuovo libro Risto Reich Il lavoro del cameriere. Risto Reich è un romanzo…
[2026-01-22] Laboratorio Aperto @ Matrici Aperte
Laboratorio Aperto
Matrici Aperte - Via Elia Capriolo 41C, Brescia
(giovedì, 22 gennaio 15:00)
LABORATORIO APERTO
Tutti i Martedì (14:00-23:00) e i Giovedì (14:00-21:00) Matrici apre il laboratorio per chi ha bisogno di stampare ma anche per chi vuole solo bere un bicchiere in compagnia!
Potete venire a fare serigrafia, incisione calcografica, xilografia e tecniche grafiche sperimentali.
Per l'utilizzo del laboratorio chiediamo un contributo libero a supporto del progetto. Portate carta e matrici da casa, noi mettiamo a disposizione strumenti e spazio per i vostri lavori.
Ci sono due postazioni serigrafiche, due torchi calcografici, sala acidi e piani da inchiostrazione.
Dalle 18.00 (ma anche dalle 14.00 per lx ubriaconx) apre il baretto con vino, birre, pirli e gin tonic di pessima qualità! -c'è pure il pinkanello!-Chi suona strumenti è ben accettx.
Sarà aperto e consultabile anche l'archivio con libri serigrafici, fanzine e distro a supporto di movimenti e collettivi!
[2026-01-15] Fuori Israele genocida dalle olimpiadi @ https://arcibrescia.it/2026/01/15/fuori-israele-genocida-dalle-olimpiadi/
Fuori Israele genocida dalle olimpiadi
arcibrescia.it/2026/01/15/fuor… - arcibrescia.it/2026/01/15/fuor…
(giovedì, 15 gennaio 10:30)
Fuori Israele genocida dalle olimpiadi SABATO 17.01.26 – BRESCIAFUORI ISRAELE DALLE OLIMPIADI! NON SI GIOCA CON IL GENOCIDIORitrovo h 17.00 al C.S.A. MAGAZZINO 47 (Via Industriale 10) Sabato 17.01 da Brescia passerà la fiaccola olimpica di Milano – Cortina 2026. Il percorso partirà da Via Trivellini, a pochi passi dal…
[2026-01-16] LIBERTÀ PER TUTTI I PALESTINESI ARRESTATI @ Piazza del Popolo (RA)
LIBERTÀ PER TUTTI I PALESTINESI ARRESTATI
Piazza del Popolo (RA) - Piazza del Popolo (RA)
(venerdì, 16 gennaio 17:30)
LA RESISTENZA E LA SOLIDARIETÀ ALLA PALESTINA NON SI ARRESTANO
RESPINGERE LA MONTATURA POLIZIESCO/GIUDIZIARIA
ISRAELE TERRORISTA - GOVERNO MELONI COMPLICE
[2026-01-17] IRAN: PER LA LIBERTÀ @ Piazza del Popolo (RA)
IRAN: PER LA LIBERTÀ
Piazza del Popolo (RA) - Piazza del Popolo (RA)
(sabato, 17 gennaio 17:00)
a sostegno del popolo iraniano contro il regime
[2026-01-23] TESSERAMENTO CIRCOLO PINK ANNO 2026 E CARTA DELL'ANNO @ Circolo Pink
TESSERAMENTO CIRCOLO PINK ANNO 2026 E CARTA DELL'ANNO
Circolo Pink - Via Cantarane 63/C, Verona
(venerdì, 23 gennaio 19:30)
❤️VENERDI' 23 GENNAIO 2026
TESSERAMENTO 2026 E CARTA DELL'ANNO
🥂Ore 19.30 AperiPink
👅A seguire tesseramento (non obbligatorio) e carta dell'anno.
📌Via Cantarane 63C VR
✊❤️🌈Il Pink resiste, e continua stringere alleanze e gettarsi in nuove imprese. Nel 2026 si cimenterà con progetti sulla salute mentale e contro le discriminazioni, parteciperà alla creazione del Tumulto Pride, insisterà col gruppo dei Pink Refugees e chissà cos'altro via via, come se niente fosse.
✊Come, insomma, se non ci fosse la possibilità di scomparire tra pochi mesi, o di continuare ad esserci ma in una forma molto diversa. A ottobre infatti perderà la sede di via Cantarane e non si sa ancora in che modo continuerà ad esistere.
✊Venerdì 23 sarà la serata di lancio del tesseramento 2026, che sappiamo come è cominciato ma non abbiamo idea di come finirà. L'occasione ideale anche per il rito della carta dell'anno, la pesca del tarocco che preannuncerà l'atmosfera del 2026 e che moltə di voi stanno aspettando già da un mese.
✊Al Pink, ancora per questa volta, dalle 19.30 di venerdì 23, con bevande e rinfreschi, musica, chiacchiere, parrucche e culi di polistirolo, insomma il Pink mood che conoscete bene e che vi toccherà rimpiangere.
[2026-01-16] PUGNI - Live Concert @ Vigliano Biellese - Teatro Erios
PUGNI - Live Concert
Vigliano Biellese - Teatro Erios - Via Quintino Sella 51
(venerdì, 16 gennaio 21:00)
PUGNI live al Teatro Erios | Rassegna E.Ri.O.S.
Il 16 gennaio il sipario del Teatro Erios si apre per il primo appuntamento della rassegna E.Ri.O.S. (Extra Rinomata Officina Spettacolo). Ad inaugurare questa nuova stagione sarà PUGNI, uno degli artisti più interessanti e promettenti della scena indipendente italiana.
CHI È PUGNI? Lorenzo Pagni, in arte PUGNI, nasce a Pisa nel 1993 e cresce sulle sponde dell'Arno, dove per anni la canoa è stata la sua compagna di vita. Psicologo in una clinica psichiatrica di giorno e cantautore di notte, PUGNI sa trasformare la fatica del remo e l'ascolto dell'animo umano in canzoni dense, autentiche e visionarie.
COSA ASPETTARSI? Un concerto "in solo" dove le canzoni dell'album d'esordio "TUFFO" si intrecciano al nuovo singolo "Talento", un inno dedicato ai "reietti" e ai pazzi visionari, nato per rompere lo stigma sulla salute mentale. Sarà un viaggio emotivo dove la musica diventa "trampolino per tuffarci dentro le cose che sentiamo".
DOVE: Teatro Erios - Via Quintino Sella 57, Vigliano Biellese (BI)
QUANDO: Venerdì 16 Gennaio 2026
ORARI: Apertura porte ore 20:00 | Inizio concerto ore 21:00
BIGLIETTI:
Intero: 15€
Ridotto (under 14): 12€ (acquistabile in cassa)
Prevendite online: Disponibili su Mailticket https://www.mailticket.it/evento/50827/pugni
ACCESSIBILITÀ: Possibilità di biglietto omaggio per l'accompagnatore di persone con disabilità (previa comunicazione entro il giorno precedente a: reload.accessibility@gmail.com).
E.Ri.O.S. è una rassegna promossa dall'Associazione Reloaders in collaborazione con la Fondazione Piemonte dal Vivo ETS - progetto Corto Circuito e il sostegno del Comune di Vigliano Biellese e della Fondazione CRT, per la diffusione delle arti performative e la valorizzazione degli spazi culturali sul territorio piemontese. Promuove concerti e spettacoli di qualità con attenzione ai giovani e alla nuova scena contemporanea.
[2026-01-16] The Skarbozz Live Band - Musica Ska, Rocksteady @ Australian Pub Ned Kelly
The Skarbozz Live Band - Musica Ska, Rocksteady
Australian Pub Ned Kelly - via Milano 226 Vigliano Biellese
(venerdì, 16 gennaio 22:00)
[2026-01-16] Safada DJ SET - Reggaeton, Dembow, Trap, Funk @ Gaglianico - New Wood
Safada DJ SET - Reggaeton, Dembow, Trap, Funk
Gaglianico - New Wood - Via giacomo matteotti 129 Gaglianico
(venerdì, 16 gennaio 22:00)
[2026-01-17] Se le butti te le suono @ Biella - Jazz Club
Se le butti te le suono
Biella - Jazz Club - Corso del Piazzo, 29, 13900 Biella BI, Italia
(sabato, 17 gennaio 16:00)
Strumenti strabilianti
Internal ICE material and testimony from an official obtained by 404 Media provides the clearest link yet between the technological infrastructure Palantir is building for ICE and the agency’s activities on the ground.#ICE
‘ELITE’: The Palantir App ICE Uses to Find Neighborhoods to Raid
Palantir is working on a tool for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) that populates a map with potential deportation targets, brings up a dossier on each person, and provides a “confidence score” on the person’s current address, 404 Media has learned. ICE is using it to find locations where lots of people it might detain could be based.The findings, based on internal ICE material obtained by 404 Media, public procurement records, and recent sworn testimony from an ICE official, show the clearest link yet between the technological infrastructure Palantir is building for ICE and the agency’s activities on the ground. The tool receives peoples’ addresses from the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) among a range of other sources, according to the material.
The news comes after Department of Homeland Security (DHS) head Kristi Noem said the agency is sending hundreds more federal agents to Minneapolis amid widespread protests against the agency. Last week ICE officer Jonathan Ross shot and killed 37 year old U.S. citizen Renee Nicole Good. During Operation Metro Surge, which DHS calls the “largest immigration operation ever,” immigration agents have surrounded rideshare drivers and used pepper spray on high school students.
“Enhanced Leads Identification & Targeting for Enforcement (ELITE) is a targeting tool designed to improve capabilities for identifying and prioritizing high-value targets through advanced analytics,” a user guide for ELITE obtained by 404 Media says. The tool aims to be nearly all encompassing when it comes to finding ICE targets, from identifying subjects in the first place, to building a list of people, to supervisors approving selections for officers to ultimately go into the field and apprehend.
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Do you know anything else about this tool? Do you work at ICE, CBP, or Palantir? I would love to hear from you. Using a non-work device, you can message me securely on Signal at joseph.404 or send me an email at joseph@404media.co.One feature of ELITE is the “Geospatial Lead Sourcing Tab,” according to the user guide. This lets ICE see people it may potentially want to detain on a map interface, based on various criteria such as “Bios & IDs,” “Location,” “Operations,” and “Criminality.” An ICE officer can then select people one by one, or draw a shape on the map to see people in that selected area.
ELITE has already been used by ICE to target specific areas, according to sworn testimony from an ICE official in Oregon. In October, immigration officers waited in three unmarked SUVs outside an apartment complex in Woodburn. They went on to bust a driver’s window and pull a 45-year-old woman from a van, used ICE’s facial recognition app Mobile Fortify on her, and agents had the goal of making eight arrests per team per day, Oregon Live reported. Lawyers representing the woman say authorities arrested her and more than 30 other people in a “dragnet.”
“One of our apps, it’s called ELITE. And so it tells you how many people are living in this area and what’s the likelihood of them actually being there,” a deportation officer with ICE’s Fugitive Operations Unit, identified in court records as JB, testified about the raid in early December. 404 Media purchased a transcript of JB’s testimony from the court. “It’s basically a map of the United States. It’s kind of like Google Maps.”
“It pulls from all kinds of sources,” JB continued. “It’s a newer app that was actually given to us in ICE.” JB said ELITE is what ICE sometimes uses to track the apparent density of people at a particular location to target. “You’re going to go to a more dense population rather than [...] like, if there’s one pin at a house and the likelihood of them actually living there is like 10 percent [...] you’re not going to go there.” For that raid in Woodburn, JB suggested the immigration officers used ELITE to generate leads. Additionally, in a text thread of immigration officers, someone described the area as “target rich,” which JB explained meant the officials had run multiple license plates in that area and found vehicles registered to people “who had either a criminal or immigration nexus.”
Screenshots of the ICE official's testimony. Image: 404 Media.
JB and other officials were testifying in the case of MJMA, the woman pulled from the van during the Woodburn raid. She is being represented by attorneys from Innovation Law Lab.
Once a person is selected on the map interface, ELITE then shows a dossier on that particular person, according to the user guide. That includes their name, a photo, their Alien Number (the unique code given by the U.S. government to each immigrant), their date of birth, and their full address. ELITE notes the source of the address (such as the government agency that supplied it), and gives an “address confidence score.” One address confidence score example in the guide is 98.95 out of 100; another is 77.25 out of 100. This score is based on both the source of the address and how recent the data is, the user guide says. (ICE is paying skip tracers, private investigators, and bounty hunters to help verify peoples’ addresses.)
Those sources can include HHS, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), and “CLEAR.” The guide does not provide any more specifics on what CLEAR might be, but ICE has repeatedly contracted with Thomson Reuters which sells a data product called CLEAR. Thomson Reuters did not respond to a request for comment. HHS did not respond to a request for comment.
The documents don’t say if those are the only entities providing data for ELITE. The user guide says ELITE is “integrating new data sources” to reduce officer workload.
ICE can also use ELITE to look up people based on an unique identifier, such as their Alien Number, name, or date of birth. ELITE also lets ICE do this in bulk, selecting up to 50 people at once, according to the guide.
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ICE can filter the map by what the guide calls Special Operations. These are “groups of pre-defined aliens specifically targeted by Leadership for action.” ICE officers are told to consult ICE leadership or “broadcasts” on when to use these operation filters. DHS’s surge in Minneapolis is focused at least in part on the city’s Somali community after renewed focus on a COVID-19 fraud case. The overwhelming majority of Somalis who live in the Minneapolis and St. Paul area are U.S. citizens, PBS reported.“These records give us behind-the-scenes insight into the kind of mass surveillance machine ICE is building with help from powerful tech companies like Palantir,” Laura Rivera, senior staff attorney at Just Futures Law, told 404 Media. “When combined with what we know from ICE testimony and other public information, it gives us a blueprint into how ICE is going into communities and identifying people for arrest in real-time.”
Senator Ron Wyden, who represents Oregon where ELITE was discussed, told 404 Media in a statement, “The fact ICE is using this app proves the completely indiscriminate nature of the agency's aggressive and violent incursions into our communities. This app allows ICE to find the closest person to arrest and disappear, using government and commercial data, with the help of Palantir and Trump's Big Brother databases. It makes a mockery of the idea that ICE is trying to make our country safer. Rather, agents are reportedly picking people to deport from our country the same way you'd choose a nearby coffee shop.”
Screenshot of the Palantir contract, via highergov.com.
The ELITE user guide does not say who developed the system. But the tool’s distinctive title—Enhanced Leads Identification & Targeting for Enforcement—exactly matches one included in an addendum to a Palantir contract from last year. It says Palantir should “continue configuration and engineering services” for ELITE and some other ICE tools. That supplemental agreement for $29.9 million started in September and is planned to go on for at least a year.Palantir has worked with ICE for years and was focused on criminal investigations, supporting Homeland Security Investigations’ (HSI) Investigative Case Management (ICM) system. That changed in the second Trump administration, with Palantir now working on ICE’s deportation efforts.
After participating in a three-week coding sprint, ICE updated an ongoing Palantir contract related to “Enforcement Prioritization and Targeting,” to “support the development of an accurate picture of actionable leads based on existing law enforcement datasets to allow law enforcement to prioritize enforcement actions,” according to an internal Palantir wiki previously obtained by 404 Media. The goal was to find the physical location of people marked for deportation, and Palantir said it believes its work with ICE is “intended to promote government efficiency, transparency, and accountability.”
The leaked material described Palantir’s deportation-focused work as “concentrated on delivering prototype capabilities” and lasting around six months. It left open the room for more work with ICE, and said “Palantir has developed into a more mature partner for ICE.” Documents ICE published described Palantir’s work as building a tool called ImmigrationOS.
More than eight months have passed since Palantir discussed the issue internally. Neither Palantir nor DHS responded to multiple requests for comment.
In their testimony, JB said, “it’s a tool that we use that gives you a probability. But there’s never [...] there’s no such thing as 100 percent.” The user guide adds, “As always, make sure you do your due diligence on each target to confirm removability prior to action.”
Leaked: Palantir’s Plan to Help ICE Deport People
Internal Palantir Slack chats and message boards obtained by 404 Media show the contracting giant is helping find the location of people flagged for deportation, that Palantir is now a “more mature partner to ICE,” and how Palantir is addressing empl…Joseph Cox (404 Media)
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Inizia oggi il #ViaggiodellaMemoria 2026 della scuola italiana in ricordo delle vittime della #Shoah. L’iniziativa, promossa dal #MIM in collaborazione con l’UCEI, quest’anno è concepita come un laboratorio itinerante di formazione e preparazione al …Telegram
[2026-01-17] L'obbedienza non è più una virtù @ Candelo - Oratorio San Pietro
L'obbedienza non è più una virtù
Candelo - Oratorio San Pietro - via San Francesco, 9 - Candelo
(sabato, 17 gennaio 21:00)
Conferenza - L'ostinata esigenza di pace nel pensiero di Don Milani - A cura di Don Simone Rocco
Looking at a Real Fake Raspberry Pi RP2040 Board
Since the RP2040 microcontroller is available as a stand-alone component, it’s easy enough for third parties to churn out their own variations — or outright clones of — the Raspberry Pi Pico. Thus we end up with for example AliExpress sellers offering their own versions that can be significantly cheaper than the genuine article. The ones that [electronupdate] obtained for a test and decapping session cost just $2.25 a pop.
As can be seen in the top image, the board from AliExpress misses the Raspberry Pi logo on the silkscreen for obvious reasons, but otherwise appears to feature an identical component layout. The QSPI Flash IC is marked on the die as BY250156FS, identifying it as a Boya part.
Niggles about flash ROM quality aside, what’s perhaps most interesting about this teardown is what eagle-eyed commentators spotted on the die shot of the RP2040. Although on the MCU the laser markings identify the RP2040 as a B2 stepping, the die clearly identifies it as an ‘RP2 B0’ part, meaning B0 stepping. This can be problematic when you try to use the USB functionality due to hardware USB bugs in the B0 and B1 steppings.
As they say, caveat emptor.
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[2026-01-18] A-J Va Ën Paìss Për... - Spettacolo Teatrale @ Cossato - Teatro Comunale
A-J Va Ën Paìss Për... - Spettacolo Teatrale
Cossato - Teatro Comunale - P.za Elvo Tempia, 54, 13836 Cossato BI
(domenica, 18 gennaio 16:00)
Biglietti e info --> Clicca il link!
Ogni paese ha il suo ubergi di fiducia, e così il nostro, tranquillo paesino di montagna in cui la vita scorre lentamente e senza particolari colpi di scena. L’equilibrio, però, viene rotto alla notizia del fidanzamento della figlia dell’ubergista. La giovane cerca di convincere la madre a darle la contenta, ma questa si rivela essere un’impresa non da poco.
Come se non bastasse, ad aiutare o intralciare i due innamorati c’è l’intero paese: il prete con la sua perpetua e il sacrestano, l’impicciona postina che conosce gli affari di tutti, la guardia comunale (con trombettista al seguito) e un contadino stavanito che riceve una lettera misteriosa di cui nessuno co- nosce il contenuto (nessuno a parte la postina, ovviamente); a complicare la faccenda arriva anche un patachin ’d Turin. Per risolvere i propri problemi tutti si rivolgono alla ciucaluna del paese che è disposta ad aiutarli… al giu- sto prezzo.
Insomma, un nutrito gruppo di personaggi, che dimostra una volta per tutte che, come dice la figlia dell’ubergista, a-j va ën paìss për… per far que?
Il Gruppo Teatrale Snoopi ’74 torna in scena con una classica ambientazione contadina capace di unire la tradizione con un pizzico di innovazione e lo stesso obiettivo di sempre: passare insieme una serata in allegria!
The proposed law would force DHS only use the app, called Mobile Fortify, at ports of entry; delete all photos of U.S. citizens taken by the app; and effectively kill the local law enforcement of the app.#Impact #ICE
New Legislation Would Rein In ICE’s Facial Recognition App
A group of six Democratic lawmakers is proposing legislation that would dramatically rein in Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) facial recognition app, according to a copy of the draft bill shared with 404 Media. ICE and Customs and Border Protection (CBP) have been scanning peoples’ faces with the app, called Mobile Fortify, across the country, using it to verify their citizenship and claiming that a result in the app should be trusted over a birth certificate.The move signals the first potential legislative move against the app after 404 Media first revealed Mobile Fortify’s existence in June based on leaked ICE emails. Since then, 404 Media has covered its continued use against U.S. citizens, the 200 million images it uses, and the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) plan to roll out a version of the app to local law enforcement.
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Do you know anything else about this app? I would love to hear from you. Using a non-work device, you can message me securely on Signal at joseph.404 or send me an email at joseph@404media.co.“When ICE claims that an image it snaps and runs through an unproven app can be enough evidence to detain people for possible deportation, no one is safe,” Rep. Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS), ranking member of the Committee on Homeland Security, and who authored the legislation, said. “ICE’s use of Mobile Fortify to determine a person’s legal status is an outrageous affront to the civil rights and civil liberties of U.S. citizens and immigrants alike. DHS should not be conducting surveillance by experimenting with Americans’ faces and fingerprints in the field—especially with unproven and biased technology. It is time to put an end to its widespread use. We can secure the Homeland and respect the rights and privacy of Americans at the same time.”
The bill is being cosponsored by by Rep. Lou Correa (D-CA), Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on Border Security & Enforcement; Rep. Shri Thanedar (D-MI), Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on Oversight, Investigations & Accountability; Rep. Yvette D. Clarke (D-NY), Chair of the Congressional Black Caucus; Rep. Grace Meng (D-NY), Chair of the Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus; and Rep. Adriano Espaillat (D-NY), Chair of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus. It follows some of the lawmakers demanding answers from DHS about the app in September.
The proposed law, called the Realigning Mobile Phone Biometrics for American Privacy Protection Act, aims to curtail both Mobile Fortify and Mobile Identify, the local law enforcement version, in a few ways. First, it would ban use of the apps except for identification at ports of entry. As 404 Media showed, Mobile Fortify uses CBP systems that are usually reserved for identifying and taking photos of people as they enter the U.S. Mobile Fortify turned that capability inwards to American streets.
The law would also require all photos and fingerprints of U.S. citizens captured before the practices introduced by the bill be deleted, and require that all photographs or fingerprints of U.S. citizens be destroyed within 12 hours of being taken. The law would also prohibit DHS from sharing the apps with non-DHS law enforcement agencies, effectively killing the local law enforcement version. (404 Media reported the app became unavailable on the Google Play Store in early-December.)
When an immigration officer scans someone’s face with Mobile Fortify, the app runs their face against a bank of 200 million images held by DHS, according to the app’s user manual previously obtained by 404 Media. If the app finds what it believes is a matching face, it returns a name, their nationality, age and date of birth, unique identifiers such as their “alien registration,” and a field titled “Immig. Judge Decision,” the manual says. This appears to refer to whether an immigration judge has ruled on this person’s case, and may include a result that says “remove.”
404 Media previously obtained an internal DHS document through the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) which showed ICE does not let people decline to be scanned by the app. 404 Media has found likely cases of the app being used in Chicago. In a partnership with Reveal, 404 Media reported the app has been used on U.S. citizens.
One video posted to social media this week showed an officer using the app to take a photo of an identification document in what the video said was Minnesota. 404 Media compared the app shown in the video to the user interface in the leaked Mobile Fortify user manual and they matched.
“The Trump Administration has weaponized federal agencies against the American people. This latest effort to use facial recognition to further target immigrant families is reckless and dangerous,” said Rep. Espaillat in a statement. “I’m proud to stand with Ranking Member Thompson to introduce legislation to combat ICE and DHS, prohibiting the use of facial recognition as yet another ruthless tactic to further this administration’s mass deportation agenda.”
“The abuse of this type of technology by DHS agents is not only invasive, it is likely unconstitutional and certainly un-American,” Rep. Meng added. “Immigration enforcement should not be conducted by an app and DHS should not conduct dragnet operations that terrorize communities and violate people's constitutional rights. I am proud to have worked with Ranking Member Thompson and my colleagues to introduce this commonsense legislation.”
DHS did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Inside ICE’s Supercharged Facial Recognition App of 200 Million Images
404 Media has seen user manuals for Mobile Fortify, ICE’s new facial recognition app which allows officers to instantly look up DHS, State Department, and state law enforcement databases by just pointing a phone at someone’s face.Joseph Cox (404 Media)
Nuove modalità di richiesta di prestito interbibliotecario (ILL)
La Biblioteca nazionale centrale di Firenze, nell’ottica del miglioramento dei servizi all’utenza, mette ora a disposizione un form di richiesta online per il prestito interbibliotecario (ILL), a livello nazionale e internazionale, che sostituisce la compilazione dell’analogo modulo cartaceo.
Gli utenti iscritti alla Biblioteca, a partire dal 15 gennaio 2026, troveranno la nuova funzionalità “Form di richiesta ILL” nella propria area personale del catalogo (OPAC).
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Aperitivo per i diritti con Marco Cappato a Pomezia
Mercoledì 21 gennaio , a partire dalle 18:30,AR Circolo Alessandro Casponi ospiterà un aperitivo speciale con la partecipazione di Marco Cappato, tesoriere dell’Associazione Luca Coscioni. Introdurrà la serata Flavio Sabato, coordinatore della Cellula Coscioni di Pomezia che racconterà le iniziative portate avanti sul territorio.
AR Circolo Alessandro Casponi – Via Industria, 9, Pomezia
Mercoledì 21 gennaio 2026
Inizio ore 18:30
L’incontro organizzato in collaborazione con Arci Pomezia sarà momento di riflessione e condivisione, durante il quale sarà possibile approfondire le campagne dell’Associazione e scoprire come partecipare attivamente.
Ingresso con tessera ARCI, per maggiori informazioni:cellulapomezia@associazionelucacoscioni.it
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Windows? Linux? Browser? Same Executable
We’ve been aware of projects like Cosmopolitan that allow you to crank out a single executable that will run on different operating systems. [Kamila] noticed that the idea was sound, but that the executables were large and there were some limitations. So she produced a 13K file that will run under Windows, Linux, or even in a Web browser. The program itself is a simple snake game.
There seems to be little sharing between the three versions. Instead, each version is compressed and stitched together so that each platform sees what it wants to see. To accommodate Windows, the file has to start with a PE header. However, there is enough flexibility in the header that part of the stub forms a valid shell script that skips over the Windows code when running under Linux.
So, essentially, Windows skips the “garbage” in the header, which is the part that makes Linux skip the “garbage” in the front of the file.
That leaves the browser. Browsers will throw away everything before an <HTML> tag, so that’s the easy part.
Should you do this? Probably not. But if you needed to make this happen, this is a clear template for how to do it. If you want to go back to [Kamila’s] inspiration, we’ve covered Cosmopolitan and its APE format before.
Francesco d’Assisi (1181-1226) è uno dei santi più amati della cristianità, tanto che la sua storia affascina ancora a 800 anni dalla morte. L’agile volume del cardinal Angelo Comastri a lui dedicato non soltanto offre una biografia del Poverello, ma può essere considerato come una guida per scoprire o riscoprire l’insegnamento francescano: «È quello che vogliono proporre queste povere pagine, che tentano di dipingere davanti agli occhi distratti della gente di oggi la via percorsa da Francesco d’Assisi» (p. 7).
L’esistenza dell’Assisiate appare segnata fin dall’inizio, quando Francesco doveva essere Giovanni: «Quando il padre tornò dal suo viaggio, subito si lamentò con Pica per la scelta del nome troppo religioso. E cambiò il nome del figlio: lo chiamò Francesco, in omaggio a un panno che commerciava e che era chiamato “francesco” perché veniva prodotto in Francia. E così il nome Francesco entrò nella storia: entrò a motivo della ricchezza del commercio per indicare un uomo che avrebbe avuto orrore per la ricchezza al punto tale da chiamare “sua sposa” la povertà» (pp. 16 s.).
L’A. va poi al cuore del messaggio che il francescanesimo lascia alla Chiesa, una testimonianza «semplice e allo stesso tempo […] formidabile: Francesco ci invita a prendere sul serio il Vangelo, a prendere sul serio Gesù, a prendere sul serio la via percorsa da Gesù […], perché l’amore rende simili: l’amore genera l’imitazione! La lezione di Francesco sta tutta qui» (p. 73).
L’utopia francescana – si legge tra le righe – è allora possibile e consiste nel «vivere il Vangelo di Gesù alla lettera! E questa utopia ritorna come una sfida in ogni generazione cristiana e la interpella: Dio ha suscitato il francescanesimo proprio per questo!» (p. 82).
Nell’anno in cui si celebra l’ottavo centenario della dipartita al cielo di Francesco d’Assisi, il profondo libro del card. Angelo Comastri consente di avvicinare questa grande figura di santità, attualizzata in riflessioni che fanno comprendere le intenzioni dell’umile frate, così da suscitare in tutti l’imitazione: «E, ancora oggi, il seme gettato da Francesco grida che il Vangelo è un’utopia, ma è un’utopia possibile! Che mistero! Che bel mistero! Che affascinante mistero!» (p. 123).
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875 Eltern und Kinder befragt: Social-Media-Verbot ist nicht die beste Lösung
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Wikipedia’s 25th birthday proves the power of free speech
In the mid-1700s, Denis Diderot published his Encyclopédie in France, collecting the work of more than 140 authors to summarize the Enlightenment. It quickly landed on the Catholic Church’s banned books list for including contrarian thoughts, and, at one point, his publisher preemptively censored some content without Diderot’s knowledge.
Around the same time, King George III censored the first edition of Encyclopaedia Britannica, requiring the removal of some anatomically correct drawings in an article about midwifery.
So when the 13 newly independent American states ratified the First Amendment a few decades later, it laid the groundwork not only for a free press but also for an encyclopedia that was not censored by an oppressive government.
Today, we celebrate the realization of that dream in the form of Wikipedia, which over the past 25 years has been collaboratively built by unpaid strangers on the internet. Wikipedia went from the source that teachers universally clamored “you can’t trust it” to one of the most reliable sources in a world of “disinformation” and AI-generated slop.
Despite not being written by professional journalists (I edit it myself as a volunteer and used to work for its nonprofit host, Wikimedia Foundation), it’s still able to set trends and drive narratives. For example, in 2011, Wikipedia editors started collating a list of people killed by law enforcement in the U.S., three years before The Washington Post would win a Pulitzer for its version of the same.
And for better or worse, Wikipedia is most likely the largest single source powering today’s AI models. All in all, it’s the largest repository of knowledge in human history.
But it’s important to understand and appreciate that Wikipedia only exists because of the robust free speech and free press protections that exist in the United States.
But it’s important to understand and appreciate that Wikipedia only exists because of the robust free speech and free press protections that exist in the United States.
Kunal Mehta
Wikipedia has never been actively censored in the U.S., nor has any U.S.-based editor ever been arrested for their edits to Wikipedia. There’s never even been a serious threat of censorship of Wikipedia by the federal government. (The FBI once demanded Wikipedia stop using its seal under a law written to stop impersonation of federal agents; Wikipedia’s legal team laughed it off.)
The same cannot be said about Wikipedia in other countries. In France, intelligence operatives held a Wikipedia administrator until he deleted an article about a military radio station, under the guise it contained classified information. Agents made this demand even though the information in question wasn’t classified at all and was mostly based on a documentary that the French air force had worked on and publicly released.
In India, a court required Wikipedia to remove an article about a news agency because it was supposedly defamatory. To top it off, the court then demanded Wikipedia remove the separate article that was written about the court case and removal order!
This kind of censorship shouldn’t happen in the U.S. The Supreme Court ruled the First Amendment protects publishing classified information in a case about the Pentagon Papers. A U.S. court cannot order an article to be taken down, as that would be an unconstitutional prior restraint.
In the U.S., the law known as Section 230 would also protect Wikipedia from defamation claims, and instead require litigants to sue the editor who actually wrote and published the allegedly defamatory content. Those editors would be protected under the First Amendment and the high court’s New York Times v. Sullivan decision, which requires defamation claims from public officials — later expanded to public figures — to meet the much higher standard of actual malice to win (nearly every biography on Wikipedia is of a public figure, by policy).
And to state the obvious, the U.S. has never blocked all of Wikipedia, unlike China (since 2015), Myanmar (since 2021), or Turkey, which did so from 2017 until an appeal to the European Court of Human Rights forced that nation to unblock it in 2020. We know of one editor, Bassel Khartabil, who was executed for their online activity, and a few others who are incarcerated in Belarus and Saudi Arabia.
Certainly, there are plenty of people in power who wish they could censor or control Wikipedia. At first, it was through editing: In 2006, a number of Congressional staffers were caught whitewashing their bosses’ biographies, and, in 2007, someone at the FBI tried to remove images from the Guantánamo Bay detention camp article.
Then, in 2013, Edward Snowden leaked that the National Security Agency was illegally spying on Wikipedia readers and editors, revealing that the U.S. had adopted the same playbook as China. Wikipedia responded by encrypting all connections using HTTPS a few years later, and (unsuccessfully) sued the NSA for First and Fourth amendment violations.
The attacks against Wikipedia are starting to ramp up once again; last year saw ethically compromised interim U.S. Attorney Ed Martin and Sen. Ted Cruz complain about Wikipedia’s supposed left-wing bias, despite the First Amendment prohibiting the government from acting as speech police. We’ve also seen bits of the First Amendment firewall begin to crumble, with judges green-lighting prior restraints, or bipartisan groups of lawmakers working to repeal Section 230.
It will require a concerted effort by all of us to not just maintain existing First Amendment protections, but to expand them. That’s the only way Wikipedia will thrive for another 25 years.
Википедии 25 лет!
🎁 15 января 2026 года крупнейшей энциклопедии в истории интернета исполняется четверть века — ровно 25 лет с момента её основания в 2001 году. Википедия выросла из идеи свободного знания до глобальной платформы с десятками миллионов статей на 300+ языках, служащей фундаментом для образования, исследований и повседневных нужд людей по всему миру, а также площадкой для обучения искусственных интеллектов человеческой культуре.
В течение всего 2026 года сообщество Wikimedia планирует отмечать этот юбилей серией событий, онлайн-акций и материалов, объединённых темой «Knowledge is Human» (Знание это человек) — ведь именно люди, их вклад и сотрудничество сделали Википедию тем, чем она стала.
Википедия существует благодаря волонтёрам, которые ежедневно пишут, проверяют и улучшают статьи. Проект сохраняет свою независимость: без рекламы и платных подписок, полагаясь на добровольные пожертвования и вклад людей, открыто делящихся знаниями.
🏴 Пиратская партия России традиционно поддерживает свободу знаний и информационные свободы, которые являются сердцем Википедии. На страницах русскоязычной версии Википедии есть статья о нашей партии, где можно ознакомиться с нашей историей, целями, принципами и многой другой полезной информацией.
Википедия — это не просто энциклопедия, это символ открытого обмена знаниями и коллективного творчества. Она показывает, как миллионы людей могут объединиться, чтобы создать нечто намного большее, чем просто набор фактов — целый мир знаний, доступный каждому. Эта идеология перекликается с нашими принципами:
- свобода информации — право каждого получать и распространять знания без цензуры;
- прозрачность и участие — общественные процессы, открытые для вклада каждого;
- борьба с монополией на знание — против закрытых систем и БД;
- децентрализация и совместное творчество — как основы прямой электронной демократии.
Для нас Википедия — это не только ресурс, но и пример того, каким может быть общество, где информация свободна, а участие каждого ценится.
В эпоху, когда знания всё чаще оказываются под давлением государственных и коммерческих интересов, алгоритмов и корпоративных блоков, Википедия остаётся редким пространством, где человеческое знание по-прежнему доступно всем и каждому. Призываем всех активно участвовать в наполнении Википедии и сохранять своё имя в культуре человечества, включая его будущих небиологических представителей.
Сообщение Википедии 25 лет! появились сначала на Пиратская партия России | PPRU.
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Europe’s Open Source Digital Strategy – Bottlenecks To Navigate
As part of its digital sovereignty drive, the European Commission is currently inviting public input on the future of European Open Digital Ecosystems through an open consultation. The idea is to gather perspectives from different parties – developers, civil society, policy makers, public administrators, and industry insiders and ascertain how it could establish and shape the foundations of Europe’s digital future.
The European Pirates will take this opportunity to submit a response to the commission’s call. The discussion below is a starting point for that wider reflection. It outlines key ambitions of the EU’s open digital strategy and highlights several structural bottlenecks that deserve careful attention as Europe defines its next steps.
Amid rapid transformations and politically charged ramifications in the global digital landscape, the European Union has decided to restructure and strengthen its open-source digital ecosystem strategy. Over the past few years, digital infrastructure has quietly become a geopolitical asset. Cloud systems, AI models, data pipelines, and even open-source software now shape economic power, security posture, and democratic resilience. The European Commission initially adopted the strategy in 2020-2023. The call to action is amplified at the Summit on European Digital Sovereignty in Berlin in November 2025.
The underlying idea is simple: Achieve and maintain Europe’s digital sovereignty.
Key Goals Of The Initiative:
- Digital sovereignty & independence: Help Europe reduce reliance on non-EU tech companies by making it easier to use, modify, and host digital tools within European infrastructure, giving users and institutions greater control and real choices.
- Innovation & competitiveness: Offer shared, reusable tech foundations so startups, small businesses, and researchers can build faster, experiment more, and focus on new ideas instead of starting from scratch.
- Security & trust: Open code can be examined by anyone, which makes it easier to spot problems, improve safety, and build public confidence, especially for systems used in sensitive or essential sectors.
- Economic growth: Support a stronger digital economy by encouraging collaboration, lowering entry barriers, and creating space for new European tech companies to emerge and scale.
- Standards & interoperability: Push for open technologies that work well together across Europe and connect seamlessly, rather than becoming isolated silos.
- Strategic autonomy: Strengthen Europe’s digital capabilities, particularly in areas such as AI, to ensure geopolitical independence on an ever-evolving technological platform.
History as a mirror shows that sovereignty can only be attained when something, be it a nation or a system, is built brick by brick. It cannot be purchased off the shelf as a commodity. In the face of current volatile geopolitical situations and ever-evolving technological innovations, the EU’s initiative to build a digital ecosystem is indeed a need of the hour and a duty to its citizens.
But it is essential to recognise that, though the initiative’s ambition is straightforward, it is underpinned by complex challenges. Europe is trying to build an open digital ecosystem while simultaneously operating one of the world’s most assertive regulatory environments. It wants openness without dependency, innovation without loss of control, and sovereignty without isolation. Whether these goals can coexist is no longer a theoretical question. It is now a structural one.
The initiative marks a shift away from reliance on non-European digital infrastructure toward home-grown, openly accessible technologies. But building software is easier than sustaining ecosystems. Open Source does not thrive on policy declarations alone. It survives on developer communities, long-term funding, legal clarity, and trust. In a climate shaped by AI disruption, transatlantic regulatory tensions, and growing corporate consolidation, Europe’s strategy is as much an experiment in governance as it is in technology.
The proposed framework of the EU’s Open Source Initiative works through four interconnected layers:
- Digital Governance
- Digital Infrastructures Software and Data
- Digital Products and Markets
- People
In this context, it is critical to analyse the bottlenecks that can impede the development of an open digital ecosystem in Europe. Various views have been put forth by policymakers, developers, industry leaders, and digital rights advocates. Below are a few bottlenecks that must be carefully examined and navigated:
Bottlenecks
1. Regulatory Complexity, Legal Uncertainty, and Burden On Developers
The EU’s AI Act introduces a risk-based way to govern AI. Some uses of AI are completely banned, others need strict oversight, and general-purpose AI must follow rules for transparency and safety.
The main challenge is how these rules affect Open Source projects. Vague definitions, complex requirements, and excessive bureaucracy have worried both developers and civil society groups. Smaller teams may feel discouraged—not because they oppose safeguards, but because complying with the rules may be too much for them.
Recent delays in the European Commission’s AI compliance deadlines in late 2025 demonstrate this problem. If the rules are too strict or confusing, independent developers might stop participating. If the rules are too weak, people may lose trust. Without clearer guidance and more practical expectations for open projects, these rules could slow down Europe’s digital progress by discouraging people from getting involved.
2. Funding Gaps and Ecosystem Support Challenges
Beyond being a cornerstone of Europe’s digital sovereignty, Open Source is a highly viable economic proposition for the EU (contributing approximately €65-95 billion annually and $8.8 trillion globally). But Open Source remains underfunded relative to traditional infrastructure.
This highlights significant gaps in strategy and funding within Europe’s Open-Source ecosystem. Many organisations lack clear plans or long-term investments in Open Source, making it harder to sustain projects and remain competitive.
In this context, it is crucial to pay attention to the EU’s position on digital products and markets. For instance, the global generative AI landscape is dominated by China and the US, with 60% and 12% share, respectively, while Europe ranks third with just 7%. Interestingly, Europe produces 21% of research papers worldwide, but its share of patent filings remains at 2%. The gap is due to the lack of access to venture capital.
Europe is heavily dependent on non-EU countries for critical raw materials and semiconductors. Such heavy reliance on external producers makes the supply chain vulnerable to supply chain disruptions and geopolitical pressures. Without a robust industrial base and competitive markets, the idea of digital sovereignty will remain a far-fetched dream.
3. Harmonising Policy and Technical Implementation
It is essential to recognise that the open-source initiative is not only about passing laws. It is about building systems people are expected to use.
The bottleneck arises when laws, funding mechanisms, and public technology projects become misaligned. If policies advance faster than practical tools, developers are left uncertain. If systems are built without legal and social clarity, adoption slows.
Open Source grows through steady collaboration. It depends more on continuity than on declarations. When coordination weakens, Europe risks producing strong frameworks that struggle to take root beyond official documents.
4. Addressing Cybersecurity Regulation Without Excluding Open Source
Secure networks and compatible systems to software, hardware, data networks, and cloud infrastructure are the mainstay of digital sovereignty that Europe strives to achieve.
- The Digital Decade Policy 2030 is focused on improving connectivity across the continent.
- The EU’sCyber Resilience Act (CRA) aims to improve the security of digital systems.
- A proposed €300 billion investment is in the pipeline as part of the Eurostack initiative, which aims to integrate cloud services, the AI Continent Action Plan, new AI Factories, and shared data spaces into a unified European digital infrastructure.
Despite these efforts, structural weaknesses persist, and cybersecurity remains a significant concern. Fragmentation is another challenge. If EU countries do not work together, they might continue to develop separate, incompatible data-sharing systems. This would make it harder to create a unified European data space.
Digital infrastructure and data systems are key to Europe’s digital future. They support governance, markets, and the protection of individual rights. But sovereignty is not just about having technology. It also means Europe must be able to create, store, manage, and use data in ways that reflect its values.
At this moment, as Europe seeks to shape its digital future, it cannot outsource its strategic technology layers. Digital sovereignty cannot be achieved by focusing solely on the application. Priority investment is needed in foundational systems such as:
- Secure networking and VPN tooling
- collaborative productivity platforms
- web and application security infrastructure
- data-centre orchestration and virtualisation layers
5. Skill Gap and Lack of Trust
According to the Commission’s second annual report on the State of the Digital Decade, only 55.6% of Europeans had basic digital literacy. Public trust in EU policies concerning the protection of online rights stands at 45%. This gap of skill and public trust is a matter that needs to be examined critically.
Many people still feel unsure about technology and unconvinced that their rights are truly protected online. When digital policies feel distant, complex, or designed only for experts, people can feel excluded. That loss of trust can quietly weaken Europe’s digital ambitions.
This human side shows that digital sovereignty is more than laws and systems. It is about ensuring people feel confident, included, and able to join the digital world. Without this, even the best strategies risk being about people instead of truly serving them.
Ecosystem and Infrastructure Realities
Beyond geopolitics and regulation lies a quieter layer where Open Source actually lives.
Most projects are maintained by individuals or small teams. This creates vulnerabilities that no sovereignty strategy can ignore.
Critical tools often depend on only a few people. When they burn out or move on, systems falter. Enterprises hesitate to rely on software without clear responsibility structures. When problems arise, there is often no obvious place to turn.
This does not undermine openness. It undermines resilience.
Contribution pathways face similar strain. Companies often want to return improvements to the broader community. Yet limited maintenance capacity, slow review timelines, and project governance constraints frequently push the organisation towards considering an internal/private version. Once that happens, the incentive to contribute back erodes, fragmenting ecosystems and increasing maintenance burdens across the board.
The obstacle here is not motivation. It is the absence of institutional scaffolding.
From ideology to infrastructure: what Europe would need to build
If Europe is serious about Open Source as public digital infrastructure, it must consider new structural instruments, such as:
- EU-based sponsorship platforms that reduce friction between developers and funders
- public-sector sponsorship obligations tied to software procurement
- early-stage funding mechanisms for individual maintainers
- Public-funding conditions that require open-source contributions
These are not symbolic gestures. They are the economic foundations of a sustainable open-source ecosystem.
Closing Perspective: The Value of Digital Rights Voices
As Europe navigates regulation, competition, and technological acceleration, digital rights organisations continue to stress an essential point: innovation and rights protection are not opposites.
They argue that digital policy should not only prevent harm, but also actively empower people. That means meaningful transparency, accountability, and the protection of the integrity of Open Source itself.
This perspective reframes Europe’s initiative. It is not only about market position or technological independence. It is about shaping a digital environment where infrastructure supports dignity, autonomy, and democratic choice.
Europe now faces a rare opportunity. It can build an open-source strategy that does more than produce software. It can create a digital public space where innovation is structurally supported, and rights are structurally protected.