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Ecco le tendenze di oggi 13 marzo 2026 su Poliversity
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Most people love arcade games, but putting a full-sized arcade cabinet in the living room can lead to certain unpleasant complications. Ergo the market for fun-sized cabinets has exploded alongside the availability of cheap SBCs and MCUs that can run classical arcade titles. Microcontrollers like the ESP32 with its dual 240 MHz cores can run circles around the CPU grunt of 1980s arcade hardware. Cue [Till Harbaum]’s Galagino ESP32-based arcade emulator project, that recently saw some community versions and cabinet takes.

There was a port to the PlatformIO framework by [speckhoiler] which also added a few more arcade titles and repurposed the enclosure of an off-the-shelf ‘My Arcade’ by stuffing in an ESP32-based ‘Cheap Yellow Display‘ (CYD) board instead. These boards include the ESP32 module, a touch display, micro SD card slot, sound output, and more; making it an interesting all-in-one solution for this purpose.

Most recently [Davide Gatti] and friends ported the Galagino software to the Arduino platform and added a 3D printed enclosure, though you will still need to source a stack of parts which are listed in the bill of materials. What you do get is a top display that displays the current game title in addition to the display of the usual CYD core, along with an enclosure that can be printed both in single- or multi-color.

There’s also a build video that [Davide Gatti] made, but it’s only in Italian, so a bit of a crash course in this language may be required for some finer details.

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Thanks to [ZT] for the tip.

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In una svolta sensazionale nella lotta contro il Chat Control, la maggioranza del Parlamento europeo ha votato oggi per porre fine alla scansione di massa non mirata delle comunicazioni private. Così facendo, il Parlamento ha fermamente respinto le pratiche di sorveglianza incostituzionali e soggette a errori degli ultimi anni. Ora aumenta la pressione sui governi dell'UE affinché rispettino il voto dei deputati e pongano fine una volta per tutte alla sorveglianza di massa non mirata in Europa.

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2026-03-11 19:50:11

Votazione storica su #chatcontrol al Parlamento europeo: gli eurodeputati votano per porre fine alla scansione di massa non mirata delle chat private

In una svolta sensazionale nella lotta contro il Chat Control, la maggioranza del Parlamento europeo ha votato oggi per porre fine alla scansione di massa non mirata delle comunicazioni private. Così facendo, il Parlamento ha fermamente respinto le pratiche di sorveglianza incostituzionali e soggette a errori degli ultimi anni. Ora aumenta la pressione sui governi dell’UE affinché rispettino il voto dei deputati e pongano fine una volta per tutte alla sorveglianza di massa non mirata in Europa.
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Votazione storica su #chatcontrol al Parlamento europeo: gli eurodeputati votano per porre fine alla scansione di massa non mirata delle chat private

In una svolta sensazionale nella lotta contro il Chat Control, la maggioranza del Parlamento europeo ha votato oggi per porre fine alla scansione…

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Alcune lobby finanziate dall'estero, provenienti da paesi extra-UE, stanno promuovendo #ChatControl con propaganda fuorviante. Vogliono #PassTheLaw per scansionare le tue chat, ma chi sono e chi li paga? Smascheriamo la rete dei promotori della sorveglianza!

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2026-03-10 18:17:11

Gruppi di pressione finanziati dall’estero provenienti da paesi extra-UE stanno promuovendo #ChatControl con propaganda fuorviante

Alcune lobby finanziate dall’estero, provenienti da paesi extra-UE, stanno promuovendo #ChatControl con propaganda fuorviante. Vogliono #PassTheLaw per scansionare le tue chat, ma chi sono e chi li paga? Smascheriamo la rete dei promotori della sorveglianza!
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Gruppi di pressione finanziati dall’estero provenienti da paesi extra-UE stanno promuovendo #ChatControl con propaganda fuorviante

Alcune lobby finanziate dall'estero, provenienti da paesi extra-UE, stanno promuovendo #ChatControl con propaganda fuorviante. Vogliono #PassTheLaw per scansionare le tue chat, ma chi…

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In a sensational turn of events in the fight against Chat Control, a majority in the European Parliament voted today to end the untargeted mass scanning of private communications. In doing so, the Parliament firmly rejected the error-prone and unconstitutional surveillance practices of recent years. Pressure is now mounting on EU governments to respect the MEPs’ vote and bury untargeted mass surveillance in Europe once and for all.

Amendment 5, tabled by Pirate Party MEP Markéta Gregorová (Greens/EFA group) and adopted by a narrow margin, demands that any scanning of private communications must be strictly limited to individual users or groups of users suspected by a competent judicial authority of being linked to child sexual abuse. This aligns with the European Parliament’s 2023 mandate on the permanent Chat Control regulation (CSAR).

Based on today’s mandate, trilogue negotiations between the EU Parliament, the European Commission, and the Council of the EU are set to begin as early as tomorrow. Negotiations are taking place under extreme time pressure, as the current interim regulation authorizing Chat Control expires on April 6. The EU Commission and the vast majority of the EU Council—except for Italy—have so far categorically rejected any restrictions on untargeted mass scanning.

Digital freedom fighter Patrick Breyer (Pirate Party) commented on the historic vote:

“Today is a sensational victory for the countless citizens who made calls and sent emails to save their digital privacy of correspondence. Digital privacy is alive! Just as with our physical mail, the warrantless screening of our digital communications must remain taboo. EU governments must finally realize that true child protection requires secure apps (‘Security by Design’), the removal of illegal material at the source, and targeted investigations against suspects with a judicial warrant—not overreaching, pointless mass surveillance.”

The Hard Facts: Why Chat Control has failed spectacularly

The push by EU governments to make “Chat Control 1.0” a permanent fixture is legally and ethically negligent. The track record of the previous “voluntary” Chat Control—which the Parliament now intends to replace with targeted investigations—is disastrous. The EU Commission’s own evaluation report reads like an admission of bankruptcy, revealing a highly dysfunctional surveillance model:

• Data Giant Monopoly: Around 99% of all chat reports sent to police in Europe come from a single US corporation: Meta. US tech giants are acting as private auxiliary police forces—without any effective European oversight.
• Massive Police Overload due to Junk Data: Algorithms are blind to context and intent. The German Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA) reports that, out of roughly 300,000 chats reported annually in the EU, an unbelievable 48% of the disclosed chats are false positives and criminally irrelevant. This flood of junk data ties up resources desperately needed for targeted, undercover investigations against actual abuse networks.
• Criminalization of Minors: In Germany, 40% of investigations already target minors who thoughtlessly share images (e.g., consensual sexting), rather than organized predators.
• An Obsolete Model due to Encryption: Perpetrators can easily migrate to encrypted messengers where Chat Control does not take place. Because providers are increasingly adopting end-to-end encryption for private messages, the number of chats reported to the police has already dropped by 50% since 2022. Instead of investing in targeted investigative work, the EU Council is clinging to a dying surveillance model.
• Reversal of the Burden of Proof: According to the Commission’s report, there is no measurable link between the mass surveillance of private messages and actual convictions. Yet, the Commission and the Council are demanding the extension of a measure whose effectiveness they cannot prove, while providers admit to error rates of up to 20%.
• Failure to Protect Children: Mass scanning for already known images does not stop ongoing, live abuse and does not rescue children currently in active danger.

The Myth of the “Legal Vacuum” and the Exposed Lobbying Machine

In the run-up to the vote, MEPs were heavily pressured by the tech industry (DOT Europe) and certain child rights organizations (ECLAG) with joint warnings of an impending “legal vacuum.”

This narrative is false. Letting untargeted Chat Control expire does not leave the police “blind.” Scanning public posts and hosted files, as well as user-based reporting, remain fully permitted without restriction. Furthermore, the massive and highly questionable lobbying efforts have been exposed: The push for Chat Control is heavily driven by foreign-funded lobby groups and tech vendors. The US-based organization Thorn, which literally sells the exact scanning software in question, spends hundreds of thousands of euros lobbying in Brussels. The tech industry has officially lobbied side-by-side with NGOs for a law that ensures their profits and data access, rather than protecting children.

Patrick Breyer concludes:

“The industry and foreign-funded lobby groups tried until the very last minute to panic the Parliament. But flooding our police with false positives from mass surveillance does not save a single child from abuse. Today’s vote is a clear stop sign for this surveillance obsession. The negotiators cannot ignore this mandate in tomorrow’s trilogue negotiations. The untargeted scanning of our private messages must finally become a thing of the past.”

Consolidated version of the regulation reflecting the amendments adopted today in the EU Parliament, inserted with track changes

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Today at 12:30, the European Parliament will vote on whether to extend the so-called “Chat Control 1.0” (Interim Regulation) until August 2027. While a rejection of this mass surveillance is being proposed by the competent LIBE committee, a last-minute compromise negotiated by S&D, EPP, and Renew threatens to escalate the situation. Not only does it cement warrantless mass scanning, but it introduces highly experimental AI to scan private chat texts and unknown visuals.

The “Compromise” is an Escalation
While the previously rejected draft report at least excluded the most unreliable technologies, the new S&D, EPP, and Renew proposal is significantly worse.

It proposes that for accounts reported by users or “trusted flaggers”, where the report indicates a reasonable suspicion of CSAM, automated algorithms will be allowed to evaluate unknown visuals in private messages and even written chat texts. These secret algorithms are highly experimental, notoriously error-prone, and their deployment leaves massive democratic and legal questions completely unanswered:

• Big Tech as Judges: There is no requirement for a judge or even a human to authorize the scanning or assess if there is “reasonable suspicion.” Algorithms and private tech companies will decide who gets monitored.
• Abuse and Lack of Limits: What protects citizens from abusive user flags? For how long will a flagged account be monitored?Infinitely it seems.
• Undefined “Flaggers”: The text relies on vague terms like “trusted flaggers” or “organisations acting in the public interest” without defining who assigns this status or outlining sanctions for misuse.
• Technical Nonsense: The proposal claims text can be scanned “without deducing the substance” of it—which is technically impossible and logically absurd.
• No Redress: There is no requirement to notify users ex-post if their private chats were wrongly scanned, leaving no room for legal redress.

Mass Scanning To Be Legalised
The new deal also preserves the main target of civil society’s criticism: It continues to permit the warrantless, indiscriminate mass screening of every citizen’s private messages for “known material” (hash scanning).

While proponents dismiss this as a mere extension of the “voluntary” status quo, these “voluntary” scans threaten to become the de facto standard for all providers, or even a mandatory “risk mitigation” requirement under the Chat Control 2.0 (CSAR) regulation that is being negotiated as well.

Why mass hash-scanning remains completely unreliable and dangerous:

• Context & Intent Blindness: Algorithms are blind to context. What is illegal in the US (the source of most hash databases) is not automatically illegal in the EU. Furthermore, machines cannot read intent: Consensual teenage sexting or an unsolicited meme shared in a group chat triggers automatic police reports of all members of the chat group.
• Criminalization of Minors: Already today, 40% of all investigations in Germany target minors sharing images among themselves, not organized predator rings.
• Police Overload: The German Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA) reports that nearly half of all flagged chats via US-based NCMEC are criminally irrelevant. Drowning investigators in a flood of junk data ties up resources desperately needed for targeted, undercover investigations against actual abusers.
• Failure to Protect: Searching only for already known images does not stop ongoing, live abuse, nor does it rescue children currently in active danger.

The “Legal Vacuum” Myth and the Lobbying Machine
In the last 24 hours, MEPs have been sent letters from the tech industry (DOT Europe) and certain child rights organizations (ECLAG) warning of a “legal uncertainty” if the proposal fails.

This narrative is false. Letting the Chat Control 1.0 regulation expire does not leave police “blind.” Providers can still scan public posts, hosted files, and rely on user reports. End-to-end encryption is becoming the industry standard anyway, rendering these scans technically obsolete.

Furthermore, the lobbying effort itself is highly questionable. The push for Chat Control is heavily driven by foreign-funded lobby groups and tech vendors. For example, the US-based organization Thorn—which sells the very scanning technology being proposed—spends hundreds of thousands of euros lobbying in Brussels. The tech industry and commercial vendors are officially lobbying side-by-side with NGOs, pushing for a law that guarantees their profits and data access, not child safety.

Statement by Patrick Breyer (Pirate Party):

“We are being sold a Trojan horse. The alleged ‘compromise’ by S&D, EPP, and Renew legalises the failed, indiscriminate mass surveillance of our private images and even escalates it: Allowing unaccountable AI algorithms to read our chat texts based on vague ‘flags’ without judicial oversight is a nightmare.

The industry and foreign-funded lobbyists are trying to panic the Parliament with the myth of a ‘legal vacuum’. But flooding our police with false positives from mass surveillance does not save a single child—it only protects the profits of the tech companies selling the surveillance software. Real child protection requires secure apps (‘Security by Design’), mandatory takedowns, and targeted investigations against suspects with a judicial warrant. I urge all MEPs: Vote down the extension, and vote against any compromise that indiscriminately scans our private messages.”

Citizens can contact their representatives via: fightchatcontrol.eu

Consolidated version of the proposed regulation with the S&D, EPP and Renew compromise amendments marked as track changes

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Patrick Breyer

2026-03-10 14:34:07

🇪🇺 1/7 🌍 Foreign-funded lobby groups from outside the EU are pushing #ChatControl with misleading propaganda. They want to #PassTheLaw to scan your chats, but who are they and who's paying them? Let's expose the network.
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