Russian officials say a convoy was struck by drones in Belgorod region near Grushevka, killing a deputy district head from Dagestan, Magomednabi Gadzhiev, and two others, with a fourth wounded. Moscow claims the "humanitarian" convoy carried food, tools and letters โfor Russian troops.โ
In Kupyansk, Ukrainian forces are continuing to clear the city as the Russian grouping has lost the ability to hold its positions, the Joint Forces communication chief Viktor Tregubov says.
He reports that about 50 Russian servicemen remain in the city. Tregubov noted: โThey are surrendering, and weโve even seen foreigners taken prisoner. Their supplies are effectively limited to an aerial bridge. That is not a logistics network that allows them to hold out for long.โ
On the Northern-Slobozhanske axis, aerial reconnaissance units from the Ukrainian border guard group "Prime" destroyed a D-30 howitzer, communications and electronic warfare equipment, and a fortified position. Russian forces also suffered personnel losses during the operation.
๐ RUSSIA'S WAR AGAINST UKRAINE โ DEC 25, 2025
โ Area losses confirmed; casualties below average, but heavy Russian equipment losses โ 7th-highest drone losses; triple-digit unarmored vehicle losses; artillery and tank losses more than double the average โ Overnight attacks: triple-digit, all drones, improved interception rate โ ๐บ๐ฆ strikes remain well above average
๐บ๐ฆ ๐ท๐บ Drones attacked the port city of Temryuk in #Russiaโs Krasnodar Krai overnight, igniting fuel storage tanks, regional authorities wrote on Dec. 25.
Overnight in Maykop, Republic of Adygea, residents reported a series of explosions near the Khanskaya military airfield, home to Russiaโs 272nd Training Aviation Base. According to locals, the blasts occurred in the vicinity of the base, which has previously been targeted by Ukrainian drone strikes.
Two petroleum storage tanks caught fire in the port of Temryuk following a drone strike, according to the Krasnodar regionโs operational HQ. The blaze covers around 2,000 square meters. Firefighting efforts involve 70 personnel and 18 units of equipment, including teams from Russiaโs Emergency Ministry.
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen: โWe know we can never match the sacrifice of the Ukrainian people, but we will support their fight for survival, for their country, their land, and their right to live without fear, for as long as it takes.โ
In Krasnodar Krai, Temryuk port and an unnamed facility in Shcherbinovsky District were struck overnight. Local authorities report large fires at both sites following the attack. Details on damage and possible casualties are still emerging.
Un gorilla con pelliccia scura e una macchia bruna sulla testa รจ seduto su un muretto di pietra. Alle sue spalle, c'รจ erba verde, un muro di cemento e una cascata. Sul corpo del gorilla, a livello del ventre, si trova un piccolo oggetto giallo. Sopra il gorilla, il testo "PORCAMADONNA CHE MAGNATA" รจ visibile in caratteri bianchi. L'ambiente intorno include vegetazione e strutture artificiali.
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Would you feel confident in buying US-made LiFePO4 (LFP) batteries? While the answer here is generally expected to be ‘yes’, especially compared to getting an unbranded LFP battery off eBay from a random seller, the outcome may not be that different. Case in point the 100 Ah, 12 VDC LFP Battle Born battery that [Will Prowse] took a look at to see why its positive terminal gets positively crispy.
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Born to Burn: the Battle Born LFP Battery
Would you feel confident in buying US-made LiFePO4 (LFP) batteries? While the answer here is generally expected to be โyesโ, especially compared to getting an unbranded LFP battery off eBay from a random seller, the outcome may not be that different. Case in point the 100 Ah, 12 VDC LFP Battle Born battery that [Will Prowse] took a look at to see why its positive terminal gets positively crispy. Battle Born battery positive terminal. (Credit: Will Prowse, YouTube) Once the lid was cut off, itโs easy to see what the problem is: the positive terminal is only loosely attached to the bus bar, leading to extremely poor contact. It also appears that thereโs a plastic spacer which has properly melted already in this well-used battery that [Will] obtained from a viewer.
This overheating issue with Battle Born batteries has been reported for years now, which makes it a great idea to take a good look at any Battle Born LFP batteries you may have kicking around, as they may be plagued by the same design flaw. Trying to make use of the manufacturerโs warranty could be complicated based on the commentators in the DIY Solar Forum thread, as Battle Born likes to claim that the overheating issue is an external problem and not a design flaw.
Either way, it looks like an incredibly sketchy way to design a battery terminal on an LFP battery that is supposed to surge 100+A. [Will] is requesting that anyone affected posts details in the forum or similar to get all information together, as he looks to push Battle Born on this issue.
What makes this issue worse is that shortly after releasing that first video, Battle Born responded to some concerned customers with a response that claims that their terminal design is a โthermal fail-safeโ, but as can be seen in [Will]โs follow-up video, it absolutely doesnโt look like one.
I've got six pieces of leftover KFC, four Rice Krispies squares, it's six hours until I can go home, it's quiet, and I wish I was wearing sunglasses. Hit it.
Special Christmas and other holiday greetings to all the healthcare workers, first responders, delvery drivers, security guards, transit workers, and anyone on-call who have to work despite the holiday, because you're indispensable. I see you, and I value you. #JoinIn
New Wave emerged at a moment when punk collapsed inward and technology moved to the foreground.
In this episode, we examine New Wave not as a style, but as a reconfiguration of attitude, structure, and sound. Drawing from the attached recording, the focus is on mechanical rhythm, synthetic timbre, and emotional restraintโwhere expression is filtered through repetition, machines, and control...
New Wave emerged at a moment when punk collapsed inward and technology moved to the foreground.In this episode, we examine New Wave not as a style, but as a ...
These arrived yesterday. It was the first thing grandson noticed when he arrived for Christmas Eve. They're for me, kind of a belated birthday present for myself. #plushtodon
Password vaults stolen from LastPass at the end of 2022 were cracked and used to steal cryptocurrency as recently as this year, with the stolen funds being laundered through Russia-based cryptocurrency exchanges
This blog analysis describes the observed abuse and provides additional context so that administrators can confirm that they are not impacted and guidance based on Fortinet observations to prevent โฆ
A huge blocklist of manually curated sites that contain AI generated imagery for uBlock Origin & uBlacklist. - laylavish/uBlockOrigin-HUGE-AI-Blocklist
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Within the vulnerability ecosystem, the CVE project / vulnerability database is certainly the most well-known. Over the past 30 years many others have come and gone, and others are still around. Soโฆ
Threat landscape for industrial automation systems in Q3 2025
Statistics across all threats
In Q3 2025, the percentage of ICS computers on which malicious objects were blocked decreased from the previous quarter by 0.4 pp to 20.1%. This is the lowest level for the observed period.
Percentage of ICS computers on which malicious objects were blocked, Q3 2022–Q3 2025
Regionally, the percentage of ICS computers on which malicious objects were blocked range
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Threat landscape for industrial automation systems in Q3 2025
Statistics across all threats
In Q3 2025, the percentage of ICS computers on which malicious objects were blocked decreased from the previous quarter by 0.4 pp to 20.1%. This is the lowest level for the observed period.
Percentage of ICS computers on which malicious objects were blocked, Q3 2022โQ3 2025
Regionally, the percentage of ICS computers on which malicious objects were blocked ranged from 9.2% in Northern Europe to 27.4% in Africa.
Regions ranked by percentage of ICS computers on which malicious objects were blocked
In Q3 2025, the percentage increased in five regions. The most notable increase occurred in East Asia, triggered by the local spread of malicious scripts in the OT infrastructure of engineering organizations and ICS integrators.
Changes in the percentage of ICS computers on which malicious objects were blocked, Q3 2025
Selected industries
The biometrics sector traditionally led the rankings of the industries and OT infrastructures surveyed in this report in terms of the percentage of ICS computers on which malicious objects were blocked.
Rankings of industries and OT infrastructures by percentage of ICS computers on which malicious objects were blocked
In Q3 2025, the percentage of ICS computers on which malicious objects were blocked increased in four of the seven surveyed industries. The most notable increases were in engineering and ICS integrators, and manufacturing.
Percentage of ICS computers on which malicious objects were blocked in selected industries
Diversity of detected malicious objects
In Q3 2025, Kaspersky protection solutions blocked malware from 11,356 different malware families of various categories on industrial automation systems.
Percentage of ICS computers on which the activity of malicious objects of various categories was blocked
In Q3 2025, there was a decrease in the percentage of ICS computers on which denylisted internet resources and miners of both categories were blocked. These were the only categories that exhibited a decrease.
Main threat sources
Depending on the threat detection and blocking scenario, it is not always possible to reliably identify the source. The circumstantial evidence for a specific source can be the blocked threatโs type (category).
The internet (visiting malicious or compromised internet resources; malicious content distributed via messengers; cloud data storage and processing services and CDNs), email clients (phishing emails), and removable storage devices remain the primary sources of threats to computers in an organizationโs technology infrastructure.
In Q3 2025, the percentage of ICS computers on which malicious objects from various sources were blocked decreased.
Percentage of ICS computers on which malicious objects from various sources were blocked
The same computer can be attacked by several categories of malware from the same source during a quarter. That computer is counted when calculating the percentage of attacked computers for each threat category, but is only counted once for the threat source (we count unique attacked computers). In addition, it is not always possible to accurately determine the initial infection attempt. Therefore, the total percentage of ICS computers on which various categories of threats from a certain source were blocked can exceed the percentage of threats from the source itself.
The main categories of threats from the internet blocked on ICS computers in Q3 2025 were malicious scripts and phishing pages, and denylisted internet resources. The percentage ranged from 4.57% in Northern Europe to 10.31% in Africa.
The main categories of threats from email clients blocked on ICS computers were malicious scripts and phishing pages, spyware, and malicious documents. Most of the spyware detected in phishing emails was delivered as a password-protected archive or a multi-layered script embedded in an office document. The percentage of ICS computers on which threats from email clients were blocked ranged from 0.78% in Russia to 6.85% in Southern Europe.
The main categories of threats that were blocked when removable media was connected to ICS computers were worms, viruses, and spyware. The percentage of ICS computers on which threats from this source were blocked ranged from 0.05% in Australia and New Zealand to 1.43% in Africa.
The main categories of threats that spread through network folders were viruses, AutoCAD malware, worms, and spyware. The percentages of ICS computers where threats from this source were blocked ranged from 0.006% in Northern Europe to 0.20% in East Asia.
Threat categories
Typical attacks blocked within an OT network are multi-step sequences of malicious activities, where each subsequent step of the attackers is aimed at increasing privileges and/or gaining access to other systems by exploiting the security problems of industrial enterprises, including technological infrastructures.
Malicious objects used for initial infection
In Q3 2025, the percentage of ICS computers on which denylisted internet resources were blocked decreased to 4.01%. This is the lowest quarterly figure since the beginning of 2022.
Percentage of ICS computers on which denylisted internet resources were blocked, Q3 2022โQ3 2025
Regionally, the percentage of ICS computers on which denylisted internet resources were blocked ranged from 2.35% in Australia and New Zealand to 4.96% in Africa. Southeast Asia and South Asia were also among the top three regions for this indicator.
The percentage of ICS computers on which malicious documents were blocked has grown for three consecutive quarters, following a decline at the end of 2024. In Q3 2025, it reached 1,98%.
Percentage of ICS computers on which malicious documents were blocked, Q3 2022โQ3 2025
The indicator increased in four regions: South America, East Asia, Southeast Asia, and Australia and New Zealand. South America saw the largest increase as a result of a large-scale phishing campaign in which attackers used new exploits for an old vulnerability (CVE-2017-11882) in Microsoft Office Equation Editor to deliver various spyware to victimsโ computers. It is noteworthy that the attackers in this phishing campaign used localized Spanish-language emails disguised as business correspondence.
In Q3 2025, the percentage of ICS computers on which malicious scripts and phishing pages were blocked increased to 6.79%. This category led the rankings of threat categories in terms of the percentage of ICS computers on which they were blocked.
Percentage of ICS computers on which malicious scripts and phishing pages were blocked, Q3 2022โQ3 2025
Regionally, the percentage of ICS computers on which malicious scripts and phishing pages were blocked ranged from 2.57% in Northern Europe to 9.41% in Africa. The top three regions for this indicator were Africa, East Asia, and South America. The indicator increased the most in East Asia (by a dramatic 5.23 pp) as a result of the local spread of malicious spyware scripts loaded into the memory of popular torrent clients including MediaGet.
Next-stage malware
Malicious objects used to initially infect computers deliver next-stage malware โ spyware, ransomware, and miners โ to victimsโ computers. As a rule, the higher the percentage of ICS computers on which the initial infection malware is blocked, the higher the percentage for next-stage malware. In Q3 2025, the percentage of ICS computers on which spyware and ransomware were blocked increased. The rates were:
spyware: 4.04% (up 0.20 pp);
ransomware: 0.17% (up 0.03 pp).
The percentage of ICS computers on which miners of both categories were blocked decreased. The rates were:
miners in the form of executable files for Windows: 0.57% (down 0.06 pp), itโs the lowest level since Q3 2022;
web miners: 0.25% (down 0.05 pp). This is the lowest level since Q3 2022.
Self-propagating malware
Self-propagating malware (worms and viruses) is a category unto itself. Worms and virus-infected files were originally used for initial infection, but as botnet functionality evolved, they took on next-stage characteristics.
To spread across ICS networks, viruses and worms rely on removable media and network folders in the form of infected files, such as archives with backups, office documents, pirated games and hacked applications. In rarer and more dangerous cases, web pages with network equipment settings, as well as files stored in internal document management systems, product lifecycle management (PLM) systems, resource management (ERP) systems and other web services are infected.
In Q3 2025, the percentage of ICS computers on which worms and viruses were blocked increased to 1.26% (by 0.04 pp) and 1.40% (by 0.11 pp), respectively.
AutoCAD malware
This category of malware can spread in a variety of ways, so it does not belong to a specific group.
In Q3 2025, the percentage of ICS computers on which AutoCAD malware was blocked slightly increased to 0.30% (by 0.01 pp).
Twelve Days of Christmas as Performed By 1980s Speech Chip
In a curious historical twist, the “Twelve days of Christmas” are actually the days of revelry that followed the 25th. The preceding period, Advent, was traditionally a fast, not unlike Lent. When and why a fast became an excuse for chocolate calendars we cannot say, but this historical information is presented to explain that this great hack by [Kevin], making a vintage speech synthesizer chip sing the classic carol will remain relevant at least until January 5th — or perhaps even the 19th, for the Orthodox amongst us.
The chip in question is an SP0256A-AL2, which you may remember from various speech projects for 8-bit computers back in the day. It can talk, after a fashion, by reproducing 56 “allophones
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Twelve Days of Christmas as Performed By 1980s Speech Chip
In a curious historical twist, the โTwelve days of Christmasโ are actually the days of revelry that followed the 25th. The preceding period, Advent, was traditionally a fast, not unlike Lent. When and why a fast became an excuse for chocolate calendars we cannot say, but this historical information is presented to explain that this great hack by [Kevin], making a vintage speech synthesizer chip sing the classic carol will remain relevant at least until January 5th โ or perhaps even the 19th, for the Orthodox amongst us.
The chip in question is an SP0256A-AL2, which you may remember from various speech projects for 8-bit computers back in the day. It can talk, after a fashion, by reproducing 56 โallophonesโ โ the sounds that make up English speech โ from ROM. Singing, though? We cannot recall much of that back in the day, but then, a talking computer was impressive enough.
As it turns out this is building on an earlier hack [Kevin] did in which he used an Arduino to make the venerable speech chip MIDI controllable. In that projectโs write-up it is revealed that a Si5351 programmable clock module is used to give a variable pitch signal to the speech synthesizer. In this way heโs able to get about an octave an a half, which is good enough when the carol in question only spans one octave.
Of course the pitch signal needs to be varied by something and for that the venerable Arduino once again takes the place of an 8-bit computer. In this case itโs pre-programmed, but can also be set up for MIDI control.Of course nothing says you canโt use true retro hardware or a more-capable RP2040 instead of the Amtel chip.
Itโs sad to think how much compute power has been wasted this year on AI-generated novelty carols when a little bit of 1980s silicon and some ingenuity can do nearly as good โ or better, depending on your tastes.
EDR Nel mirino: i forum underground mettono in vendita NtKiller
All’interno di un forum underground chiuso, frequentato da operatori malware e broker di accesso iniziale, è comparso un annuncio che ha attirato l’attenzione della comunità di cyber threat intelligence. Il post promuove “NtKiller”, una presunta utility “kernel-level” progettata per disattivare in modo silente antivirus, EDR, con riferimenti espliciti a rootkit, persistenza avanzata
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EDR Nel mirino: i forum underground mettono in vendita NtKiller
Allโinterno di un forum underground chiuso, frequentato da operatori malware e broker di accesso iniziale, รจ comparso un annuncio che ha attirato lโattenzione della comunitร di cyber threat intelligence. Il post promuove โNtKillerโ, una presunta utility โkernel-levelโ progettata per disattivare in modo silente antivirus, EDR, con riferimenti espliciti a rootkit, persistenza avanzata e bypass UAC zero-day.
Il prezzo dichiarato รจ di 500 dollari, con contatti diretti via Telegram e una lista di soluzioni di sicurezza โsupportateโ che include nomi di primo piano: Windows Defender, ESET, Kaspersky, Bitdefender, Malwarebytes e altri.
Una proposta che, se autentica, si colloca nella fascia alta del cybercrime-as-a-service.
Disclaimer: Questo rapporto include screenshot e/o testo tratti da fonti pubblicamente accessibili. Le informazioni fornite hanno esclusivamente finalitร di intelligence sulle minacce e di sensibilizzazione sui rischi di cybersecurity. Red Hot Cyber condanna qualsiasi accesso non autorizzato, diffusione impropria o utilizzo illecito di tali dati. Al momento, non รจ possibile verificare in modo indipendente lโautenticitร delle informazioni riportate, poichรฉ lโorganizzazione coinvolta non ha ancora rilasciato un comunicato ufficiale sul proprio sito web. Di conseguenza, questo articolo deve essere considerato esclusivamente a scopo informativo e di intelligence.
Cosa sono gli EDR
Gli EDR (Endpoint Detection and Response) sono soluzioni di sicurezza avanzata progettate per andare oltre il tradizionale antivirus. Il loro compito non รจ solo bloccare file malevoli, ma monitorare costantemente il comportamento del sistema.
In sintesi, un EDR:
raccoglie telemetria continua dagli endpoint;
analizza processi, chiamate di sistema, driver e memoria;
correla eventi sospetti nel tempo;
consente risposta attiva, come lโisolamento del sistema o la terminazione di processi.
A differenza degli AV classici, molti EDR operano a livello kernel, rendendo piรน difficile la loro disattivazione da parte di codice malevolo eseguito in user-mode.
Perchรฉ gli EDR sono un obiettivo primario
Nel cybercrime moderno, soprattutto nel contesto ransomware e intrusioni mirate, la prima fase dopo lโaccesso iniziale รจ quasi sempre la neutralizzazione delle difese. Un EDR attivo:
registra le azioni dellโattaccante;
puรฒ generare alert in tempo reale;
puรฒ interrompere la catena di attacco prima della fase finale.
Per questo motivo, la capacitร di โaccecamentoโ o disattivazione silente degli EDR รจ diventata un valore di mercato nei forum underground.
Come vengono aggirati gli EDR (livello concettuale)
I post come quello su NtKiller fanno riferimento a tecniche note a livello teorico, giร osservate in campagne APT e ransomware avanzate. Non si tratta di exploit โmagiciโ, ma di abusi profondi dellโarchitettura del sistema operativo.
Tra le macro-categorie di bypass comunemente discusse nei circuiti underground:
Abuso del livello kernel Portare codice malevolo allo stesso livello di privilegio dellโEDR riduce drasticamente la capacitร di difesa. A questo livello, i controlli diventano una โlotta tra pariโ.
Manipolazione dei driver Lโuso (o abuso) di driver vulnerabili firmati รจ una tecnica storicamente osservata per ottenere operazioni privilegiate senza exploit diretti del kernel.
Disattivazione indiretta Invece di โuccidereโ lโEDR, alcuni malware puntano a:
degradarne la visibilitร ;
interferire con la telemetria;
bloccare componenti di logging o comunicazione.
Persistenza invisibile Rootkit e meccanismi di avvio precoce permettono al malware di caricarsi prima delle soluzioni di sicurezza.
Bypass dei controlli di elevazione I riferimenti a UAC bypass indicano tecniche per ottenere privilegi elevati senza allertare lโutente, spesso sfruttando fiducia implicita in componenti di sistema.
Marketing underground e realtร operativa
Va sottolineato che non tutti gli annunci nei forum underground corrispondono a strumenti realmente efficaci. Molti sono:
rebranding di tool giร noti;
proof-of-concept venduti come โweapon-gradeโ;
vere e proprie truffe interne al mondo criminale.
Post come questo confermano che:
gli EDR restano centrali nella difesa;
il kernel รจ diventato un campo di battaglia;
la sicurezza endpoint deve essere affiancata da monitoraggio comportamentale, hardening del driver model e threat hunting proattivo.
Per i difensori, osservare questi forum non significa โimparare ad attaccareโ, ma capire come ragiona lโavversario, quali promesse vengono vendute e quali capacitร sono considerate โdi valoreโ nel sottobosco cybercriminale.
Per il settantesimo anniversario dell'accordo di reclutamento della manodopera tra Germania e Italia, COSMO italiano vi racconta in sette video le storie di diversi rappresentanti della nostra comunitร , di etร e con lavori molto diversi fra loro.
Well, they were called โGastarbeiterโ. But they weren't treated like guests. Initially, they were housed in barracks, several to a room, and then, of course, they had to work hard. And leave again when they were done, please. But when were they done? And what if they stayed, as many did? That's why: (guest) workers were supposed to come, but people came. 1v2
Later, Greeks and Turks were brought in, in negotiations with their governments. They were less complicated โ allegedly. Meaning, they were less aware of their rights. Not a good topic with migrants.
Mit gerade mal 18.000 Einwohnern ist Palau einer der kleinsten Staaten der Welt. Nun hat er mit den USA vereinbart, 75 Drittstaatsangehรถrige aufzunehmen โ im Gegenzug fรผr Investitionen in Hรถhe von 7,5 Millionen Dollar.
Building a High-Performance Shifter for Sim Racing
These days, sim racing is more realistic than ever. There are better screens, better headsets, and better steering wheels with better force-feedback, all of which help make you feel like you’re driving the real thing. If you’re looking for a stick shifter to complete such a setup, [DAZ Projects] might have just what you’re looking for.
To create a robust shifter with great feel, the build relies on 3D printed parts as well as lots of quality metal hardware. At the heart of the build is a linear rail for the front-to-back movement, with a printed slider on top with a carefully-profiled indexer to ensure the stick properly ca-chunks into the right gear. A ball joint locates the shift lever itself, while allowing for smooth m
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Building a High-Performance Shifter for Sim Racing
These days, sim racing is more realistic than ever. There are better screens, better headsets, and better steering wheels with better force-feedback, all of which help make you feel like youโre driving the real thing. If youโre looking for a stick shifter to complete such a setup, [DAZ Projects] might have just what youโre looking for.
To create a robust shifter with great feel, the build relies on 3D printed parts as well as lots of quality metal hardware. At the heart of the build is a linear rail for the front-to-back movement, with a printed slider on top with a carefully-profiled indexer to ensure the stick properly ca-chunks into the right gear. A ball joint locates the shift lever itself, while allowing for smooth movement left-to-right. Centering is via simple extension springs. The H-pattern shift is enforced with machined steel rods. Detecting the position of the stick is handled via microswitches, with an Arduino Leonardo reading the switches and reporting itself as a USB device that should work with any modern sim.
Itโs funny to think that such a mechanism would once have been a very serious machining job. These days, you can just squirt all this stuff out on a printer in a few hours. For the parts that canโt be extruded, [DAZ Projects] has provided a parts list on Google Docs.
Weโve featured some great racing sim builds over the years, from button pads to pedal boxes.
Arriva BitLocker con accelerazione hardware: Microsoft migliora la sicurezza e le prestazioni
Negli anni Microsoft ha cercato di mantenere l’impatto di BitLocker sulle prestazioni entro limiti contenuti, storicamente inferiori alla doppia cifra percentuale. L’obiettivo è sempre stato garantire la protezione dei dati senza penalizzare in modo significativo l’esperienza d’uso, un equilibrio che oggi risulta più complesso a causa dell’evoluzione dell’hardware.
La diffusione delle unità NVMe ha infatti innalzato in modo significativo le velocità di input/output. Questi dispositivi offrono prestazioni molto superiori rispetto alle generazioni precedenti, ma richiedono anche una maggiore capacità di elaborazione quando i dati vengono cifrati e decifrati in tempo reale. In questo scenario, le operazioni crittografiche di BitLocker possono incidere maggiormente sull’utilizzo della CPU.
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Arriva BitLocker con accelerazione hardware: Microsoft migliora la sicurezza e le prestazioni
Negli anni Microsoft ha cercato di mantenere lโimpatto di BitLocker sulle prestazioni entro limiti contenuti, storicamente inferiori alla doppia cifra percentuale. Lโobiettivo รจ sempre stato garantire la protezione dei dati senza penalizzare in modo significativo lโesperienza dโuso, un equilibrio che oggi risulta piรน complesso a causa dellโevoluzione dellโhardware.
La diffusione delle unitร NVMe ha infatti innalzato in modo significativo le velocitร di input/output. Questi dispositivi offrono prestazioni molto superiori rispetto alle generazioni precedenti, ma richiedono anche una maggiore capacitร di elaborazione quando i dati vengono cifrati e decifrati in tempo reale. In questo scenario, le operazioni crittografiche di BitLocker possono incidere maggiormente sullโutilizzo della CPU. Un diagramma che confronta un BitLocker software con un BitLocker accelerato tramite hardware. (Fonte Microsoft) Lโeffetto diventa piรน evidente nei carichi di lavoro ad alta intensitร di I/O. Attivitร come il gaming, lโediting video professionale o la compilazione di grandi progetti software possono risentire di un aumento della latenza o di un consumo piรน elevato delle risorse di sistema quando la crittografia รจ gestita interamente via software.
La crescente aspettativa degli utenti in termini di prestazioni ha reso necessario ripensare lโapproccio alla sicurezza. La protezione dei dati resta centrale, ma deve essere accompagnata da soluzioni capaci di sfruttare le nuove architetture hardware senza trasformarsi in un collo di bottiglia.
In questo contesto, Microsoft ha annunciato il mese scorso, durante Microsoft Ignite, lโintroduzione di BitLocker con accelerazione hardware. La nuova implementazione รจ progettata per combinare livelli di sicurezza elevati con prestazioni piรน efficienti, riducendo il carico computazionale sulla CPU.
A partire dallโaggiornamento di settembre 2025 per Windows 11 24H2 e con il rilascio di Windows 11 25H2, BitLocker potrร sfruttare nuove funzionalitร offerte da System on Chip e CPU di prossima generazione, oltre al supporto giร esistente per la tecnologia UFS Inline Crypto Engine. Lโobiettivo รจ migliorare la gestione della crittografia sulle unitร NVMe attuali e future.
Tra le principali novitร rientra lโoffload delle operazioni crittografiche verso motori dedicati, che consente di liberare risorse della CPU e migliorare anche lโefficienza energetica. Le chiavi di crittografia vengono inoltre protette tramite hardware, affiancando il ruolo del Trusted Platform Module e riducendo lโesposizione a vulnerabilitร legate a CPU e memoria.
Nei dispositivi compatibili dotati di unitร NVMe e SoC in grado di supportare lโoffload crittografico, BitLocker con accelerazione hardware sarร attivo di default con algoritmo XTS-AES-256. Il supporto iniziale arriverร sui sistemi Intel vPro con processori Intel Core Ultra Series 3, nome in codice Panther Lake, con unโestensione prevista anche ad altre piattaforme hardware.
Accessi amministrativi a rischio: Fortinet avverte su una falla nota
Fortinet ha segnalato un recente utilizzo improprio della vulnerabilità FG-IR-19-283, identificata anche come CVE-2020-12812, una falla resa pubblica nel luglio 2020. Il problema emerge esclusivamente in presenza di configurazioni specifiche e riguarda il processo di autenticazione LDAP sui dispositivi FortiGate.
Secondo l’analisi tecnica diffusa dall’azienda, la vulnerabilità è legata a una differenza di comportamento nella gestione dei nomi utente. FortiGate, per impostazione predefinita, distingue tra lettere maiuscole e minuscole, mentre i sistemi LDAP trattano gli username come non sensibili al case.
Questa discrepanza può consentire, in determinati scenari, a
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Accessi amministrativi a rischio: Fortinet avverte su una falla nota
Fortinet ha segnalato un recente utilizzo improprio della vulnerabilitร FG-IR-19-283, identificata anche come CVE-2020-12812, una falla resa pubblica nel luglio 2020. Il problema emerge esclusivamente in presenza di configurazioni specifiche e riguarda il processo di autenticazione LDAP sui dispositivi FortiGate.
Secondo lโanalisi tecnica diffusa dallโazienda, la vulnerabilitร รจ legata a una differenza di comportamento nella gestione dei nomi utente. FortiGate, per impostazione predefinita, distingue tra lettere maiuscole e minuscole, mentre i sistemi LDAP trattano gli username come non sensibili al case.
Questa discrepanza puรฒ consentire, in determinati scenari, a utenti LDAP con autenticazione a due fattori attiva di aggirare il secondo fattore e autenticarsi direttamente tramite LDAP, bypassando cosรฌ le restrizioni previste sugli account locali.
Affinchรฉ il problema si manifesti, รจ necessario che gli utenti siano configurati localmente su FortiGate con 2FA attiva e che gli stessi account appartengano anche a gruppi definiti sul server LDAP. Inoltre, almeno uno di questi gruppi deve essere utilizzato allโinterno di una policy di autenticazione, ad esempio per accessi VPN o amministrativi.
Nel caso in cui un utente acceda utilizzando uno username che corrisponde esattamente a quello locale, il sistema richiede correttamente il token di autenticazione a due fattori. Tuttavia, utilizzando una variante del nome con differenze nelle maiuscole o minuscole, FortiGate non associa lโaccesso allโaccount locale.
In questa situazione, il firewall procede a valutare altre policy configurate e puรฒ individuare un gruppo LDAP secondario valido. Se le credenziali risultano corrette, lโaccesso viene consentito anche in assenza del secondo fattore, ignorando le impostazioni di sicurezza dellโutente locale.
Fortinet avverte che questo comportamento puรฒ portare allโaccesso non protetto di utenti VPN o amministratori e raccomanda, in tali casi, di considerare lโambiente compromesso e procedere alla reimpostazione completa delle credenziali, incluse quelle utilizzate per il binding LDAP o Active Directory.
Per mitigare il rischio, lโazienda ha introdotto correzioni a partire dalle versioni FortiOS 6.0.10, 6.2.4 e 6.4.1. Nelle versioni piรน recenti รจ inoltre possibile disabilitare la sensibilitร al case dei nomi utente, impedendo il passaggio automatico ad altre configurazioni LDAP e riducendo il rischio di bypass dellโautenticazione.
Allarme globale: Cisco rivela che l’86% della rete gira su tecnologia obsoleta
Cisco lancia nel mare dell’informazione specialistica la sua bottiglia contenente un messaggio di alert, in attesa che sia raccolta da specialisti e utenti. Il 48% dei dispositivi di rete mondiali è datato e obsoleto. Gli attaccanti state-sponsored (sponsorizzati da stati nazionali) lo sanno e sono già dentro le nostre infrastrutture. Spoiler: “funziona ancora” non è più una strategia
Milano, 15 dicembre 2025. In un recente ed esclusivo webinar organizzato da Cisco e riservato agli addetti ai lavori, al quale Red Hot Cyber ha avuto modo di partecipare, Anthony Grieco, l’uomo che stringe tra le sue mani le redini della cybersicurezza di Cisco, ha affrontato subito il tema centrale: l’infrastruttura di rete come sistema complesso.
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Allarme globale: Cisco rivela che lโ86% della rete gira su tecnologia obsoleta
Cisco lancia nel mare dellโinformazione specialistica la sua bottiglia contenente un messaggio di alert, in attesa che sia raccolta da specialisti e utenti. Il 48% dei dispositivi di rete mondiali รจ datato e obsoleto. Gli attaccanti state-sponsored (sponsorizzati da stati nazionali) lo sanno e sono giร dentro le nostre infrastrutture. Spoiler: โfunziona ancoraโ non รจ piรน una strategia
Milano, 15 dicembre 2025. In un recente ed esclusivo webinar organizzato da Cisco e riservato agli addetti ai lavori, al quale Red Hot Cyber ha avuto modo di partecipare, Anthony Grieco, lโuomo che stringe tra le sue mani le redini della cybersicurezza di Cisco, ha affrontato subito il tema centrale: lโinfrastruttura di rete come sistema complesso. Anthony Grieco: Chief Security & Trust Officer Cisco In collegamento dal North Carolina, lo Chief Security and Trust Officer ha presentato una visione olistica dove componenti fisiche (hardware) e logiche (software/configurazioni) sono strettamente interconnesse per garantire la sicurezza globale. Illustrando uno studio che ha interessato oltre un milione di dispositivi che ha prodotto risultati allarmanti: quasi la metร dellโhardware mondiale sta lavorando ben oltre il suo ciclo di vita previsto (lifecycle).
Considerato il numero crescente e lโaumento esponenziale degli attacchi sempre piรน sofisticati, diventa imperativo avere reti piรน sicure, resilienti e moderne.
Il debito tecnico che tutti fingono di non vedere
โQuesta รจ una minaccia silenziosa che molte aziende non stanno affrontandoโ, ha dichiarato Grieco. E non si tratta solo di un problema IT. ร una vulnerabilitร sistemica che mette a rischio intere economie nazionali. I numeri parlano chiaro: il 42% dei dispositivi esaminati opera su software che ha raggiunto e superato il fine vita (EOL โ End of Life).
Niente piรน patch (aggiornamenti di sicurezza), niente piรน supporto. Un altro 31% usa software talmente vecchio da aver superato anche la fine del supporto (EOS โ End of Support), il che significa che i produttori non correggeranno vulnerabilitร critiche nemmeno se le trovano. E cโรจ ancora un 13% che non riceve patch da oltre tre anni.
A conti fatti: circa il 50% dei dispositivi nelle reti globali funziona su software abbandonato dai produttori. Stiamo parlando di sistemi progettati 15 o 20 anni fa, in unโera tecnologica completamente diversa.
ร come affidare tutto il traffico di una cittร a un ponte arrugginito, senza manutenzione, sperando semplicemente che regga. Un debito tecnico che si accumula perchรฉ i budget vengono spostati dalla modernizzazione alla semplice manutenzione.
Salt Typhoon: quando la teoria diventa cronaca
Chris, responsabile delle politiche pubbliche di Cisco, prendendo la parola ha rilanciato: โLa questione non รจ astrattaโ. Introducendo un argomento che supera la red line della sicurezza: gli attacchi Salt Typhoon (gruppo hacker legato alla Cina) contro i provider delle telecomunicazioni. Attori sponsorizzati dallo Stato cinese hanno compromesso reti critiche sfruttando apparecchiature Cisco a termine del loro ciclo di vita. โI pirati informatici sono perfettamente consapevoli di questo problemaโ, ha sottolineato Chris. โStanno attivamente scansionando le reti alla ricerca di questi punti deboli, dove lโhardware EOL rappresenta il bersaglio piรน facile.โ
Allโappello non poteva mancare lโAI. Grieco ha lanciato il monito: โGli avversari stanno usando lโintelligenza artificiale per accelerare la loro capacitร di sfruttare le vulnerabilitร infrastrutturali in tempi molto piรน brevi. Questo crea unโurgenza che non possiamo piรน ignorare.โ
Tradotto: prima dellโAI, trovare una falla nei sistemi richiedeva settimane di lavoro manuale. Ora viene fatto in ore. O minuti.
Il paradosso: la filosofia del โse funziona, non lo toccoโ
Uno dei nervi scoperti che affligge ogni CIO (Direttore dei Sistemi Informativi) e CISO (Responsabile della Sicurezza), dalle PA (Comuni, ASL, universitร ) alle PMI e banche: lโhardware Cisco puรฒ funzionare tecnicamente per decenni senza aggiornamenti. Come convincere le organizzazioni a investire quando non vedono un problema visibile, anche se lโhardware รจ obsoleto? La risposta di Grieco รจ stata chirurgica: โI rischi piรน pericolosi sono quelli che non vedi fino a quando non รจ troppo tardi. Abbiamo documentato casi di attaccanti annidati dentro le reti per mesi o anni, sfruttando apparecchiature legacy (obsolete), prima che qualcuno si accorgesse della loro presenza.โ
Il costo medio di una data breach (violazione dei dati) oggi? Milioni di dollari. Senza contare danni reputazionali, sanzioni regolamentarie e perdita di fiducia dei clienti.
Programmare e modernizzare unโinfrastruttura costa, ma il costo รจ infinitamente minore di un incidente di sicurezza. Grieco chiude il punto con unโanalogia folgorante per chi gestisce le operazioni: โNessuno si sognerebbe di gestire un data center senza aria condizionata o backup elettrico. Allo stesso modo, oggi non si puรฒ gestire una rete su hardware che non รจ piรน supportato.โ
Cisco propone una strategia per affrontare questa crisi che si articola su tre pilastri:
1. Sensibilizzazione industriale
Non รจ un problema solo di Cisco. ร una questione che richiede un approccio coordinato dellโintero settore tecnologico. Perchรฉ, quando unโorganizzazione cade, lโecosistema interconnesso trema.
2. Innalzamento degli standard
Cisco crede in un approccio aggressivo: rimozione proattiva di funzionalitร legacy che oggi non possono piรน essere considerate sicure. Lโimplementazione seguirร un percorso graduale:
Prima fase: avvisi di sicurezza incisivi con raccomandazioni per interrompere lโuso di funzionalitร insicure
Seconda fase: funzionalitร disabilitate di default o che richiedono passaggi aggiuntivi per essere attivate
Fase finale: opzioni insicure completamente eliminate, senza possibilitร di riattivazione
3. Coinvolgimento proattivo
Quando Cisco identifica pratiche non sicure nelle reti dei clienti, interviene direttamente. Non aspetta che il cliente chiami.
Grieco ha chiuso con fermezza un dubbio sollevato durante il Q&A (dibattito): โNon ci sarร mai una licenza per la sicurezza fondamentale dei nostri prodotti. Punto. Il secure-by-design non รจ qualcosa per cui si paga extra: รจ integrato nei prodotti che costruiamo.โ
Protezione in tempo reale: patch senza downtime
Elemento chiave dellโiniziativa Resilient Infrastructure: funzionalitร di protezione in tempo reale contro vulnerabilitร appena scoperte. Lโobiettivo รจ permettere alle squadre di sicurezza di mitigare immediatamente i rischi senza dover pianificare patch dโemergenza o manutenzioni che causano tempi di inattivitร . โVogliamo dare ai chi deve difendersi la capacitร di rispondere alle minacce direttamente allโinterno della reteโ, ha spiegato Grieco.
Risposte piรน rapide, meno problemi operativi, servizi critici online anche mentre il panorama delle minacce continua a evolversi. Semplice. In teoria.
Quantum computing: la tempesta perfetta in arrivo
Altro argomento discusso durante il webinar รจ stato il quantum computing (calcolo quantistico). โLa crittografia deve essere aggiornata, i meccanismi di sicurezza devono essere potenziatiโ, ha confermato Grieco. โQuesto รจ assolutamente parte dellโiniziativa per infrastrutture resilienti.โ Ma cโรจ un dettaglio: il calcolo quantistico รจ destinato a rivoluzionare gli algoritmi di crittografia attuali. La rete deve evolversi ora per supportare la crittografia post-quantistica (PQC โ Post-Quantum Cryptography).
โNon si tratta di un interruttore da attivare nel prossimo decennioโ, ha avvertito Grieco. โMan mano che lโIA diventerร la norma e il calcolo quantistico si avvicinerร allโadozione mainstream, chi non agisce ora lo farร a proprie spese.โ Il settore deve muoversi allโunisono. Perchรฉ, quando arriverร la tempesta quantistica, sarร troppo tardi per cercare lโombrello.
I policymaker devono svegliarsi
Altro punto discusso da Chris: lโimportanza del coinvolgimento istituzionale. โI decisori politici devono iniziare a essere consapevoli dei rischi e trattare questa minaccia come una questione di protezione delle infrastrutture critiche: sistema sanitario, telecomunicazioni, bancario. Servono requisiti chiari sulla gestione degli asset, sulla pianificazione del ciclo di vita, su baseline di sicurezza minime.โ Il messaggio รจ diretto: questa non รจ una responsabilitร da delegare ai dipartimenti IT. Richiede commitment a livello C-suite (top management) e framework regolamentari che incentivino la modernizzazione e sanzionino la negligenza.
Non รจ piรน accettabile il โnon รจ il mio problemaโ. Perchรฉ lo รจ di tutti.
Il monito finale (che dovrebbe tenerci svegli la notte)
โQuesta รจ una responsabilitร collettivaโ, ha concluso Grieco. โQuando unโorganizzazione ha hardware EOL nella propria rete, non mette a rischio solo sรฉ stessa, ma lโintero ecosistema interconnesso. Non ci sono soluzioni magiche. Questo richiederร sforzo, energia e focus. Ma dobbiamo agire ora. Il problema dellโinfrastruttura legacy non รจ nuovo. Grieco stesso ha iniziato a sollevare lโallarme giร nel 2017. Otto anni dopo, la situazione รจ solo peggiorata.
La differenza oggi? LโAI ha accelerato drammaticamente i tempi di sfruttamento delle vulnerabilitร . Da entrambi i lati della barricata. Per le organizzazioni che ancora operano su hardware obsoleto, il messaggio di Cisco รจ inequivocabile: il tempo per agire non รจ โprima o poiโ. ร adesso. Perchรฉ la prossima Salt Typhoon potrebbe giร essere in corso. Invisibile. Dentro una rete che โfunziona perfettamenteโ.
Bitte versucht euch selbst einzufangen, wenn ihr beginnt, Politikern als Gruppe gemeinsame Eigenschaften zuzuschreiben. Im Sinne von " โฆ alle Politiker sind korrupt โฆ", "โฆ alle Politiker tendieren zu $EINSTELLUNG โฆ". Und zwar in erster Linie euch selbst zuliebe.
Diese Denkweise sieht "Politiker" als definierte, von euch und "normalen Menschen" abgegrenzte Gruppe.
Ist das nicht รผberall, dass man Gruppen nicht als homogenes Objekt betrachten sollte? Ich rege mich genauso darรผber auf, wenn sich jemand รผber "die Radfahrer" oder "die Autofahrer" aufregt.
Ich denke, dass Menschen grundsรคtzlich dazu neigen, einer gesamten Gruppe gewisse Eigenschaften zuweisen zu wollen.
Allโinterno di un #forum #underground chiuso, frequentato da operatori malware e broker di #accesso iniziale, รจ comparso un annuncio che ha attirato lโattenzione della comunitร di cyber #threat #intelligence. Il post promuove โNtKillerโ, una presunta utility โkernel-levelโ progettata per disattivare in modo silente antivirus, EDR, con riferimenti espliciti a rootkit, persistenza avanzata e bypass UAC zero-day.
E poi c'รจ chi non crede che Babbo Natale esista. Stanotte, finalmente, la #RAI ha reso disponibile l'intera serie (compresi 3 inediti) in streaming, mentre in #TV tornerร dal 29 dicembre alle 6.50 di mattino. #Goldrake - RaiPlay raiplay.it/programmi/goldrake
fantastico e trovo che l'ultima serie di puntate siao migliori come animazioni, ma quali sarebbero i 3 inediti e perchรจ non li pubblicarono??@spettacoli
Польша с первого апреля 2026 года перестанет признавать пятилетние небиометрические паспорта граждан России. Об этом сообщается на сайте Еврокомиссии. Еще раньше, с первого января 2026 год... mostra di piรน
Российские войска в ночь на 25 декабря атаковали промышленную и портовую инфраструктуру Одесской области. Один человек погиб, еще двое пострадали, сообщил глава областной администра... mostra di piรน
Двое таджикских пограничников погибли во время перестрелки с вооруженными людьми на границе с Афганистаном, еще двое получили ранения. Об этом сообщает таджикская служба Радио Сво... mostra di piรน
В Белгородской области в результате удара дрона по грузовику погиб замглавы Шамильского района Дагестана Магомеднаби Гаджиев, двое представителей общественной организации "Само... mostra di piรน
Microsoft annuncia BitLocker con accelerazione hardware per migliorare la sicurezza e le prestazioni su Windows 11, sfruttando le nuove architetture hardware.
Indiaโs Reliance Industries has resumed Russian oil imports for its Jamnagar refinery, sourcing from non-sanctioned suppliers and using Aframax tankers via RusExport. The move could offset a sharp drop in Indiaโs Russian crude purchases expected this month, according to Bloomberg.
Overnight on 25 December, Russia launched 131 attack drones (Shahed, Herber, and others) toward Ukraine from multiple directions. As of 08:30, 106 UAVs were shot down or suppressed, and 22 strikes were recorded at 15 locations across northern, southern, and eastern Ukraine.
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A wine bottle is centered on a fabric surface with a pattern of yellow, red, and green autumn leaves. The bottle has a dark green color and visible condensation. Its oval label features a dark background bordered by gold, with text: "2022" at the top, "DURELLO MรLLER THURGAU" in large letters, "ALLIN" in a small circular emblem, and "VINO SPUMANTE BRUT" below. The background is blurred, showing indistinct shapes.
Fornito da @altbot, generato localmente e privatamente utilizzando Qwen3-Vl:30b
Estimated russian losses from February 24, 2022 to December 25, 2025 of the russian all-out war against Ukraine, according to the General Staff of #Ukraine
๐ท Yesterday 860 enemy, killed or wounded including ๐ฅ 7 tanks
The voices of the Embassies of Germany, France and the United Kingdom together with artists intertwined into "Shchedryk" as a sign of support and solidarity with Ukrainians.
Neo-Nazi sadist wanted for war crimes in #Ukraine invited to give โlesson on courageโ to russian children
alexei milchakov gave his 'lesson' just three months after fellow neo-Nazi, co-founder of rusich and mercenary yan petrovsky was sentenced to life imprisonment for the war crimes which the men committed together in September 2014
Alexei Milchakov gave his 'lesson' just three months after fellow neo-Nazi, co-founder of Rusich and mercenary Yan Petrovsky was sentenced to life imprisonment for the war crimes which the men committed together in September 2014
Cisco lancia nel mare dellโinformazione specialistica la sua bottiglia contenente un messaggio di #alert, in attesa che sia raccolta da specialisti e #utenti. Il 48% dei #dispositivi di #rete mondiali รจ datato e obsoleto.
Gli attaccanti state-sponsored (sponsorizzati da stati nazionali) lo sanno e sono giร dentro le nostre infrastrutture. Spoiler: โfunziona ancoraโ non รจ piรน una #strategia Milano, 15 dicembre 2025.
Cisco avverte: il 48% dei dispositivi di rete mondiali รจ obsoleto e vulnerabile agli attacchi informatici. L'azienda lancia l'allarme e propone una strategia per affrontare la crisi.
A fantastic quote from British #socialist and philosopher Bertrand Russell, who in 1920 after visit to #USSR wrote:
The effect of Bolshevism as a revolutionary hope is greater outside Russia than within the Soviet Republic.
Written over 100 ago, this observation perfectly captures the spirit of today’s pro-Russian tankies and believers in “Russia as defender of conservatism and family values”.
Russell then goes on to explain the context - one, he was with his own eyes:
Grim realities have done much to kill hope among those who are subject to the dictatorship of Moscow. Yet even within Russia, the Communist party, in whose hands all political power is concentrated, still lives by hope, though the pressure of events has made the hope severe and stern and somewhat remote. It is this hope that leads to concentration upon the rising generation. Russian Communists often avow that there is littl
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A fantastic quote from British #socialist and philosopher Bertrand Russell, who in 1920 after visit to #USSR wrote:
The effect of Bolshevism as a revolutionary hope is greater outside Russia than within the Soviet Republic.
Written over 100 ago, this observation perfectly captures the spirit of todayโs pro-Russian tankies and believers in โRussia as defender of conservatism and family valuesโ.
Russell then goes on to explain the context - one, he was with his own eyes:
Grim realities have done much to kill hope among those who are subject to the dictatorship of Moscow. Yet even within Russia, the Communist party, in whose hands all political power is concentrated, still lives by hope, though the pressure of events has made the hope severe and stern and somewhat remote. It is this hope that leads to concentration upon the rising generation. Russian Communists often avow that there is little hope for those who are already adult, and that happiness can only come to the children who have grown up under the new rรฉgime and been moulded from the first to the group-mentality that Communism requires.
В Якутии -60 разве что ночью. Сейчас там судя по картам windguru -51. Кстати, карты яндекса под стрелкой мышки могут показывать самую низкую температуру только до -40 . Это у яндекса такой баг... mostra di piรน
Ich habe 15 wundervolle Jahre in Deutschland verbracht, genauer gesagt in Kรถln, die nรถrdlichste Stadt Italiens. Die perfekte Stadt, besonders fรผr mich, da ich aus Mailand, die sรผdlichste Stadt Deutschlands, komme ๐
Ich habe das Buch รผber meine Reise, โVom sardischen Land ins Heilige Landโ, auch auf Deutsch geschrieben.
Es war das Mindeste, was ich tun konnte, um meine Liebe zu Deutschland auszudrรผcken und all meinen deutschen Freunden fรผr ihre unglaubliche Unterstรผtzung zu danken.
Einfach nur: Danke.
Frohe Weihnachten euch allen.
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Der kleine, aber dennoch bedeutende Erlรถs aus diesem Buch flieรt in die Finanzierung meines nรคchsten Wohltรคtigkeitsprojekts, einer Radtour, die am 29. Januar 2026 in Neu-Delhi startet.
Bitte folgt mir nicht, sondern unterstรผtzt meine Projekte.
✍️🎄Buon Natale a te, a me, a noi che abbiamo le mani stanche di cucinare, di scrivere e la mente di pensare, organizzare e il cuore pieno di voci attorno che ci danno forza, coraggio e amore!
Buon Natale a chi a mezzanotte, oggi, più tardi , domani lavora in corsia, per assistere, curare e regalare Speranza e vita..
Buon Natale a chi è solo, abbandonato o dimenticato, a chi ha imparato a farsi forza e compagnia senza rumore, senza scuse, ma semplicemente con la propria forza, con il proprio coraggio! E il ricordo va sempre in questi giorni a chi non c'è più, a quella sedia che rimane vuota a tavola, ma ne senti sempre la presenza, perché l’amore non muore, si trasforma e magari cambia solo posto, forma e luogo!
Buon Natale a chi fa i conti con poco, con dignità ma non rinuncia a regalare un po' di sé, del proprio pane o del proprio tempo a chi ne ha bisogno..
Buon Natale a tutti noi , ai bambini soprattutto che non devono smettere di sognare e aspettare Babbo Na
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โ๏ธ๐Buon Natale a te, a me, a noi che abbiamo le mani stanche di cucinare, di scrivere e la mente di pensare, organizzare e il cuore pieno di voci attorno che ci danno forza, coraggio e amore!
Buon Natale a chi a mezzanotte, oggi, piรน tardi , domani lavora in corsia, per assistere, curare e regalare Speranza e vita..
Buon Natale a chi รจ solo, abbandonato o dimenticato, a chi ha imparato a farsi forza e compagnia senza rumore, senza scuse, ma semplicemente con la propria forza, con il proprio coraggio! E il ricordo va sempre in questi giorni a chi non c'รจ piรน, a quella sedia che rimane vuota a tavola, ma ne senti sempre la presenza, perchรฉ lโamore non muore, si trasforma e magari cambia solo posto, forma e luogo!
Buon Natale a chi fa i conti con poco, con dignitร ma non rinuncia a regalare un po' di sรฉ, del proprio pane o del proprio tempo a chi ne ha bisogno..
Buon Natale a tutti noi , ai bambini soprattutto che non devono smettere di sognare e aspettare Babbo Natale, a chi non festeggia, a chi vive le feste nel dolore, o nel ricordo, a chi soffre, combatte , resiste e affronta una malattia oggi, come tutti i giorni! Il mio pensiero va a noi, inermi e splendidi, fragili e ostinati, stanchi, deboli e silenziosi, che continuiamo ad amarci, a credere, a ringraziare per ogni nuovo giorno, indipendentemente che sia Natale, ma semplicemente un giorno in piรน da vivere e colorare e condividere, nonostante tutto. (Martina)โจ
В порту города Темрюк в Краснодарском крае после атаки дронов загорелись два резервуара с нефтепродуктами. Об этом сообщает региональный оперштаб. Общая площадь пожара составляет... mostra di piรน
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Printing With Metal on the Ender 3 Using Only a Friction Wheel
Printing metal as easily as it is to printed with thermoplastics has been a dream for a very long time, with options for hobbyists being very scarce. This is something which [Rotoforge] seeks to change, using little more than an old Ender 3 FDM printer and some ingenuity. Best of all is that the approach on which they have been working for the past year does not require high temperature, molten metals and no fussing about with powdered metal.
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Printing With Metal on the Ender 3 Using Only a Friction Wheel
Printing metal as easily as it is to printed with thermoplastics has been a dream for a very long time, with options for hobbyists being very scarce. This is something which [Rotoforge] seeks to change, using little more than an old Ender 3 FDM printer and some ingenuity. Best of all is that the approach on which they have been working for the past year does not require high temperature, molten metals and no fussing about with powdered metal. Additive manufacturing using friction welding. (Credit: Ruishan Xie, et al., j.mtcomm, 2021) Rather than an extruder that melts a thermoplastic filament, their setup uses metal wire that is fed into a friction welding tool head, the details of which are covered in the video as well as on the GitHub project page. Unlike their previous setup which we reported on last year, this new setup is both safer and much riskier. While thereโs no more molten metal, instead a very loud and very fast spinning disk is used to provide the friction required for friction welding, specifically friction and rolling-based additive manufacturing (FRAM) as in the cited 2021 paper by [Ruishan Xie] et al. in Materials Today Communications. By the same lead author thereโs also a 2025 paper that explores more complex implementations of FRAM.
With this method the feed wire (e.g. aluminium) will experience plastic shear, causing it to become somewhat fluid and capable of adhering to other surfaces. This same method can be used for other materials, including plastics and glass. As can be seen in the video, FRAM certainly seems viable, though it is a veritable rabbit hole of complications since youโre dealing with a high-velocity engineering challenge.
Hereโs where [Rotoforge] found that slitting saws are a good, off-the-shelf option as they have basically the same high-speed-but-safely requirements. This left the motor part, which has to keep the friction wheel going. After a lot of trial and mostly error, it was found that the motor in a Dremel tool provided the solution in the form of a universal AC motor. Unlike brush-less DC motors, these AC motors are far more simpler, cheaper and can keep up a constant speed much better, which is probably why theyโre still used in power tools everywhere. Ergo some cheap Vevor flex-shaft grinders were bought and adapted for some FRAM purposes. The Rotoforge FRAM printing in action. (Credit: Rotoforge, YouTube) Initial experiments with Al1100 aluminium alloy showed very good layer adhesion, to the point that they were very similar to a solid bar of aluminium. Due to the layered nature of the prints, they perform better than solid Al1100 parts in some tests. Thus the next challenge was to try more advanced printing techniques than a single straight line, which posed the bigger challenge and is where the basic Ender 3-based prototype met its match.
Next a fourth axis will be added to hopefully resolve some of the issues encountered with the current prototype, along with a host of other improvements to make printing more reliable and versatile. Although itโs clearly still early days for FRAM, it is rather exciting that even in a hobby setting without massive monetary investment itโs already possible to do this much.
Of course, it should definitely be said that eye- and hearing protection are absolute requirements if you intend to do some FRAM printing yourself. The video gives some idea of how loud the process is, and high-speed discs and wheels together with metalworking always introduce the exciting possibility of high-velocity shrapnel.
Российская армия продолжает обстреливать энергетическую инфраструктуру в Украине. Из-за этого во многих регионах продолжаются масштабные отключения электроэнергии. В стране вве... mostra di piรน
Российская армия продолжает обстреливать энергетическую инфраструктуру в Украине. Из-за этого во многих регионах продолжаются масштабные отключения электроэнергии. В стране вве... mostra di piรน
С началом полномасштабной войны с Украиной давление на женщин в России усиливается. В 23 регионах уже действуют штрафы за "склонение к абортам", врачей на лекциях учат отговаривать паци... mostra di piรน
Киев, реабилитационный центр "Титановые". Здесь, среди украинских военнослужащих, потерявших конечности на войне, восстанавливается еще один особенный пациент – пёс по кличке Лавр. П... mostra di piรน
For the world the German Nazi Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration and extermination is a symbol of terror, genocide and the Holocaust.=====Collections used in t...
@Pam Is there a lever along the steering column? If yes, moving it off its current position should enable you to tilt the steering wheel upward in a more confortable position. Restore the lever position to lock the desired angle.
Ukrainian President Zelenskyy unveiled a new peace proposal, suggesting conditional troop adjustments in the east amid stalled negotiations with Russia.
The voices of the Embassies of Germany, France and the United Kingdom together with artists intertwined into "Shchedryk" as a sign of support and solidarity with Ukrainians.
Jump straight to the discussion:03:33 Vast majority of parked domains now serving malware https://krebsonsecurity.com/2025/12/most-parked-domains-now-serving...
some people actually do listen that deep into the podcast. When you were talking about the Cisco email quarantine management vulnerability and not exposing things, the new no-auth MongoDB vuln based on a zlib problem is the perfect example.
Your authentication setup might be the best in the world and include ninjas as countermeasures for authentication failures, but a bug in the protocol libraries cares naught.
We seldom talk about 3D printing lenses because most techniques can’t possibly produce transparent parts of optical quality. However, you can 3D print something like a lens, as [Luke Edwin] demonstrates, and get all kinds of crazy pictures out of it.
[Luke’s] lens isn’t really a lens, per se. There’s no transparent optical medium being used to bend light, here. Instead, he’s printed a very fine grid in a cylindrical form factor, stuck it on a lens mount, and put that on the front of a camera.
The result is effectively a set of parallel tubes that guide light on to the camera’s image sensor. With the lack of any sort of focus mechanism, you can’t use this “lens” to photograph anything more than a few cent
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Mesh โLensโ Lets Your Camera Make Weird Pixel Art
We seldom talk about 3D printing lenses because most techniques canโt possibly produce transparent parts of optical quality. However, you can 3D print something like a lens, as [Luke Edwin] demonstrates, and get all kinds of crazy pictures out of it.
[Lukeโs] lens isnโt really a lens, per se. Thereโs no transparent optical medium being used to bend light, here. Instead, heโs printed a very fine grid in a cylindrical form factor, stuck it on a lens mount, and put that on the front of a camera.
The result is effectively a set of parallel tubes that guide light on to the cameraโs image sensor. With the lack of any sort of focus mechanism, you canโt use this โlensโ to photograph anything more than a few centimeters away. Get something up close, though, and you can take very simple, very grainy images that are reminiscent of classic pixel art. [Luke] demonstrates this in some fun ways, using it to take photographs of money, a plant, and his own eye. The images look almost like art assets straight out of a 16-bit game. Heโs got the STL file up for sale if you want to print your own at home.
Weโd love to see this concept explored further, maybe with some supporting optics for more versatile use. In the meantime, you might explore other ways of using 3D printers for photographic gain.
@Giornalismo e disordine informativo articolo21.org/2025/12/iran-olโฆ Con oltre 1500 esecuzioni nel 2025, la Repubblica Islamica dellโIran, ha registrato il numero piรน alto di esecuzioni negli ultimi tre decenni. Il 2025 si chiude con oltre 5000 persone in attesa dellโesecuzione, almeno 44 dei quali condannati a morte per ragioni
This one is a little technical, but itโs in good fun. While trying to find it again after I saw it earlier this year, I initially falsely attributed it to xkcd.
Steam is currently suffering under the load of hordes of Christmas gamers. How am I supposed to update my wishlist last minute before Iโm gifted something I donโt really want anymore?
That's an aspect I missed when taking the picture. I intended it as a pun. In German, "fรผr den Arsch" means that something is useless, and in the case of toilet paper, it's for the arse anyway.
Опрошенные социологами "Левада-центра" россияне называют самым заметным событием 2025 года рост цен, тарифов ЖКХ и налога на добавленную стоимость (НДС) – так ответили 34% респондентов... mostra di piรน
Генпрокуратура России признала нежелательной на территории страны деятельность голландской организации B4Ukraine. Согласно сообщению ведомства, B4Ukraine занимается мониторингом экспорта ро... mostra di piรน
ВС РФ потеряли контроль над последним участком на территории Купянска, пишут z-блогеры, заметило "Агентство". Как сообщил телеграм-канал "Рыбарь", российские военные утратили контроль н... mostra di piรน
Hundreds of russian citizens have obtained Romanian identity documents fraudulently since russia launched its full-scale invasion of #Ukraine, using the papers to bypass sanctions and live in the European Union, according to Le Monde on December 23.
#Ukraine President #Zelenskyy condemns russiaโs Christmas missile/drone strikes on Ukraineโs energy grid, causing blackouts, and ongoing frontline assaults.
He decries russiaโs rejection of ceasefire proposals, urging global condemnation to prevent normalization of its aggression and terror.
The European Union's executive branch has warned it would respond to any "unjustified measures" after the US State Department barred five Europeans it accuses of pressuring American tech companies to censor or limit US viewpoints.
The European Commission is warning of possible action against the US after travel bans were imposed on five Europeans accused of pressuring American technology firms to censor or suppress US viewpoints.
Extract We mark Christmas in a difficult time. Sadly, not all of us are at home this evening. Sadly, not everyone still has a home. And sadly, not everyone is with us tonight. But despite all the suffering that russia has brought, it is not capable of occupying or bombing what matters most. That is our Ukrainian heart, our faith in one another, and our unity.
In addition to the 6,735,000 cubic yards (181,800,000 ft3; 5,149,000 m3) of earth required for the reclamation, 7,000 Christmas trees and 200 bank safes donated by a local junk vendor were used.
Younger family member who works for a big tech company is here for the holidays. He is working everyday finishing up writing end of year peer review evaluations. Apparently everyone at the company has to generate 30+ extensive evaluations of their coworkers. This is done using a special version of ChatGPT which cranks our long beautifully worded reviews based on a few prompts. These then go to the respective managers who use ChatGPT to summarize the results for each employee. Seriously ๐คฆโโ๏ธ
@hypolite Makes me wonder for those who naturally compose wordy texts, if there's a way to make the AI summary blurt out: "read the original text you lazy muppet!"
@Stuart Longland (VK4MSL) @Mastodon Migration This is funny, but on the flip side, people correctly using em-dashes and Kenyans have had their writing flagged as AI-generated for similar and stupid reasons.
Un diagramma che confronta un BitLocker software con un BitLocker accelerato tramite hardware. 
Anthony Grieco: Chief Security & Trust Officer Cisco
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