New: the oversight body for DHS is investigating agencies', including ICE's, use of surveillance tech/data for immigration enforcement. Comes directly after our reporting on multiple tools and pressure from lawmakers
МОСКВА, 6 фев (Рейтер) - Доля убыточных угольных предприятий России выросла в январе-ноябре 2025 года до 66,7% с 53,3% за тот же период годом ранее, снизившись по сравнению с январем-октябрем, когда она составила 67,6%, следует из материалов Росст…
«Путин будет подталкивать ЦБ к печатанию денег». Дефицит российского бюджета достиг почти 2 триллиона рублей за месяц ru.themoscowtimes.com/2026/02/… {2026-02-06 - 19:18:57}... mostra di più
«Путин будет подталкивать ЦБ к печатанию денег». Дефицит российского бюджета достиг почти 2 триллиона рублей за месяц ru.themoscowtimes.com/2026/02/… {2026-02-06 - 19:18:57}
Президентка Молдови Мая Санду відреагувала на номінацію на Нобелівську премію миру
Санду заявила, що не прагне Нобелівської премії миру і вважає, що справжніми кандидатами є люди,
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Президентка Молдови Мая Санду відреагувала на номінацію на Нобелівську премію миру
Санду заявила, що не прагне Нобелівської премії миру і вважає, що справжніми кандидатами є люди, які реально жертвують собою заради миру — зокрема українські полонені, які повернулися з Росії.
Ініціатором пропозиції номінувати Санду виступив депутат парламенту Норвегії.
Канада и Франция открывают в Гренландии консульства на фоне притязаний Трампа на этот остров
Открытие канадской и французской дипмиссий является для Гренландии историческим со
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Канада и Франция открывают в Гренландии консульства на фоне притязаний Трампа на этот остров
Открытие канадской и французской дипмиссий является для Гренландии историческим событием — значительным расширением международного сотрудничества. До этого на территории Гренландии были только консульства Исландии и США.
Китайской разведке передавал данные об операциях НАТО, системах связи, радарах, частотах и новых оборонных технологиях старший полковник ВВС Греции — Knews. Полковник был высококвалифи... mostra di più
Китайской разведке передавал данные об операциях НАТО, системах связи, радарах, частотах и новых оборонных технологиях старший полковник ВВС Греции — Knews. Полковник был высококвалифицированным инженером в области телекоммуникаций и информационных систем. С июля 2025 года он был прикомандирован к секретному подразделению связи и радиоэлектронной борьбы, тесно связанному с НАТО.
Странам ЕС будет запрещено закупать в России металлы, минералы и редкоземельные элементы, — глава ЕК фон дер Ляйен. «Чтобы продемонстрировать нашу решимость бороться с уклонением о... mostra di più
Странам ЕС будет запрещено закупать в России металлы, минералы и редкоземельные элементы, — глава ЕК фон дер Ляйен. «Чтобы продемонстрировать нашу решимость бороться с уклонением от санкций, мы впервые задействуем инструмент противодействия обходу санкций, запретив экспорт любых станков с числовым программным управлением и радиооборудования в юрисдикции, где существует высокий риск реэкспорта этой продукции в Россию».
Putler 🇷🇺screwed up -Picked the wrong country for RusskyMir project.
He perhaps should have attacked NATO country first.
Between Brussels brunches 🥂 , Trump refusing to commit Troops and meetings after meetings on whether or not to invoke article 5 he would taken over a NATO capital city by now🏆🤔
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I’m deeply grateful for this space — for people who read carefully, think, and respond not out of habit, but because they truly care. That matters more than numbers.
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Dear followers, today I’m asking for help for my parents in Kharkiv. This winter has been especially hard there: cold, outages,constant uncertainty. And it’s more than they can realistically carry right now.
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The United States and Iran held talks in Oman focused on Iran’s nuclear program. The sides did not reach any agreements and agreed to continue discussions. A follow up meeting between the delegations is expected to take place soon. #Iran
@Giornalismo e disordine informativo articolo21.org/2026/02/a-cosa-… Quando la mafia e il mondo di mezzo da essa infiltrato di minacciava, quando avevo il vuoto intorno, e dovevo ricominciare a ricostruirmi e non perdere la rotta. Quando avevo paura ma sfidavo l’orizzonte col sorriso e gli occhi ben aperti, quando avevo bisogno di aiuto
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said the EU’s 20th sanctions package against Russia targets energy, finance, and trade. Measures include a ban on maritime services for transporting Russian crude oil, sanctions on 43 more shadow fleet vessels, and restrictions on banks and crypto platforms. #EU
Drones of Ukraine’s 39th Coastal Defense Brigade struck shelters used by Russian UAV operators and the Venom UAV center. The strikes used purpose built drone munitions, and in one case a warhead made from a TM-62 mine with attached stabilizers.
Another group of children and teenagers aged from three months to 17 years was returned from the Russian occupied part of Kherson region to Ukrainian controlled territory. Among them are a 17 year old girl and her 9 year old brother who witnessed the torture of their mother after the invasion. #Ukraine
Canada has begun transferring AIM missiles to Ukraine to strengthen air defense and counter cruise missile threats, Ukraine’s Defense Ministry said. The delivery follows talks between Defense Minister Mykhailo Fedorov and Canada’s defense chief, with the missiles already in the process of transfer. #Ukraine
#Ukraine Denys Prokopenko on the role of #Russia #GRU general Alexeev shot today in Moscow:
Lieutenant General Vladimir Alekseyev, First Deputy Chief of the GRU of the Russian General Staff, who was shot in Moscow this morning, was the senior Russian representative at the negotiations in Mariupol in May 2022, during the withdrawal of the Mariupol garrison from Azovstal.
Alekseyev pledged that Russia would comply with the Geneva Convention on the treatment of prisoners of war and personally guaranteed humane conditions of detention for our captured servicemen. His signature appears on the relevant document, signed in Mariupol at that time. For our part, we demonstrated humanity and handed over to Alekseyev three Russian prisoners of war who had received medical treatment and were provided with food and water.
The word of an officer, a native of Vinnytsia Oblast, and a traitor to his homela
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#Ukraine Denys Prokopenko on the role of #Russia #GRU general Alexeev shot today in Moscow:
Lieutenant General Vladimir Alekseyev, First Deputy Chief of the GRU of the Russian General Staff, who was shot in Moscow this morning, was the senior Russian representative at the negotiations in Mariupol in May 2022, during the withdrawal of the Mariupol garrison from Azovstal.
Alekseyev pledged that Russia would comply with the Geneva Convention on the treatment of prisoners of war and personally guaranteed humane conditions of detention for our captured servicemen. His signature appears on the relevant document, signed in Mariupol at that time. For our part, we demonstrated humanity and handed over to Alekseyev three Russian prisoners of war who had received medical treatment and were provided with food and water.
The word of an officer, a native of Vinnytsia Oblast, and a traitor to his homeland, proved to be worthless. The systematic torture of captured Azov fighters, the denial of medical care, and starvation are clear proof of this.
Prokopenko didn’t mention it but the most hideous war crime committed by Russians agains the Mariupol prisoners was Olenivka massacre:
Nothing surprising here - the infamous “word of Russian officer” has been proven to be not worth a shit like forever. #Poland has an especially bitter lesson here from 1945 when 16 leaders of the Polish Underground who fought Nazi invasion 1939-1945 were invited for talks to Moscow under “security guarantees”… and then arrested and charged with… “Nazi collaboration”.
"Voter suppression is one of the core tools of authoritarianism. It is how you shift from democracy to autocracy. And for millions of Americans, it’s about to become the norm"
Senior state department official Sarah Rogers travelled to European cities in December and has spoken to key figures in Nigel Farage’s populist Reform UK party about deploying grants to spread ‘American values’.
An interesting dynamics of #Trump vs #Poland relations which are part of the broader degradation of Trump vs Europe and Trump vs #NATO relations. A recent CBOS study indicated a significant drop of Poles “considering today’s USA a reliable ally” - from 73% in 2021 to merely 29.0% in 2026.
This was likely caused by the long stream of Trump’s statements openly dismissive and offensive towards Europe and NATO, continued accusations of EU being “dictatorship”, “EU censorship”, “splitting EU” (happily boosted by Musk and Russians) and openly threatening with change of regime in the EU in the US National Security Strategy (!) which kind of mirrored similar goals set for EU by Russia and Belarus. Then there were the surreal threats towards #Denmark and #
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An interesting dynamics of #Trump vs #Poland relations which are part of the broader degradation of Trump vs Europe and Trump vs #NATO relations. A recent CBOS study indicated a significant drop of Poles “considering today’s USA a reliable ally” - from 73% in 2021 to merely 29.0% in 2026.
This was likely caused by the long stream of Trump’s statements openly dismissive and offensive towards Europe and NATO, continued accusations of EU being “dictatorship”, “EU censorship”, “splitting EU” (happily boosted by Musk and Russians) and openly threatening with change of regime in the EU in the US National Security Strategy (!) which kind of mirrored similar goals set for EU by Russia and Belarus. Then there were the surreal threats towards #Denmark and #Greenland.
This nonsense has further escalated in the last few weeks, when Trump first publicly stated that “NATO wasn’t there when we needed it”, which was promptly corrected by NATO member reminding how many soldiers each of the lost when US invoked Article 5 in 2001 following WTC attacks. To which Trump even more dismissively replied that that “yeah they were there but just stayed behind, far from the front line” (quoting from memory) etc etc.
The new show started with Trump’s equally surreal and narcissistic campaign to get himself awarded the Nobel Peace Prize and his personal project Board of Peace which resembles more a multi-level marketing scheme than any actual political body. Many politicians commented on these events critically, but in Poland the latest row started with the Chair of Polish Parliament Włodzimierz Czarzasty commenting publicly that Trump does not deserve any Nobel Prize:
President Trump is destabilising the situation in these organisations by representing a policy of force and pursuing a transactional policy through the use of force. This is a violation of policies, values and, in many cases, international law. Customs policy, a different interpretation of history, e.g. regarding the participation of Polish soldiers in missions, the instrumental treatment of other territories, as in the case of Greenland.
His full statement can be read here[^1] and in general there’s nothing offensive there, Czarzasty just stated facts and quoted Trump. What was surprising was the reaction of Tom Rose, the new US ambassador to Poland, who completely lost it and declared on X that “US is breaking any contacts with Czarzasty” because he “insulted President”. As a reminder, Czarzasty’s statement was literally collection of quotes from Trump which made it even more absurd, because he seemed to imply that quoting Trump was insulting to him. And yes, it indeed kind of is, but Trump’s rants are his own and nobody’s else.
Most Polish politicians were rather surprised by this course of action, especially when Rose decided to discipline the Prime Minister Tusk for saying that “diplomats should respect each other rather than patronize”, which clearly alluded to Rose’s rather aggressive comments. Rose replied the following:
Dear Mr. Prime Minister — I’m assuming your thoughtful and well-articulated message was sent to me by mistake, because surely you intended it for the Speaker of the Sejm, Włodzimierz Czarzasty, who’s despicable, disrespectful and insulting comments about President Trump were so potentially damaging to your government.
Oh and yes, today you’ve got Trump video with dancing apes with Harris & Obama faces, so good luck to Rose with defending that.
hi fediverse, in your opinion which is the lisp-like language that best maximizes for (a) usefulness and (b) non-toxic community? (i'm trying to pick one to learn and maybe actually get good at?)
Just had the next Geomys CT log and witness machine delivered to my flat, this one to be racked in an EU datacenter.
This means my home office currently runs an Ampere Altra 64-core NAS with 96 TB HDD, a Dell PowerEdge R6515, a Milk-V Jupiter RISC-V 64-bit, redundant fiber uplink, a Turris Omnia, a USB Armory, and an Enigma replica. And an M2 MacBook Air.
Reminds me of this one, and how in the US you can lose your job in academia (and many other sectors) for supporting the BDS movement to boycott Israeli goods:
Dopo il caso di Moltbook, il social network dove parlano solo le intelligenze artificiali, è stata lanciata a inizio mese la piattaforma Rent-a-Human, la piattaforma
Gimmick Sunglasses Become Easy Custom Helmet Visor
[GizmoThrill] shows off a design for an absolutely gorgeous, high-fidelity replica of the main character’s helmet from the video game Satisfactory. But the best part is the technique used to create the visor: just design around a cheap set of full-face “sunglasses” to completely avoid having to mold your own custom faceplate.
One of the most challenging parts of any custom helmet build is how to make a high-quality visor or faceplate. Most folks heat up a sheet of plastic and form it carefully around a mold, but [GizmoThrill] approached the problem from the other direction. After spotting a full-face sun visor online, they decided to design the helmet around the readily-accessible visor instead of the other way around.
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Gimmick Sunglasses Become Easy Custom Helmet Visor
[GizmoThrill] shows off a design for an absolutely gorgeous, high-fidelity replica of the main character’s helmet from the video game Satisfactory. But the best part is the technique used to create the visor: just design around a cheap set of full-face “sunglasses” to completely avoid having to mold your own custom faceplate.
One of the most challenging parts of any custom helmet build is how to make a high-quality visor or faceplate. Most folks heat up a sheet of plastic and form it carefully around a mold, but [GizmoThrill] approached the problem from the other direction. After spotting a full-face sun visor online, they decided to design the helmet around the readily-accessible visor instead of the other way around.
The first thing to do with the visor is cover it with painter’s tape and 3D scan it. Once that’s done, the 3D model of the visor allows the rest of the helmet to be designed around it. In the case of the Satisfactory helmet, the design of the visor is a perfect match for the game’s helmet, but one could easily be designing their own custom headgear with this technique. The hexagon grid pattern? It’s actually a clear vinyl sticker and doesn’t obstruct vision at all. Another clever touch. With the helmet 3D printed, [GizmoThrill] heads to the bandsaw to cut away any excess from the visor, and secure it in place. That’s all there is to it! Sure, you don’t have full control over the visor’s actual shape, but it sure beats the tons and tons of sanding involved otherwise.
There’s a video tour of the whole process that shows off a number of other design features we really like. For example, metal mesh in the cheek areas and in front of the mouth means a fan can circulate air easily, so the one doesn’t fog up the inside of the visor with one’s very first breath. The mesh itself is concealed with some greebles mounted on top. You can see all those details up close in the video, embedded just below.
The helmet design is thanks to [Punished Props] and we’ve seen their work before. This trick for turning affordable and somewhat gimmicky sunglasses into something truly time-saving is definitely worth keeping in mind.
Early 1970's-era American Black English, immediately appropriated by white kids, then experienced a revival in the 1990s among Gen X white people. I still say it too.
What in the world do people do to avoid being made miserable by the state of the world, but without either completely remaining in denial, or, worse, just normalizing it all since life must go on?
I tell myself the fact that I have no idea what the state of the world is. That concept is false. If something shitty is going on I do what I can, but none of us ca possibly know “The State of the World”. It’s ***way*** too large to make sense of. It isn’t represented by “climate change” “fascism” “poverty” “late-stage capitalism”. All those things are true but no list you can make is the whole truth.
The world has infinite corners you don’t know about.
(...) Next, Utnapishtim tells him that, even if he cannot obtain immortality, he can restore his youth with a rejuvenating herb. Gilgamesh takes the plant, but leaves it on the shore while swimming and a snake steals it, explaining why snakes shed their skins.
My daughter’s very American school-bunker doesn’t let cell service inside its walls, so they have a public wi-fi, but since it’s managed by the New York City Department of Education, it blocks potentially inappropriate domains for children like *check notes* DuckDuckGo, while Google Search and Microsoft Bing are accessible. 😒
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— What defines digital policymaking is fundamentally shifting from a focus on online issues to those that directly affect the offline world.
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Tech policy is now industrial policy
WELCOM BACK TO THE FREE MONTHLY EDITION of Digital Politics.I'm Mark Scott, and will be in Amsterdam and Brussels during the week of Feb 16, and then back in Brussels the week of Feb 23. If you're around for coffee, drop me a line here.
Also, apologies to those of you who are struggling to access the web version of this newsletter. There are ongoing technical difficulties linked with Ghost's back-end infrastructure. I'm working to resolve this asap.
— What defines digital policymaking is fundamentally shifting from a focus on online issues to those that directly affect the offline world.
—American lawmakers are again debating if Europe's online safety rules threaten the First Amendment. What is actually going on here?
— The world's semiconductor market remains highly concentrated within East Asia.
Let's get started:
THE END OF TECH POLICY AS WE KNOW IT
FOR YEARS, YOU COULD DIVIDE DIGITAL POLICYMAKING into three main camps. There was antitrust, privacy and platform governance. Some would argue that artificial intelligence deserves its own bucket. But, for me, AI fitted neatly into one of the three existing dogmas that underpinned decades of governance efforts linked to the online world.
That era is now over.
It's not that antitrust, privacy and platform governance, as topics, are either "solved" or relegated to the trash heap of history. If anything, these policymaking topics are now more pressing, in 2026, than at any other time in history. Yet it is time for those of us enmeshed in this world to acknowledge what has been on a slow burn for at least the last decade. Now, tech policy is as much an industrial policy issue — with all the political ramifications that come with that — as it is something that merely affects (and I say this with a pinch of salt) people and their interactions with some of the largest companies on earth.
By industrial policy issue, I mean the offline-online nexus of topics that encompass everything from the climate change problems and employment issues connected to data centres to the high politics of semiconductor subsidies and global tariffs imposed on electric vehicles. These topics significantly expand from the "antitrust, privacy and platform governance" cocoon that many of us, including myself, have lived in as the world has woken up to the fact that what happens online inevitably has consequences for the offline world.
There are many reasons for this shift.
In part, policymakers are fickle beasts, and the rise of semiconductors, large language models and "digital sovereignty" has allowed many to expand their interests from often wonky digital policy topics to those that have a more direct effect on the world around them.
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Here's what paid subscribers read in January: — Why the decline of US tech leadership, the rise of China as an internet governor, the growth of AI slop around elections, and the implications of child online safety rules will define 2026. More here. — Europe wants to revamp its digital rules. Its citizens aren't so sure; Washington's departure from more than 60 international organizations shows how US officials are tactically engaging with global digital issues; Who dominates the world of data centers. More here. — The transatlantic digital relationship has gone from bad to worse; Everything you need to know about India's AI Impact Summit; How many teenagers' social media accounts have been removed in Australia. More here. — After Greenland-Gate, Europe is taking the gloves off when it comes to digital sovereignty; ByteDance's sale of its US TikTok unit doesn't solve any of the underlying problems; Teenagers are more open to smartphone bans than you might think. More here.
It's also true that many of the global efforts to update antitrust, privacy and platform governance rules — from the United States and European Union to Brazil and South Africa — have only had middling success. Some of that is down to policymaking being, well, hard. But the increasing geopolitical consequences (see the next section on the EU-US platform spat) of these decisions have often made actual legislating hard. Even those who have passed laws (looking at you, Brussels) must live with the reality that not all of their revamped digital rulebook has been the success that many had first hoped for.
National leaders have similarly embraced this "industrialization" of tech policy with open arms.
Being seen to open a new semiconductor foundry or data center is just better retail politics, in the short term, compared to the hard yakka required to pass child safety rules or unpick the oligopoly of a small number of Silicon Valley giants. It's not that some (but not all) lawmakers want to do those things. But it's an easier lift to return to political form via tax incentives and other subsidies to entice foreign firms to set up locally than to build complex coalitions to update national data protection regulation that few people actually understand.
I don't mean to denigrate this shift. The world is seeking economic growth — often powered by artificial intelligence. Politicians and policymakers face hard trade-offs between updating national economies to meet these new demands and supporting the more traditional digital wonkery which has defined the last 12 years of my career.
It's also true you can have both tech-driven industrial policy and digital policy that focuses on antitrust, privacy and platform governance. But what is becoming clear in 2026 is that many policymakers are shifting toward the former and away from the latter. That will require a recalibration for many (again, including myself) who feel more comfortable discussing the inner workings of ex ante digital competition reforms than how best to construct a federated system of data centres with the least energy footprint possible.
It's a mind-shift from almost exclusively focusing on the online world — often with offline consequences — to acknowledging that tech-focused industrial policy includes a greater number of traditional "analogue" policy areas than many of us have been used to dealing with.
That includes a heavy dose of trade policy as the world hurtles toward a zero-sum, mercantilist viewpoint where re-shoring, export controls and subsidies tied to foreign direct investment are as important as whether social media companies are held accountable for what is posted within their global networks.
It also includes a mishmash of policymaking specialisms that combines digital policy with labor policy with climate change policy with public health policy with a myriad of other policy areas which all intersect in this expanded form of tech-related industrial policy. Such coalitions are hard to create. Everyone believes their subject area is the most important and, routinely, experts speak past each other in jargon that no one outside of these communities understands.
None of this should take focus away from the ongoing problems associated with antitrust, privacy and platform governance. If Digital Politics can be read as anything, it's an indictment that within those three areas, there is still a lot of work to do.
But we should not remain siloed into what is comfortable and overlook what is happening around us. National leaders — mostly spurred on by the AI hype — are wedded to this blending of tech and industrial policy in the name of economic growth. That will have knock-on consequences beyond the digital realm, especially as the global labor force tries to navigate the complexities of the current techno-enabled geopolitical uncertainty.
Just like in last week's newsletteron the more muscular approach to digital sovereignty, within Europe, after the Greenland crisis, I do not yet have solutions to much of the complexity outlined above. It's going to be hard. But pretending that tech policy has not morphed into something more offline, more industrial and more multi-disciplinary would be a mistake.
It's time for many of us to evolve to meet this new challenge.
Chart of the Week
NOT ALL SEMICONDUCTORS ARE CREATED equally. But in terms of total production, three regions — East Asia, the US and the EU — represented more than 90 percent of the collective global annual production, based on figures from 2024, the last full-year available.
Even that geographical breakdown doesn't tell the full story.
East Asia, as a region, produces roughly three-fourths of the world's microchips. Within that, Taiwan manufactures 60 percent of total global semiconductor production — a figure that rises to 90 percent for the most advanced chips. Source: Technology in Global Affairs
THE US TO EUROPE'S ONLINE SAFETY RULES: I JUST CAN'T QUIT YOU
YOU HAVE TO HAND IT TO CONGRESS. They may not be able to pass any digital rules (with maybe the exception of ByteDance's TikTok US offloading), but they sure like a hearing about how Europe is censoring Americans online. On Feb 4, the House of Representatives' Judiciary Committee will hold its second hearing entitled "Europe's Threat to American Speech and Innovation: Part II." Watch along here at 10am ET / 4pm CET / 3pm UK. You can read a report Republican lawmakers published to outline their arguments here.
The hearing follows a similar meeting, in September, which included British politician Nigel Farage comparing the United Kingdom to North Korea — because of the country's online safety regime, known as the Online Safety Act (editor's note: the UK is not like North Korea.) David Kaye, a University of California professor who gave evidence at the invitation of the Democrats, suggested it was the US, not Europe, that was undermining free speech.
Some US politicians and influencers' aversion to European online safety rules are well known. Accusations include subverting Americans' free speech rights; forcing platforms to crack down on legal speech online; and working with outside researchers to demote most right-wing social media users due to an alleged woke agenda. For more on what this looks like on the ground, check out my dispatch from 2023.
First things first: Europe's online safety rules are not about quelling free speech rights. Both the EU's Digital Services Act and UK's Online Safety Act enshrine protections for free speech into each separate legislation. (Disclaimer: I sit on an independent committee at Ofcom, the British regulator which oversees the country's rules, and anything I say here is in a personal capacity.) At their roots, these online safety regimes are exercises in transparency which are aimed at holding social media companies to their word on how they implement internal terms of service.
If these companies don't follow mostly internal procedures — or, in the case of X, flagrantly disregard basic transparency requirements — then they will be held responsible for those actions. Such regulatory oversight is standard in sectors from financial services to pharmaceuticals. X is appealing its fine under the EU's Digital Services Act.
Many European officials believe they can win over American critics by explaining the basics of how these regimes operate. If only we can make them understand the inner workings of mandatory risk assessment and audit requirements, goes the theory, then they will realize that no one wants to harm free speech.
That framing misses the point.
If this was about the specifics of these online safety rules, then it would be obvious — based on the actual reading of the documents (here and here) — that censorship is not at the heart of this legislation. Or, if you don't want to scroll through those pages, read this from the European rules:
"Providers of intermediary services shallact in a diligent, objective and proportionate manner in applying and enforcing the restrictions referred to in paragraph 1, with due regard to the rights and legitimate interests of all parties involved, including the fundamental rights of the recipients of the service, such as the freedom of expression, freedom and pluralism of the media, and other fundamental rights and freedoms as enshrined in the Charter." (Emphasis in bold is my own)
But if you read these American criticisms as part of a decades-old attempt to hobble Europe from regulating US tech firms — in everything from antitrust, privacy and platform governance (see above section) — then these latest attacks on the Old World's online safety rules start to make sense.
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It's not specifically about which article within the UK's Online Safety Act is alleged to silence Americans within the US (note: there are none.) Instead, it's part of an ongoing effort — albeit one on steroids — that includes many US politicians and policymakers pushing back against European concerns that American tech giants may not be playing fairly when operating on the other side of the Atlantic.
That goes for everything from Silicon Valley's alleged weaponization of EU privacy rules to cement their dominance to ongoing claims that American social media companies are not transparent about what often polarising posts show up in Europeans' feeds.
It's notable that in the Feb 4 hearing in Washington, another topic under discussion is how the EU's Digital Markets Act and other corporate transparency rules "target American companies and hurt innovation." It's hard to square how criticism aimed at Europe's online safety rules should go hand in hand with complaints about the Continent's digital competition rules. Unless, that is, you view these discussions as part of the wider — and decades-old — pushback from Washington against Brussels' (and, to a lesser degree London's) attempt to hold some of the US' largest firms to account.
None of that excuses the ongoing attacks aimed at destroying the EU and UK's online safety rules — all in the name of protecting American free speech. Such rhetoric from some in the US has arguably made the European online information space more dangerous and harmful, in part due to companies' willingness to pull back on their online safety protocols to align with such American criticism.
What I'm reading
— A tech entrepreneur set up a Reddit-style social media that only AI agents could post to. Humans are relegated to just watching along. Check it out here.
— The European Commission open two proceedings into Google's obligations under the Digital MarketS Act. More here.
— The Netherlands is moving toward ditching US tech services for those created either domestically or within the EU. More here.
— Maldita, the Spanish fact-checker, found more than 500 TikTok accounts that produced AI-generated videos of alleged political protests in violation of its commitments under the EU's online safety regime. More here.
— The Irish regulator in charge of the EU's Digital Services Act published guidance on how independent researchers could apply for access to private data held within social media companies. More here.
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IT'S MONDAY, AND THIS IS DIGITAL POLITICS. I'm Mark Scott, and will be in Amsterdam and Brussels during the week of Feb 16, and then back in Brussels the week of Feb 23. If you're around for coffee, drop me a line here.
Also, apologies to those of you who struggled to open/read last week's dispatch. It was caused by an issue with Ghost's back-end infrastructure. Hopefully, it's all working this week.
— What defines digital policymaking is fundamentally shifting from a focus on online issues to those that directly affect the offline world.
—American lawmakers are again debating if Europe's online safety rules threaten the First Amendment. What is actually going on here?
— The world's semiconductor market remains highly concentrated within East Asia.
Stan Ghouls targeting Russia and Uzbekistan with NetSupport RAT
Introduction
Stan Ghouls (also known as Bloody Wolf) is an cybercriminal group that has been launching targeted attacks against organizations in Russia, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, and Uzbekistan since at least 2023. These attackers primarily have their sights set on the manufacturing, finance, and IT sectors. Their campaigns are meticulously prepared and tailored to specific victims, featuring a signature toolkit of custom Java-based malware loaders and a sprawling infrastructure with resources dedicated to specific campaigns.
We continuously track Stan Ghouls’ activity, providing our clients with intel on their tactics, techniques, procedures, and latest campaigns. In this post, we share the results of our most recent deep dive into a campaign targeting Uzbekistan, where we identified roughly 50 victims. About 10 devices in Russia were also hit, with a handf
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Stan Ghouls targeting Russia and Uzbekistan with NetSupport RAT
Introduction
Stan Ghouls (also known as Bloody Wolf) is an cybercriminal group that has been launching targeted attacks against organizations in Russia, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, and Uzbekistan since at least 2023. These attackers primarily have their sights set on the manufacturing, finance, and IT sectors. Their campaigns are meticulously prepared and tailored to specific victims, featuring a signature toolkit of custom Java-based malware loaders and a sprawling infrastructure with resources dedicated to specific campaigns.
We continuously track Stan Ghouls’ activity, providing our clients with intel on their tactics, techniques, procedures, and latest campaigns. In this post, we share the results of our most recent deep dive into a campaign targeting Uzbekistan, where we identified roughly 50 victims. About 10 devices in Russia were also hit, with a handful of others scattered across Kazakhstan, Turkey, Serbia, and Belarus (though those last three were likely just collateral damage).
During our investigation, we spotted shifts in the attackers’ infrastructure – specifically, a batch of new domains. We also uncovered evidence suggesting that Stan Ghouls may have added IoT-focused malware to their arsenal.
Technical details
Threat evolution
Stan Ghouls relies on phishing emails packed with malicious PDF attachments as their initial entry point. Historically, the group’s weapon of choice was the remote access Trojan (RAT) STRRAT, also known as Strigoi Master. Last year, however, they switched strategies, opting to misuse legitimate software, NetSupport, to maintain control over infected machines.
Given Stan Ghouls’ targeting of financial institutions, we believe their primary motive is financial gain. That said, their heavy use of RATs may also hint at cyberespionage.
Like any other organized cybercrime groups, Stan Ghouls frequently refreshes its infrastructure. To track their campaigns effectively, you have to continuously analyze their activity.
Initial infection vector
As we’ve mentioned, Stan Ghouls’ primary – and currently only – delivery method is spear phishing. Specifically, they favor emails loaded with malicious PDF attachments. This has been backed up by research from several of our industry peers (1, 2, 3). Interestingly, the attackers prefer to use local languages rather than opting for international mainstays like Russian or English. Below is an example of an email spotted in a previous campaign targeting users in Kyrgyzstan.
Example of a phishing email from a previous Stan Ghouls campaign
The email is written in Kyrgyz and translates to: “The service has contacted you. Materials for review are attached. Sincerely”.
The attachment was a malicious PDF file titled “Постановление_Районный_суд_Кчрм_3566_28-01-25_OL4_scan.pdf” (the title, written in Russian, posed it as an order of district court).
During the most recent campaign, which primarily targeted victims in Uzbekistan, the attackers deployed spear-phishing emails written in Uzbek:
Example of a spear-phishing email from the latest campaign
The email text can be translated as follows: [redacted] AKMALZHON IBROHIMOVICH
You will receive a court notice. Application for retrial. The case is under review by the district court. Judicial Service.
Mustaqillik Street, 147 Uraboshi Village, Quva District. The attachment, named E-SUD_705306256_ljro_varaqasi.pdf (MD5: 7556e2f5a8f7d7531f28508f718cb83d), is a standard one-page decoy PDF:
The embedded decoy document
Notice that the attackers claim that the “case materials” (which are actually the malicious loader) can only be opened using the Java Runtime Environment.
They even helpfully provide a link for the victim to download and install it from the official website.
The malicious loader
The decoy document contains identical text in both Russian and Uzbek, featuring two links that point to the malicious loader:
Uzbek link (“- Ish materiallari 09.12.2025 y”): hxxps://mysoliq-uz[.]com/api/v2/documents/financial/Q4-2025/audited/consolidated/with-notes/financials/reports/annual/2025/tashkent/statistical-statements/
Russian link (“- Материалы дела 09.12.2025 г.”): hxxps://my-xb[.]com/api/v2/documents/financial/Q4-2025/audited/consolidated/with-notes/financials/reports/annual/2025/tashkent/statistical-statements/
Both links lead to the exact same JAR file (MD5: 95db93454ec1d581311c832122d21b20).
It’s worth noting that these attackers are constantly updating their infrastructure, registering new domains for every new campaign. In the relatively short history of this threat, we’ve already mapped out over 35 domains tied to Stan Ghouls.
The malicious loader handles three main tasks:
Displaying a fake error message to trick the user into thinking the application can’t run. The message in the screenshot translates to: “This application cannot be run in your OS. Please use another device.” Fake error message
Checking that the number of previous RAT installation attempts is less than three. If the limit is reached, the loader terminates and throws the following error: “Urinishlar chegarasidan oshildi. Boshqa kompyuterni tekshiring.” This translates to: “Attempt limit reached. Try another computer.” The limitCheck procedure for verifying the number of RAT download attempts
Downloading a remote management utility from a malicious domain and saving it to the victim’s machine. Stan Ghouls loaders typically contain a list of several domains and will iterate through them until they find one that’s live. The performanceResourceUpdate procedure for downloading the remote management utility
The loader fetches the following files, which make up the components of the NetSupport RAT: PCICHEK.DLL, client32.exe, advpack.dll, msvcr100.dll, remcmdstub.exe, ir50_qcx.dll, client32.ini, AudioCapture.dll, kbdlk41a.dll, KBDSF.DLL, tcctl32.dll, HTCTL32.DLL, kbdibm02.DLL, kbd101c.DLL, kbd106n.dll, ir50_32.dll, nskbfltr.inf, NSM.lic, pcicapi.dll, PCICL32.dll, qwave.dll. This list is hardcoded in the malicious loader’s body. To ensure the download was successful, it checks for the presence of the client32.exe executable. If the file is found, the loader generates a NetSupport launch script (run.bat), drops it into the folder with the other files, and executes it:
The createBatAndRun procedure for creating and executing the run.bat file, which then launches the NetSupport RAT
The loader also ensures NetSupport persistence by adding it to startup using the following three methods:
It creates an autorun script named SoliqUZ_Run.bat and drops it into the Startup folder (%APPDATA%\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Startup): The generateAutorunScript procedure for creating the batch file and placing it in the Startup folder
It adds the run.bat file to the registry’s autorun key (HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\malicious_key_name). The registryStartupAdd procedure for adding the RAT launch script to the registry autorun key
It creates a scheduled task to trigger run.bat using the following command: schtasks Create /TN "[malicious_task_name]" /TR "[path_to_run.bat]" /SC ONLOGON /RL LIMITED /F /RU "[%USERNAME%]" The installStartupTask procedure for creating a scheduled task to launch the NetSupport RAT (via run.bat)
Once the NetSupport RAT is downloaded, installed, and executed, the attackers gain total control over the victim’s machine. While we don’t have enough telemetry to say with 100% certainty what they do once they’re in, the heavy focus on finance-related organizations suggests that the group is primarily after its victims’ money. That said, we can’t rule out cyberespionage either.
Malicious utilities for targeting IoT infrastructure
Previous Stan Ghouls attacks targeting organizations in Kyrgyzstan, as documented by Group-IB researchers, featured a NetSupport RAT configuration file client32.ini with the MD5 hash cb9c28a4c6657ae5ea810020cb214ff0. While reports mention the Kyrgyzstan campaign kicked off in June 2025, Kaspersky solutions first flagged this exact config file on May 16, 2025. At that time, it contained the following NetSupport RAT command-and-control server info: ...
[HTTP]CMPI=60 GatewayAddress=hgame33[.]com:443 GSK=FN:L?ADAFI:F?BCPGD;N>IAO9J>J@N Port=443 SecondaryGateway=ravinads[.]com:443 SecondaryPort=443 At the time of our January 2026 investigation, our telemetry showed that the domain specified in that config, hgame33[.]com, was also hosting the following files:
All of these files belong to the infamous IoT malware named Mirai. Since they are sitting on a server tied to the Stan Ghouls’ campaign targeting Kyrgyzstan, we can hypothesize – with a low degree of confidence – that the group has expanded its toolkit to include IoT-based threats. However, it’s also possible it simply shared its infrastructure with other threat actors who were the ones actually wielding Mirai. This theory is backed up by the fact that the domain’s registration info was last updated on July 4, 2025, at 11:46:11 – well after Stan Ghouls’ activity in May and June.
Attribution
We attribute this campaign to the Stan Ghouls (Bloody Wolf) group with a high degree of confidence, based on the following similarities to the attackers’ previous campaigns:
Substantial code overlaps were found within the malicious loaders. For example: Code snippet from sample 1acd4592a4eb0c66642cc7b07213e9c9584c6140210779fbc9ebb76a90738d5e, the loader from the Group-IB report
Code snippet from sample 95db93454ec1d581311c832122d21b20, the NetSupport loader described here
Decoy documents in both campaigns look identical. Decoy document 5d840b741d1061d51d9786f8009c37038c395c129bee608616740141f3b202bb from the campaign reported by Group-IB
Decoy document 106911ba54f7e5e609c702504e69c89a used in the campaign described here
In both current and past campaigns, the attackers utilized loaders written in Java. Given that Java has fallen out of fashion with malicious loader authors in recent years, it serves as a distinct fingerprint for Stan Ghouls.
Victims
We identified approximately 50 victims of this campaign in Uzbekistan, alongside 10 in Russia and a handful of others in Kazakhstan, Turkey, Serbia, and Belarus (we suspect the infections in these last three countries were accidental). Nearly all phishing emails and decoy files in this campaign were written in Uzbek, which aligns with the group’s track record of leveraging the native languages of their target countries.
Most of the victims are tied to industrial manufacturing, finance, and IT. Furthermore, we observed infection attempts on devices within government organizations, logistics companies, medical facilities, and educational institutions.
It is worth noting that over 60 victims is quite a high headcount for a sophisticated campaign. This suggests the attackers have enough resources to maintain manual remote control over dozens of infected devices simultaneously.
Takeaways
In this post, we’ve broken down the recent campaign by the Stan Ghouls group. The attackers set their sights on organizations in industrial manufacturing, IT, and finance, primarily located in Uzbekistan. However, the ripple effect also reached Russia, Kazakhstan, and a few, likely accidental, victims elsewhere.
With over 60 targets hit, this is a remarkably high volume for a sophisticated targeted campaign. It points to the significant resources these actors are willing to pour into their operations. Interestingly, despite this, the group sticks to a familiar toolkit including the legitimate NetSupport remote management utility and their signature custom Java-based loader. The only thing they seem to keep updating is their infrastructure. For this specific campaign, they employed two new domains to house their malicious loader and one new domain dedicated to hosting NetSupport RAT files.
One curious discovery was the presence of Mirai files on a domain linked to the group’s previous campaigns. This might suggest Stan Ghouls are branching out into IoT malware, though it’s still too early to call it with total certainty.
We’re keeping a close watch on Stan Ghouls and will continue to keep our customers in the loop regarding the group’s latest moves. Kaspersky products provide robust protection against this threat at every stage of the attack lifecycle.
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Macropads can be as simple as a few buttons hooked up to a microcontroller to do the USB HID dance and talk to a PC. However, you can go a lot further, too. [CNCDan] demonstrates this well with his sleek macropad build, which throws haptic feedback into the mix.
The build features six programmable macro buttons, which are situated either on side of a 128×64 OLED display. This setup allows the OLED screen to show icons that explain the functionality of each button. There’s also a nice large rotary knob, surrounded by 20 addressable WS2811 LEDs for visual feedback. Underneath the knob lives an an encoder, as well as a brushless motor typically used in gimbal builds, which is driven by a TMC6300 motor driver board. Everything is laced up to a Waveshare RP2040 Plus devboard which runs the show. It
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DIY Macropad Rocks a Haptic Feedback Wheel
Macropads can be as simple as a few buttons hooked up to a microcontroller to do the USB HID dance and talk to a PC. However, you can go a lot further, too. [CNCDan] demonstrates this well with his sleek macropad build, which throws haptic feedback into the mix.
The build features six programmable macro buttons, which are situated either on side of a 128×64 OLED display. This setup allows the OLED screen to show icons that explain the functionality of each button. There’s also a nice large rotary knob, surrounded by 20 addressable WS2811 LEDs for visual feedback. Underneath the knob lives an an encoder, as well as a brushless motor typically used in gimbal builds, which is driven by a TMC6300 motor driver board. Everything is laced up to a Waveshare RP2040 Plus devboard which runs the show. It’s responsible for controlling the motors, reading the knob and switches, and speaking USB to the PC that it’s plugged into.
It’s a compact device that nonetheless should prove to be a good productivity booster on the bench. We’ve featured [CNCDan’s] work before, too, such as this nifty DIY VR headset.
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MORE Grant them removed, and grant that this your noise Hath chid down all the majesty of England; Imagine that you see the wretched strangers, Their babies at their backs and their poor luggage, Plodding to th’ ports and costs for transportation, And that you sit as kings in your desires, Authority quite silent by your brawl, And you in ruff of your opinions clothed; What had you got? I’ll tell you: you had taught How insolence and strong hand should prevail, How order should be quelled; and by this pattern Not one of you should live an aged man, For other ruffians, as their fancies wrought, With self same hand, self reasons, and self right, Would shark on you, and men like ravenous fishes Would feed on one another.
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did anyone want to hear a #Shakespeare speech castigating nativist cruelty against #immigration?
of course such a speech exists: bigoted malice against #immigrants is not new.
In trying to reward behavior we want to see, this client of mine, after being presented with all the issues with modern LLMs and why it should NOT be used to make game art, did a total 180 and threw all of the AI plans into the sea, then paid a real live artist to do the box art and illustrative work. Would appreciate any retoots and such. If you're into party board games, maybe even consider backing it?
I just broke a long friendship because of him. I couldn’t stay silent anymore. I had to tell her what my feelings are. She said: “can we park politics? I don’t want it to mess with our friendship” I replied: “no, if you still support Trump you’re no longer my friend” It’s too much, it’s just too much. I’m hurting, but this is too much.
The heat pump has become a common fixture in many parts of modern life. We now have reverse-cycle air conditioning, heat pump hot water systems, and even heat pump dryers. These home appliances have all been marketed as upgrades over simpler technologies from the past, and offer improved efficiency and performance for a somewhat-higher purchase price.
Heat pumps aren’t just for the home, though. They’re becoming an increasingly important part of major public works projects, as utility providers try to do ever more with ever less energy in an attempt to save the planet. These days, heat pumps are getting bigger, and will be doing ever grander things in years to come.
Magical Efficiency
The heat pump is a particularly attractive tool because it has a near-mystical property that virtually no other machine does. It is capable of delivering more heat energy than the amount of
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Big Heat Pumps Are Doing Big Things
The heat pump has become a common fixture in many parts of modern life. We now have reverse-cycle air conditioning, heat pump hot water systems, and even heat pump dryers. These home appliances have all been marketed as upgrades over simpler technologies from the past, and offer improved efficiency and performance for a somewhat-higher purchase price.
Heat pumps aren’t just for the home, though. They’re becoming an increasingly important part of major public works projects, as utility providers try to do ever more with ever less energy in an attempt to save the planet. These days, heat pumps are getting bigger, and will be doing ever grander things in years to come.
Magical Efficiency
The heat pump is a particularly attractive tool because it has a near-mystical property that virtually no other machine does. It is capable of delivering more heat energy than the amount of electricity fed into it, appearing to effectively have an efficiency greater than unity. We’re told that thermodynamic laws mean that we can never get more energy out than we put in. If you put 1 kW of electrical energy into a resistive heating element, which is near 100% efficient, you should get almost 1 kW of heat out of it, but never a hair more than that. But with a heat pump, you could get 1.5 kW, or even 2 kW for your humble 1 kW input. The trick is that the heat pump is not actually a magical device that can multiply energy out of nothing. Instead, the heat pump’s trick is that it’s not turning your 1 kW input into heat energy. It’s using 1 kW of energy to move heat from one place to another. If you’re running a heat pump-based HVAC system to cool your home, for example, it might use 2 kW of electricity to pump 3 to 4 kW of heat from your lounge room and dissipate it outdoors. Since the outdoors doesn’t change much in temperature when you pump out the heat from your home, you can keep doing this pretty much all day. You can even reverse the flow if your heat pump system allows it, instead pumping heat from the outdoors into your home. This works well until temperatures get so low that there isn’t enough heat left in the outdoors to appreciably warm your house up. A diagram of a heat pump system. Heat is pumped from the outdoors (B) to the indoors (A), with insulation (I) in between. Note the condensor coils (1), the expansion valve (2), the evaporator coils (3), and the compressor (4). Credit: Ilmari Karonen, GFDL The heat pump achieves the feat of making heat go where we want it to go via the use of refrigerant. Specifically, refrigerant enters the compressor as a low pressure and low temperature vapor. It exits as a gas at high temperature and high pressure, and is then passed through a series of condenser coils. As it passes through, it releases heat to the surrounding environment and reduces in temperature, condensing into a liquid. From there, the liquid, still under high pressure, passes through an expansion valve, which rapidly lowers the pressure and drops the temperature further. The liquid is now cold, and passes through an evaporator coil where it picks up heat from the surroundings and turns back into a low-pressure, low-temperature vapor to start the cycle again as it heads back to the compressor. This system runs your fridge, your car’s air conditioner, and is used in so many other applications where it’s desirable to make something colder or hotter as efficiently as possible. You just choose which direction you want to pump the heat and design the system accordingly. Air conditioners and fridges pump heat out of a confined space, heaters and dryers pump it in, and so on. It’s heat pumps all the way down!
Bigger Applications
Thus far, you’ve probably used many a heat pump in your daily life, whether it be for heating, cooling, or drying clothes. However, there is a new push to build ever-larger heat pumps to work on the municipal scale, rather than simply serving individual households. The hope is to make utilities more energy efficient, and thus cheaper and greener in turn, by taking advantage of the efficiency gains offered by the magic of the heat pump. An earlier project saw Siemens Energy team up with MVV to install a heat pump system to supply 3,500 households with 20 megawatts of heat in Mannheim. The new installation will be almost an order of magnitude larger. Credit: SiemensAt 82.5 megawatts each, the new installation features what are perhaps the largest heat pumps in the world. Credit: MVV One such project is taking place just off the River Rhine in Germany. A pair of massive heat pump units are being constructed by MVV Energie, each with a capacity of 82.5 megawatts. They will deliver heat to a total of 40,000 homes via a district heating system, and will be constructed on the site of a former coal power plant. Each pump will effectively draw energy out of the massive watery heat battery that is the River Rhine, and use it to warm homes in the local area. Thankfully, the river’s capacity is large enough that drawing all that heat out of the river should only affect temperatures of the water by around 0.1 C.
The Rhine project builds upon a previous effort to install a large heat-pump heating system in Mannheim, in partnership with Siemens Energy. That installation draws 7 megawatts of electricity to supply 20 megawatts of heating to the local district heating grid. Installed in 2023, it supplies the heating needs of 3,500 local households. The Danish installation will use slightly smaller heat pumps, but more of them, for a combined output of 177 megawatts. Credit: MAN Technology A similar project is underway in Denmark, which will supply 177 megawatts of heat to homes in Aalborg. The installation of four 44 megawatt MAN Technology heat pumps will be hooked up to the existing district heating system, which is also supported by other sources including waste heat from a local cement factory. The benefit of using smaller individual units is that it allows some of the pumps to be shut down when heating demand is lower, as winter passes through autumn into summer.
What makes these projects special is their sheer scale. Rather than being measured in the kilowatt scale like home appliances, they’re measured in the many tens of megawatts, delivering heating to entire neighborhoods instead of single homes. As it turns out, heat pumps work just fine at large scales—you just need to build them out of bigger components. Bigger compressors, bigger expansion valves, and bigger condensors and evaporators—all of these combine to let you pump enormous amounts of heat from one place to another. As utilities around the world seek ever greater efficiency in new projects, heat pumps will likely grow larger and be deployed ever more widely, seeking to take advantage of the free heat on offer in the earth, water, and air around us. After all, there’s no point dumping energy into making heat when you can just move some that’s already there!
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Over the past couple of years with the Jenny’s Daily Drivers series, we’ve looked at a number of unusual or noteworthy operating systems. Among them has been ReactOS, an open source clone of a millennium-era Windows OS, which we tried back in November. It’s one of those slow-burn projects we know has been around for a long time, but still it’s a surprise to find we’ve reached the 30th anniversary of the first ReactOS code commit.
The post is a run through the project’s history, and having followed it for a long time we recognize some of the milestones from the various ISOs we downloaded and tried back in the day. At the end it looks into the future with plans to support more up-to-date hardware as well as UEFI, which we hope will keep it relevant.
When we tried it, we fou
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Three Decades Of ReactOS
Over the past couple of years with the Jenny’s Daily Drivers series, we’ve looked at a number of unusual or noteworthy operating systems. Among them has been ReactOS, an open source clone of a millennium-era Windows OS, which we tried back in November. It’s one of those slow-burn projects we know has been around for a long time, but still it’s a surprise to find we’ve reached the 30th anniversary of the first ReactOS code commit.
The post is a run through the project’s history, and having followed it for a long time we recognize some of the milestones from the various ISOs we downloaded and tried back in the day. At the end it looks into the future with plans to support more up-to-date hardware as well as UEFI, which we hope will keep it relevant.
When we tried it, we found an OS which could indeed be a Daily Driver on which a Hackaday article could be written — even if it wasn’t the slickest experience on the block. It doesn’t matter that it’s taken a while, if you’re used to Windows XP this has become a usable replacement. We came to the conclusion that like FreeDOS it could find a niche in places where people need a modern version of the old OS to run older software, but perhaps as it now moves towards its mature phase it will move beyond that. We salute the ReactOS developers for bringing it this far, and for not giving up.
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Dal 2019 è la comunità Mastodon più grande d’Italia, con i suoi 80.000 iscritti è fra le 10 istanze più attive al mondo ed è parte dell'associazione noprofit Fedimedia Italia APS.
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🎉 Abbiamo superato i 6000 follower nei gruppi #lemmy su #Diggita! Grazie a tutti!
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It was January 25th of 1979, at an unassuming Michigan Ford Motor Company factory. Productivity over the past years had been skyrocketing due to increased automation, courtesy of Litton Industry’s industrial robots that among other things helped to pick parts from shelves. Unfortunately, on that day there was an issue with the automated inventory system, so Robert Williams was asked to retrieve parts manually.
As he climbed into the third level of the storage rack, he was crushed from behind by the arm of one of the still active one-ton transfer vehicles, killing him instantly. It would take half an hour before his body was discovered, and many years before the manufacturer would be forced to pay damages to his estate in a settlement. He only lived to be twenty-five years old.
Since Robert’s gruesome death, industrial robots have become much safer, with keep-out zones, senso
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How Industrial Robot Safety Was Written in Blood
It was January 25th of 1979, at an unassuming Michigan Ford Motor Company factory. Productivity over the past years had been skyrocketing due to increased automation, courtesy of Litton Industry’s industrial robots that among other things helped to pick parts from shelves. Unfortunately, on that day there was an issue with the automated inventory system, so Robert Williams was asked to retrieve parts manually.
As he climbed into the third level of the storage rack, he was crushed from behind by the arm of one of the still active one-ton transfer vehicles, killing him instantly. It would take half an hour before his body was discovered, and many years before the manufacturer would be forced to pay damages to his estate in a settlement. He only lived to be twenty-five years old.
Since Robert’s gruesome death, industrial robots have become much safer, with keep-out zones, sensors, and other safety measures. However this didn’t happen overnight; it’s worth going over some of the robot tragedies to see how we got here.
Just Following Orders
Perhaps the the most terrifying aspect about most industrial robots is that they are fairly simple machines, often just an arm containing a series of stepper motors and the electronics that strictly execute the tasks programmed into it when the manufacturing line was designed and assembled. This means a large metal arm, possibly weighing more than an adult human, that can swing and move around rapidly, with no regard for what might be in between its starting and end position unless designed with safeties in place. Artist’s depiction of the accident involving a 34-year old US worker and an industrial robot. (Credit: US NIOSH) This is what led to the death in 1981 of another factory worker, Kenji Urada, a maintenance worker, who was trying to fix a robotic arm. Although a safety fence had been installed at this Japanese plant that would disconnect the power supply of the robot when this fence was unhooked, for some reason Kenji decided to bypass this safety feature and hop over the fence. Moments later he would be dead, crushed by the robotic arm as it accidentally was activated by Kenji while in manual mode.
During the following investigation it was found that Kenji’s colleagues were unfamiliar with the robot’s controls and did not know how to turn it off by simply opening the fence. Subsequently they were unable to render him any aid and were forced to look on in horror until someone was able to power down the robot.
A similar accident occurred in the US in 1984, when a 34-year old operator of an automated die-cast system decided to cross the safety rail around the robot’s operating envelope to clean up some scrap metal on the floor, bypassing the interlocked access in the safety rail. In this case it wasn’t the arm that crushed the worker, but the back end, which the worker apparently had deemed to be ‘safe’. He had received a one-week training course in robotics three weeks prior.
Protecting Squishy Humans
ISO 7010 style warning sign for industrial robots. (Credit: Clemenspool, Wikimedia) When it comes to industrial robot safety rules, we have to consider a number of factors beyond the straightforward fact that getting crushed by one is a scenario that a reasonable person would want to avoid. The first is that industrial robots are quite expensive, which makes adding major fencing and other safety measures not much of a financial issue in comparison.
The second factor is that while humans are really quite versatile, they tend to have the annoying habit of bypassing safeties despite endless briefings and drills that are designed for their own protection. Let’s call this factor “human nature”. Kenji Urada’s gruesome death is an example of this, but other industries are rife with examples too, giving agencies like the US Chemical Safety Board a seemingly endless collection of safety rule violations to investigate and condense into popular YouTube videos of disaster sequences.
The final, third factor that ties all of this together is that we no longer live in the early decades of the Industrial Revolution, where having a human worker getting caught with an arm between some gears, or crushed by a mechanism would only lead to some clerk rolling their eyes, crossing out a name and sending out an errand boy to post a fresh ‘help wanted’ note.
Ergo, we needed to find ways to human-proof industrial robots against humans and protect us against ourselves.
ISO 10218
Although some nations have their own standards, the overarching international standard is found in ISO 10218, currently in its 2025 update. This standard comes in two parts, ISO 10218-1, which concerns itself with the robot’s individual parts and targets robot manufacturers, as well as ISO 10218-2, which looks at complete systems and the integration of robots. Germany bakery robots for palletizing food products. Note the plentiful safety fencing. (Credit: KUKA Roboter GmbH, Bachmann) There are a number of distinct types of hazards when it comes to working around industrial robots, the most obvious of which is the crushing hazard. To prevent this and similar hazards, we can install plentiful of safety fencing to ensure that the squishy human cannot get within the range of the unsuspecting robot.
In the case of an especially persistent human, or potentially a legitimate human maintainer or operator, it’s crucial to ensure that the robot is powered down or rendered harmless in some other way. For example, the safety fence that should have prevented Kenji Urada from losing his life was designed for this, but unfortunately could be bypassed.
Similarly, in the case of Robert Williams there was a tag in/tag out system in place for the robotics, but Robert had not been instructed in this and apparently unaware of the dangers. Being able to bypass such safeties gets us firmly sliding down the rabbit hole of the hierarchy of controls.
The most effective hazard elimination is basically that, but since the robots are rather needed, and we got no replacement for them other than forcing the humans to do all the work again, this step is no real option here.
Next we can try to make robots safer, by adding intrusion detection sensors to the robot’s hazard zone, or as Amazon trialed in 2019 by making the squishy humans in its warehouses wear a device that alerts the robots around them on the warehouse floor of their presence without relying on either machine vision or obstacle recognition.
The placing of physical barriers is next, as part of engineering controls. This effectively tries to prevent humans from wandering into the danger zone like a particularly big fly around a brightly lit up bug zapper. Theoretically by putting a sufficiently daunting barrier between the hazard and the worker will said worker not end up facing their doom.
In an ideal world this would be all that it’d take to guarantee a completely safe work floor, even in the case of some distracted wandering. Of course, this doesn’t help much if said robots are sharing a warehouse floor with humans. To patch up the remaining gaps we got safety training courses as part of the administrative controls, but if these were very effective then the USCSB would already be mostly out of a job.,
The final item in the hierarchy of PPE can easily be skipped in the case of industrial robots, other than perhaps steel-tipped boots, a hard-hat and safety glasses in case of dropped items and flying debris. If an industrial robot’s arm is headed your way, there’s no PPE that will save your skin.
The Future
At this point in time industrial robots are fairly safe from humans, though in the US alone between 1992 and 2015 at least 61 people died due to sharing the same physical space with such a robot or a similar unfortunate event. As the number of robots increases in industry, but also in construction and health care, the topic of safety becomes ever more important.
In the case of a stationary industrial robot it’s fairly easy to just put a big, tall fence around it, lock the only gate and force anyone who absolutely needs access to beg an audience with the maintenance chief. In the case of the thousands of robots rolling around in warehouses like Amazon’s, situational awareness on the part of the robots can help them detect and avoid obstacles.
As long as humans are more fragile and weaker than the robots that they find themselves working around, it’s probably reasonable to expect said humans to pay a modicum of respect to the Death Machine, as the engineers who built them can only add so many technological solutions to what ultimately ends up being a game of idiot-proofing. Because absolutely nobody would ever do these exact things to willingly endanger themselves and/or others.
Cloudflare contro AGCOM: le richieste di Piracy Shield non sono tecnicamente possibili
Matthew Prince, ceo e co-fondatore di Cloudflare, non usa mezze misure. In una intervista con Il Sole 24 Ore parla di ritorsioni, di leggi «illegali», di un’Autorità che «non capisce come funziona Internet» e di un’Italia che rischia di pagare un prezzo altissimo.
Il ceo di Cloudflare contro la multa Agcom per le norme antipirateria: «È una ritorsione, valutiamo il da farsi su Milano Cortina»
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Allora. Il piracy shield è una cagata pazzesca ed è vero che i legislatori ci capiscono una mazza.
MA Cloudflare è un'azienda privata e deve seguire le leggi e stop. Ce ne frega niente se non gli piace o se li è difficile farlo. Se se ne vuole andare dal mercato italiano, lo faccia; un sostituto che riempie il vuoto esce fuori subito ne sono sicuro.
Che dover sottostare all'ok di colossi privati per le nostre leggi mi sembra distopico.
> Cloudflare è un'azienda privata e deve seguire le leggi
100% ok
> dover sottostare all'ok di colossi privati per le nostre leggi mi sembra distopico
100% ok
Ma 1) nello specifico Cloudflare ha ragione 2) oggi non c'è ancora un'alternativa all'infrastruttura di CF 3) certe leggi sono più distopiche di un big player
Cloudflare ha ragione sul piano tecnico, ma non è sua competenza dare opinioni tecniche sulle nostre leggi e non è positivo dargli questo spazio e legittimarlo.
Voglio dire che non dobbiamo parteggiare per un privato quasimonopolista che pretende di essere superiore alla legge solo perché siamo in personale disaccordo con la nostra legge e perché usa COME SCUSA delle argomentazioni tecniche che riteniamo valide.
Cioè "valutiamo il da farsi su Milano-Cortins" è un ricatto esplicito di una gravità inaudita.
Dobbiamo scandalizzarcene e osteggiare completamente comportamenti di questo tipo. È 10 volte più importante che il Piracy Shield stesso e le sue conseguenze.
Poi, su un piano separato, è giusto opporsi totalmente al PS e mi trovi in prima linea su quel piano, perché è una legge ridicola fatta per proteggere altri interessi schifosi.
@Kir a me in tutto quel bailamme sai cosa mi ha colpito (colpito, ma non sorpreso)? La risposta estremamente morbida dei nostri Patrioti sovranisti. Del resto è abbastanza normale considerato che il privacy Shield era stato voluto da gruppi di interesse legati agli attuali membri della maggioranza, Ma d'altra parte l'attuale maggioranza è anche impegnata nell'erogazione di vigorose leccate di culo all'amministrazione americana e ai suoi tecnoligarchi 🤣
@Kir dare opinioni tecniche sulle leggi è esattamente prerogativa di qualsiasi operatore del settore. Ovviamente queste opinioni devono essere prese per quello che sono: opinioni tecniche di alto valore ma condizionate dal interesse commerciale di quegli operatori. Quanto alla ritorsione su Milano Cortina, si è trattato di un evidente autogol reputazionale, Anche perché se l'avesse fatto le penali da pagare sarebbero state ancora più alta del danno reputazionale
@Kir In realtà non ha dato nessuna opinione tecnica, ha solo detto "non si può fare", aggiungendo analogie vaghe sul togliere la corrente a un'intera città per punire un illecito.
Analogie più calzanti sono le blacklist di indirizzi IP da cui parte spam email (che vengono bloccati impietosamente fregandosene degli usi legittimi) e la moderazione di contenuti sulle piattaforme (i video dei gol vengono rimossi da X immediatamente).
È successo in passato che Piracy Shield spegnesse servizi come Google Drive, per cui è evidente che l'Italia deve smettere di usare questo strumento.
Ma io non ho ancora capito il motivo contingente che a impedito a Cloudflare di intervenire in questo specifico caso. Forse me lo sono perso io.
@game al di là del fatto che eseguire ordini di blocco immediati senza un controllo giudiziario preventivo è una follia giuridica e un precursore della censura, il blocco selettivo di contenuti tramite DNS pubblico (1.1.1.1) è un incubo da applicare senza compromettere il funzionamento del servizio. Inoltre gli ordini di blocco rapidi e automatizzati, generano l’oscuramento involontario di siti e servizi perfettamente legittimi. Insomma non è impossibile, ma è insostenibile @Kir @informatica ./.
./. @game ti ricordo infine che tutti questi adempimenti assurdi devono essere praticati senza che Cloudflare riceve un solo euro per il disturbo. Questo rende la legge in questione come particolarmente odiosa perché non è pensabile in uno stato di diritto che dall'oggi al domani un operatore privato sia costretto ad aumentare i costi di gestione a causa di una legge malscritta voluta da un'altra lobby economica
@game Ecco vedi quello che intendevo: il primo punto è quello centrale e importante. Ed il motivo per cui è gravissima la legge.
Ma la difficoltà o eventuale infattibilità tecnica non è un problema che deve porsi il legislatore: io ti dico cosa devi fare per legge e sta a te trovare un modo di farlo.
Se no diamo ragione anche ai colossi AI che dicono che se rispettano i diritti d'autore mica riescono ad allenare i loro LLM. (Stessi discorsi)
@Kir la questione è diversa perché il Diritto d'autore viene tutelato da sempre su internet e fuori da internet, proprio in quelle modalità di copia e rielaborazione , mentre nel caso della trasmissione di contenuti pirata, da sempre una tolleranza nei confronti delle Infrastrutture e la responsabilità è sempre attribuita all'attore principale. In questo caso il cambiamento di una legge deve tenere conto delle esigenze di sostenibilità dei settori colpiti
@game Non sono d'accordo. Se da oggi decidiamo che l'additivo x non può esserci nei cibi (magari si è scoperto sia cancerogeno) io metto un divieto. Se è difficile per te toglierlo dai tuoi prodotti, o costerebbe troppo, o hai già pronti container di cibo, non è un problema mio. Ho deciso che non puoi venderlo e ti adegui, altro che compensazione.
Il problema (nella metafora) è che qui stiamo dando a DAZN il potere di indicare gli additivi proibiti quotidianamente
@Kir > Se da oggi decidiamo che l'additivo x non può esserci nei cibi...
No, queste cose solitamente durano anni. O mesi, se si tratta di questioni caratterizzate da un'urgenza o una pericolosità sociale. È impensabile che provvedimenti che non siano a costo zero vengano varati In tempi così rapidi
Io la vedo così: se Cloudflare avesse detto "riconosco che l'IP è illegale, vorrei collaborare ma non riesco con queste tempistiche, sono a disposizione per trovare una soluzione alternativa", per me sarebbe stata una posizione costruttiva.
Se Cloudflare avesse detto: non è giusto che chiedi a me di intervenire mentre il DNS di Google non ha oneri, avrei potuto capire. Sempre che il blocco fosse sul DNS e non sulla CDN, per me non è chiaro questo punto. E anche in questo caso sarebbe da capire su Cloudflare fosse authoritative o meno per il dominio segnalato.
Però ricordiamoci che l'Italia è un paese che ha bloccato www.gutenberg.org. Facciamo le battaglie di libertà per le cause giuste, non per il pezzotto.
Ho letto l'intervista completa linkata nell'articolo e devo dire che è veramente scarsa perché non aggiunge nulla alla posizione che Cloudflare ha espresso il giorno 0
@game sono d'accordo, ma è significativo che le ripeta di nuovo.
E, occhio, non dice cose sbagliate. Solo un po' condizionate dall'interesse aziendale
In ogni caso, per qualcosa che vada un po' oltre la semplice propaganda dei comunicati aziendali, intervista, una volta con comunicati e un'altra volta sono indiscrezioni trapelate, rimando a un punto di vista diverso, come raccontato in questo articolo di @DataKnightmare
Dopo la sanzione Agcom, quello che il ceo di Cloudflare vuole, al di là della retorica, è di poter continuare a perseguire i propri profitti senza curarsi delle leggi. Ma per il nostro Paese è una prova di indipendenza tecnologica
In Corso Filippo Turati a Torino c'è un tale che vende le mele abusivamente senza licenza e sottocosto. Il Garante del libero commercio e della concorrenza ha deciso di chiudere Corso Filippo Turati e tutte le strade che vi danno accesso nella illusione di impedire al tale la vendita abusiva delle mele sottocosto. Malgrado le proteste dell'ospedale Mauriziano, dei negozianti e dei residenti del corso, il Garante resta inamovibile sulle decisioni prese.
@pierobosio esatto. E l'alternativa è che se i residenti e i commercianti della strada non vogliono che la loro via venga chiusa, devono assicurarsi che non vengano vendute mele da parte di contadini senza licenza... 😁 😄 🤣
Students with disabilities and survivors of sexual misconduct can’t rely on the Department of Education — the target of budget cuts and staff reductions — to intervene for them, new reports find.
#Russia general Vladimir Alexeev, first deputy of the head of #GRU was shot in his apartment in Moscow. Here’s some details from VChK-OGPU (Rucriminal.info):
A source from the Cheka-OGPU and Rucriminal.info said that the killer entered the building and waited for Vladimir Alekseev, the first deputy head of the GRU, on the 24th floor, where he lives with his family. According to neighbours, many did not know that their neighbour was a military commander — in the building’s chat group, they initially wrote: ‘an ordinary family with a child.’
Residents of the residential complex complained that the fire alarm had gone off in the building the day before and the lifts were not working properly. According to residents, there was a ‘passageway’ on the fire escap
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#Russia general Vladimir Alexeev, first deputy of the head of #GRU was shot in his apartment in Moscow. Here’s some details from VChK-OGPU (Rucriminal.info):
A source from the Cheka-OGPU and Rucriminal.info said that the killer entered the building and waited for Vladimir Alekseev, the first deputy head of the GRU, on the 24th floor, where he lives with his family. According to neighbours, many did not know that their neighbour was a military commander — in the building’s chat group, they initially wrote: ‘an ordinary family with a child.’
Residents of the residential complex complained that the fire alarm had gone off in the building the day before and the lifts were not working properly. According to residents, there was a ‘passageway’ on the fire escape where homeless people slept. Apparently, the killer used this passageway because there are CCTV cameras in the lifts.
In addition, the cameras on the floors are not working (in a chat, neighbours wrote that the management company promised to fix them after the New Year, but did not do so), and the video quality of the entrance and street cameras is very poor. According to local resident Anastasia, she heard security forces at the entrance and in the neighbouring Magnit store discussing that there were no working cameras or video recordings.
According to Yulia, a real estate agent who lives next door to the general, she heard gunshots and cries of ‘Help!’ early in the morning. She left her flat and saw Alekseev lying in a pool of blood on the floor, while a neighbour (presumably the military commander’s wife) was shouting, ‘Call an ambulance, he’s been shot!’
The eyewitness claims that the general was conscious when she left her flat, but had lost a lot of blood. ‘The whole floor is covered in blood,’ Yulia wrote in the chat. She asked Vladimir Alekseev’s wife if she needed help, but the woman was in shock and refused.
According to another neighbour, the ambulance did not leave the entrance for about 15 minutes after loading the wounded man into the cabin. Doctors performed emergency resuscitation measures on the spot. According to our information, Alekseev is in serious condition in the intensive care unit of one of the city’s hospitals.
#Russia military blogger posted an ironic comment on the #Starlink woes of his colleagues: “The Second Army of the World is begging an American businessman to restore their communications”
As a reminder “Second Army of the World” was a popular self-denomination that Russia routinely boasted about before 2022. After, they somehow stopped using it 😉
#Playfra OSINT channel meanwhile posted some updates on the observed activity of Russian assaults:
After unregistered users were cut off from using the terminal, Russian attack intensity suddenly and sharply dropped, at least in the Ternuvate and Borova directions, and likely dropped in many other areas too, which I’m currently clarifying.
Kostyantynivka - yes. Russian attacks generally slowed down. The biggest difference is noticeable with attacks coming from the Chasiv Yar side, but a slowing do
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#Russia military blogger posted an ironic comment on the #Starlink woes of his colleagues: “The Second Army of the World is begging an American businessman to restore their communications”
As a reminder “Second Army of the World” was a popular self-denomination that Russia routinely boasted about before 2022. After, they somehow stopped using it 😉
#Playfra OSINT channel meanwhile posted some updates on the observed activity of Russian assaults:
After unregistered users were cut off from using the terminal, Russian attack intensity suddenly and sharply dropped, at least in the Ternuvate and Borova directions, and likely dropped in many other areas too, which I’m currently clarifying.
Kostyantynivka - yes. Russian attacks generally slowed down. The biggest difference is noticeable with attacks coming from the Chasiv Yar side, but a slowing down is also noticed in the other parts of the direction.
An #Ukraine military engineer posted his account on front-line comms before and after Starlink - this applies to both sides equally, except Russians no longer have Starlink:
Once, they laid 3 kilometers of field cable for us across the field to ensure communication between the gun and the drone; one such time, the guy pulling the field cable arrived only after the shooting had ended (we’d adjusted by coordinates, no time to wait), and he told us that the field he’d been dragging it through was a bit mined.
In the conditions of modern warfare, laying wired communication and maintaining it in proper condition in frontline zones is extremely difficult, even when there’s no shelling—cables get gnawed by mice, worn through by wind, torn up by wild boars, twists oxidize, and so on.
So the alternative is Wi-Fi networks, but they’re limited too: building a bridge requires radio horizon, where it’s absent, you need to set up intermediate nodes, each node needs power and maintenance.
On top of that, the bandwidth of such a network isn’t all that high, and it drops with each node, plus if the main line breaks, the whole branch goes down, and an entire section of the front might be left without comms.
In the era of Starlinks, these networks were built for redundancy, but they themselves had to be backed up via Starlink or by connecting to local providers’ communication networks. It works, but it’s heavily limited, and laying a dozen streams over such a network to HQ is quite challenging. That’s why Starlink gives such an advantage.
Russian channel, quoted by Playfra:
“After the blocking of Starlink, our soldiers on the frontline urgently need our help to launch attacks and repel enemy attacks. Due to the blocking of Starlink terminals, the command and control of troops has become difficult on almost all fronts. Soldiers are writing to us and asking for help with equipment - radio bridges and radio stations.”
The International Center for Education about Auschwitz and the Holocaust invites you to participate in the online educational session "The Apex of Crime: Dep...
Giornata nera per Stellantis a Piazza Affari. Il titolo affonda fino al -28%. A spaventare il mercato è il profondo cambio di strategia annunciato dal gruppo sull’elettrico, che si tradurrà in oneri complessivi per 22,2 miliardi di euro, una perdita netta nel secondo semestre compresa tra i 19 e i 21 miliardi, la sospensione del dividendo nel 2026 e una nuova emissione di obbligazioni ibride perpetue. Secondo l'AD Filosa, gran parte dei costi deriva da una sovrastima della velocità della transizione energetica, che avrebbe allontanato Stellantis «dalle esigenze, dalle possibilità e dai desideri reali di molti acquirenti di autovetture». Un errore di valutazione che ora impone una revisione profonda dei piani industriali e di prodotto.
La svolta è arrivata nelle settimane scorse, quando il giovane ha trovato il coraggio di confidarsi con un amico e con i genitori di quest’ultimo. Il confronto con persone esterne al contesto familiare lo avrebbe aiutato a comprendere la gravità della situazione.
Determinante, secondo quanto emerso, sarebbe stato anche il confronto con una nota applicazione di #IntelligenzaArtificiale. Interrogata dal ragazzo, l’app avrebbe risposto che “nessuno deve essere picchiato” e che la situazione descritta non poteva essere considerata normale
Vuoi conoscere il darkweb e disporre degli strumenti per accedervi in sicurezza, effettuare ricerche e comprendere i concetti di cyber threat intelligence (CTI)? Questo corso fa per te.
Dentro il Social WARM – Parte 3: Mastodon, il social a flusso continuo
Guide a Mastodon in italiano o in altre lingue, ne hanno scritte porci e cani, ma quella che state leggendo adesso non è una guida, bensì una scuola guida informapirata.it/2026/01/30/de…
In pratica, siccome noi vediamo quelli di Mastodon solo se taggano una comunità Lemmy, potrebbero ricordarsi di scrivere nei loro post il gruppo @caffeitalia@feddit.it così li vediamo anche noi.
Approfitto per farti i miei complimenti, perché ho notato che hai spezzato il mssaggio in due parti e hai scritto un titolo lungo, ma poi hai scritto il resto del testo nel messaggio di risposta che (a differenza del messaggio iniziale) è perfettamente leggibile dagli utenti Mastodon 👍
I ricercatori del Caltech hanno inventato una nuova tecnologia per scrivere lunghe sequenze di DNA con una precisione rivoluzionaria. L'invenzione, un metodo chiamato Sidewinder, utilizza l'equivalente concettuale dei numeri di pagina per il DNA, consentendo ai ricercatori di unire un numero arbitrario di brevi frammenti di DNA, chiamati oligonucleotidi sintetici o "oligonucleotidi", nell'ordine corretto per creare un frammento di DNA molto più grande, fino alle dimensioni di un gene o potenzialmente di un intero genoma (l'intero corredo genetico di un organismo). Gli oligonucleotidi sintetici, economici e ampiamente disponibili, possono ora essere combinati in qualsiasi progetto utilizzando Sidewinder. Questa innovazione elimina un importante ostacolo per la bioingegneria di nuovi composti e materiali e potrebbe avere una vasta gamma di applicazioni, tra cui l'agricoltura e la terapia.
Si prega di interrompere l'utilizzo di OpenClaw, precedentemente noto come Moltbot, precedentemente noto come Clawdbot
Ho seguito la saga di #Clawdbot, #Moltbot e #OpenClaw nelle ultime due settimane, al punto che questo articolo è nato originariamente come un pezzo in cui si evidenziava come Clawdbot fosse un incubo di sicurezza in agguato. Tuttavia, stavo lavorando ad altri progetti, poi sono andato in vacanza e quando mi sono finalmente sistemato per scrivere questo articolo... beh, l'incubo di sicurezza era già avvenuto. OpenClaw, come è ormai noto, ha causato ogni sorta di problema agli utenti.
La Polizia ha diffuso con inaudita irresponsabilità un’immagine generata con la IA per ricreare un momento reale e renderlo più emotivo. Il tentativo di manipolare l'opinione pubblica ha però scatenato una teoria del complotto!
I ricercatori di Cisco Talos hanno scoperto DKnife, un framework di spionaggio avanzato che intercetta e manipola il traffico di rete per compromettere dispositivi e dati.
#Ukraine repelled a massive 328-drone attack (200+ Shaheds) from 18:00 5 Feb to 12:30 6 Feb 2026, downing 297 UAVs. 2 Kinzhal and 5 Kh-59/69 missiles failed to hit targets.
La piattaforma di automazione n8n affronta una serie crescente di problemi di sicurezza. Scopri di più sulla vulnerabilità critica CVE-2026-25049 e come proteggere i tuoi sistemi.
Negli ultimi giorni è stato segnalato un preoccupante aumento di truffe diffuse tramite WhatsApp dal CERT-AGID. I messaggi arrivano #apparentemente da contatti conosciuti e richiedono urgentemente denaro, spesso per emergenze come spese mediche improvvise.
La modalità più comune prevede l’invio del denaro tramite carta di pagamento. Come funziona la truffa Il meccanismo alla base di questo raggiro è semplice ma estremamente efficace.
Queste Olimpiadi sono una grande sfida! Queste Olimpiadi sono un importante banco di prova per l'Italia! Il significato di Milano Cortina va ben oltre lo sport!
Io questa sfida l'ho stravinta fregandomene il cazzo alla grandissima
Thanks to @pfefferle I think [1] we now have support for 2 podcast WP plugins integrated into the Fediverse (out of 3 that supports #podcasting20 [2]):
Proposed changes:
Add support for Podlove Podcast Publisher plugin, similar to the existing Seriously Simple Podcasting integration
Include a transformer that handles podcast episodes with:
Audio...
Le autorità olandesi hanno sequestrato un server VPN di Windscribe senza mandato. L'azienda usa memoria RAM, quindi non ci sono dati persistenti da analizzare.
Windscribe ha denunciato pubblicamente il sequestro di uno dei suoi server VPN da parte delle autorità olandesi. L’azienda ha rivelato l’episodio su X (ex Twitter), precisando che il prelievo è avvenuto senza alcun mandato e che il server verrà restituito solo dopo una “analisi completa”.
Al di là del comunicato social, al momento non ci sono ulteriori dettagli ufficiali sull’accaduto. Windscribe ha però voluto rassicurare gli utenti spiegando che i suoi server usano solo memoria RAM senza disco fisso, il che significa che le autorità troveranno solamente un’installazione standard di Ubuntu senza informazioni persistenti. Ogni volta che un server viene riavviato, infatti, tutti i dati in memoria RAM vengono persi.
Il punto più delicato della vicenda riguarda proprio la modalità del sequestro. Prelevare server senza un mandato solleva questioni importanti sulla tutela della privacy e sui limiti dell’azione delle autorità. Per un servizio VPN che promette anonimato e
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Windscribe ha denunciato pubblicamente il sequestro di uno dei suoi server VPN da parte delle autorità olandesi. L’azienda ha rivelato l’episodio su X (ex Twitter), precisando che il prelievo è avvenuto senza alcun mandato e che il server verrà restituito solo dopo una “analisi completa”.
Al di là del comunicato social, al momento non ci sono ulteriori dettagli ufficiali sull’accaduto. Windscribe ha però voluto rassicurare gli utenti spiegando che i suoi server usano solo memoria RAM senza disco fisso, il che significa che le autorità troveranno solamente un’installazione standard di Ubuntu senza informazioni persistenti. Ogni volta che un server viene riavviato, infatti, tutti i dati in memoria RAM vengono persi.
Il punto più delicato della vicenda riguarda proprio la modalità del sequestro. Prelevare server senza un mandato solleva questioni importanti sulla tutela della privacy e sui limiti dell’azione delle autorità. Per un servizio VPN che promette anonimato e protezione dei dati, episodi di questo tipo rischiano di minare la fiducia degli utenti, anche quando l’architettura tecnica è progettata per non conservare informazioni sensibili.
Kollege hat mal den "Copilot" gefragt zu einem Problem, das wir gemeinsam lösen wollen, in meinem Fachgebiet. Das hat ihn wahrscheinlich maximal zwei Minuten gekostet. Jetzt muss ich den Roman, den Copilot ausgespuckt hat, erstens lesen und zweitens länglich erklären, wieso die vorgeschlagenen Lösungen Quatsch sind. Das sehe ich zwar auf den ersten Blick, aber ich muss das jetzt einer fachfremden Person erklären. So steigert die KI nämlich unsere Produktivität. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Ich arbeite berufsbedingt sehr viel mit Copilot. Ich bin Programmierer. Meiner Erfahrung nach gibt es Bereiche, wo die Systeme helfen - bei anderen aber nicht. Ich nutze z.B. Copilot sehr intensiv, wenn es darum geht, Testscripte zu erstellen. D.h. ich habe eine Liste von "given", "when" und "then"-Definitionen und teile dem System dann mit, sie entsprechend zu programmieren. Dies klappt häufig recht gut und erfordert wenig Nacharbeit, da es eigentlich eine eher simple aber zeitaufwändige Aufgabe ist.
Ich nutze Copilot auch sehr stark, wenn es um Übersetzungen geht. Wir programmieren in Englisch, machen aber die Übersetzungen ins Deutsche durch uns. Da hilft Copilot sehr stark, da man dem System sehr gut sagen kann, dass es bestimmte Begriffe einheitlich übersetzen soll, etc.
Wenn es um allgemeine Programmierungen geht, sehe ich es auch eher schwierig. Man kann sich nicht auf die Ausgaben des Systems verlassen. Man muss immer eine komplette Code-Review machen. Und wenn der vom System gewählte Ansatz schlecht war, hat man am Ende mehr Arbei
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Ich arbeite berufsbedingt sehr viel mit Copilot. Ich bin Programmierer. Meiner Erfahrung nach gibt es Bereiche, wo die Systeme helfen - bei anderen aber nicht. Ich nutze z.B. Copilot sehr intensiv, wenn es darum geht, Testscripte zu erstellen. D.h. ich habe eine Liste von "given", "when" und "then"-Definitionen und teile dem System dann mit, sie entsprechend zu programmieren. Dies klappt häufig recht gut und erfordert wenig Nacharbeit, da es eigentlich eine eher simple aber zeitaufwändige Aufgabe ist.
Ich nutze Copilot auch sehr stark, wenn es um Übersetzungen geht. Wir programmieren in Englisch, machen aber die Übersetzungen ins Deutsche durch uns. Da hilft Copilot sehr stark, da man dem System sehr gut sagen kann, dass es bestimmte Begriffe einheitlich übersetzen soll, etc.
Wenn es um allgemeine Programmierungen geht, sehe ich es auch eher schwierig. Man kann sich nicht auf die Ausgaben des Systems verlassen. Man muss immer eine komplette Code-Review machen. Und wenn der vom System gewählte Ansatz schlecht war, hat man am Ende mehr Arbeit. Deswegen verwende ich das System nur bei simplen Aufgaben.
Ich sehe aber auch wie Du das Problem, das dann entsteht, wenn die Tools von Leuten verwendet werden, die sich nicht in dem Bereich auskennen.
@heluecht Ich bin Übersetzerin und würde Copilot never ever zur Übersetzung einsetzen. Finde faszinierend, dass sich doch immer wieder bewahrheitet, dass LLMs manche Sachen ganz ordentlich können - nur nicht im eigenen Fachgebiet. 😂
Disclaimer: Wir nutzen natürlich neuronale maschinelle Übersetzung und arbeiten daran LLMs sinnvoll ins Post-Editing zu integrieren, aber wir wissen auch einigermaßen, was wir tun.
Leider ist unsere Firma der Ansicht, die Übersetzungen für unsere Programme nicht von Profis machen zu lassen, sondern von Leuten aus der Firma, die die jeweilige Sprache als Muttersprache sprechen.
In der Situation (und im Vergleich zur Übersetzung von Laien) ist Copilot durchaus brauchbar, zumal wir jede einzelne Übersetzung per Hand kontrollieren.
@heluecht NMT per Glossar Terminologie beizubringen, ist zweischneidig. Die können dann nur noch die definierten Begriffe. Beispiel: "Übersetzung" kann "gear ratio" oder "translation" sein. Wenn es "gear ratio" per Glossar lernt, wird die "Übersetzung ins Chinesische" zur "gear ratio into Chinese". Ich finde es sinnvoller ein NMT mit eigenen Texten zu trainieren und die Terminologie anschließend zu prüfen, ggf. auch maschinell.
Es geht eher um Begriffe wie "Customer", "Vendor", "Sales Order" oder "Purchase Order". Genauso wie "Source" immer die "Herkunft" und nicht die Quelle ist. Das sind alles Begriffe, die bereits in anderen Modulen übersetzt wurden.
Wo Copilot erstaunlich gut war, waren Übersetzungen, wo ich dem System gesagt habe, dass es im Sourcecode schauen solle, in welchem Zusammenhang der Text verwendet wurde. Da hat das System erstaunlich gut analysieren können, was am Besten gepasst hat. (Inklusive des Erkennens, ob es sich bei dem Text um die Beschriftung eines Buttons handelt, die eine Aktion auslösen soll, ein Feldname, ein Tooltip oder eine Meldung)
So oder so: Klar, es muss eine nachgelagerte Handkontrolle erfolgen.
@eingemaischt Und es wird noch VIIIIEEELLL(!!!!!) schlimmer, wenn ich das mal so sagen darf. Wenn ihr mal Zeit habt, gerne mal das Video anschauen. Aber Vorsicht: Für gewisse Personenkreise ist das ein Horror Movie.
@eingemaischt Für diejenigen, die keine Zeit haben oder TL;DR
Du installierst den Bot auf deinem PC und connectest den mit einem "Channel" aka WhatsApp oder Telegram etc. Danach kannst Du den Bot über eben jenen Channel steuern. Und der Bot hat Vollzugriff (!!) auf deine Maschine. Und mit Vollzugriff meine ich auch Vollzugriff. Bank-Logins, Cookies, einfach alles. Und er kann nach belieben Software installieren oder auch Dateien versenden. Setz den mal in eine Telegram Gruppe. 😉
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6 February 1927 | Józef Kocik was born in Krakow. This Polish boy was deported to #Auschwitz on 3 June 1942 from a prison in Krakow & registered as number 37282. For an escape attempt on 12 February 1943 he was taken to Block 11 & shot the next day. ---
▶ Watch a short video about Block 11 and its yard where shooting executions were held: t.co/VBgDxkWLMa
Block 11, known as the Death Block, was primarily the detention center or a prison inside the Auschwitz camp. In the cells located in the basement of block 1...
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