Посольство России в непризнанной Абхазии сообщило о приостановлении выдачи внутренних российских паспортов на территории республики. Пункты выдачи российских паспортов на терр... mostra di più
Посольство России в непризнанной Абхазии сообщило о приостановлении выдачи внутренних российских паспортов на территории республики. Пункты выдачи российских паспортов на территории самопровозглашенной республики были развернуты в январе 2025 года. В российской дипмиссии заявили, это было сделано "с целью создания максимально комфортных условий для граждан" Абхазии. Однако, как отмечается, абхазские политические деятели, включая депутатов Народного Собрания, поставили под сомнение...
В Италии открываются зимние Олимпийские игры. В них примут участие около трех тысяч спортсменов примерно из ста стран. Сборной России на соревнованиях не будет – в самых медаленосных... mostra di più
В Италии открываются зимние Олимпийские игры. В них примут участие около трех тысяч спортсменов примерно из ста стран. Сборной России на соревнованиях не будет – в самых медаленосных видах спорта – лыжах и биатлоне – спортивные федерации по-прежнему против допуска россиян на Игры из-за вторжения в Украину. На трибуны в Милане будет запрещено проносить флаги России и Беларуси. Но до игр допустили 20 так называемых "нейтральных атлетов": из них 13 россиян и 7 белорусов. Россияне представлены...
Курс биткоина в ночь на 6 февраля в моменте опускался до 60 тысяч долларов, потеряв в цене до 18% за сутки. По итогам торгового дня 5 февраля снижение составило 14% — это самое глубокое дневное падение в процентном выражении за последние три года. Предыдущее сопоставимое падение фиксировалось 9 ноября 2022 года.
Индекс страха и жадности на крипторынке, отражающий настроения инвесторов, опустился до минимальных за последние три года девяти пунктов и оказался в зоне «экстремального страха». Это свидетельствует о том, что участники рынка склонны к паническим распродажам.
Я запобіг спалаху ядерних війн по всьому світу між Пакистаном та Індією, Іраном та Ізраїлем, а також Росією та Україною. truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTru… Читати Трампа - одне задоволення. Чиста псих
Я запобіг спалаху ядерних війн по всьому світу між Пакистаном та Індією, Іраном та Ізраїлем, а також Росією та Україною. truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTru… Читати Трампа - одне задоволення. Чиста психіатрична клініка. Ми не самий дурний у світі нарід ...
Два дня переговоров в Абу-Даби окончились формальными заявлениями представителей американской и украинской делегаций, а также молчанием Кремля. Подробнее – Аркадий Мошес, директо... mostra di più
Два дня переговоров в Абу-Даби окончились формальными заявлениями представителей американской и украинской делегаций, а также молчанием Кремля. Подробнее – Аркадий Мошес, директор программы по России, восточному соседству ЕС и Евразии Финского института международных отношений.
В Санкт-Петербурге доктора медицинских наук, главного научного сотрудника Северо-западного научного центра гигиены и общественного здоровья Роспотребнадзора Алексея Дударева о... mostra di più
В Санкт-Петербурге доктора медицинских наук, главного научного сотрудника Северо-западного научного центра гигиены и общественного здоровья Роспотребнадзора Алексея Дударева обвинили в госизмене (статья 275 УК), сообщает правозащитный проект "Первый отдел". Ученого задержали 14 января 2026 года по дороге на работу, в его квартире прошел обыск. Суд отправил его под стражу. В основу дела легли публикации Дударева в открытых международных научных журналах программы Arctic Monitoring and...
Мосгорсуд признал "экстремистским" материалом книгу бизнесмена, бывшего главы нефтяной компании "ЮКОС" Михаила Ходорковского "Как убить дракона". С иском в суд обратилась московская... mostra di più
Мосгорсуд признал "экстремистским" материалом книгу бизнесмена, бывшего главы нефтяной компании "ЮКОС" Михаила Ходорковского "Как убить дракона". С иском в суд обратилась московская прокуратура. Об этом сообщает агентство ТАСС. Книга "Как убить дракона? Пособие для начинающих революционеров" вышла в 2022 году. Сам Ходорковский объяснял, что в ней он предлагает план действий после того, как в России станет возможной смена режима. "Если вы думаете, что я говорю про Путина, вы ошибаетесь. Я...
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Спортсменовзаподозрилив увеличении пенисов ради победы на Олимпиаде
Всемирное антидопинговое агентство намерено начать расследование в случае, если найдутся доказательства, что участники соревнований по прыжкам с трамплина увеличивали себе пенисы ради лучших результатов. Об этом сообщило BBC.
О том, что мужчины-прыгуны с трамплина делают себе инъекции гиалуроновой кислоты в пенис для его увеличения и таким образом улучшают свои выступления на соревнованиях, рассказала в январе немецкая газета Bild.
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Рост российской экономики в ближайшем будущем представляется маловероятным. В этом году появились признаки того, что экономика страны «села на мель» и начала рушиться, пишет The Guardian.
Газета отмечает, что экономический коллапс в России может не случиться, но сейчас Кремль находится в «самом шатком» экономическом положении с момента начала полномасштабного вторжения в Украину.
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Комик Нурлан Сабуров, которому запретили въезд в Россию на 50 лет, ранее отказывался получать российский паспорт, ссылаясь на «коммерческие риски» и «опасаясь санкций», заявил источник РИА «Новости». В то же время РБК утверждает, что Сабуров неоднократно пытался получить российское гражданство.
По данным телеграм-канала Mash, после того, как Сабурову во «Внуково» выдали документ с запретом на въезд, он отказался от депортации в Дубай, откуда прилетел в Москву, якобы из-за требования лететь в наручниках. Вместо этого комик купил билет на рейс до Казахстана.
Телеграм-каналы также выложили фото и видео Сабурова в аэропорту. Shot утверждает, что в России у стендапера осталось имущество на более чем 150 миллионов рублей.
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@Giornalismo e disordine informativo articolo21.org/2026/02/se-il-p… Ma quanto fa paura il pensiero critico? Quanto fa paura il dissenso? Quanto fa paura la difesa della Costituzione? Non si spiega altrimenti, l’attacco sferrato in questi giorni ad Articolo 21. Un attacco “sguaiato e disinformato”, lo ha giustamente definito il presidente della
La Commissione europea ha accertato in via preliminare che TikTok ha violato il Digital Services Act per il suo design che crea dipendenza. Tutti i dettagli.
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In this news round-up of the week for Friday February 6th 2026, President Trump is getting very focused on the mid-term elections. We discuss what that’s lik...
Gen. Vladimir Alexeev, the senior most GRU commander in charge of the war on Ukraine, reported to be in critical condition in Moscow today. You can always bu...
7 February 1892 | A Czech Jewish woman Pavla Brucková was born in Kolín.
She was deported to #Auschwitz from #Theresienstadt ghetto on 9 October 1944. She did not survive. ---
The history of deportations of Jews from the Theresienstadt ghetto to Auschwitz & the so-called family camp created in Birkenau by the SS: artsandculture.google.com/exhi…
⚡️ More than 150 Russian drones are currently in Ukraine’s airspace, with the main concentrations reported over the northern, eastern, and central regions.
⚡️ This could be a long night for Ukraine. More than 100 Shahed-type drones are already in the air, with additional waves reportedly launched. Missile strikes from multiple directions are also possible.
Michael Kosta covers Trump's loose-lipped revelation of a secret military weapon he calls "the Discombobulator" and how fallout from the latest dump of Epste...
General situation: Large concentrations of UAVs continue moving past Poltava and Kremenchuk toward the Kamianske district of Dnipropetrovsk Oblast.
New groups of UAVs from Kherson Oblast are heading toward the Kryvyi Rih area and Mykolaiv Oblast. UAVs from Mykolaiv Oblast are moving in the direction of Vinnytsia Oblast.
Власти США располагают данными о том, что Китай проводил ядерные испытания в нарушение соответствующего моратория и скрывал данные о них. Об этом заявил в пятницу заместитель госсек... mostra di più
Власти США располагают данными о том, что Китай проводил ядерные испытания в нарушение соответствующего моратория и скрывал данные о них. Об этом заявил в пятницу заместитель госсекретаря США по контролю над вооружениями и международной безопасности Томас Динанно.
Правительство Франции 5 февраля объявило об окончательном разрыве соглашения с американской корпорацией Microsoft в вопросе хранения национальной базы медицинских данных. После шести ле... mostra di più
Правительство Франции 5 февраля объявило об окончательном разрыве соглашения с американской корпорацией Microsoft в вопросе хранения национальной базы медицинских данных. После шести лет полемики и судебных баталий Париж запускает конкурс на выбор европейского оператора для хранения медицинской информации 68 миллионов жителей страны. Правительство определит победителя к концу марта, чтобы система начала работать уже к концу 2026 года
Делегации США и Украины обсудили возможность прекращения конфликта Москвы и Киева уже в марте 2026 года, сообщает Reuters со ссылкой на источники.... mostra di più
Делегации США и Украины обсудили возможность прекращения конфликта Москвы и Киева уже в марте 2026 года, сообщает Reuters со ссылкой на источники.
Прокуратура заявила о необходимости национализировать билетную систему Leonardo после масштабного сбоя ru.themoscowtimes.com/2026/02/… {2026-02-07 - 00:20:00}... mostra di più
Прокуратура заявила о необходимости национализировать билетную систему Leonardo после масштабного сбоя ru.themoscowtimes.com/2026/02/… {2026-02-07 - 00:20:00}
Генеральная прокуратура РФ на основании закона о контроле за расходами подала иск в Никулинский районный суд Москвы с требованием обратить в доход государства имущество владельцев компании «Сирена-Трэвел», включая её генерального директора Михаила Ба…
🇺🇲🇺🇦 U.S. and Ukrainian negotiators have discussed an ambitious March goal for #Russia and #Ukraine to agree on a peace deal, though that timeline is likely to slip given a lack of agreement on the key issue of territory, Reuters reports.
In the spring of 1942, Nazi Germany began deportations of mass transports of Jews to Auschwitz doomed to immediate extermination. By a decision of the camp a...
Some interesting background information about #Russia #GRU general Alexeev who was today shot in Moscow - audio RU, subtitles EN & PL. He seems to have had enough enemies inside and outside of Russia that there’s now a whole competition on who could have shot him…
Переехавшие из Бразилии на зов Путина староверы заявили, что их сельхозбизнес на Дальнем Востоке оказался на грани банкротства ru.themoscowtimes.com/2026/02/… {2026-02-06 - 23:06:00}... mostra di più
Переехавшие из Бразилии на зов Путина староверы заявили, что их сельхозбизнес на Дальнем Востоке оказался на грани банкротства ru.themoscowtimes.com/2026/02/… {2026-02-06 - 23:06:00}
The Short-Range Air Defense Component – Focused on Countering Attack Drones – Must Operate Far More Effectively and Prevent the Problems We Are Currently Facing – Address by President #Zelenskyy 06.02.2026
Extract All decisions must be implemented as swiftly as possible. The same approach applies to energy. We cannot afford weeks or months for repairs and equipment supply. And many, many processes are being actively accelerated.
🇨🇦🇺🇦 #Canada is supplying AIM missiles to strengthen #Ukraine's air defences, Ukrainian Defence Minister Mykhailo Fedorov wrote on X on Friday, adding that delivery is already under way.
🇷🇺 🇫🇷 #France has uncovered a pro-Russia #disinformation campaign falsely connecting President Emmanuel Macron to late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, a French government source said on Friday.
@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
#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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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.
TECH OVERSIGHT REPORT: UNSEALED COURT DOCUMENTS SHOW TEEN ADDICTION WAS BIG TECH’S “TOP PRIORITY” – Tech Oversight Project blog.quintarelli.it/2026/02/te…
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.
Una canzone scartata dal Festival diventa hit internazionale, una canzone vincitrice finisce in tribunale per plagio. Un urlatore e il suo rapporto controverso con Sanremo
Rascel cantava "soavemente", Dallara urlava: due modi di interpretare Romantica, uno tradizionale e uno rivoluzionario. Nel 1960 vinse l'urlo, e con lui una generazione nuova
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 oldest known cello in the world is "Il Re", made by the Italian luthier Andrea Amati around the mid-16th century AD, in Cremona, Italy. @BiancoDavinci #globalmuseum #cello #musicalinstruments #music
When a piece of type gets damaged, it's like a fingerprint that can be used to tie all the work of a printer together, whether or not their name appears on the title page. The Catalog of Distinctive Type is building a database of these fingerprints for Restoration England. cdt.library.cmu.edu/
La Cassazione accoglie il nuovo quesito per il referendum, sì alla proposta delle 500mila firme Sì al nuovo quesito per il referendum, proposto dai 15 giuristi del comitato che ha raccolto 500mila firme. La data del voto potrebbe slittare rainews.it/articoli/2026/02/re… 💪
Piotr Anderszewski, Klavier.
Johannes Brahms: Klavierstücke op. 116-119 (Auszüge); Béla Bartók: 14 Bagatelles, op. 6 (aufgenommen am 3. September 2025 in Berwaldhallen, Stockholm)
Il 2025 è stato un anno difficile ma nel 2026 si vola, saliamo a doppia cifra percentuale e gli utenti attivi da oggi superano i 5700, tutto mastodon sta riprendendo quota!
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.
Il 2025 è stato un anno difficile ma nel 2026 si vola, saliamo a doppia cifra percentuale e gli utenti attivi da oggi superano i 5700, tutto mastodon sta riprendendo quota!
🎉 Abbiamo superato i 6000 follower nei gruppi #lemmy su #Diggita! Grazie a tutti!
il nostro è uno sforzo collettivo per dare voce a tutti e per scoprire nuovi profili seguendo i gruppi tematici qui elencati e suddivisi per affinità di argomenti:
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.
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kravietz 🦇
in reply to kravietz 🦇 • • •Here’s another one - IBRIS-PL from 30-31 January 2026
Is Donald Trump’s America a reliable ally?
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#Poland #USA #Trump