🚨 THE FINAL FOUR 🚨
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Sette anni di GDPR e privacy ancora all’abc: la lezione dalla sanzione a Verisure e Aimag
@Informatica (Italy e non Italy 😁)
Il Garante Privacy sanziona Verisure Italia e Aimag, ma le condotte multate sembrano appartenere alla preistoria del Regolamento. Ecco cosa ci insegnano questi due casi
L'articolo Sette anni di GDPR e privacy ancora all’abc: la
The RansomHouse ransomware group is now using two keys to encrypt files
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From Linear to Complex: An Upgrade in RansomHouse Encryption
Operators behind RansomHouse, a ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) group, have upgraded their encryption methods from single-phase to complex and layered.Anmol Maurya (Unit 42)
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18 December 1913 | A Czech Jew, Richard Friedl, was born. A weaver.
In #Auschwitz from 1 April 1942.
No. 28680
He perished in the camp on 4 July 1942.
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Jewish prisoners at KL Auschwitz: lekcja.auschwitz.org/29_zydzi_…
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Zelensky: Discussed with Belgian PM Bart De Wever the legal concerns around frozen Russian assets, but stressed the reparations loan must be approved, it’s a fair step that gives Ukraine long-term predictability.
They also talked EU membership, energy support, reconstruction, and US-EU coordination for peace.
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"Kazakhstan, greatest country in the world" Borat’s Anthem of Kazakhstan
I thought i was going to remove this after April’s Fool, but hey, lets just keep itANDRA'S ALASKAN MOOSE ROAST - PRIME RIB STYLE A simplistic method using mi...YouTube
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I was lucky enough to get the #Plushtodon from @Mastodon for my birthday today.
Special thanks to @ErikUden who got me into this whole mess of a website :)
RE: mastodon.social/@firefoxwebdev…
Firefox specifica che l'intelligenza artificiale si potrá completamente disabilitare sul loro futuro browser con IA
Firefox for Web Developers (@firefoxwebdevs@mastodon.social)
Something that hasn't been made clear: Firefox will have an option to completely disable all AI features. We've been calling it the AI kill switch internally.Firefox for Web Developers (Mastodon)
L'ho già fatto quattro anni fa!
Con un po' di fortuna saltano fuori anche un po' di giochini del gatto che aveva la nonna quando era ragazza.
russia’s Assets Must Be Used to Defend Against russian Aggression and to Build What Was Destroyed by russian Attacks – Address by the President #Zelenskyy
Full address president.gov.ua/en/news/aktiv…
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Europe is – and will always be – the most important and most powerful democratic space in the world, and one of the strongest forces in the world standing for peace. No reward for the aggressor – that is the key principle of peace. And that is exactly what needs to be proven now.
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President #Zelenskyy
💬 "No rewards for the aggressor – this is the fundamental principle of peace. And this is precisely what needs to be confirmed now. The European Commission's proposal for a reparations loan is a reasonable and fair approach.
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If we know, and if putin knows, that we can remain steadfast for at least a few more years, his motivation to prolong this war will become much weaker.
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And this is exactly how pressure on the aggressor should work – pressure that brings peace. The aggressor must pay for what it has done. Thank you for your support."
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🇷🇺 🇪🇺 Russian personnel with links to the country’s military and security services have engaged in spying in European waters while working covertly on ships carrying Russian oil, Western and Ukrainian intelligence sources exclusively told CNN.
💬 EU leaders agreed at a summit in Brussels on Thursday to work on the option of financing #Ukraine in 2026 and 2027 through the use of frozen Russian assets rather than joint EU borrowing, Poland's Prime Minister Donald Tusk said.
Brutally true from #Ukraine soldier Vitalii «Donetsk» Ovcharenko:
This is the passport of Ukrainian citizen Ivan Shulz from Kreminna. He was drafted into the Russian army and sent to storm the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.As life shows, if you do not go to serve in the Armed Forces of Ukraine, you will eventually be drafted into the Russian army and sent to storm the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
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#Poland ABW (Internal Security Agency) now runs an official bot on #Telegram where people can report recruitment attempts to conduct sabotage in Poland. Number of such incidents has increased significantly in Poland over the last year and vast majority of those detained are young citizens of #Ukraine and #Belarus who were recruited as “disposable agents” for quick money schemes and then blackmailed into much serious crimes. FSB can do the last part really professionally, it’s their job.
If you know people living in Poland who are disadvantaged situation and could fall for such make money quick schemes, share this bot with them t.me/ABW_STOPdywersji_bot
If they might feel more comfortable talking to Ukraine’s own SBU, they also run such bot t.me/spaly_fsb_bot
🇪🇪 🇷🇺 Estonia's Ministry of Foreign Affairs handed over a protest note to the Russian embassy on Thursday after three Russian border guards crossed into Estonian territory without permission.
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Estonia hands protest note to Russia after unauthorised border crossing
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs handed over a protest note to the Russian embassy on Thursday after three Russian border guards crossed into Estonian territory without permission.ERR News (Eesti Rahvusringhääling | ERR)
Satellite pictures of the port of Novorossiysk, Russia, with better resolution have been obtained by war reporter "Sternenko". He describes the damage as significant. His statement:
"The Russian submarine in the port of Novorossiysk, hit by a drone from the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU), started leaking. Literally. Fuel and lubricants are leaking from the "Varshavyanka"-class submarine into the sea. In addition, the rear part of the boat is partially flooded."
"Because, as I reported earlier, the armored hull was pierced and 2 compartments were flooded. The picture shows a schematic of the location of objects and calculations of the critical pressure limits, which resulted from the explosion of the SubSeaBaby combat unit."
"Earlier, the Russians claimed that the submarine was completely intact and had not suffered any damage."
Ukrainian forces struck multiple Russian targets overnight, hitting a 55Zh6 "Nebo-U" radar in occupied Crimea, a fuel depot near Prymorsk (Zaporizhzhia), a drone storage site in Makiivka, and a troop concentration of Russia’s 114th Motorized Brigade in Donetsk.
Confirmed: two S-400 launchers destroyed on Dec 14 in Belgorod region.
🇺🇦 🇷🇺 Ukrainian forces counterattacked near Lyman in Donetsk Oblast, destroying what they described as an entire Russian regiment — a unit that can number roughly 2,000 troops on paper — and improving their positions, #Ukraine’s Third Army Corps reported Dec. 18.
kyivindependent.com/ukrainian-…
Ukrainian forces counterattack near Lyman, claim Russian regiment destroyed
Ukrainian forces counterattacked near Lyman in Donetsk Oblast, the Third Army Corps said, claiming an entire Russian regiment was destroyed and prisoners were taken.Tania Myronyshena (The Kyiv Independent)
🇺🇦 🇷🇺 #Ukraine's Security Service struck a Russian military airfield in occupied #Crimea, reportedly destroying air defense equipment worth hundreds of millions of dollars, the agency said on Dec. 18.
kyivindependent.com/sbu-drones…
SBU says drones hit Russian equipment worth hundreds of millions at Belbek airfield in occupied Crimea
Ukraine's Security Service (SBU) has struck a Russian military airfield in occupied Crimea, reportedly destroying air defense equipment worth hundreds of millions of dollars, the agency said in a Telegram post on Dec. 18.Tania Myronyshena (The Kyiv Independent)
Russian border troops violated Estonian territory. The group arrived on a vessel and set foot on an area near Vasknarva in Estonia's Northeast.
Estonia has scheduled a meeting with Russian border representatives for December 18 to demand an explanation and has summoned Russia's chargé d'affaires in Tallinn for further clarification.
18 December 1929 | A Hungarian Jewish boy, Bernard Warszaur, (Warszauer) was born in Olaszliszka. He emigrated to France.
On 24 August 1942 he was deported to #Auschwitz with his sister Berthe. They were murdered in a gas chamber after the selection.
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Video about the first two gas chambers created near Auschwitz II-Birkenau: youtu.be/Rr6lF75fDmU
Video history | Temporary gas chambers at Auschwitz II-Birkenau
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...YouTube
The EU has sanctioned 41 more vessels from Russia’s shadow fleet, targeting tankers helping Moscow bypass the oil price cap or transporting stolen Ukrainian goods.
These ships now face port bans and service restrictions, bringing the total to nearly 600 vessels. The move aims to tighten pressure on Russia’s energy revenues and logistics network.
Russia's government is plugging a widening gap in the military budget with increasingly costly borrowing, which will lead to a growing bill for years to come.
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An oil tanker caught fire after an overnight drone attack on Russia’s southern city of Rostov, as Ukraine expands the scope of strikes on energy assets.
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Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen said on Thursday that she would be willing to vote through a plan for the loan without Belgium “if necessary” as a single member of the 27-nation EU “shouldn’t be able to block what is the right thing to do.”
bloomberg.com/news/articles/20…
#Ukraine #Russia #EU #Belgium #Denmark
A British man who fought for Ukraine against the Russian army has been sentenced to 13 years in a maximum security prison camp after being convicted of being a paid mercenary, Russian prosecutors said on Thursday.
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Ukrainian forces conducted an operation against the Belbek air base in Russian-occupied Crimea using long-range drones and caused absolute havoc. The following targets were hit:
- Two long-range radar detection systems "Nebo-SVU"
- One radar station 92N6, which is part of the S-400 "Triumph" air defense system
- One "Pantsir" air defense system
- One fully armed MiG-31 aircraft
🇪🇺 🇷🇺 The European Union on Thursday imposed sanctions on 41 more ships in #Russia's shadow fleet, taking the total of designated vessels to almost 600.
The ships are now banned from entering EU ports and can no longer receive a broad range of services related to maritime transport, the EU Council said.
💬 Testimony of a Ukrainian woman enslaved by Russian soldiers
"You have to cook, clean, and do the laundry in the houses they have seized. You have to fulfill their sexual whims as well."
theins.press/en/confession/287…
#ukraine #russia #russianwarCrimes
“They forced me to cook, clean, and fulfill their sexual whims”: Testimony of a Ukrainian woman enslaved by...
At the end of October 2025, the international tribunal in The Hague heard testimony from Olena Yahupova, a resident of the town of Kamianka-Dniprovska in Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia Region.Daria Nilova (The Insider)
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⚡️ WAR IN UKRAINE & RUSSIA — DEC 18, 2025
■ Combat activity dropped sharply; casualties and equipment losses now below the 7-day average
■ Visually confirmed batch: 18 🇷🇺 : 63 🇺🇦 — 2025 ratio at 1.1×, 90-day ratio at 0.9×
■ Overnight attacks: double-digit, all drones; decent interception rate, but twenty locations hit (including by debris)
■ 🇷🇺 MLRS strikes well above average; six 🇺🇦 strikes reported
📈 See dashboard for full data:
lookerstudio.google.com/s/j8MO…
Dashboard on Russia's war against Ukraine
Looker Studio turns your data into informative dashboards and reports that are easy to read, easy to share, and fully customizable.Looker Studio
🇷🇺 A Russia-controlled court in Ukraine's Donetsk region has sentenced a British citizen to 13 years for fighting as a mercenary for Ukraine, #Russia's general prosecutor said on Thursday.
🇪🇺 A new analytical report by the KSE Institute, prepared jointly with the Centre for Liberal Modernity and a group of international legal experts, concludes that the European Union’s reparations loan for #Ukraine does not create new material legal risks for EU member states or financial institutions.
🇺🇦🇺🇸 Ukrainian peace negotiators are en route to the United States and plan to meet the U.S. negotiating team on Friday and Saturday, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Thursday.
🇺🇦 Around 180,000 consumers were left without electricity supplies across five Ukrainian regions after a Russian attack overnight, #Ukraine's acting energy minister Artem Nekrasov said on Thursday.
Nekrasov said on the Telegram messenger that the southern regions of Mykolaiv and Zaporizhzhia, the central regions of Cherkasy and Dnipropetrovsk, and the north-eastern region of Sumy were attacked during the night.
18 December 1914 | A Polish woman, Józefa Kaleta, was born. A clerk.
In #Auschwitz from 27 April 1942.
No. 6792
She escaped during the evacuation march.
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A podcast about registration photos: youtu.be/c2l9hDA5MZc
"On Auschwitz" (19): Registration photographs of Auschwitz prisoners
In the thousands of preserved registration photographs of Auschwitz prisoners, we can see faces of the men and women imprisoned in the camp.Dr Wojciech Płosa...YouTube
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Zelensky: Ukraine won't accept a full withdrawal from Donbas, despite Russia's demands. Talks with the US will continue this weekend, possibly with EU reps.
Kyiv insists security guarantees must be passed by US Congress and mirror NATO’s Article 5. Commenting on the so-called “latest version” of Russia’s peace plan, Zelensky said no agreed-upon version exists. The US is discussing proposals with both Ukraine and Russia, but there is no final, approved document at this stage.
🇫🇮 Finnish authorities have seized a seaside villa owned by sanctioned Russian billionaire Boris Rotenberg in the town of Hanko over unpaid property taxes amounting to several thousand euros, public broadcaster Yle reported Wednesday.
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Finland Seizes Sanctioned Billionaire Boris Rotenberg's Villa – Yle
Finnish authorities have seized a seaside villa owned by sanctioned Russian billionaire Boris Rotenberg in the town of Hanko over unpaid property taxes amounting to several thousand euros, public broadcaster Yle reported Wednesday, citing enforcement…The Moscow Times
@Declassified_UK's journalist Philip Miller exposed #SpyFlights from UK to #Gaza
we exposed that from Oct.7,2023 to Oct7,2024 at least 34 #SpyFlights #ShadowR1 shuttled between #Akrotiri and #Italy
our investigation on #SpyFlights #ShadowR1 shuttling from #Akrotiri and #Italy is available here in English, free from paywall:
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Intelligence, drones: Italian weapons against the people of Gaza
Leggi su Il Fatto Quotidiano l'articolo in edicola "Intelligence, drones: Italian weapons against the people of Gaza" pubblicato il 24 Gennaio 2025 a firma di Stefania MauriziStefania Maurizi (Il Fatto Quotidiano)
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Uno studio di Science analizza come un LLM può essere usato per la persuasione e quanto siano efficaci.
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Film-maker Mstyslav Chernov: ‘I kept seeing #Ukraine as a victim of this invasion – I wanted to tell another story’
Interview - Adrian Horton
The documentary-maker on new film 2000 Meters to Andriivka (the Guardian’s No 2 film of 2025), being on the Oscar circuit with 20 Days in Mariupol and filming on the frontline
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De Wever: #Ukraine funding fail would be #EU disgrace, but still no on using russian assets
by Hanne Cokelaere
The European Commission's idea amounts to serving and eating a goose that lays golden eggs, Belgian PM tells MPs before critical summit.
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De Wever: Ukraine funding fail would be EU disgrace, but still no on using Russian assets
The European Commission’s idea amounts to serving and eating a goose that lays golden eggs, Belgian PM tells MPs before critical summit.Hanne Cokelaere (POLITICO)
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Best movies of 2025 in the US: No 2 – 2000 Meters to Andriivka
Ukrainian soldiers claw their way toward an abandoned one-street town, battling russian artillery fire, snipers and aerial attacks, in this feat of documentary film-making and frontline reporting
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Best movies of 2025 in the US: No 2 – 2000 Meters to Andriivka
Ukrainian soldiers claw their way toward an abandoned one-street town, battling Russian artillery fire, snipers and aerial attacks, in this feat of documentary film-making and frontline reportingAdrian Horton (The Guardian)
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Andrea Bontempi
in reply to prealpinux • • •versodiverso
in reply to Andrea Bontempi • • •Io continuerò ad usare progetti alternativi basati su Firefox ma incentrati sulla privacy, così tale opzione non ci sarà mai.
Jena
in reply to prealpinux • • •informapirata ⁂
in reply to Jena • • •@sandropisano mi sa tanto di sì 😅
@prealpinux
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in reply to prealpinux • • •traduzione del messaggio:
"Siamo stati fraintesi: lo davamo per scontato, ma all'ultimo mom... ehm cioè, c'è sempre stata un'opzione per disattivare completamente le funzionalità IA.
Abbiamo dovuto inventare un nome all'ultimo minuto e ci siamo fatti aiutare da chatgpt: lei ha suggerito "AI kill switch" perché serviva un nome che facesse capire che anche noi come voi, cari utenti, siamo proprio molto contrari alla IA"