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"Generative AI is learning to spy for the US military"
by J.C. DE MARTIN April 14, 2025

April 14, 2025

*Generative AI is learning to spy for the US military* In a test run, a unit of Marines in the Pacific used generative AI not just to collect intelligence but to interpret it. Routine intel work is only the start. James O'Donnell April 11, 2025 https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/04/11/1114914/generative-ai-is-learni…

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DNI Tulsi Gabbard: Evidence Confirms Voting Machines Susceptible to Vote Manipulation
by 380° April 11, 2025

April 11, 2025

Buongiorno, la scoperta dell'acqua calda... https://yournews.com/2025/04/10/3367376/dni-tulsi-gabbard-evidence-confirms… --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard told President Trump that U.S. investigators have found voting machines vulnerable to hacking and result tampering. Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard stated Thursday that the U.S. government has uncovered concrete evidence proving that electronic voting machines are vulnerable to vote manipulation. Gabbard made the comments during a cabinet meeting with President Donald Trump, who has made election integrity a central focus of his administration. “I’ve got a long list of things that we’re investigating, we have the best of the best going after this, election integrity being one of them,” Gabbard said. She told President Trump that investigators have discovered how hackers can exploit voting systems and alter vote outcomes. “We have evidence of how these electronic voting systems have been vulnerable to hackers for a very long time, and vulnerable to exploitation to manipulate the results of the votes being cast — which further drives forward your mandate to bring about paper ballots across the country so that voters can have faith in the integrity of our elections,” she said during the meeting. Gabbard’s remarks followed President Trump’s call for a nationwide return to paper ballots and implementation of voter ID laws. “We’re going to get rid of these machines and go back to the basics,” Trump stated earlier this year, reiterating his view that electronic systems have compromised trust in U.S. elections. [...] Footage from the meeting was posted on X, capturing the moment Gabbard informed President Trump about the vulnerabilities in electronic voting systems. Additional clips shared on social media show her emphasizing the urgency of restoring voter confidence through the use of paper ballots. Gabbard’s findings come as part of a broader intelligence investigation under the Trump administration aimed at strengthening election security and addressing past obstructions to public information. Her office has reportedly been coordinating with multiple agencies to expedite the verification and release of sensitive documents. --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- -- 380° (lost in /traslation/) «Welcome to the chaos of the times If you go left and I go right Pray we make it out alive This is Karmageddon»

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Big Tech and the US Digital-Military-Industrial Complex
by Dario Guarascio April 10, 2025

April 10, 2025

https://www.intereconomics.eu/contents/year/2025/number/2/article/big-tech-… -- *Dario Guarascio* Dipartimento di Economia e Diritto, Sapienza Università di Roma <http://www.uniroma1.it/strutture/dipartimenti> Via del Castro Laurenziano n° 9, 00161 Roma Edificio A (6° piano) -ala B, stanza n° 606 E-mail: dario.guarascio(a)uniroma1.it <nome.cognome(a)uniroma1.it> *Sito web* italiano - https://sites.google.com/a/uniroma1.it/darioguarascio/ inglese - https://sites.google.com/a/uniroma1.it/darioguarascio-eng/

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Hypertextes (CIS-CNRS online book club): three sessions in English, one tomorrow April 10
by Francesca Musiani April 9, 2025

April 9, 2025

Dear all, Please allow me to share the announcement of the final three sessions of Hypertextes, the online book club of the Centre for Internet and Society of CNRS. All three of them will be in English, and one is tomorrow afternoon! Hoping to see you there! Francesca --- *Inscription* : https://evento.renater.fr/survey/hypertextes-7oi2n9xz *Jeudi 10 avril 2025, 16h à 17h* *Ya-Wen Lei* (Harvard University), pour son ouvrage *The Gilded Cage: Technology, Development, and State Capitalism in China* (Princeton University Press, 2023). Sa présentation sera discutée par *Séverine Arsène*, politologue et sinologue, chercheuse associée au médialab (Sciences Po). Since the mid-2000s, the Chinese state has increasingly shifted away from labor-intensive, export-oriented manufacturing to a process of socioeconomic development centered on science and technology. Ya-Wen Lei traces the contours of this techno-developmental regime and its resulting form of techno-state capitalism, telling the stories of those whose lives have been transformed — for better and worse — by China’s rapid rise to economic and technological dominance. Drawing on groundbreaking fieldwork and a wealth of in-depth interviews with managers, business owners, workers, software engineers, and local government officials, Lei describes the vastly unequal values assigned to economic sectors deemed “high-end” versus “low-end,” and the massive expansion of technical and legal instruments used to measure and control workers and capital. She shows how China’s rise has been uniquely shaped by its time-compressed development, the complex relationship between the nation’s authoritarian state and its increasingly powerful but unruly tech companies, and an ideology that fuses nationalism with high modernism, technological fetishism, and meritocracy. Some have compared China’s extraordinary transformation to America’s Gilded Age. This provocative book reveals how it is more like a gilded cage, one in which the Chinese state and tech capital are producing rising inequality and new forms of social exclusion. *+ d'infos sur cette séance* : https://cis.cnrs.fr/hypertextes-ya-wen-lei/ *Lundi 28 avril 2025, 16h à 17h* *Quinn Slobodian* (Boston University), , pour son livre *Hayek’s Bastards: Race, Gold, IQ, and the Capitalism of the Far Right* (Princeton University Press, 2025). Sa présentation sera discutée par *Théo Bourgeron* (University of Edinburgh) et *Apolline Taillandier* (University of Cambridge and University of Bonn). *+ d'infos sur cette séance* : https://cis.cnrs.fr/hypertextes-quinn-slobodian/ *Lundi 12 mai 2025, 18h30 à 19h30* *Thomas S. Mullaney* (Stanford University), , pour son ouvrage The Chinese Computer. A Global History of the Information Age (MIT Press, 2024). Sa présentation sera discutée par *Camille Paloque-Bergès* (HT2S, Conservatoire national des arts et métiers). *+ d'infos sur cette séance* : https://cis.cnrs.fr/hypertextes-thomas-s-mullaney/ -- Francesca Musiani, Ph.D. Directrice de recherche | Research Professor, CNRS <http://www.cnrs.fr> Directrice | Director, Centre Internet et Société <https://cis.cnrs.fr/> (UPR 2000 CNRS) Directrice adjointe | Deputy Director, GDR Internet, IA et Société <https://cis.cnrs.fr/presentation-gdr/> (GDR 2091 CNRS) I'm also associated with: i3-CSI <http://www.csi.ensmp.fr/>, MINES ParisTech | Internet Governance Lab <https://internetgovernancelab.org>, American University I co-lead projects: DIGISOV <https://digisov.org> | TIGre <https://netgouv.hypotheses.org/projet-technologie-internet-et-gouvernance-t…> I help co-editing: Internet Policy Review <https://policyreview.info> | RESET <https://journals.openedition.org/reset/> I'm an advisor for: ISOC France <https://www.isoc.fr> | ANSSI <https://www.ssi.gouv.fr/agence/rayonnement-scientifique/conseil-scientifiqu…> | IAMCR <https://iamcr.org/governance/int-council> I'm here on the Web (FR <https://cis.cnrs.fr/francesca-musiani/> | EN <https://cis.cnrs.fr/en/francesca_musiani/>), including my publications.

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L'ultima cosa di cui l'Unione Europea ha bisogno e' una sua distro Linux
by Marco Fioretti April 8, 2025

April 8, 2025

Il mio ultimo pezzo per FOSS Force: "Here are at least 7 other projects that the EU should officially support regardless of, and surely well before, any switch to any Linux" https://fossforce.com/2025/04/the-last-thing-the-eu-needs-is-its-own-linux-… Marco

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MEMENTO | 182° Mercoledì di Nexa | 9 aprile 2025, ore 17.00
by Nexa - Media April 7, 2025

April 7, 2025

Gentilissime, gentilissimi, Vi ricordiamo che mercoledì 9 aprile, alle ore 17.00, si terrà il 182° Mercoledì di Nexa con un incontro dal titolo "Cittadinanza Digitale e Partecipazione". Ospiti dell'incontro: Fiorella De Cindio (Università degli Studi di Milano) e Andrea Trentini (Università degli Studi di Milano). L'incontro si terrà IN PRESENZA e ONLINE. SEDE FISICA dell'incontro: Centro Nexa su Internet e Società, Politecnico di Torino, Via Boggio 65/a, Torino (1° piano). Per accedere alla sala si raccomanda di suonare al citofono Portineria e di seguire le indicazioni segnalate lungo il percorso. QUI<https://nexa.polito.it/contatti> maggiori informazioni su come raggiungerci. STANZA VIRTUALE dell'incontro: https://didattica.polito.it/VClass/NexaEvent Maggiori informazioni alla pagina: https://nexa.polito.it/mercoledi-182 Un saluto cordiale, -- Valeria Bergantino Communication Manager Nexa Center for Internet & Society Politecnico di Torino - DAUIN Via Pier Carlo Boggio, 65/A - 10138 Torino web: https://nexa.polito.it/ mail: valeria.bergantino(a)polito.it<mailto:valeria.bergantino@polito.it> tel: 3473443585

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Su socialismo, AI e Dio
by Marco Pozzi April 6, 2025

April 6, 2025

Dalle parole di un famoso ingegnere del XIX secolo: https://volerelaluna.it/cultura/2025/04/03/lingegner-fedor-dostoevskij-e-li… Sperando vi faccia piacere leggere, buona giornata a tutti Marco

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Re: [nexa] What If the US Cut Internet Access to Europe?
by Giuseppe Attardi April 4, 2025

April 4, 2025

Questo mi suggerisce un altro tipo di intervento. L’Europa potrebbe usare questo come arma di negoziazione contro i dazi di Trump. Invocando motivi di emergenza di sicurezza nazionale, l’UE potrebbe sequestrare tutti i datacenter in Europa di aziende USA. I datacenter confiscati verrebbero messi a disposizione di un consorzio pubblico, incaricato di gestirli. L’operazione andrebbe preparata per tempo, per assicurarsi di potere ottenere le chiavi di accesso e di amministrazione dei sistemi, in modo da poterli amministrare in autonomia dalle case madri in USA. Quindi l’operazione di sequestro fisico avverrebbe subito, mentre la presa in consegna dei servizi erogati avverrebbe ad una data fissata, diciamo tra 6 mesi. Durante questi 6 mesi, squadre di tecnici si dovrebbero allenare su come gestire e amministrare i servizi erogati su quei datacenter. La minaccia di prendere definitivamente il controllo di tutti i datacenter, dovrebbe convincere l’amministrazione Trump ad aprire dei negoziati per eliminare o ridurre i dazi. Nel frattempo essendosi preparati a gestire i servizi delle aziende americane, i tecnici europei potrebbero fare tesoro delle conoscenze e iniziare a realizzare servizi alternativi sul suolo europeo, affidati al consorzio creato sopra. Non sarebbe la prima volta che l’EU confisca proprietà di altri paesi: è stato fatto confiscando i beni di proprietà russa. — Beppe > On 3 Apr 2025, at 12:00, nexa-request(a)server-nexa.polito.it wrote: > > From: "Marco Fioretti" <mfioretti(a)nexaima.net <mailto:mfioretti@nexaima.net>> > To: nexa(a)server-nexa.polito.it <mailto:nexa@server-nexa.polito.it> > Subject: [nexa] What If the US Cut Internet Access to Europe? > > Il mio ultimo pezzo per FOSS Force: > > https://fossforce.com/2025/04/what-if-the-us-cut-internet-access-to-europe/ > > con una richiesta/invito: > > mi stanno gia' segnalando in altri forum effetti negativi o positivi che ho dimenticato o non ho inserito per non allungare troppo il pezzo, primo fra tutti l'impatto sulle PA che usano Microsoft 365 e simili. > > Grazie in anticipo a chi vorra' suggerirne altri! > > Marco >

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Are Trump’s tariffs for real or an AI hallucination? I’m afraid the answer is both | Marina Hyde | The Guardian
by Alberto Cammozzo April 4, 2025

April 4, 2025

<https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/apr/04/donald-trump-tariffs-…> Se fare questa cosa dei dazi è considerata /idiotic/ dai commentatori più generosi, farlo calcolandoli con chatgpt candida al nobel della categoria. Nessuno che non faccia parte di quel club farà mai più una cosa del genere. Un incidente molto serio per l'/intelligenza/ artificiale. L'equivalente di Chernobyl per il nucleare. A.

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Are Trump’s tariffs for real or an AI hallucination? I’m afraid the answer is both | Marina Hyde | The Guardian
by Alberto Cammozzo April 4, 2025

April 4, 2025

<https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/apr/04/donald-trump-tariffs-…> Se fare questa cosa dei dazi è stupida, calcolarli con chatgpt candida al nobel della categoria. Nessuno che non faccia parte di quel club farà mai più una cosa del genere. Un incidente molto serio per l'/intelligenza/ generativa. È l'equivalente di Chernobyl. A.

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