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EC issues burner phones for visits to US
by 380° April 15, 2025

April 15, 2025

Buongiorno, la Commissione EU fa l'offesa se a SPIARE funzionari, scienziati, aziende e cittadini europei "ha stato Trump" invece dei suoi predecessori... ...ipocriti al cubo! «Report: EC issues burner phones for visits to US» https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/15/ec_burner_devices/ --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- The European Commission is giving staffers visiting the US on official business burner laptops and phones to avoid espionage attempts, according to the Financial Times. The use of clean and locked-down hardware is common practice for anyone visiting China, Russia, and other states where aggressive electronic surveillance is expected. Apparently the European Union has added the United States to that list. "The transatlantic alliance is over," an EU official [told] the newspaper, which reported the commission "is issuing burner phones and basic laptops to some US-bound staff to avoid the risk of espionage — a measure traditionally reserved for trips to China." Next week, officials from the EU are due in Washington DC for the spring meetings of the World Bank Group and the International Monetary Fund. Four sources told the FT the EC had changed its guidance to ensure that visitors to America take serious precautions against cyber-espionage. "They are worried about the US getting into the commission systems," said one. [...] Taking a burner device, to be honest, sounds like standard practice for people in sensitive lines of work, though this is all being interpreted as an indication of quite how badly relations have slipped between Europe and the US. And while a certain amount of spying on one's allies is [expected] – former German chancellor Angela Merkel was [most peeved] when it turns out her phone was being bugged by the NSA – a recommendation to take fresh devices is something new. More context: • [John Kerry bombshell: 'Yes, the NSA… reached TOO FAR, inappropriately'] • [Germany tells America to verpissen off over Huawei 5G cyber-Sicherheitsbedenken] • [Angela Merkel's phone was being listened in on by FIVE foreign powers] • [This is how we know Echelon exists] Ultimately, spies spy, and when it comes to spying on the world, no one doubts America's abilities, regardless of who is in charge. "Washington is not Beijing or Moscow, but it is an adversary that is prone to use extra-legal methods to further its interests and power," Luuk van Middelaar, director of the Brussels Institute for Geopolitics think tank, told the FT. "Democrat administrations use the same tactics. It is an acceptance of reality by the Commission." A European Commission spokesperson, an in email to /The Register/, did not deny equipment was being handed out to staff as reported. And while the spinner claimed the commission had not issued official guidance to use burner laptops and phones, they did admit it had tweaked its recommendations. "We have recently updated several country specific traveling recommendation factsheets for officials. They reflect the latest changes in the way the commission communicates and the general increase of threats globally regarding cybersecurity," the spokesperson told us. "Finally, indeed we recommend linking the e-visa to an EU laissez-passer for senior officials, in order to underline the official nature of the visit and facilitate visa processes in embassies prior to departure. Again, these updated recommendations were included in many other countries' factsheets to the attention of travelling senior officials." We understand the FT stands by its yarn. And it wouldn't be the first time the EU had [denied] a story, only to later confirm its veracity. ® --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- [told] <https://www.ft.com/content/20d0678a-41b2-468d-ac10-14ce1eae357b> [expected] <https://www.theregister.com/2001/09/14/this_is_how_we_know/> [most peeved] <https://www.theregister.com/2013/11/26/merkel_phone_tapped_by_5_countries/> [John Kerry bombshell: 'Yes, the NSA… reached TOO FAR, inappropriately'] <https://www.theregister.com/2013/11/01/john_kerry_nsa_spying/> [Germany tells America to verpissen off over Huawei 5G cyber-Sicherheitsbedenken] <https://www.theregister.com/2019/02/19/germany_huawei_5g_security/> [Angela Merkel's phone was being listened in on by FIVE foreign powers] <https://www.theregister.com/2013/11/26/merkel_phone_tapped_by_5_countries/> [This is how we know Echelon exists] <https://www.theregister.com/2001/09/14/this_is_how_we_know/> [denied] <https://x.com/paolatamma/status/1907067942660870231> -- 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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corso ISODARCO della prossima estate sul tema "Peace and Stability in the Age of Militarized AI and Cyber-conflicts: New Challenges and Risks"
by Marco Ricolfi April 15, 2025

April 15, 2025

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We Have a Package for You! A Comprehensive Analysis of Package Hallucinations, by Code Generating LLMs
by Alberto Cammozzo April 15, 2025

April 15, 2025

<https://arxiv.org/pdf/2406.10279> Anche qui: <https://socket.dev/blog/slopsquatting-how-ai-hallucinations-are-fueling-a-n…> Abstract The reliance of popular programming languages such as Python and JavaScript on centralized package repositories and open-source software, combined with the emergence of code-generating Large Language Models (LLMs), has created a new type of threat to the software supply chain: package hallucinations. These hallucinations, which arise from fact- conflicting errors when generating code using LLMs, repre- sent a novel form of package confusion attack that poses a critical threat to the integrity of the software supply chain. This paper conducts a rigorous and comprehensive evaluation of package hallucinations across different programming lan- guages, settings, and parameters, exploring how a diverse set of models and configurations affect the likelihood of generat- ing erroneous package recommendations and identifying the root causes of this phenomenon. Using 16 popular LLMs for code generation and two unique prompt datasets, we generate 576,000 code samples in two programming languages that we analyze for package hallucinations. Our findings reveal that that the average percentage of hallucinated packages is at least 5.2% for commercial models and 21.7% for open-source models, including a staggering 205,474 unique examples of hallucinated package names, further underscoring the severity and pervasiveness of this threat. To overcome this problem, we implement several hallucination mitigation strategies and show that they are able to significantly reduce the number of package hallucinations while maintaining code quality. Our experiments and findings highlight package hallucinations as a persistent and systemic phenomenon while using state-of- the-art LLMs for code generation, and a significant challenge which deserves the research community’s urgent attention.

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Seven39, il social aperto solo tre ore al giorno
by Antonio April 14, 2025

April 14, 2025

Hai tre ore per connetterti su Seven39, poi chiude. Un ritorno al passato che sfida l'economia dell'attenzione con un social network a tempo limitato. Alle 19:38 di ogni sera, come un rituale, ogni iscritto riceve un'email: "Seven39 è di nuovo aperto". Tre ore, non un minuto di più. Un social network che funziona solo dalle 19:39 alle 22:39, ora della costa est americana. Fuori da quella finestra? Porte chiuse, niente scrolling, niente contenuti. Un cartello rosso vi accoglie con un'idea di fondo molto, molto precisa: "I social media sono migliori quando siamo tutti online insieme. Niente doomscrolling. Niente FOMO. Solo 3 ore di divertimento ogni sera". https://www.futuroprossimo.it/2025/04/vi-presento-seven39-il-social-aperto-… A.

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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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