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1. Tommaso Moramarco neo-eletto Presidente della Società idrologica italiana
(Italiano/CNR)

... il coordinamento e la collaborazione multidisciplinare nelle ricerche finalizzate alla descrizione qualitativa e quantitativa di tutte le componenti del ciclo idrologico Read all  ...

2. Il saluto del presidente del Consiglio per i 60 anni dei Trattati di Roma e i 10 anni di Erc
(Italiano/CNR)

... ha fatto pervenire un messaggio di saluto ai partecipanti Read all  ...

3. Time for a new toothbrush?
(English/BoingBoing ibag)

... you to check out this Rechargeable Silicone Sonic Toothbrush. Its two included brushing heads are made of antibacterial silicone, so they last longer and are easier to clean than their manual counterparts. ...

4. Windows 10 Fall Creators Update, più sicurezza
(Italiano/webnews)

In Windows 10 Fall Creators Update, Microsoft offrirà maggiori funzionalità di sicurezza per garantire maggiore protezione ai PC Windows 10. Read all  ...

5. Google Gets Rocked By $2.7 Billion Fine by the EU for Anti-Competitive Practices
(English/ChipChic)

... By $2.7 Billion Fine by the EU for Anti-Competitive Practices Read all  ...

6. Is the Passion Over Net Neutrality Misguided? A New Paper Offers a Fresh Technical Approach
(English/CircleID)

... irrelevant emotive language. Terms like "discriminate", "throttle" and "violate" are used to fan public outrage, but come overladen with unhelpful semantic baggage. We need a new policy lexicon, one that ...

7. A review of Cosmic Trigger, a play based on Robert Anton Wilson's autobiography
(English/BoingBoing ibag)

... he predicted, it’s just here, we are living in it, everything is actually happening, right here, right now. And his antidote to the world madness is to recognize the limits and dangers of our single ...

8. Adequate Man Late Lunch Is Horseshit | The Muse Pretty Little Liars Changed the Face of Schlocky Tee
(Italiano/gizmodo)

Adequate Man Late Lunch Is Horseshit | The Muse Pretty Little Liars Changed the Face of Schlocky Teen TV for Good | Fusion StoryCorps, Of All Places, Is Running an Anti-Union Campaign | The Root Marilyn ...

9. Google "respectfully disagrees" with €2.42 billion fine
(English/BoingBoing ibag)

Google expected to be punished by the European Union for anticompetitive shenanigans, but it didn't expect a slap this hard: €2.42 billion, the largest fine on record. The company says it "respectfully ...

10. Gli alieni esistono Anonymous anticipa la Nasa ma gli scienziati negano
(Italiano/intopic)

La Nasa sta per annunciare l'esistenza degli alieni. La notizia rivelata dal gruppo hacker "Anonymous" in un video è rimbalzata sui siti d'informazione di tutto il mondo fino a costringere l'agenzia spaziale ...

11. Thailand's thin-skinned king demands Youtube take down Chaplin's "The Great Dictator"
(English/BoingBoing ibag)

Charlie Chaplin's 1940 movie The Great Dictator features one of the greatest anti-authoritarian speeches of all time, so it's no surprise that Thailand's censorship-crazed king is abusing his country's ...

12. Verizon bought Yahoo, so Flickr and Tumblr users with AT&T email addresses are being cut off
(English/BoingBoing ibag)

Verizon's using its purchase of Yahoo for more than undermining the fight for net neutrality: it's also using its new acquisitions to make anti-competitive moves against its telcoms rivals, deploying ...

13. Microsoft patches the third critical remote exploit in Windows Defender found by Project Zero in seven weeks, after a "quick stab" at fuzzing by Tavis Ormandy (Dan Goodin/Ars Technica)
(English/Techmeme)

... —  Is there a fuzzer in the house?  —  Microsoft recently patched a critical vulnerability in its ubiquitous built-in antivirus engine. Read all  ...

14. Six research-backed tips to have a great vacation
(English/BoingBoing ibag)

... trips." This is one of six sensible tips to make your vacation as enjoyable as possible Barking Up the Wrong Tree from Barking Up the Wrong Tree. Anticipate: It brings more happiness than the trip ...

15. Europe guts Google, and that's just wrong
(English/Betanews)

... demonstrates the EU's small-minded oversight that wrongly regulates evolving technologies in a big world. The adverse antitrust ruling finds that the online titan favored its own online shopping services ...

16. EU fines Google €2.42B for anti-competitive behaviour
(English/BoingBoing ibag)

The EU had been expected to fine Google a little over €1B for its anti-competitive practice of promoting its own shopping service over competitors' in search results: today's €2.42B comes as a surprise, ...

17. Brutta falla in Windows Defender apre la strada ai pirati
(Italiano/intopic)

Cosa c'è di peggio di una falla di sicurezza nel sistema operativo? Semplice: una vulnerabilità in un software antivirus. I programmi di sicurezza, infatti, hanno permessi elevati e la loro compromissione ...

18. Commissione EU e Google Shopping: replica bigG
(Italiano/webnews)

L'antitrust europea ha comminato una sanzione pari a 2,42 miliardi di euro a Google: la strategia difensiva è affidata alla replica di Kent Walker. Read all  ...

19. How to Give Poor People Money In Order to Save the World
(Italiano/gizmodo)

Paul Niehaus is the cofounder and president of GiveDirectly, a direct cash transfer program rated as one of the most effective anti-poverty charities in the world. He is currently putting together the ...

20. Tutte le offerte estive di TIM
(Italiano/intopic)

L'estate è arrivata e TIM ha deciso di offrire a tutti i suoi clienti la possibilità di usufruire di interessanti promozioni, mirate sia ai più giovani che agli anziani. Scopriamo di cosa si tratta! OFFERTE ...

21. Phishing: the Worst of Times in the DNS
(English/CircleID)

The Anti-Phishing Working Group has released its latest Global Phishing Survey, written by myself and Rod Rasmussen. This report comprehensively examines a large data set of more than 250,000 confirmed ...

22. Google Play Music 7.9: arriva la cronologia ricerche, migliorano le notifiche
(Italiano/intopic)

Google Play Music per Android ha ricevuto un aggiornamento nelle scorse ore che ha portato l'applicazione alla versione 7.9, introducendo alcune piccole ma interessanti novità. Il noto servizio di streaming ...

23. YouTube, Facebook, Twitter e Microsoft, alleanza contro il terrorismo online
(Italiano/intopic)

Nasce il Global Internet Forum to counter terrorism. Ecco come i giganti del web diranno no a odio e propaganda Canali: YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, Microsoft Corporation, Terrorismo Read all  ...

24. YouTube, Facebook, Twitter e Microsoft, alleanza contro il terrorismo online
(Italiano/intopic)

Nasce il Global Internet Forum to counter terrorism. Ecco come i giganti del web diranno no a odio e propaganda Canali: YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, Microsoft Corporation, Terrorismo Read all  ...

25. Wind lancia All Inclusive Unlimited, ma è davvero tutto illimitato?
(Italiano/intopic)

Wind lancia All Inclusive Unlimited, ma è davvero tutto illimitato?Tecnoandroid Wind All Inclusive Unlimited, è una delle più interessanti offerte di telefonia mobile presenti sul mercato. Usufruendo ...