Alla faccia della privacy. Il colpo gobbo fa crollare le certezze perlomeno in ambito aziendale.

Money quote: "As reported by Android Authority, “Google is rolling out Android RCS Archival on Pixel (and other Android) phones, allowing employers to intercept and archive RCS chats on work-managed devices. In simpler terms, your employer will now be able to read your RCS chats in Google Messages despite end-to-end encryption.”

This applies to work-managed devices and doesn’t affect personal devices. And in certain regulated industries it just adds RCS archiving to existing SMS archiving. But employees in regular organizations view texting as different to emailing, especially given the expectations around end-to-end encryption. That’s no longer the case."

https://www.forbes.com/sites/zakdoffman/2025/12/03/google-starts-sharing-all-your-text-messages-with-your-employer/

Sta arrivando... sono 70 anni che il NORAD segue il volo di Santa Claus. Sembrava ieri…

https://techdale.it/la-diretta-per-seguire-babbo-natale-ecco-come-e-nata-la-tradizione-piu-tech-del-natale/

Buon Natale, vi auguro un periodo di serene festività: ce n'è davvero bisogno

Internet come una foresta: la stiamo distruggendo. Un'immagine potente e affascinante nella sua drammaticità.

Money quote: "The story of German scientific forestry transmits a timeless truth: When we simplify complex systems, we destroy them, and the devastating consequences sometimes aren’t obvious until it’s too late.

That impulse to scour away the messiness that makes life resilient is what many conservation biologists call the “pathology of command and control.” Today, the same drive to centralize, control and extract has driven the internet to the same fate as the ravaged forests."

https://www.noemamag.com/we-need-to-rewild-the-internet/

Ieri si parlava della fine di internet come la conosciamo. Ma, mantenendo le analogie vegetali, per fortuna ci sono i giardini digitali che vengono coltivati

Money quote: "The movement might be gaining steam now, but its roots date back to 1998, when Mark Bernstein introduced the idea of the “hypertext garden,” arguing for spaces on the internet that let a person wade into the unknown. “Gardens … lie between farmland and wilderness,” he wrote. “The garden is farmland that delights the senses, designed for delight rather than commodity.” (His digital garden includes a recent review of a Bay Area carbonara dish and reflections on his favorite essays.)

The new wave of digital gardens discuss books and movies, with introspective journal entries; others offer thoughts on philosophy and politics. Some are works of art in themselves, visual masterpieces that invite the viewer to explore; others are simpler and more utilitarian, using Google Docs or Wordpress templates to share intensely personal lists. Avid readers in particular have embraced the concept, sharing creative, beautiful digital bookshelves that illustrate their reading journey"

https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/09/03/1007716/digital-gardens-let-you-cultivate-your-own-little-bit-of-the-internet/

Letture per la domenica. Sul serio: la sceneggiatura di F1 con Brad Pitt pubblicata da Deadline, che tra le altre cose ne pubblica una a settimana.

Money quote: "The high-octane narrative is fundamentally a story of redemption set against the electrifying backdrop of Formula 1 racing. The script transcends a simple sports drama to delve into the human themes of rivalry, partnership, and reclaiming a lost legacy."

https://deadline.com/2025/12/f1-script-read-the-screenplay-brad-pitt-movie-1236649442/

Oracle sul bordo dell'abisso a giorni alterni. Adesso è il pesce pilota dell'hype per i datacenter dell'AI. Ieri era quello che rischiava di morire con lo scoppio della bolla. Mah.

Money quote: "Oracle has confirmed a continued rise in data center deals, with the value of its lease commitments totalling $248 billion as of November 30, 2025."

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/oracle-reportedly-signs-major-huge-111814098.html

Ma lo sapete che "Melania" dovrebbe diventare un blockbuster? E se avessimo completamente frainteso il personaggio?

"«Melania, the Film» : le documentaire sur la femme de Donald Trump vendu comme un blockbuster hollywoodien. Avec une sortie au cinéma prévue pour janvier 2026 et une diffusion sur Amazon Prime d’un film «exclusif», la femme du président américain veut réaffirmer sa place dans l’empire Trump. Et en empruntetous les codes."

https://www.liberation.fr/economie/medias/melania-the-film-le-documentaire-sur-la-femme-de-donald-trump-vendu-comme-un-blockbuster-hollywoodien-20251218_TC4LVVLQPNABFI54GNHTT6LCGU/

Serie tv di fantascienza da vedere su Apple TV - la mia lista di fine anno per Fumettologica

https://fumettologica.it/2025/12/serie-tv-apple-da-vedere/

Buona fine e miglior inizio a tutti gli iscritti al canale!

Il 2026 incombe!

Siamo entrati in un nuovo anno e nuove opere d'arte vanno nel pubblico dominio. Eccole qua.

Money quote: "On January 1, 2026, creative works from 1930 and sound recordings from 1925 enter the public domain in the United States. 1930 ushered in a new decade and a world teetering between mystery and modernity. It was a year of detectives, jazz, speakeasies, and iconic characters stepping onto the cultural stage—many of whom have been locked behind copyright for nearly a century."

https://blog.archive.org/public-domain-day-2026/

Concertone per l'inizio dell'anno. La libidine di ascoltare Bach suonato con gli strumenti barocchi originali.

Money quote: "We could say that the music of Johann Sebastian Bach transcends instrumentation. Wendy Carlos did a great deal to prove that with her 1968 album Switched-On Bach, composed entirely (and laboriously) on an early Moog synthesizer. Despite its controversial union of long-revered compositions with practically untested musical technology, that project won high praise, not least from as famed an interpreter of Bach as Glenn Gould. Here at Open Culture we’ve featured many of Gould’s own performances of Bach: of the Keyboard Concerto No. 1 in D minor in his 1960 U.S. television debut, of the cantata BWV 54 on a 1962 CBC special, of The Art of Fugue and the Goldberg Variations as played toward the end of his life in the early 1980s."

https://www.openculture.com/2020/08/hear-ten-of-bachs-pieces-played-on-original-baroque-instruments.html

Il grande consolidamento nel settore dell'e-learning. Udemy e Coursera diventano una cosa sola. Chissà chi ha comprato chi.

Money quote: "Coursera, Inc. (NYSE: COUR) and Udemy, Inc. (NASDAQ: UDMY) today announced that they have entered into a definitive merger agreement under which Coursera will combine with Udemy in an all-stock transaction. Based on the closing prices of Coursera and Udemy common stock on December 16, 2025, the implied equity value of the combined company is approximately $2.5 billion."

https://investor.coursera.com/news/news-details/2025/Coursera-to-Combine-with-Udemy-to-Empower-the-Global-Workforce-with-Skills-for-the-AI-Era/default.aspx

Un nuovo anno, molte promesse tecnologiche, qualche illusione geopolitica e il piacere ostinato delle cose fatte a mano: Mostly Weekly 357 è pronta

https://antoniodini.com/weekly/357/

Metaletture della domenica. La gioia dei libi usati e delle sorprese che contengono.

Money quote: "Frequentando abitualmente queste librerie, sia nelle grandi città come in quelle di provincia, ecco che piano piano riaffiorano non solo titoli introvabili o più banalmente fuori catalogo, ma anche persone che non ci sono più, i morti. Biblioteche facilmente riconducibili a professionisti o intellettuali da poco scomparsi, i cui parenti hanno deciso di disfarsi di chili e metri cubi di carta stampata. Così dalla gioia di una conquista, subito si passa alla sensazione di un furto, di una violenza gratuita. Pochi euro sono sufficienti per comprare un libro magari amatissimo o dedicato a una persona importante per la vita di chi lo regalava."

https://www.ilpost.it/2025/12/17/giossi-quello-che-si-trova-nei-libri-usati-oppure-no/

Le tastiere virtuali degli iPhone hanno dei problemi con l'ultima versione del sistema operativo di Apple, iOS 26. Ci sono anche delle soluzioni, ma non funzionano con tutti.

Money quote: "Is there a Problem with the iPhone Keyboard? I tested out the iPhone keyboard of my brother and I immediately noticed a difference with my iPhone 17 Pro Max Keyboard. After doing some research I stumbled on the fact that many iPhone users have experienced keyboards issues lately."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=njteXaQaLxE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdQWWmJ4Bms

Nel Regno Unito non si possono più bollire vive le aragoste. Per capire come mai, si prega di leggere "Considera l'aragosta" di David Foster Wallace.

Money quote: "Per anni considerate solo ingredienti da cucina, le aragoste sono finite al centro di un lungo dibattito scientifico e politico. Nel 2022 una legge ne ha riconosciuto la capacità di provare dolore. Ora il governo britannico compie un ulteriore passo: vietare una pratica tradizionale ma contestata, la bollitura da vive."

https://www.lastampa.it/la-zampa/2025/12/25/news/regno_unito_vieta_bollire_aragoste_vive-425060122/

Piccole notizie che potrebbero cambiare molte vite: un batterio di anfibi e rettili che mangia i tumori.

Money quote: "A research team of Prof. Eijiro Miyako at the Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (JAIST) has discovered that the bacterium Ewingella americana, isolated from the intestines of Japanese tree frogs (Dryophytes japonicus), possesses remarkably potent anticancer activity. This groundbreaking research has been published in the international journal Gut Microbes."

https://www.jaist.ac.jp/english/whatsnew/press/2025/12/17-1.html

La storia di un font. Quale? Il Times New Roman. E che storia. Anche se va detto: un po' è noioso (ma per fortuna ci sono un sacco di alternative).

Money quote: "Objectively, there’s nothing wrong with Times New Roman. It was designed for a newspaper, so it’s a bit narrower than most text fonts—especially the bold style. (Newspapers prefer narrow fonts because they fit more text per line.) The italic is mediocre. But those aren’t fatal flaws. Times New Roman is a workhorse font that’s been successful for a reason."

https://typographyforlawyers.com/a-brief-history-of-times-new-roman.html

L’eredità di Ursula K. Le Guin nella fantascienza e nei fumetti contemporanei - primo articolo del 2026 per Fumettologica

https://fumettologica.it/2026/01/eredita-ursula-k-le-guin-fantascienza-fumetti/