Hacker News with Generative AI: Italy

Hiker discovers first trace of entire prehistoric ecosystem in Italian Alps (theguardian.com)
A hiker in the northern Italian Alps has stumbled across the first trace of what scientists believe to be an entire prehistoric ecosystem, including the well-preserved footprints of reptiles and amphibians, brought to light by the melting of snow and ice induced by the climate crisis.

Paleontology, Climate Change, Italy, Archaeology, Environmental Science

11 points by pseudolus 6 days ago | 0 comments

Ur-Fascism (Umberto Eco, 1995) (wikipedia.org)

Fascism, Politics, History, Italy, Umberto Eco

27 points by ceravis 9 days ago | 7 comments

Bribery is largely subject to circumstance: study (elpais.com)
A year-long experiment was conducted at the self-service checkouts of a supermarket chain in Modena and Ferrara in Italy to test whether there was any link between corruption scandals and how honest consumers were with their shopping.

Ethics, Social Science, Italy, Consumer Behavior, Experiments

74 points by cainxinth 9 days ago | 138 comments

DNA from Pompeii Victims Reveals Surprising Relationships Amidst the Chaos (gizmodo.com)
A handful of people in Pompeii that were killed by the devastating eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 are not who experts thought they were, according to a team of researchers that recently collected DNA from the individuals’ remains.

Archaeology, Genetics, Ancient History, Italy

79 points by rntn 14 days ago | 26 comments

The Downfall of Olivetti – Exploring an Abandoned Computer Factory [video] (youtube.com)

History, Technology, Documentary, Italy, Factories

4 points by hggh 17 days ago | 0 comments

The Submerged Nabataean Temple in Puteoli at Pozzuoli, Italy (cambridge.org)
In 2023, during the underwater archaeological documentation of the port of Puteoli, a submerged Nabataean temple was located and partially investigated.

Archaeology, Italy, Underwater Archaeology, Nabataean Civilization

87 points by aguaviva 21 days ago | 32 comments

What sank the Bayesian superyacht in Italy? (nytimes.com)
The seas were calm when the Bayesian, the $40 million superyacht of the British tech mogul Michael Lynch, dropped anchor off Sicily.

Technology, Business, Accidents, Italy

158 points by rediguanayum 21 days ago | 270 comments

An Italian 'fruit detective' who investigates centuries-old paintings (smithsonianmag.com)
When Isabella Dalla Ragione assesses a Renaissance painting, she doesn’t immediately notice the brushstrokes or the magnificence of the imagery. The first thing she notices is the fruit.

Art History, Italy, Food, Paintings

93 points by Brajeshwar 23 days ago | 15 comments

Olivetti’s Ivrea (medium.com)
If you trace the path of the Dora Baltea River in early spring, when it swells with melting snow from the Matterhorn, you will quietly arrive at what first appears to be any other small Italian town. Yet in the 1950s, Ivrea was the site of an unheralded experiment in living and working.

Italy, Architecture, History, Design, Business

147 points by rbanffy 26 days ago | 30 comments

Italy declares its "web tax" applicable to any digital service worldwide (reuters.com)
Italy will strengthen its digital services tax as part of plans to raise more revenues in the 2025 budget, Deputy Economy Minister Maurizio Leo said on Wednesday, in a move that could trigger retaliation from the United States.

Italy, Taxes, Digital Services, International Relations, Economics

51 points by kimi 27 days ago | 85 comments

Italian 'Fruit Detective' Who Investigates Centuries-Old Paintings (smithsonianmag.com)
When Isabella Dalla Ragione assesses a Renaissance painting, she doesn’t immediately notice the brushstrokes or the magnificence of the imagery. The first thing she notices is the fruit.

Art History, Renaissance, Italy

4 points by prismatic 30 days ago | 0 comments

Google Drive Blackout in Italy After Another Major Anti-Piracy Blunder (torrentfreak.com)
After blocking Cloudflare to prevent IPTV piracy just a few months ago, on Saturday the rightsholders behind Piracy Shield ordered Italy's ISPs to block Google Drive. The subsequent nationwide blackout, affecting millions of Italians, wasn't just a hapless IP address blunder. This was the reckless blocking of a Google.com subdomain that many 10-year-olds could identify as being important. Reckless people and internet infrastructure, what could possibly go wrong next?

Google, Piracy, Italy, Internet Censorship, Technology

141 points by gslin 31 days ago | 79 comments

Pirate IPTV Subscribers Warned They Face "Automated Fines" (torrentfreak.com)
The head of telecoms regulator AGCOM confirmed this week that a memorandum of understanding between the Prosecutor's Office, Guardia di Finanza, and AGCOM, heralds a new stage in Italy's fight against IPTV piracy.

IPTV, Piracy, Italy, Law Enforcement, Telecom

12 points by austinallegro 37 days ago | 2 comments

On 17th century "cocaine" (resobscura.substack.com)
Earlier this year, amid a sea of bones in the vaulted crypt beneath Milan’s Ca’ Granda hospital, Italian researchers made an intriguing discovery. Analyzing mummified brain tissue from two men who died at the hospital in the seventeenth century, they found evidence of coca use—the earliest ever detected outside of South America.

History, Archaeology, Drugs, Italy

161 points by benbreen 43 days ago | 209 comments

New Italian Law Threatens ISPs with Prison over Piracy Reporting Failures (torrentfreak.com)
Italian ISPs are required to work with AGCOM and rightsholders to ensure the Piracy Shield blocking system operates as intended. It's a burden that only benefits rightsholders, but the ISPs are expected to cover their own costs. That contribution was insulted this week by a legal amendment that threatens ISPs with prison for failing to report piracy to the authorities. Google describes it as a requirement to flood the judiciary to avoid prison.

Piracy, Law, Italy, Copyright

73 points by isaacfrond 45 days ago | 53 comments

ISPs Betrayed over Pirate Site-Blocking Threats, the Reckoning Will Be Invisible (torrentfreak.com)
Italian ISPs are required to work with AGCOM and rightsholders to ensure the Piracy Shield blocking system operates as intended. It's a burden that only benefits rightsholders, but the ISPs are expected to cover their own costs. That contribution was insulted this week by a legal amendment that threatens ISPs with prison for failing to report piracy to the authorities. Google describes it as a requirement to flood the judiciary to avoid prison.

Piracy, Law Enforcement, Italy, Copyright

8 points by gslin 46 days ago | 4 comments

Italy and Switzerland have agreed to shift their shared border in the Alps (cnn.com)

Italy, Switzerland, Border Changes, Alps, Geography

5 points by vinnyglennon 50 days ago | 1 comments

Italy Approves Piracy Shield VPN/DNS Proposal, Risk of Prison for ISPs Intact (torrentfreak.com)
Italy's Senate Budget and Finance Committees have approved amended legal proposals that require VPN and DNS services located anywhere, to block pirated content flagged by rightsholders. Other service providers, including ISPs, will face prison for failing to report "known" criminal conduct. A vote on the text is scheduled for today and the new legislation could be in place in less than a week.

Internet Censorship, Privacy, Law, Italy, VPN

26 points by gslin 51 days ago | 1 comments

Switzerland and Italy redraw border due to melting glaciers (bbc.com)
Switzerland and Italy have redrawn part of their border in the Alps due to melting glaciers, caused by climate change.

Switzerland, Italy, Climate Change, Geography, Environment

33 points by gniting 52 days ago | 4 comments

Melting glaciers force Switzerland and Italy to redraw part of Alpine border (theguardian.com)
Switzerland and Italy have redrawn a border that traverses an Alpine peak as melting glaciers shift the historically defined frontier.

Climate Change, Geography, International Relations, Switzerland, Italy

17 points by yusufaytas 53 days ago | 1 comments

The Lion of St. Mark in Venice, Italy Was a Chinese Monster (finestresullarte.info)

Venice, Italy, History, Art, Mythology

13 points by simonebrunozzi 54 days ago | 0 comments

Italian music through the lens of complex networks (michelecoscia.com)
Last year I was talking with a non-Italian, trying to convey to them how nearly the entirety of contemporary Italian music rests on the shoulders of Gianni Maroccolo — and the parts that don’t, should.

Music, Italy, Networks, Culture

107 points by mikk14 56 days ago | 26 comments

The Illusion of a Pagan West (unherd.com)
Inside the Colosseum, in central Rome, stands a giant cross. Erected in 2000 by Pope John Paul II to commemorate the thousands of Christians martyred there, it’s not what you might expect to see on visiting the building once known as the Flavian Amphitheatre, named for the Imperial dynasty which built it.

History, Religion, Italy, Rome

10 points by bookofjoe 66 days ago | 5 comments

Pro-Russian posters appear on billboards across Italy (cnn.com)

Politics, Russia, Italy, International Relations, Protests

6 points by worstspotgain 68 days ago | 1 comments

Fake retro video game ring worth €50M smashed in Italy (bbc.com)
A video game trafficking ring has been smashed by police in Italy, after fake vintage consoles and games worth almost €50m ($55.5m) were seized.

Crime, Video Games, Italy

4 points by larodi 68 days ago | 2 comments

An Italian Bank Accepts Parmesan Cheese as Loan Collateral (2015) (forbes.com)

Finance, Italy, Food, Unusual Investments

7 points by krystiannowak 75 days ago | 1 comments

The Italian town that banned cricket (bbc.com)
Under the scorching sun on Italy’s Adriatic coast, a group of friends from Bangladesh are practising their cricket skills on a small patch of concrete.

Cricket, Italy, Culture

28 points by peutetre 76 days ago | 10 comments

Omertà (wikipedia.org)

Omertà, History, Italy, Organized Crime, Culture

5 points by Bluestein 85 days ago | 0 comments

'The Cheese and the Worms': Carlo Ginzburg Launches Microhistory (mitpress.mit.edu)