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Interessante esse software livre chamado Graphite que está em desenvolvimento, com a promessa de ser um editor completo vetorial e também raster, e que terá em algum momento ferramentas para motion graphics. Legal também que ele têm um sistema de edição de nós, o que é bem promissor.

Ainda está na versão alpha, e por enquanto só existe em versão web, mas versões binárias estão planejadas para o futuro.

youtu.be/knImqsVBpmY?si=F3V7Vg

Paragon smentisce il #Copasir: “Abbiamo rescisso il contratto perché il governo non vuole scoprire chi ha spiato #Fanpage

In una nota l’azienda israeliana di sicurezza informatica dichiara di aver “offerto al governo e al parlamento italiano un modo per determinare” se il suo sistema fosse stato usato contro il direttore di Fanpage.it Francesco #Cancellato. A seguito del loro rifiuto, #Paragon ha rescisso il contratto.

fanpage.it/politica/paragon-sm

@informatica

"On Thursday, the findings of the parliamentary committee investigating Italy's usage of the spyware were published, in a rare incident of a Western state shedding light into a usually secretive world of intelligence agencies and covert surveillance.
The committee confirmed that Paragon provided Graphite to two Italian agencies, including the country's external intelligence service, starting in 2023. The version of Graphite provided did not include the ability to activate the phone's microphone or camera, the report said.

Instead, it only enabled its operators access to encrypted communications on the hacked devices. The report also confirmed that Graphite exploited a vulnerability in WhatsApp that Meta identified and patched in December 2024, one month before the spyware's activity was publicly disclosed.

The vulnerability's discovery also caused "panic" at Israel's military intelligence Unit 8200, according to the recent Israeli television report.

The Italian committee also confirmed Meta's claim that several activists involved in migrant rights in Italy had their phones hacked, including Luca Casarini, Giuseppe Caccia, and David Yambio – though in Yambio's case, the hack was carried out not by Graphite but by another unnamed spyware."

haaretz.com/israel-news/securi

Russia, Moscow
Pencil, scalpel, burnishing tool, gesso on sized quarter sawn oak.
42.5mm x 32

This drawing is number 144 in my completed miniature drawing project of every capital in the world of which there are 196. Altogether this is one piece of work and will be shown in Kilkenny at the Butler Gallery in August.

More information on the project at:
www.chrisleach.art