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Luca Ferrari, founder of Bending Spoons, represents an innovative and pragmatic entrepreneur of the Italian high-tech industry, capable of creating a solid and consistent business reality, in contrast to the often distorted image of the sector. #Sostenibilità #Imprenditoria #Innovazione (translated)

The article highlights how the Israeli company Discover-Tech uses the infrastructures of the online advertising market for surveillance activities and the distribution of spyware, emphasizing a structural vulnerability in the digital economy. #PubblicitàOnline #SorveglianzaDigitale #TecnologieDualUse (translated)

Marco Setaccioli challenged Marco Travaglio's calculations on European and Russian military spending, stating that Travaglio had indicated 450 billion euros for Europe and 150 for Russia and had argued that Russia had reason to fear Europe, which had invaded it four times in the last 200 years. According to Setaccioli, in the current year Russia would have spent around 17 trillion rubles on defense, equivalent to 181 billion euros, a figure indicated, according to him, by most analysts. He noted that the nominal comparison did not take purchasing power into account: applying indices developed by specialized research centers, Russian spending would rise to 574 billion international dollars, compared to about 700 billion for the entire EU. He added that the EU would have three and a half times the population of Russia and a GDP nine times greater. Setaccioli argued that the Russian federal budget did not show all military costs. He cited studies by economist Craig Kennedy, according to which part of the spending would be financed through subsidized loans and would thus remain on the banks' balance sheets. He also recalled an investigation by Dozhd', which, according to him, had documented pressures on private companies to hire people before signing contracts with the military and to supplement salaries with corporate funds. He added that at least three militias would be linked to Gazprom, which would cover part of the costs. For these reasons, he dismissed as false the claim that Russia spent less than the EU. Historically, Setaccioli criticized Travaglio's reconstruction, according to which the Napoleonic and Nazi invasions, along with interventions in Crimea and support for the Bolsheviks, would justify Russian fears toward Europe. Setaccioli listed Russian troop interventions in Poland in 1939, Finland in 1939-1940, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, and Romania in 1940, Bulgaria in 1944, Hungary in 1956, Czechoslovakia in 1968, Moldova in 1992, Georgia in 2008, and Ukraine in 2014 and 2022. He stated that there were no Russian regions occupied by European countries, while eight regions—one in Moldova, two in Georgia, and five in Ukraine—would be under Russian control. Finally, Setaccioli accused Travaglio of presenting a selective and misleading reconstruction to make Russia appear not dangerous, portray Europe as a threat, and argue that rearmament was unnecessary and risky. In his view, that reasoning could legitimize a potential Russian attack on Europe and constituted a form of collaborationism. #Russia #Europa #Difesa (translated)

The workers of Eurallumina in Portovesme, controlled by the Russian company Rusal, announce their mobilization to protest against the risk of the company's insolvency due to the freezing of funds and the lack of government interventions, with a sit-in scheduled for October 22. #Eurallumina #Protesta #Insolvenza (translated)

The president of Beretta Holding, Pietro Gussalli Beretta, has reported that the company is facing cyber attacks from foreign intelligence in Europe, while announcing a strategic investment to acquire 25% of Sturm, Ruger & Company. #CyberSecurity #BerettaHolding #Geopolitica (translated)

Let's be clear: the blood of Ukrainian children will fall on the hands of the owner and the entire team of this American company. Nobel Prize laureate Oleksandra Matviichuk, in La Stampa, invites us not to beat around the bush: "Let's be clear: the blood of Ukrainian children will fall on the hands of the owner and the entire team of this American company." #Starlink #Ucraina #ElonMusk (translated)

The Attorney General of the EU Court recommended rejecting ByteDance's appeal against the designation of TikTok as a gatekeeper under the Digital Markets Act, arguing that the European Commission acted correctly in not initiating a market investigation as the company's arguments were not deemed sufficiently convincing. #TikTok #Gatekeeper #RegolamentoUe (translated)

The Court of Cagliari has declared the judicial liquidation of Cermed Ceramica Mediterranea, marking the end of a company created to support former miners of Montevecchio and now in crisis due to unsustainable energy costs and a deficit of 52 million euros. #Cermed #Liquidazione #CrisiIndustriale (translated)

Birra Peroni and Galbani Big Lactalis have renewed the company collective agreements for the four-year period 2026-2029, introducing significant performance bonuses and improvements in worker protections, training, and governance. #Lavoro #ContrattiIntegrativi #FormazioneProfessionale (translated)

In Italy, the use of OpenAI's agentic tools, such as Codex and ChatGPT Work, increased by 10.8 times between May and October, with 65% of tokens generated by business clients, compared to 55% of the European average. #IntelligenzaArtificiale #StartupItaliane #EconomiaDigitale (translated)

The president of Confindustria, Emanuele Orsini, has called for a tax incentive to promote the aggregation of small and medium-sized Italian enterprises during the public Assembly of Confindustria Prom, emphasizing the importance of growth and business size. #Italia #Pmi #GiorgiaMeloni (translated)

Bending Spoons has seen a 52% increase in its stock value on Wall Street after Berkshire Hathaway invested an additional 330 million dollars, raising its stake to 4% and providing the Milan-based company with further resources for new acquisitions. #BendingSpoons #BerkshireHathaway #Investimenti (translated)