Il Caffettino di Mario Moroni

Il Caffettino di Mario Moroni is a daily Italian podcast with an unusually disciplined shape: one news story, one host, under five minutes. Mario Moroni opens each standard episode the same way — good morning, here is the story of the day, let's talk it through together — and the archive runs well past two thousand episodes. The territory is digital, business and marketing, but the treatment is closer to a morning conversation than a bulletin. Platforms feature heavily. One episode covers Google finally allowing users to change a Gmail address, and Moroni sits with the practical wrinkles: the name you want probably is not free, and anyone who hated their old address years ago simply opened a second account and moved on. Another looks at a Netflix price reduction and how a refund would be claimed. Italian policy and regulation get equal weight. An episode on the IO app asks whether the digital electoral card will arrive in time for the referendum, and pauses on the recurring pattern that every new wave of digitisation brings a matching wave of scams — as home banking once did. Another walks through law number 34 of 2026, the DDL PMI, and the new transparency rules for online reviews in tourism and restaurants, drawing on reporting by Mila Fiordalisi and the recorded positions of trade bodies including Assoutenti. A third asks whether the Italian government and Giorgia Meloni will follow other countries toward barring under-15s from social platforms. A consistent editorial instinct runs through all of it. Moroni is sceptical of solutions that answer a digital problem by piling on more procedure — age verification to buy a knife online, another certificate, another identity check — and he says as much rather than reading the announcement straight. He is equally alert to the presumption of guilt buried in some of these rules, and to the unsolved question of who verifies the verifiers once reviews carry real names. The format occasionally opens up. A longer episode on biological computing brings in Alberto Minetti, Ordinary Professor of Physiology and Biomechanics at the University of Milan, to explain an apparatus where living human neurons meet transistors, and how a closed-loop system trained on the free energy principle rewards correct action with a predictable signal and punishes error with randomness. Moroni's closing note there is characteristic: the experiments are happening now, not in some distant future, and human beings remain decisive in what comes next. Episodes end with an episode number for the archive, a link to a deeper written treatment, an address for listener stories and story tips, and a pointer to the free newsletter at ilcaffettino.it. There is a second interview strand called il caffettino per due, which the host notes drew a strong response for its episode with Albertino. The parting line is always the same. See you tomorrow, have a good day.