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Matthew Green @matthewdgreen.bsky.social · 21h

Germany has agreed to stop ChatControl for now, due to huge amounts of public pressure. Good job! The bad news is that it could come back as soon as December, and the German government has interpreted the feedback as a need to “moderate” the proposal.

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Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai @lorenzofb.bsky.social · 17h

SCOOP: Spyware maker NSO Group confirmed to us that the company has been acquired by a U.S. investment group.

NSO's spokesperson said the group "has invested tens of millions of dollars in the company and has acquired controlling ownership," but declined to say who is behind the investment.

Spyware maker NSO Group confirms acquisition by US investors | TechCrunch

NSO Group confirmed to TechCrunch that an unnamed group of American investors has taken “controlling ownership” of the surveillance tech maker.

techcrunch.com

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"spooky sukkot" daniel s. @self.agency · 20h

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The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 1d

Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.

Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 1d

ICE getting tailed like it’s a heist movie. Chicago is turning the tables.

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Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai @lorenzofb.bsky.social · 1d

NEW: A prominent Italian businessman was reportedly targeted with Paragon spyware, widening the surveillance scandal in Italy, according to local news reports.

techcrunch.com/2025/10/09/i...

Italian businessman's phone reportedly targeted with Paragon spyware | TechCrunch

The alleged targeting of prominent Italian businessman Francesco Gaetano Caltagirone now widens the Paragon spyware scandal in Italy to victims beyond journalists and activists.

techcrunch.com

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Andrew Couts @couts.bsky.social · 1d

NEW: The developers whose ICE-related apps were removed from the Apple App Store say they're preparing to fight back. @thiccreese.bsky.social and @lhn.bsky.social report: www.wired.com/story/apple-...

Apple Took Down ICE-Tracking Apps. Their Developers Aren't Giving Up

“We are going to do everything in our power to fight this,” says ICEBlock developer Joshua Aaron after Apple removed his app from the App Store.

www.wired.com

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Cristina Correani @moonlightshad1.bsky.social · 1d

Netanyahu non ha capito nemmeno stavolta.

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Antonella Napolitano @svaroschi.bsky.social · 2d

NEW Prominent Italian businessman among the targets of Paragon spyware

🧵 Francesco Caltagirone received a WhatsApp message on January 31. He has been at the center of a major banking operation involving the government.
@faffa42.bsky.social on @irpimedia.eu

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Prominent Italian businessman also among the targets of Paragon spyware

Francesco Gaetano Caltagirone received a WhatsApp message on January 31, along with 90 other users around the world. Since the end of 2024, he has been at the center of a major banking operation invol...

irpimedia.irpi.eu

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 2d

ICE is not only chasing down every random brown person in Chicago, they have a cameraman following them to film this for social media. Cruelty and inhumanity as content.

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 2d

This might be the worst ICE video yet, because it’s literally random dudes hanging around, and then a bunch of heavily armed thugs running them down completely out of nowhere, because they’re brown. It’s a nightmare that would have seemed excessive in Jim Crow. Everyone in America should see this.

Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 2d

ICE is not only chasing down every random brown person in Chicago, they have a cameraman following them to film this for social media. Cruelty and inhumanity as content.

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il Post @ilpost.it · 3d

Il governo ha rinnovato per cinque anni la convenzione con le aziende che forniscono lo SPID

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Fabio Chiusi @fabiochiusi.bsky.social · 2d

Ma per quale motivo il "dibattito" pubblico in Italia è interamente orientato intorno a Francesca Albanese sì/Francesca Albanese no?

Possibile che non si riesca a discutere di nulla senza farne un referendum su una persona?

È politica, non il televoto, santoddio.

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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 2d

Chemistry Nobel Prize awarded for advances tackling carbon and ‘forever chemicals’ on.ft.com/433HLA1

Chemistry Nobel Prize awarded for advances tackling carbon and ‘forever chemicals’

Three scientists win award for devising new materials with ‘unheard of properties’

on.ft.com

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onion person @junlper.beer · 3d

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thezero @thezero.org · 3d

To recap:

Discord required some users to provide IDs/driver licenses/passports to open support tickets on their Zendesk instance.

A threat actor compromised their Zendesk and accessed 1.5TB of age verification related photos.

Now Discord is being extorted otherwise everything will be leaked.

John Scott-Railton @jsrailton.bsky.social · 5d

NEW: breach of Discord age verification data.

Including some users passports & DLs

Age verification is a badly implemented data grab wrapped in a moral panic.

Mark my words, as age verification mandates expand, we'll end up more surveilled and less secure. 1/

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John Scott-Railton @jsrailton.bsky.social · 5d

NEW: breach of Discord age verification data.

Including some users passports & DLs

Age verification is a badly implemented data grab wrapped in a moral panic.

Mark my words, as age verification mandates expand, we'll end up more surveilled and less secure. 1/

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Troisnyx | actively seeking work @troisnyx.bsky.social · 3d

So you see, we fucking told you, Starmer, that proof of ID was a terrible idea

Proof-of-age ID leaked in Discord data breach

Video game chat platform tells users that driver’s licences and passports were among the forms of data accessed via a third-party customer service provider

www.theguardian.com

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The Verge @theverge.com · 7d

Discord customer service data breach leaks user info and scanned photo IDs

An “unauthorized party” may have accessed the names of users, the last four digits of credit card numbers, and more.

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Mike Stabile @mikestabile.bsky.social · 4d

Discord confirms that government IDs used for age-verification were compromised in a hack with a vendor.

Who could have predicted?

Oh, right.

Discord users suffer the first high-profile age-verification hack – and it's unlikely to be the last

Critics of age verification laws warned this was inevitable

www.tomsguide.com

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Kurt @flglchicago.bsky.social · 3d

Here’s video of the incident

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Pat Bagley @bagleycartoons.bsky.social · 3d

Thugs

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Jared Holt @jaredlholt.bsky.social · 4d

This really makes it sound like a Border Patrol agent tried to kill an anti-ICE activist in Chicago and DHS lied to cover for him

Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 4d

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government’s claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed.
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Attorney for woman shot by Border Patrol claims officer said 'Do something b-----' before shooting

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government's claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed. A judge ordered Martinez and a co-defendant released pending trial.

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Lock Down Your Life @lockdownyourlife.com · 4d

Correct. They lie. A lot. And then lie some more. And every single lie should be called out.

Jared Holt @jaredlholt.bsky.social · 4d

This really makes it sound like a Border Patrol agent tried to kill an anti-ICE activist in Chicago and DHS lied to cover for him

Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 4d

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government’s claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed.
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Matt Keeter @mattkeeter.com · 4d

finally, some Good Code

crates.io/crates/fibon...

Screenshot of the fibonacci-numbers README, which reads:

First install the version of this crate corresponding to the Fibonacci number you want to use:

cargo add fibonacci-numbers@186 --rename fib186

Then you can use the VALUE constant to get its value:

assert_eq!(fib186::VALUE, 332825110087067562321196029789634457848);

Screenshot of the dependency list, which is fibonacci-numbers at versions 184 and 185.

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