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Techmeme Chatter @chatter.techmeme.com · 3h

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Jay Peters @jaypeters.net · 8h

NEW: Discord tells me that "we have identified approximately 70,000 users that may have had government-ID photos exposed" in the data breach announced last week.

www.theverge.com/news/797051/...

Discord says 70,000 users may have had their government IDs leaked in breach

The ID pics had been submitted as part of age-related appeals.

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Techmeme Chatter @chatter.techmeme.com · 3h

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CAMERON WILSON @cameronwilson.bsky.social · 6h

We're now finding out that as many as 70,000 people had their government IDs provided to prove their ages leaked by Discord. Like I wrote last week, this is an inherent risk (and made greater by a rushed process) of getting platforms to do age checks

Discord says 70,000 users may have had their government IDs leaked in breach

The ID pics had been submitted as part of age-related appeals.

www.theverge.com

Techmeme Chatter @chatter.techmeme.com · 3h

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Colin Childs🍁 @phoul.bsky.social · 4h

It's almost like sitting on all of this private data is a bad idea.

Hmm. 🤔

Techmeme @techmeme.com · 4h

Discord estimates 70,000 users globally may have had government ID photos exposed in a September 20 third-party customer service data breach (Jay Peters/The Verge)

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Techmeme Chatter @chatter.techmeme.com · 4h

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Casey Newton @caseynewton.bsky.social · 6h

OK so it's both intergalactic and entirely confined to Australia. Got it

Techmeme @techmeme.com · 6h

Crypto exchange Gemini launches an Australian arm, Gemini Intergalactic Australia, to offer its services in the country after registering with regulator AUSTRAC (Reuters)

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Techmeme Chatter @chatter.techmeme.com · 4h

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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 4h

Decimating the alert system for critical infrastructure so as to provide for more raids of Home Depot parking lots

Patrick Howell O’Neill @patrickhowelloneill.com · 6h

New: DHS has reassigned hundreds of national security specialists, including cyber personnel from CISA, into jobs that support President Donald Trump’s mass deportation efforts and said it would fire anyone who refuses to go along. Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Techmeme Chatter @chatter.techmeme.com · 4h

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Casey Newton @caseynewton.bsky.social · 9h

They're nice people but they let Elon dog-walk them. The moment he proposed the takeover they didn't even bother to propose other scenarios that could generate more value for investors. And now X is worth dramatically less than Twitter ever was. That's what I mean when I say "ruined "

Techmeme Chatter @chatter.techmeme.com · 4h

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Benn Jordan @bennjordan.bsky.social · 7h

Your smartphone manufacturer doesn't think you deserve 1st or 4th amendment rights.
www.404media.co/apple-banned...

Apple Banned an App That Simply Archived Videos of ICE Abuses

Eyes Up's purpose is to "preserve evidence until it can be used in court." But it has been swept up in Apple's crackdown on ICE-spotting apps.

www.404media.co

Techmeme Chatter @chatter.techmeme.com · 5h

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Patrick Howell O’Neill @patrickhowelloneill.com · 6h

New: DHS has reassigned hundreds of national security specialists, including cyber personnel from CISA, into jobs that support President Donald Trump’s mass deportation efforts and said it would fire anyone who refuses to go along. Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Homeland Security Cyber Personnel Reassigned to Jobs in Trump’s Deportation Push

The US Department of Homeland Security has shifted hundreds of national security specialists, including cyber personnel, into jobs that support President Donald Trump’s deportations and said it would ...

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Techmeme Chatter @chatter.techmeme.com · 5h

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Eric Geller @ericjgeller.com · 5h

A bunch of folks have told me about this over the past few days. Patrick has good details here.

"It seems like it’s in an effort to get them to quit instead of firing them," a US official told me.

I'm off for the rest of the week (timing!) but I'll have a story on this shortly after I get back.

Patrick Howell O’Neill @patrickhowelloneill.com · 6h

New: DHS has reassigned hundreds of national security specialists, including cyber personnel from CISA, into jobs that support President Donald Trump’s mass deportation efforts and said it would fire anyone who refuses to go along. Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Techmeme Chatter @chatter.techmeme.com · 5h

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 9h

As I told @josephcox.bsky.social for this piece, if DHS is concerned that the actions of their own officers might inflame public opinion against the agency, they should work to increase oversight and accountability at the agency — rather than seek to have the evidence banned.

Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 10h

New: Apple banned an app that simply archived videos of ICE abuses. Rather than other apps that record ICE official's real-time location, Eyes Up is to "preserve evidence until it can be used in court." Videos from TikTok etc. Every submission manually reviewed

www.404media.co/apple-banned...

Techmeme Chatter @chatter.techmeme.com · 6h

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John Gramlich @johngramlich.bsky.social · 11h

It's hard to overstate the reach of YouTube in the US. 85% of adults use it, as do 90% of teens. A new @pewresearch.org survey shows that 85% of kids 12 and under use it, too (according to their parents) – including a majority of kids under the age of 2. www.pewresearch.org/internet/202...

Bar chart showing that 85% of U.S. children ages 12 or younger watch videos on YouTube, according to their parents. The chart is based on a May 2025 Pew Research Center survey of U.S. adults with at least one child age 12 or younger.

Techmeme Chatter @chatter.techmeme.com · 6h

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Victoria Song @vicmsong.bsky.social · 8h

I got distracted earlier, but my Pixel Watch 4 review. Pleasantly surprised to see how year after year, Google keeps pushing forward — and now leading — in a space where they once trailed so comically far behind.

www.theverge.com/tech/795383/...

The Google Pixel Watch 4 is the Android watch to beat

This wasn’t on my 2025 bingo card.

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Techmeme Chatter @chatter.techmeme.com · 6h

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Scary Mary Branscombe @marypcbuk.bsky.social · 14h

it's tempting to see the disquiet around Vercel playing a part in this (although representatives from Amazon, Callstack, Expo, Meta, Microsoft, Software Mansion and Vercel) but honestly, ALL load bearing 'open' software should have independent foundations for governance

Chris Aniszczyk @cra.dev · 1d

"Introducing the React Foundation: The New Home for React & React Native" engineering.fb.com/2025/10/07/o...

Techmeme Chatter @chatter.techmeme.com · 6h

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Alissa Walker @awalkerinla.bsky.social · 11h

This would make the Palisades Fire the second of two major urban fires of the past few years that have been started by rekindling; the other was Lahaina. The 1991 Oakland Hills was also rekindled by a six-acre fire that firefighters thought they had put out the day before

Uber driver accused of intentionally starting fire that destroyed Pacific Palisades

Authorities announced the arrest of 29-year-old Jonathan Rinderknecht, who is suspected of setting a fire on New Year’s Eve that eventually became the Palisades fire.

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Techmeme Chatter @chatter.techmeme.com · 6h

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Matthew Green @matthewdgreen.bsky.social · 1d

I hear that the EU ChatControl situation is going better today. I cannot believe how close the EU has gotten to passing this crazy regulation.

Techmeme Chatter @chatter.techmeme.com · 6h

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Alex Russell @infrequently.org · 9h

Ask: what did Apple want in return for bending the knee?

Answer: the end of the rule of law in Europe, and with it, an example for others.

Shot:

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SCOOP: Apple Quietly Made ICE Agents a Protected Class

Internal emails show tech giant used anti-hate-speech rules meant for minorities to block an app documenting immigration enforcement.

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Techmeme Chatter @chatter.techmeme.com · 6h

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Benjamin Braun @benbraun.bsky.social · 7h

Remember when dense networks of strategic cross-shareholdings among firms, native to coordinated market economies, went the way of the dodo?

The Rhenish model, Germany, Inc. undone by Anglo institutional investors?

Well, the dodo is back. Say hello to USA, Inc.
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Techmeme Chatter @chatter.techmeme.com · 8h

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Bobby Allyn @bobbyallyn.bsky.social · 13h

When investigators recovered the phone of the man suspected of starting the Palisades fire they found an image of a burning city he generated on ChatGPT www.latimes.com/california/s...

Uber driver accused of intentionally starting fire that destroyed Pacific Palisades

Authorities will announce an arrest in connection with the devastating Palisades fire, law enforcement sources said, and are expected to announce a cause of the blaze.

www.latimes.com

Techmeme Chatter @chatter.techmeme.com · 8h

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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 10h

"While on the phone with 911, Rinderknecht allegedly typed a question into ChatGPT: 'Are you at fault if a fire is lift because of your cigarettes'"

Bobby Allyn @bobbyallyn.bsky.social · 13h

When investigators recovered the phone of the man suspected of starting the Palisades fire they found an image of a burning city he generated on ChatGPT www.latimes.com/california/s...

Techmeme Chatter @chatter.techmeme.com · 8h

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Gateklons @gateklons.bsky.social · 14h

Remains to be seen whether EC (under US pressure) will accept likely non-compliant DMA compliance solutions.

Personally I doubt Meta will actually do away with consent-or-pay without being told to do so, repeatedly by the CJEU. Expect subterfuge and dark patterns.

www.ft.com/content/74a3...

Meta and Apple close to settling EU cases

US Big Tech groups in final stages of agreeing deal with Brussels to avoid series of escalating fines

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Techmeme Chatter @chatter.techmeme.com · 9h

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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 10h

If you scroll through the videos, tons are just rips from TikTok, Instagram, etc. It's probably stuff you've already seen. Some are even local and national media reports, like NBC News.

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Techmeme Chatter @chatter.techmeme.com · 9h

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Sam Leith @questingvole.bsky.social · 10h

This seems bad. Craven, abject and despicable are all epithets that also spring to mind.

Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 10h

New: Apple banned an app that simply archived videos of ICE abuses. Rather than other apps that record ICE official's real-time location, Eyes Up is to "preserve evidence until it can be used in court." Videos from TikTok etc. Every submission manually reviewed

www.404media.co/apple-banned...

Techmeme Chatter @chatter.techmeme.com · 9h

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 10h

Disney+ people canceling subscriptions over Jimmy Kimmel: Hell yeah

Same people but with their iPhone: I'll get one of those stickers like on my Tesla when Elon went crazy and I'll shake my head every time I have to use it so everyone knows I'm disappointed

Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 10h

New: Apple banned an app that simply archived videos of ICE abuses. Rather than other apps that record ICE official's real-time location, Eyes Up is to "preserve evidence until it can be used in court." Videos from TikTok etc. Every submission manually reviewed

www.404media.co/apple-banned...

Techmeme Chatter @chatter.techmeme.com · 9h

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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 10h

A good reminder that Big Tech is a handmaiden to fascism. www.404media.co/apple-banned...

Apple Banned an App That Simply Archived Videos of ICE Abuses

Eyes Up's purpose is to "preserve evidence until it can be used in court." But it has been swept up in Apple's crackdown on ICE-spotting apps.

www.404media.co

Techmeme Chatter @chatter.techmeme.com · 9h

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Christopher Mims @mims.bsky.social · 9h