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[D-Web Technologies @DWebTechSA]

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[Hedgie @HedgieMarkets]

🦔Pflugerville, Texas just killed its Flock Safety contract unanimously after a resident filed a public records request and found 459 outside law enforcement agencies had run 1.6 million searches on the city's 28 cameras in six months. Local police ran 5,078. That's 315 outside searches for every one by Pflugerville PD. The city had told residents nationwide data sharing was turned off. The city manager ordered the lenses physically covered before the council even voted. Pflugerville joins 56 municipalities that have cut ties with Flock in 2026.

My Take
One resident with a public records form did what the city, the police department, and Flock either couldn't or didn't want to do. That's how thin the oversight was on a system searching 1.6 million plates. Nobody was auditing this. Nobody was checking whether the assurances they gave residents were true. It took a guy filing paperwork to find out.

56 cities have walked away from Flock this year and I think that number accelerates once other communities realize they can file the same request. Flock has $500 million in VC money and contracts in 4,000 cities, and civil liberties groups say under 1% of scanned plates ever connect to a crime. Pflugerville's police chief looked at his own data and wouldn't recommend keeping the contract. Every city still running these cameras is one records request away from finding out what their own ratio looks like, and most of them haven't asked yet.

Hedgie🤗

[Pubity @pubity]

Twitter 2 has officially launched.

A judge gave the tentative ruling that X "abandoned" its rights to the Twitter trademark when Elon Musk tried to sue the new Twitter, so they've launched their own platform to compete with X.

[Dexerto @Dexerto]

A PBS station has taken legal action after losing access to more than 50TB of programming and archives spanning 70 years of television history

It claims its files became trapped after its cloud storage provider apparently went out of business

[International Cyber Digest @IntCyberDigest]

‼️ BREAKING: Delta confirms an unauthorised Wi-Fi network appeared aboard flight DL591 from Las Vegas to Atlanta on 10 August, carrying passengers home from DEF CON 34. Attackers were possibly using a WiFi Pineapple in flight.

Crew ACARS messages, intercepted by ground receivers, warned corporate security of a "scam wifi called Delta Wifi Fast" targeting other passengers.

Delta says nothing was hacked. Crew killed the Wi-Fi for 30 minutes.

[Dexerto @Dexerto]

A new website turns your streaming libraries into a virtual Blockbuster

You can browse Netflix, Prime Video, and more on video store shelves

[D-Web Technologies @DWebTechSA]

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[Coinvo @Coinvo]

𝐖𝐎𝐖: 🇩🇰 Denmark is the first European country to make your face, voice, and body, your intellectual property.

[GitHub @github]

We heard you. And we agree.

In light of recent developments in physical media, GitHub is proud to announce that you can now obtain your public repo on CD-ROM.

Keep it. Lend it to friends. Pass it on to your children.

Your code is physically yours, forever. Until you lose it, let's be real.

Order yours today.
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[unusual_whales @unusual_whales]

One-third of Americans' wealth is now tied to the stock market, a record high, per NYP

[Billy Howell @billyjhowell]

Just learned about the concept of a “telescope ranch” in Texas.

People pay to have their $10,000+ telescope rigs set up in the middle of TX to avoid light pollution.

Every night the roof rolls back off the warehouses.

Then you can remote in to your telescope and use it from anywhere in the world.

[Captain Insight @CaptainInsightX]

The US government told a 23-year-old math student in 1995:

"Your code is a weapon. You need an arms license to share it."

He sued them. Won. Then built the encryption protecting
every message you've ever sent. 🤯

Meet Daniel J. Bernstein 🇺🇸

> Born in New York, 1971.
> Finished high school at 15. PhD in Math from UC Berkeley at 24.
> 1995: wrote new encryption code to protect people online.
> US government classified it as a military weapon.
> Required an arms export license ~ like selling missiles ~ just to publish it.
> He filed a lawsuit against the United States government.
> Fought for 4 years through federal courts.
> Won in 1999. Court ruled: writing code = free speech. 🚀
> One lawsuit. Changed internet privacy law forever.
> Then got to work.
> Designed Curve25519 ~ the math locking your private messages.
> Designed ChaCha20 ~ the code scrambling your internet traffic.
> Designed Ed25519 ~ the signature securing your logins online.
> Built qmail ~ an email server almost nobody has ever hacked.
> Signal. WhatsApp. SSH. WireGuard. Tor.
> All of them. His math. Your privacy.
> Puts $1,000 of his own money on the line for any bug in his code.
> No interviews. No fame.
> Still a math professor in Chicago. Just ships code.

He didn’t seek power or profit ~ he shipped protection.

Absolute Legend 🐐

[Polymarket @Polymarket]

NEW: Toyota files to build $2,000,000,000.00 vehicle assembly line at its San Antonio complex.

[D-Web Technologies @DWebTechSA]

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[Watcher.Guru @WatcherGuru]

JUST IN: 🇺🇸 Senator Elizabeth Warren says the crypto Clarity Act will "blow up the economy."

"It pushes more of the economy into crypto!"

[Bitcoin Magazine @BitcoinMagazine]

🇺🇸 The new Federal Reserve Chair, Kevin Warsh:

"If you're under 40, Bitcoin is your new gold."

[John Hultquist @JohnHultquist]

Google Threat Intelligence Group is dropping our latest AI Threat Tracker report today, which covers several threats we are watching through a variety of means. The report includes some details of the first 0day exploit we've found developed with AI. 1/x https://t.co/klvOrX31xv

[Watcher.Guru @WatcherGuru]

JUST IN: 🇺🇸 Coinbase CEO Brain Armstrong says today is a "historic day for crypto and for the future of digital assets in America."

"Let's get CLARITY done."

[Andrew Curran @AndrewCurran_]

BlackRock CEO Larry Fink predicts a compute futures market.

[Wendy Hanamura @whanamura]

Hope to see you at the SF #DWeb Meetup next Tuesday, May 5 at Frontier Tower-- SF's Hacker space extraordinaire. We'll be on the 14th Fl. Register here: https://t.co/7zz9RIJ0sd

[Brian Roemmele @BrianRoemmele]

Toronto Police just seized SMS Blasters, a new fake cell towers never seen before in Canada.

It hijacks over potentially 100s of 1000s of phones in a region at once, sending fake bank/Canada Post texts, and disable the real cell service (even 911 calls).

It is noted that so far over 13 MILLION disruptions took place.

Three men charged

Dafeng Lin, 27
Junmin Shi, 25
Weitong Hu, 21

Cyber crime wrapped up looking like a quick scam is part of the new asymmetrical warfare and we should expect much more of this.