Proton VPN just shared that it received 47 legal orders through June this year, all seeking to identify users behind specific server IPs and timestamps. Every one was denied, because its no-logs policy leaves no connection data to hand over.
Per its transparency report, updated July 14, that brings the total since 2019 to 458 orders, with zero fulfilled. The company keeps no connection logs under Swiss law, so there is nothing to produce even when an order is binding.
Ça fait des semaines que j'observe les nouveaux qui débarquent sur Monero.
Tous se cassent la tête sur les mêmes 5 questions.
J'ai écrit un site pour ces gens-là. Et un bot pour ceux qui veulent juste commencer à accumuler.
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REMINDER: Starting Friday, May 8th, Instagram DM's will no longer be end-to-end encrypted.
Instagram hasn't explained why they're dropping end-to-end encryption, which raises some pretty obvious questions about what they plan to do with your private messages.
This is how the power law looks like if you keep all the data points below the power law (what is above is bubble noise).
How somebody can look at this and not being completely amazed?
This should be the logo in any Bitcoin conference and not ignored or brushed off.
Be John McAfee
- Bitcoin Billionaire
- born in 1945, Britain, raised in the U.S.
- math genius + lethal programmer
- helped build software for NASA’s Apollo program
- worked at NASA, Xerox, Univac
- killed his abusive father at 15
- wanted in multiple countries, Belize, Guatemala, U.S.
- survived 50+ assassination attempts
- marries a former escort who was literally hired to poison him
- creates McAfee Antivirus, the first mainstream antivirus on earth
- becomes insanely rich, lands on Forbes lists
- walks away from his own company before it becomes a giant
- reinvents himself as a crypto prophet + digital freedom extremist
- runs for U.S. president twice just to troll the system
- mentors the whole “leak culture,” inspires whistleblowers like Snowden
- early Bitcoin whale, makes a fortune, loses a fortune, repeats
- hacked Hillary Clinton’s office by sending “free computers” filled with spyware
- belize saga: shootouts, dead dogs, missing neighbors, corrupt police
- lives on a yacht in the Caribbean with ex-military guards
- openly boasts about never paying income tax
- he used to blackmail the official U.S. agencies
- escapes Guatemalan custody by faking a heart attack
- becomes a Monero Maxi and calling bitcoin a shitcoin with 0 use case
- arrested years later in Spain, found dead in prison
- fans still claim he faked his death + dropped coded messages
- part tech pioneer, part outlaw, part cult figure
- the most ungovernable man the tech world has ever seen
Is there anything left for him to shock the world with?
Dato il successo che sta ottenendo, mi tocca fare coming out: ho avuto io la stupida idea di creare #PUCS, il portale (satirico) della PA più pazzo del mondo.
https://t.co/b1SKZI4idf
Mi sono decisamente divertito a farlo, spero abbia strappato un sorriso anche a voi.
Your phone isn’t secretly listening to you (at least in most cases). It's also not reading your thoughts...
The real reason ads feel that creepy? Honestly, it’s worse.
Let’s talk about how digital ad profiling actually works.
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We’ve identified industrial-scale distillation attacks on our models by DeepSeek, Moonshot AI, and MiniMax.
These labs created over 24,000 fraudulent accounts and generated over 16 million exchanges with Claude, extracting its capabilities to train and improve their own models.
il motivo per cui bitcoin riflette ancora dinamiche così speculative nel prezzo è che il 95% della popolazione non lo conosce davvero
se leggi cosa dicono di bitcoin gli utenti fuori dalla nostra bolla, soprattutto in momenti volatili, lo vedi chiaro come l'acqua
più la gente lo capirà negli anni (e fidati, lo farà), più le dinamiche di prezzo si adegueranno di conseguenza