🚨 NEW 🚨 This is scary. A spyware company launched attacks on journalists via malicious ads, no clicks, no interaction whatsoever required. Highly-targeted, though can be used for mass surveillance. The ad industry is deeply compromised. www.forbes.com/sites/thomas...

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Starting on November 1, 2026, Türkiye will require users to be at least 15 before using social media, and will mandate platforms to verify every new user’s age through the state’s e-government portal, e-Devlet, according to Türkiye Today. www.biometricupdate.com/202610/turki... <age gating the web

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A wonderfully detailed write-up of French local authorities' push to replace WhatsApp with Matrix from @billgoodwin.bsky.social at @computerweekly.bsky.social, who spoke with @adullact.bsky.social's Matthieu Faure about the project and what the future holds. www.computerweekly.com/news/3666512...

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My book, Unruly Subjects, is out with @manchesterup.bsky.social 📘✨ For the last decade, I’ve been researching Europe’s border struggles in Greece, in the Aegean archipelago. It's a look at how people - citizens and non-citizens - carve out spaces of hope amidst state violence and abandonment. (1/4)

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Appalling to see another government minister repeat the zombie statistic that 91% of CSAM is "self-generated". That figure was about *URLs*, not images. Once duplicates are removed, the IWF estimates just 27% are "self-generated". Embarassing incompetence. www.iwf.org.uk/annual-data-...

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