Got all of my #BandcampFriday purchases in, with 1hr left to spare! 😅
✨ My highlights:
kompany by mote booker, smino & phoelix: https://montebooker.bandcamp.com/track/…
#ICEBlock, an iPhone app that allows users to anonymously report sightings of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents,
⭐️has rocketed to one of the coveted top spots in Apple’s U.S. App Store rankings.
The upshot: Criticism from U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi helped get it there.
Most of ICEBlock’s users
— about 20,000
— are in Los Angeles,
where ICE ra…
Researchers detail a technique Meta uses to glean some of its logged-in users' browsing histories from Chromium-based browsers on Android via web identifiers (Dan Goodin/Ars Technica)
https://arstechnica.com/security/2025/06/headline-to-come/
letade igenom mitt flöde för att hitta den här. Jan-Emanuel kommer att slutföra den tyska idealismen! https://aggregatet.org/post/17379
Trump doesn't want information on ICEBlock to be shared, so... UPDATE: I understood however there are possible serious security issues with this app
#trump
Der #Mangold wächst seit Monaten wie in den vergangenen Jahren prächtig und die nächste #Ernte steht an.
Wer auch mit einem #Balkongarten starten möchte, hier mein
ICEBlock, an app for anonymously reporting ICE sightings, goes viral overnight after Bondi criticism (Zack Whittaker/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/01/iceblock-an-app-for-anonymously-reporting-ice-sightings-goes-viral-overnight-after-bondi-criticism/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250701/p144#a250701p144
Meta und Yandex haben die Browsernutzung von Android-Nutzer'innen mit einer perfiden und bisher unbekannten Tracking-Methode deanonymisiert und damit die strikte Trennung von Apps ausgehebelt.
Das in Websites eingebettete Tracking-Script (also z.B. "Facebook Pixel") konnte sein _fbp-Cookie über einen internen Port (z.B. 127.0.0.0:12387) senden und die Facebook-App hat auf diesem Port gelauscht und das Cookie abgefangen. So wurde ein Webseitenbesuch, bei dem Facebook eing…
This piece came out a month ago and yet this is the first time I have seen it....
"US contractors say their colleagues are firing live ammo as Palestinians seek food in Gaza"
https://apnews.com/article/palestinian
Run by an anonymous software engineer,
the twitter account
"Pentagon Pizza Report"
tracks Google data for pizzerias around the military complex in Arlington Virginia.
(Anonymized Google Maps data are aggregated from “timeline” or “location history” on phones, including visits made to the establishments.)
Often posting multiple times a day on X, PPR frequently singles out spikes in pizzeria activity,
-- allowing its 200,000-plus followers to dra…