Jack Dorsey says Apple removed his Bluetooth P2P messaging app Bitchat, used during protests in Iran and Uganda, from China's App Store following CAC's demands (Stephen Katte/Cointelegraph)
https://cointelegraph.com/news/bitchat-jack-dorsey-china-app-store-…
Ayatollah Killed In U.S. Airstrike. What do you think? https://theonion.com/ayatollah-killed-in-u-s-airstrike/
The Federal Bureau of Investigation has so far been unable to access data from a Washington Post reporter’s iPhone
because it was protected by Apple’s "Lockdown Mode"
when agents seized the device from the reporter’s home, the US government said in a court filing.
FBI agents were however able to access the reporter’s work laptop by telling her to place her index finger on the MacBook Pro’s fingerprint reader.
This occurred during the January 14 search at the…
Immigration agents draw guns, arrest activists following them in Minneapolis (Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/minneapolis-immigration-crackdown-arrests-29ab636ca0f7db5389418463ca8b67c7
http://www.memeorandum.com/260203/p81#a260203p81
I need a few incoming webmentions for testing (okay, this sounds like a really fishy attempt to generate likes … I promise that it is not 😂). So would you all please like and repost this piece I recently wrote? You can also read it, of course.
https://matthiasott.com/articles/webspace-inv…
What a shocking development.
https://www.arlnow.com/2026/03/03/man-arrested-after-allegedly-touching-womans-hair-on-metro-near-clarendon/
Iranian cryptoasset outflows reached ~$10.3M between February 28 and March 2 amid US and Israeli strikes; in 2025, Iran's crypto ecosystem was worth $7.8B (Chainalysis)
https://www.chainalysis.com/blog/iranian-crypto-outflows-spike-after-airstrikes/
There were not too many headlines about this but there should be, the war in Ukraine has spread to the Mediterranean. This ship was destroyed by a drone apparently.
https://theukrainianreview.info/sanctioned-tanker-under-russian-flag-catches-fire-…
Noem faced Republican criticism
Republicans largely kept the focus on the large numbers of migrants who came into the country under former President Joe Biden,
portraying Noem as the leader of a cleanup effort of the former administration’s mess.
But she did come under some harsh questioning by members of her own party.
Senator Tillis, who called on Noem to resign following the shootings in Minneapolis, criticized her for erroneously arresting American citizens, for…
ICE demanded Maine sheriff's employment records following his criticism of arrest (Bangor Daily News)
https://www.bangordailynews.com/2026/02/03/mainefocus/mainefocus-police-courts/ice-demanded-maine-sheriffs-employment-records/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260203/p129#a260203p129