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@cdarwin@c.im
2026-03-18 19:32:06

The FBI has resumed purchasing reams of Americans’ data and location histories to aid federal investigations, the agency’s director, Kash Patel, testified to lawmakers on Wednesday.
This is the first time since 2023 that the FBI has confirmed it was buying access to people’s data collected from data brokers, who source much of their information
— including location data
— from ordinary consumer phone apps and games, per Politico.
At the time, then-FBI director Christ…

FBI is buying location data to track US citizens, director confirms | TechCrunch
FBI director Kash Patel told lawmakers that the agency is actively purchasing commercially available location data, which can track Americans without needing a warrant.

@NFL@darktundra.xyz
2026-03-17 20:45:32

Tom Brady would 'never say never' to competing in flag football at 2028 Olympics nfl.com/news/tom-brady-would-n

Tom Brady would 'never say never' to competing in flag football at 2028 Olympics
Tom Brady famously retired and unretired from the NFL during the 2022 offseason. Could the seven-time Super Bowl champion, who retired "for good" in 2023, pull another reversal to go for gold at the 2028 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles?

@cdarwin@c.im
2026-03-16 23:58:13

Cryptocurrency supporters in Washington
have spent the last four years working to rinse the stench of Sam Bankman-Friedoff of legislative efforts that could legitimize digital assets.
Now, as the convicted former crypto tycoon publicly vies for a pardon,
the industry’s leading cheerleaders in Congress are urging Donald Trump not to take the bait.
Bankman-Fried,
who was convicted in 2023 on fraud charges after his FTX crypto exchange collapsed,
has been hea…

@netzschleuder@social.skewed.de
2026-03-15 23:00:04

spanish_highschools: Spanish high schools (2023)
Directed networks of friendships obtained through a social survey of spanish high school students.
This network has 238 nodes and 3755 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Weighted, Metadata
networks.skewed.de/net/spanish

spanish_highschools: Spanish high schools (2023). 238 nodes, 3755 edges. https://networks.skewed.de/net/spanish_highschools#2
@anneroth@systemli.social
2026-03-13 12:00:29

👀
„Auch Claudia Roth (Grüne), Weimers Amtsvorgängerin, soll sich in der Vorbereitung des Buchhandlungspreises einmal beim Verfassungsschutz abgesichert haben. Allerdings nur in einem einzigen Fall, in dem sie dazu einen Anlass sah, 2023.“
sueddeutsche.de/politik…

Verfassungsschutz: Wo Wolfram Weimers Prüfpraxis zum Standard werden soll
Das Bundesinnenministerium plant umfassende Überprüfungen von Förderempfängern durch den Verfassungsschutz. Die Rechtsgrundlage ist wacklig.

@EarthOrgUK@mastodon.energy
2026-03-12 03:23:06

On Website Technicals (2023-02) - Tech updates: Apache scripts, FOSDEM energy and Java, GraalVM AOT. - earth.org.uk/note-on-site-tech

On Website Technicals (2023-02)
Tech updates: Apache scripts, FOSDEM energy and Java, GraalVM AOT.

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-03-09 23:40:51

Sources: PE firm EQT is exploring a sale of Linux distribution vendor SUSE in a deal that could value it at up to $6B; SUSE was valued at ~$2.96B in 2023 (Reuters)
reuters.com/business/eqt-eyes-

@benb@osintua.eu
2026-03-03 20:55:49

Chart of the week: Russia lost more territory than it gained for the first time since 2023: benborges.xyz/2026/03/03/chart

Tracking information about the Russian War against Ukraine — Modern art makes me want to rock out
A blog running on Micro.blog

@Mediagazer@mstdn.social
2026-03-11 12:45:54

Binance files a New York defamation suit against Dow Jones over the WSJ's February 23 article on the crypto exchange's handling of Iranian-linked transactions (Francisco Rodrigues/CoinDesk)
coindesk.c…

DOJ investigates Iran’s alleged use of Binance as exchange sues Wall Street Journal
The situation adds pressure to Binance, which is already operating under a compliance monitor following its $4.3 billion anti-money laundering and sanctions settlement in 2023.

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-03-11 12:56:11

Binance files a New York defamation suit against Dow Jones over the WSJ's February 23 article on the crypto exchange's handling of Iranian-linked transactions (Francisco Rodrigues/CoinDesk)
coindesk.c…

DOJ investigates Iran’s alleged use of Binance as exchange sues Wall Street Journal
The situation adds pressure to Binance, which is already operating under a compliance monitor following its $4.3 billion anti-money laundering and sanctions settlement in 2023.

@BBC3MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk
2026-03-09 00:30:23

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#ThroughTheNight
- BBC Proms 2023: Paradise and the Peri
A rare chance to hear Schumann's opera-oratorio about the child of a fallen angel and a mortal who makes a sequence of offerings to the guardians of Paradise.
Relisten now 👇
bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002s4zr

@Sustainable2050@mastodon.energy
2026-03-23 20:02:54

Q: How does the filling level of Dutch gas storages compare to that of previous years?
A: Not good.

Line graph showing filling level over the course of years 2019-2026. Data for 23 March show levels varying from 19.93% in 2022 to 57.08% in 2023. And then 6.28% today.
@memeorandum@universeodon.com
2026-03-23 19:30:44

Jared Kushner's Affinity Partners investment firm just filed a disclosure showing over $6 billion in assets under management for 6 clients in 2025 (compared to $4.8B in 2024 and $3B in 2023) (Wendy Siegelman/NewsTRACS)
newstracs.com/jared-kushners-a
memeorandum.com/260323/p102#a2

@EarthOrgUK@mastodon.energy
2026-03-08 03:23:06

Paris Gard du Nord Train Station Afternoon Piano (2023-09) - Ambient busy big city train station with a talented chap tickling the public piano. #fieldRecording #travel #Paris -

Paris Gard du Nord Train Station Afternoon Piano (2023-09)
Ambient busy big city train station with a talented chap tickling the public piano. #fieldRecording #travel #Paris

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-03-09 21:40:45

Filing: Anthropic says it had $5B in all-time revenue since 2023 and could lose billions after clients paused deal talks due to supply-chain risk designation (Paresh Dave/Wired)
wired.com/story/anthropic-clai

Anthropic Claims Pentagon Feud Could Cost It Billions
Executives at the AI startup say companies paused deal talks after the Trump administration labeled it a supply-chain risk, warning that the fallout could cause a major revenue hit.

@cellfourteen@social.petertoushkov.eu
2026-03-01 11:36:23

Ministry - Goddamn White Trash (Official Music Video) - Premiered on 17 Aug 2023
youtube.com/watch?v=8imYWda6MOs

@seeingwithsound@mas.to
2026-03-23 23:34:09

(2023) Developing an interactive agent for blind and visually impaired people #IMX23

@raiders@darktundra.xyz
2026-03-06 22:22:28

Raiders QB Aidan O'Connell Just Keeps on Kicking si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-ve

Raiders QB Aidan O'Connell Just Keeps on Kicking
The Las Vegas Raiders have shuffled through many quarterbacks since the 2023 season. Love him or hate him, Raiders quarterback Aidan O'Connell remains valuable.

@hex@kolektiva.social
2026-03-22 10:47:38

Oh hey....
cultpunk.art/2023/06/30/read-t

@karlauerbach@sfba.social
2026-01-25 02:23:51

I am thinking that we are getting close to a domestic version of the March 31, 2004 Fallujah ambush but with ICE goons in lieu of Blackwater goons.
reuters.com/world/middle-east/

Iraqi ambush of Americans made a mockery of 'Mission Accomplished'
A year after President George W. Bush launched the 2003 U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, four U.S. civilian security contractors in SUVs took an ill-fated turn into the Iraqi city of Falluja.

@cdarwin@c.im
2026-04-08 23:02:03

Shortly after the war in Gaza began in 2023,
Bellingcat introduced a free tool authored by University College London lecturer and Bellingcat contributor, Ollie Ballinger,
that was able to estimate the number of damaged buildings in a given area.
This helped monitor and map the scale of destruction across the territory as Israel’s military operation progressed. 
Bellingcat is now introducing an updated version of the open source tool
— called the Iran Conflict D…

@Mediagazer@mstdn.social
2026-03-20 23:21:02

Sources: Starz lays off 7% of staff, 10 months after separating from Lionsgate; it laid off 10% of staff in 2023 (Nellie Andreeva/Deadline)
deadline.com/2026/03/starz-lay

Starz Lays 7% Of Staff 10 Months After Separation From Lionsgate
Starz has undergone a round of layoffs today, which impacted 7% of the company's employees.

@cowboys@darktundra.xyz
2026-04-02 23:59:48

Past/Present: CB Stephon Gilmore officially retires dallascowboys.com/news/past-pr

Past/Present: CB Stephon Gilmore officially retires 
Stephon Gilmore, a 13-year veteran who made five Pro Bowls, announced his retirement this week. He played for six teams, including one season with the Cowboys in 2023. 

@fanf@mendeddrum.org
2026-01-22 15:42:01

from my link log —
The linguistic registers of Rust.
without.boats/blog/the-registe
saved 2023-03-08

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-03-31 23:56:09

NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani allows city agencies to use TikTok, with some restrictions, reversing a 2023 ban his predecessor enacted over data security concerns (Chris Sommerfeldt/Politico)
politico.com/news/2026/03/31/m

@jackie@social.linux.pizza
2026-03-18 23:55:07

xeiaso.net/blog/alvis/
It's kind of hilarious that Xe wrote this in 2023, I read it then and thought it was too far fetched because no IT dept would ever trust an AI to *talk to customers* for them, let alone have access to the database and other things to try to fix problems on its own, and n…

Alvis
Xe Iaso's personal website.

@cowboys@darktundra.xyz
2026-04-02 23:18:53

Past/Present: CB Stephon Gilmore officially retires dallascowboys.com/news/past-pr

Past/Present: CB Stephon Gilmore officially retires 
Stephon Gilmore, a 13-year veteran who made five Pro Bowls, announced his retirement this week. He played for six teams, including one season with the Cowboys in 2023.