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ICEBlock, an app for reporting sightings of ICE officials, was the top free app in the US App Store on Tuesday; the app claims to collect no personal data (Emma Roth/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/696584/iceblock-tracking-app-white-house-…

ICE-tracking app tops App Store
ICEBlock, an app that lets users track and report sightings of Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials, reached the top of the App Store after receiving criticism from the Trump administration.

»Waze für Einwanderungsbehörde – ICEBlock-App geht nach Regierungskritik viral:
Eine Crowdsourcing-App gegen Abschiebeeinsätze in den USA wird von der US-Regierung massiv kritisiert. Doch das hat der App erst richtig zum Erfolg verholfen.«
Das die Bevölkerung in der USA auf Trump's Rassismus reagiert war ja klar und nun gibt es sogar ein App dafür – leider nur für auf dem iPhone.
📱

Waze für Einwanderungsbehörde: ICEBlock-App geht nach Regierungskritik viral
Eine Crowdsourcing-App gegen Abschiebeeinsätze in den USA wird von der US-Regierung massiv kritisiert. Doch das hat der App erst richtig zum Erfolg verholfen.

Google veröffentlicht App zum Testen lokaler KI-Modelle
Google hat ohne große Ankündigung eine App veröffentlicht, mit der Nutzer lokale KI-Modelle auf ihren Smartphones ausprobieren können.
https://ww…

App gegen US-Einwanderungsbehörde nach Regierungskritik auf Platz 1
Eine Crowdsourcing-App gegen Abschiebeeinsätze in den USA wird von der US-Regierung massiv kritisiert. Doch das hat der App erst richtig zum Erfolg verholfen.

The details of the FY 2026 #NASA Budget Request are in: https://www.nasa.gov/fy-2026-budget-request/ (May 30 documents) - and they are as devastating as feared. Lowlights - there are no highlights - are discussed by
https://bsky.app/profile/theplanetaryguy.bsky.social/post/3lqg6n4pdrc2h
https://bsky.app/profile/jtuttlekeane.bsky.social/post/3lqg7zzfgo224
https://bsky.app/profile/spacepolicyonline.bsky.social/post/3lqg6tjfthf2a
https://bsky.app/profile/carlrodriguez.bsky.social/post/3lqg7nttoek2c
https://bsky.app/profile/spacepolicyonline.bsky.social/post/3lqg7lr5kgh27
https://bsky.app/profile/leighfletcher.bsky.social/post/3lqg5x3if6s2i
https://bsky.app/profile/spacepolicyonline.bsky.social/post/3lqgagt4g6q2a
https://bsky.app/profile/spacetides.bsky.social/post/3lqg6eapuws2l
https://bsky.app/profile/jfoust.bsky.social/post/3lqg2wsbf7s2k
https://bsky.app/profile/tedpavlic.bsky.social/post/3lqg4ccpgnc25
https://bsky.app/profile/ohdearz.bsky.social/post/3lqgdmenyj22c4
https://bsky.app/profile/interplanetary.bsky.social/post/3lqgc5xvny22s
and in the articles https://spacenews.com/nasa-budget-would-cancel-dozens-of-science-missions-lay-off-thousands/ and https://www.science.org/content/article/dozens-active-and-planned-nasa-spacecraft-killed-trump-budget-request.
The NSF Budget Request is at least as disastrous:
https://bsky.app/profile/kgandersen.bsky.social/post/3lqg6c5nnas2h
https://bsky.app/profile/dangaristo.bsky.social/post/3lqg43xmdws2r
https://bsky.app/profile/carlrodriguez.bsky.social/post/3lqg6icalsc2t
https://bsky.app/profile/thirstygecko.bsky.social/post/3lqg6mojywk2s

#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…

ICEBlock, an app for anonymously reporting ICE sightings, goes viral overnight after Bondi criticism | TechCrunch
The citizen app for anonymously reporting ICE agents and raids went viral after criticism from the U.S. Attorney General.

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

Sparkasse: Fehler der S-pushTAN-App legt Online-Banking lahm
Das Online-Banking der Sparkassen war am Sonntag gestört. Transaktionen konnten mit der S-pushTAN-App nicht freigegeben werden.
https://www…

#Remepy's mobile app shown to rewire brain, modulate immune system and improve mood in adults with subjective cognitive decline

How these people still have jobs is beyond me. https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:ihpglfqq3dapqjmwl2ntktil/post/3lsw5cog3nc2z

Apples App-Store-Transparenzbericht: Welche Apps wo zensiert wurden
Apple hat Zahlen vorgelegt, wo die meisten Apps aus dem App Store entfernt werden mussten. Der Transparenzbericht enthält weitere interessante Angaben.

Ukrainian-founded Grammarly to acquire AI email app Superhuman: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/02/ukrainianfounded-grammarly-to-acquire-ai.html

Corbyn calling out the 'Labour' warmongers.
#warmongering

Stadtspaziergänge ohne Hitze-Stress: Diese App navigiert dich durch den Schatten
Nie mehr Hitzestress in der Stadt: Eine neue App navigiert Fußgänger auf den kühlsten Wegen und vermeidet sonnige Strecken.

lovely thread and poem by Muni bus operator @…!
https://bsky.app/profile/thatmc.bsky.social/post/3lqoirslm2k23

That Mack (@thatmc.bsky.social)
Willie Brown Middle School is a San Francisco 6-8 in the Bayview District. For the entire ‘24-‘25 school year, I have been driving the 44 O’Shaughnessy bus that stops there right after school gets out. That trip has been the busiest and most challenging part of my working day.

Oh great, now we’ll be reliant on the Chinese for sodium and iron. \s https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:twjze4qqf6fgxz33ct52wlnl/post/3lsxhwuota22g

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

Hehehehe.
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:nhgn6szkgcnqr7ahumqjfyul/post/3lvgcyq36sc27

Vega9000 (@vega9000.bsky.social)
OK amigos, alerta de quê? Incêndios? Calor? Invasão alienígena? Concerto do Abrunhosa?

@… Hello! 👋 I saw this game and thought of you! https://store.steampowered.com/app/1977610/Long_Gone/ :)

Long Gone on Steam
Decades have passed, play as a survivor stranded in an old suburban neighborhood. Explore the secret lives of people Long Gone through their forgotten belongings and platform through overgrown streets in this 3D pixel narrative adventure inspired by games of old. Oh, and watch out for the zombies.

Definitely not under the radar in Toronto, I see their logo everywhere, both on restaurants and drivers.
Didn’t know it was a delivery app from Vancouver
#fantuan #buycanadian

This is an app #Apple promotes in the App Store.
When I look at the IAP list I feel deep inside that #Apple protects me from scams in their App Store.

Also die 1A, Rezept APP kann man echt in die Tonne treten. Hab nun 2mal was mit der App bestellt, beim erstenmal hat wohl eine Mitarbeiterin der Apotheke wohl vergessen einen Haken zu machen, so das ich bescheid bekomme. Und beim 2ten mal, musste ich nachzahlen, obwohl in der App 0,00€ stand.
Nach kurzer Diskussion, hab ich bezahlt, aber trotzdem ist ein bitteren Nachgeschmack.
Beim nächsten Mal, werde ich anrufen oder halt direkt wieder zu Apo gehen und bestellen ;D

I'm sorry but aren't pros/cons lists supposed to cover both faces of the coin? The list here is very one-sided for immich:
https://www.wetransco.de/2024/09/immich-app-and-nextc…

Europe urgently needs to find and shut down all the ways by which foreign billionaires - like Trump's billionaire brigade - can influence elections here.
https://

Revealed: How foreign billionaires pump millions into British politics
The Elon Musk-shaped hole in Starmer’s Election Bill

Fajna okazja!
Darmowa prenumerata #Gazeta #Wyborcza do końca roku. Mi weszło jakoś to 15 stycznia z tym kodem.
https://www.

https://bsky.app/profile/bluetravelchannel.bsky.social/post/3lqkwiedbds2r
and
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6TXYue1ezs
go remarkably well together

Ja, Sparkasse. Nein, Sparkasse.

Check out today's Metacurity for the most critical infosec developments you might have missed over the weekend, including
--German police ID Trickbot's "Stern,"
--BitMEX thwarts Lazarus Group attack,
--Shin Bet thwarted 85 Iranian cyberattacks aimed at civilians,
--Vibe coding app Lovable failed to fix critical flaw,
--China's quantum satellite Micius has a severe security flaw,
--Russia's GRU Unit 29155 has a hacker team,
--…

Law enforcement took down cybercriminal malware testing service AVCheck
German police ID Trickbot's "Stern," BitMEX thwarts Lazarus Group attack, Shin Bet thwarted 85 Iranian cyberattacks aimed at civilians, Vibe coding app Lovable failed to fix critical flaw, China's quantum satellite Micius has a security flaw, Russia's Unit 29155 has a hacker team, much more

More than half of America’s billion-dollar start-ups were founded by at least one immigrant,
and a quarter have a founder who arrived as a student.
https://bsky.app/profile/economist.com/post/3lqkuci6bxe2a

Noch einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Sparkasse: Fehler der S-pushTAN-App legt Online-Banking lahm

Woof. 5 years since I kicked off my “[overlay] Will Get You Sued” series, which helped lead to a million dollar fine earlier this year by the FTC against accessiBe for its constant lies.
https://bsky.app/profile/overlaytimeline.com/post/3lss6jbuwec27

Cursor launches a web app and Slack integration for managing AI coding agents from mobile and desktop (Maxwell Zeff/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/30/cursor-launches-a-web-app-to-manage-ai-coding-agents/

Cursor launches a web app to manage AI coding agents | TechCrunch
Cursor is launching a web app thats allow users to manage a network of AI coding agents via browser, on desktop and mobile.

Flo settles class action lawsuit alleging improper data sharing https://therecord.media/flo-app-settlement-class-action-suit-data-sharing-meta

Temporary freebie: A shooty, slashy, RPG-y game mixing retro and modern sensibilities. A blend of influences from Gauntlet & Smash TV to Zelda & Angband, Ampersat is a handcrafted adventure but with appeal to Roguelite fans. Battle ASCII creatures in colorful areas & free letters to return language to the village! https://

Man, I love this.
Original post: #jimmykimmellive

What a huge bunch of gaping assholes. https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:5o6k7jvowuyaquloafzn3cfw/post/3lsw3zs7e7s2b

If you're on Steam and wanna grab a game I really dig a lot, Ampersat is currently free (grab it now!) - I've played the demo - it's a twin stick shooty, slashy, RPG-ish roguelite type game with Gauntlet, Smash TV and Angband influences. Psyched I have the full game now. 🔥
https://store.steampow…

Save 100% on Ampersat on Steam
A shooty, slashy, RPG-y game mixing retro and modern sensibilities. A blend of influences from Gauntlet & Smash TV to Zelda & Angband, Ampersat is a handcrafted adventure but with appeal to Roguelite fans. Battle ASCII creatures in colorful areas & free letters to return language to the village!

Senator Ron Wyden: "Paramount just paid Trump a bribe for merger approval. When Democrats retake power, I’ll be first in line calling for federal charges. In the meantime, state prosecutors should make the corporate execs who sold out our democracy answer in court, today." — Bluesky
https://bsky.app/profile/wyden.senate.gov/post/3lsyea6d6hc2t

“If the abundance movement is to succeed, it must identify the defenders of scarcity and broaden the playbook to either overcome those interests or change their incentives to bring them on the team.” 🎯
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app

Numbers app on MacOS just asked me to leave a star review in App Store.
Exfuckinscuse me,
WTF does an app included with the operating system ask me for an App Store review?
WHY?
FOR WHAT PURPOSE?

From Bill McKibben
"Let me state it plainly: we are rushing into the most dangerous period in human history, and the Trump administration seems determined that we do it blindly. It’s inconceivably stupid, and it’s entirely real. And the planet doesn’t care: physics will not cut us any slack because we elected a moron."

Meanwhile, back in the real world
There's too much carbon in the atmosphere, so it's hot

Today it’s Marie’s biscuits, egg and bacon, tea and coffee. Nothing but a lot of therapy today! #TogetherBreakfast https://photos.app.goo.gl/NuFahWY4UBAQVRHs9

Wait, people say "scotch-free"? 😕
Do they mean they got away without paying for their scotch drink? 🤔
#English

02:31—Good Night #Fediverse! 😴💤
I just made myself a new banner for myself, using (mostly) open source software. The only exception was that I used a random website to add an outline to my Rudolf Rocker image, I was too lazy to get out of bed and use GIMP on my PC for that step. For everything else, I used this tool from GitHub: 

Very iiiiiinteresting...👀 https://mastodon.social/@BenRiceM/114772697889686953

Noch einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Stadtspaziergänge ohne Hitze-Stress: Diese App navigiert dich durch den Schatten

Wir sind mit dem #Wohnmobil vor dem Regen geflüchtet und sind jetzt wieder in der ☀️😎 angekommen.
Gerade haben wir die passende #ios App dafür gefunden - #sunonly um die Sonne zu finden, im App Store verf…

Hey @…, found your keyboard
:fdroid: https://f-droid.org/packages/io.github.dkter.aaaaa

aaaaa | F-Droid - Free and Open Source Android App Repository
a minimalist keyboard

Trump Threatens to Prosecute CNN for Reporting on ICEBlock as App Hits No. 1 (Matt Novak/Gizmodo)
https://gizmodo.com/trump-threatens-to-prosecute-cnn-for-reporting-on-iceblock-as-app-hits-no-1-2000623019
http://www.memeorandum.com/250702/p143#a250702p143

Just investigated the app myself. It wants “always” location permissions, which is concerning. I’d like a bit more trust and accountability from the developer before enabling that.
Left it on my phone, and will enable location tracking if and when I make a report.

Sen. Murkowski admits Trump's budget bill is harmful after she folded and voted yes on it:
"I know that in many parts of the country, there are Americans that are not going to be advantaged by this bill"
(Skip to 1:20 for her admissions)
https://bsky.app/profile/amwcl…

it feels important to keep saying: SPA as an app framework default (and not an opt-in feature) was a mistake

heise | Multitalent Vorschau: Was Apples Preview-App für macOS alles kann
Die Standard-App Vorschau auf dem Mac kann mehr als nur Bilder und PDFs anzeigen. Entdecken Sie, wie Sie Formulare ausfüllen, Inhalte ergänzen oder schwärzen.

Google quietly released an Android app called Google AI Edge Gallery on GitHub, letting users run some AI models from Hugging Face locally on their phones (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/05/31/goog

Google quietly released an app that lets you download and run AI models locally | TechCrunch
Last week, Google quietly released an app, Google AI Edge Gallery, that lets users run a range of openly available AI models from the AI dev platform Hugging Face on their phones.

Photo of the Day.
Israel threatened reprisals if the press filmed Gaza from above during airdrops.
This is why. A scene of destroyed & burnt out buildings in what is left of Gaza City, the pre-war home to 800,000 people.
Credit to Post photographer Heidi Levine who defied the ban & took this.
[Post by @newseye on Bluesky: …

News Eye (@newseye.bsky.social)
Photo of the Day. Israel threatened reprisals if the press filmed Gaza from above during airdrops. This is why. A scene of destroyed & burnt out buildings in what is left of Gaza City, the pre-war home to 800,000 people. Credit to Post photographer Heidi Levine who defied the ban & took this.

Sure, mate. Attacking the airbases where you keep the bombers you use to kill the civilians of the nation you invaded is "terrorism".
Because of course it is. What else could it be? The find out phase of FAFO? Never!
#Russia

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:bbp2b224lro3bfnzcqwwnkfo/post/3lqn3cekuas27
Every time I see Tom Homan's name, I laugh. That's exactly the kind of name that some lizard creature pretending…

emptywheel (@emptywheel.bsky.social)
I've been genuinely surprised that there have yet to be leaks of tactical orders DHS has given to ICE teams on face coverings & courthouse arrests--it's a sign goons like it. But this Sat story in WashEx DOES have leaks fr Stephen Miller being an asshole. https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/white-house/3425297/stephen-miller-eviscerated-ice-officials-deportation-numbers/

This needs to be made clear to everyone. A HUGE SWATH OF AMERICA IS NOT LISTENING.
Original post: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:2orsuabrdskjpuglpru77po2/post/3lsxfkpdnjk24

Yesterday I made sourdough cinnamon oat muffins… then immediately ran away for a bike/ferry adventure! Egg bacon tea coffee. #TogetherBreakfast https://photos.app.goo.gl/r5NRvpEFvQHDDdXX7

I am very disturbed to find that the latest beta of @… was randomly inserting ads for itself in my toots and using a "Rich Text" mode that I never asked for as the excuse, while hiding their ad from me in-app, as below. I apologize to my followers for the junk and despite paying for the "Mona Pro Max" license, I do not expect to run the app …

Rewe Pay: Supermarktkette erweitert Bonus-App um Bezahlfunktion
Die Supermarktkette Rewe erweitert seine Bonus-App: Kunden können damit ab dem 1. Juli ihre Einkäufe auch bezahlen. 
https://www.

This is an open threat. https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:4usmserhjqkvhldgedfjb3jw/post/3lsyfjmsb3s26

Matt Novak (@paleofuture.bsky.social)
“Rest assured, I hold all the levers, and have all the cards.”

The Big Ugly Bill is trash! But it isn’t law—yet. It still has to be passed in the House.
Flood the phone lines! Tell your Representative: #VoteHellNo
☎️ Capitol Switchboard: (202) 224-3121
https://

Tea, which claims to make dating safer for women, is the #2 app in the US App Store, despite multiple security flaws exposing private chats, photo IDs, and more (Ben Lovejoy/9to5Mac)
https://9to5mac.com/2025/07/29/tea-app-secur…

Tea app security breaches reveal private chats and photo ID
Two major security vulnerabilities in the Tea app – which claims to make dating safer for women – have exposed...

ICEBlock: This iPhone app alerts users to nearby ICE sightings
https://www.cnn.com/2025/06/30/tech/iceblock-app-trump-immigration-crackdown

Trump regime plans to cancel all climate research at @noaa.gov , including its Mauna Loa CO2 measurements, running since 1958.
Last year's budget was $220 million. Next year's would be $0.
https://bsky.app/profile/rarohde.bsky.social/post/3lsucn5ckys2k

Robert Rohde (@rarohde.bsky.social)
Proposed NOAA budget zeros out ALL climate laboratories and cooperative institutions. GFDL, NSSL, GML, etc. This appears to also end the US greenhouse gas sampling network, including at Mauna Loa, the oldest continuous carbon dioxide monitoring site on Earth. https://www.commerce.gov/sites/default/files/2025-06/NOAA-FY2026-Congressional-Budget-Submission.pdf

Trump wins the appeals court lottery in D.C.
The panel hearing emergency appeals this month appears to be: Rao, Katsas, Walker.
All three are Trump appointees — in fact the only Trump appointees on the DC Circuit.
They are handling one of the key tariff appeals.
https://b…

Elon Musk’s Boring Co. Is Turning Into a $900 Million Flop: Nearly a decade ago, the billionaire said he’d build a hyperloop. Since then, he’s mostly built tunnels for Teslas and his own employees.

Original post: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:6m7rbdgaz5v…

iOS 26 erlaubt Auswahl von KI-Modell in Kurzbefehlen
Apple erlaubt künftig ein erweitertes KI-Scripting mit seiner Kurzbefehle-App. Nutzer haben insgesamt drei Möglichkeiten.
https://www.h…

Was there breakfast today? Yes! Did my message with Marie’s corn muffins, strawberries from the yard, bacon egg tea and coffee make it online? No!
#TogetherBreakfast https://photos.app.goo.gl/RpenJiQrTbifU7uA7

How the delivery app Fantuan grew its US presence to 50 cities since 2019 by focusing on Asian cuisines, with an app design reminiscent of Chinese platforms (Alex Harring/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/05/31/under-the-

Under-the-radar delivery apps are gaining ground in the U.S. by courting Asian restaurants
Asian restaurants are utilizing delivery apps like Fantuan and HungryPanda instead of or in addition to bigger-name options.

Another fun fact: "trust the experts" is not a feature of totalitarianism, despite what this brainworm in a human skin suit says. It's actually the opposite - totalitarianism silences the scientific community of experts in favor of top-down dictates from strongmen.
https://

This is part of the overall assault on knowledge that the administration is undertaking.
Everything that has made this nation a shining beacon in any way whatsoever is being dismantled
-- with the worst aspects of American history being held up as aspirational.
Please call Congress if you are able.
🛰️🧪

TikTok launches a new version of its app called TikTok Pro in Germany, Portugal, and Spain, allowing users to earn "virtual sunshine" to support charities (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/01/tiktok-launche…

TikTok launches 'TikTok Pro' in Europe with built-in charity program | TechCrunch
The app features TikTok's new "Sunshine Programme," which allows users to support charitable organizations.

Donald Trump is charging us into a “controlled disintegration” of everything that made America the envy of the world—that includes any appeal to equality under the law, rules-based order, and evidence-based science and economics.
Original post: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:yobyq

TikTok launches its e-commerce platform, TikTok Shop, in Japan, marking its 17th market, following launches in the US, the UK, Malaysia, Thailand, and others (Danielle Popov/South China Morning Post)
https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article

TikTok Shop launches in Japan as app faces uncertainty in US
The popular short-video app is seeking to diversify its global footprint while reducing its reliance on the US market.

Berliner Datenschutzbehörde will DeepSeek in App Stores sperren lassen
Die Berliner Beauftragte für Datenschutz greift gegen die KI-App DeepSeek durch. Da diese Daten nach China überträgt, soll sie in App Stores gesperrt werden.

“Pity the nation whose people are sheep,
and whose shepherds mislead them.
Pity the nation whose leaders are liars, whose sages are silenced,
and whose bigots haunt the airwaves.
Pity the nation that raises not its voice,
except to...acclaim the bully as hero”
-- Lawrence Ferlinghetti, 1958
#poetry

Sam Rasnake (@samrasnake.bsky.social)
“Pity the nation whose people are sheep, and whose shepherds mislead them. Pity the nation whose leaders are liars, whose sages are silenced, and whose bigots haunt the airwaves. Pity the nation that raises not its voice, except to...acclaim the bully as hero” Lawrence Ferlinghetti, 1958 #poetry

A whistleblower details Clothoff, an AI-powered nudify app that owns 10 similar services; Clothoff had 27M visitors in H1 2024 and produced 200K images daily (Spiegel Online)
https://www.spiegel.de/internationa…

Using AI to Humiliate Women: The Men Behind Deepfake Pornography
AI-generated naked images of real women is the business model behind Clothoff, a dubious "nudify" app that has millions of visitors. Now, a whistleblower has provided details of just how cynical the site's operators are.

Nach Bugfix: Bitchat Mesh von Jack Dorsey nun im App Store
Bitchat Mesh, ein auf Bluetooth basierendes Kommunikationswerkzeug kann fürs iPhone geladen werden. Erst mit Update klappt die Verbindung zu Android.
http…

Sources: Anthropic's revenue hit a pace of $4B/year, up almost 4x from the beginning of 2025; Cursor maker Anysphere has poached two of Claude Code's leaders (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/an

Anthropic Revenue Hits $4 Billion Annual Pace as Competition With Cursor Intensifies
Anysphere, the maker of Cursor, an artificial intelligence-powered coding app, has hired two leaders of Anthropic’s competing coding product, Claude Code, according to one of the leaders. The move is notable because Cursor relies on AI from Anthropic to power its app and is one of Anthropic’s ...

Words to Win By
https://bsky.app/profile/wordstowinby.bsky.social/post/3lqb4dcrodc2a

lol I'm gonna need an emoji of this or something
https://bsky.app/profile/truebluemajority.bsky.social/post/3lvc7muokqk2w

TrueBlueMajority (@truebluemajority.bsky.social)
ask and ye shall receive

Tea Dating Advice: Datenleck bei App für Frauen, die sicheres Dating verspricht
Ein Cyberangriff auf eine App zur Hintergrundrecherche über Männer hat tausende Bilder und Dateien von Nutzerinnen offengelegt.

Apples Einladungen-App mit erstem Feature-Update
Die seit Februar erhältliche Apple-App zur Verwaltung von Events auf dem iPhone bekommt neue Funktionen. Bislang aktualisierte der Konzern nur sparsam.
https://ww…

Senator Warnock:
"We are engaged in Robin Hood in reverse ... this is socialism for the rich."
https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3lssbc5k6id2j

ew omg people stay out of the subway water! 😬😭
https://bsky.app/profile/stroud.bsky.social/post/3lvc3u5iv6s2f

Hernandez D. Stroud (@stroud.bsky.social)
Welp, I guess I’m not taking the subway home!

US senators reintroduce the bipartisan Open App Markets Act to challenge Apple's and Google's grip on app stores; the 2021 version never made it to a floor vote (Amber Neely/AppleInsider)
https://appleinsider.com/articles/25/0

Bipartisan Open App Markets Act revived to challenge Apple's App Store control
Big Tech's grip on the app economy is under fire again as lawmakers reintroduce the bipartisan "Open App Markets Act" aimed at breaking Apple and Google's app store dominance.

So I have to live in a police state because full grown men who are scared to ride the subway in broad daylight hate the fact that their Uber driver speaks Spanish?
https://bsky.app/profile/sophiethebear.bsky.social/post/3lqidgo3tkc2v

"Total Victory": Gericht weist Google-Berufung im Epic-Rechtsstreit zurück
Googles Berufung gegen die Jury-Entscheidung im App-Store-Streit mit Epic Games wurde abgewiesen. Nun könnten die Konsequenzen real werden.

Midea PortaSplit: Fremde Klimaanlagen ferngesteuert
Die Hitzewelle rollt an – und die PortaSplit-Klimaanlagen von Midea haben zum Teil Probleme. Die App bedient fremde Geräte.
https://www.

There’s something deeply wrong with a society that watches people get snatched by masked men in unmarked cars & looks the other way.
Rep @kamlager-dove.house.gov, describes an alarming system of relocating detainees, making it nearly impossible for their families to find them or get legal counsel.
https://

Sources: Sweden-based AI-powered app builder Lovable is set to raise $150M led by Accel at a ~$1.8B valuation, as investors rush to back "vibe coding" startups (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/01bc8e7e-6c45-4348-b89f-00e091149531

Swedish AI ‘vibe-coding’ start-up Lovable valued at almost $2bn
Two-year-old group nears more than $150mn in new funding as investors swarm around AI coding businesses

Senate interrupted by someone screaming:
You people are awful
https://bsky.app/profile/acyn.bsky.social/post/3lsrs2tvv4v2z

Sources: Samsung and Perplexity in talks about an investment, preloading Perplexity's app on Samsung devices, adding its search to Samsung's browser, and more (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Trump wants to be the American version of China's Xi.
He wants to be a dictator.
He's acting that way right now and daring us to stop him.
https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3lsqvvqxwaj2a

Hakeem Jeffries,
when asked if he's endorsed Zohran Mamdani,
says "No... We don't really know each other well. Our districts don't really overlap."
https://bsky.app/profile/kenklippenstein.bsky.social/post/3lsrb3jns6c2o

Trump believes in American
Non-Exceptionalism.
His claim that America is as amoral as authoritarian regimes has long been false. But he longs to make it true.
https://bsky.app/profile/davidrlurie.bsky.social/post/3lsqzsdnsbs25

Joni Ernst, at her town hall last night.
When the crowd said people will die due to Medicaid and SNAP cuts,
she said:
"well we all are going to die."
https://bsky.app/profile/aprilglick.bsky.social/post/3lqfej7g3ck2e

Rep Maxwell Frost:
1,500 at our Townhall in Wichita, Kansas this morning.
Working people across the nation are pissed off about this rigged economy, and they’re showing up.
Wichita’s Congressman refuses to host a Townhall, so we pulled up instead.
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