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»ID photos of 70,000 users may have been leaked, Discord says:
Discord, a messaging platform popular with gamers, says official ID photos of around 70,000 users have potentially been leaked after a cyber-attack.«
Discord wants to collect the data from you for "security" in order to evaluate you via ID. Now this, this shows how insecure data hunger is, especially in the age of BigTech.
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ID photos of 70,000 users may have been leaked, Discord says
The platform says hackers targeted a firm that helped to verify the ages of its users.

Like the Hayabusa2 mission,
which explored and returned samples from an asteroid,
#MMX will investigate the Martian moons -- and return a sample from Phobos to Earth.
The mission is scheduled for launch in JFY 2026, followed by an approximately five year journey for the round-trip to the Martian sphere and exploration of the system.
MMX aims to collect more than 10g of material from P…

»Harvest now, decrypt later« – That is, why you don't want to collect and store unnecessary data "just in case".

A district court judge denies Texas AG Ken Paxton's request for a restraining order preventing Samsung from collecting data on TV watchers (Ryan Autullo/Bloomberg Law)
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/tech-and-telecom-law/sa…

Samsung Defeats Texas’ Bid to Halt TV Tech Following Court Error
Samsung Electronics America can continue to use technology that Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) says allows it to unlawfully collect data on TV watchers, a judge ruled Friday.

The best Drake Maye cards to collect: A wide array of rookies and where to find his autographs https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7030076/2026/02/08/drake-maye-best-rookie-cards-patriots/

Part 3 - Moving forward
One of Mastodon's strengths is its decentralized structure. That also means no centralized marketing or development strategy focused on growth, particularly in Canada. Perhaps a volunteer group could take on that development plan and grow the Canadian user base.
- A vision of what an ideal future state would look like would benefit the planning and action steps. Collecting input from Canadian admins is recommended.
- We shouldn't burden existing admins beyond their current responsibilities. Volunteers would take actions like reaching out to politicians or government agencies.
Potential next steps:
1) Host a web meeting with interested Canadian admins to collect input on a shared vision for this project.
2) Collect volunteers who would be interested in reaching out to politicians or government agencies about creating a presence on Mastodon.
3) Select members of the group to be part of a steering committee.
4) Create a unique hashtag for this project for reporting and followers.

The reason for these prices isn't because this tape is amazing (though it would be amazing for actual recording as far as tapes are concerned), it is people who collect tapes like others do stamps or coins; and this one is very rare as it was very expensive back in the day.

Hier kommt der ultimative Service-Toot.
Basiswissen im #urheberrecht erspart Anwalt und Abmahnung.
Damit ihr damit im #phdlife und auch sonst an der #tuhamburg sicher unterwegs…

The rule of law / justice, is breaking down in the USA.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/07/us/renee-good-investigation-minnesota-trump.html?unlocked_article_code=1.KVA.DLYy.spYn8eVKzeX…

Prosecutors Began Investigating Renee Good’s Killing. Washington Told Them to Stop.
Federal prosecutors had a warrant to collect evidence from Ms. Good’s vehicle, but Trump administration leaders said to drop it. About a dozen prosecutors have departed, leaving the Minnesota U.S. attorney’s office in turmoil.

"Disable your mobile advertising ID (see instructions for iPhone/Android). Apple and Google assign unique advertising IDs to each of their phones. Location data brokers use these advertising IDs to stitch together the information they collect about you from different apps."
https://www.…

The Government Uses Targeted Advertising to Track Your Location. Here's What We Need to Do.
The online advertising industry has built a massive surveillance machine, and the government can co-opt it to spy on us.

I bought a TV and it wouldn't let me past the first setup screen unless I installed an app and gave it Internet access. I figured as much... What I didn't expect was that they would be so explicit about their spying: a big message popped up warning me that the TV channel I was watching would collect viewing data. Fuck you guys. F.u.c.k.y.o.u.
Tomorrow I'll set up the rules in pfSense so I can virtually give all these bastards the middle finger.
I feel like Don Quixote…

Second Georgia state House member accused of lying to collect pandemic unemployment (Jeff Amy/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/georgia-karen-bennett-unemployment-charges-502823a2f27ba9f38c52c4bda83d4d97
http://www.memeorandum.com/260106/p58#a260106p58

From Open Media
Sign Canada’s Digital Sovereignty Charter
Canadian democracy is under threat. Algorithms and deceptive content are shaping what we see, think, and share, while foreign tech giants collect our data without limits.
Our current laws and digital systems aren’t strong enough to protect us. This leaves Canadian voices, our choices, and our digital identities at risk. Parliament must step up and champion Canada’s Digital Sovereignty Charter now

Endorse Canada’s Digital Sovereignty Charter!
🇨🇦 Canada needs real digital sovereignty NOW to secure the future we deserve. ✍️ Endorse the Digital Sovereignty Charter’s five principles today!

Security company Koi finds browser extensions with 8M total installs that collected users' conversations with AI chatbots and sold them for marketing use (Dan Goodin/Ars Technica)
https://arstechnica.com/security/2025/1…

Browser extensions with 8 million users collect extended AI conversations
The extensions, available for Chromium browsers, harvest full AI conversations over months.

I have never really been a collector of anything. Maybe music for a while, back in the MP3 era, twenty years ago. Other than that, there was never something I felt passionate enough to collect, at least not in real life, not physical objects.
I never truly understood the collectors around me. To me, collecting always felt like a burden. Something you had to carry, move, store, maintain.
And yet, today, I realized something.…

Very tempted to collect a list of (publicly or otherwise funded) news outlets without paywalls, to be able to browse news feeds without getting stuck all the time.
Suggestions what to add? Geographically diverse preferably.
(Yes, I do pay for commercial media but not all of them.)

signed up to collect signatures for SF's overpaid CEO tax, aka Stand Up For SF. I figure I can collect for this and the transit funding measure at the same time.
#sfpol

Plot-Twist: Das tolle neue europäische soziale Netzwerk #W wird vom Toll-Collect-Konsortium gebaut 😱

I had to collect surveillance videos from various of private houses and businesses a lot recently.
I came across a variety of NVRs many of which were a challenge for my nerves and mental health.
Example 1:
Exporting a 15 minute sequence of 2 cameras. After 1.5 hrs the status display switched from 0% to 1%.
Example 2:
This specific NVR allowed only to set a starting time for the export. The end time was chosen _randomly_ by the NVR itself. Sometimes 2 minutes, so…

Trump Administration Considers Action Requiring Banks to Collect Citizenship Information (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/trump-administration-considers-action-requiring-banks-to-collect-citizenship-info-8e26f6d2?st=XHPK2b&reflink=article_copyURL_share
http://www.memeorandum.com/260224/p64#a260224p64

Global Game Jam 2026 was a blast (again). We managed to make a game to theme: mask.
Idle Trash Empire!
Play a Raccoon, collect trash, hire more raccoons, worlddomination
https://dominik-d.itch.io/idle-trash-empire

Idle Trash Empire by Dominik D., Richard_W, TheChriggu
Raccoon World Dominiation Trash Idleer

I will likely initiate an account transfer soon. Ideally, you won't need to do anything besides waiting for my new account to collect you.

Uber launches Uber AV Labs, a division to collect real-world driving data via sensor-equipped vehicles to train reinforcement learning models for its partners (Sean O'Kane/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/27/uber…

Exclusive: Uber launches an 'AV Labs' division to gather driving data for robotaxi partners | TechCrunch
Uber is not developing its own robotaxis again; instead it plans to collect and offer data. It's a bet that more volume will help autonomous vehicle partners solve the weirdest edge cases.

@fkamiah17@syzito.xyz hey just wanted to say thanks for your threads covering protest stuff and for all the alt text you're writing! I'm one of those people who won't boost stuff that's not accessible but I also like to boost awareness of protests & resistance and I appreciate the work you're putting in to collect info and make it accessible!

https://duckduckgo.com/bangs is very close to this too, but obviously lets DDG collect data during the redirect.

RE: https://shelter.moe/@velvetshadow/115797599839531598
What an awesome project to collect all these break-ins!

Confronting the Challenges of Sensitive #OpenData
When governments collect sensitive data about private individuals, personal #privacy and governmental #transparency come into conflict. How…

Confronting the Challenges of Sensitive Open Data
When governments collect sensitive data about private individuals, personal privacy and governmental transparency come into conflict. How should we resolve this tension?

Why it matters to create and maintain open-source infrastructure for security monitoring including collection of forums and malicious communication channels.
This is a strong example (Google dark web report is discontinued) of the risks of relying solely on commercial vendors. If a capability does not align with their business interests or generate sufficient revenue, it can be discontinued at any time. Open-source infrastructure helps ensure continuity, transparency, and long-term ac…

UK crypto buyers are required to share their account details with tax officials starting January 1 or face penalties, as the UK seeks to collect unpaid taxes (Rachel Clun/BBC)
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ckgl2je65klo

Crypto users forced to share account details with tax officials
The move is designed to ensure people pay all relevant tax on buying and selling crypto.

Since he seems to like to collect trophies…
Here's a campaign for you to clean out your closets and send all your old trophies to Trump at the White House

"selected from a database of Irish people who have agreed to take part in surveys"
I'm not saying the results aren't true, just that the methods used to arrive at them do not inspire any confidence at all
Surveyors *used to* try to collect representative samples

Almost one in 10 young Irish adults believe Holocaust is a ‘myth’
Survey finds 18 per cent believe number of people killed was greatly exaggerated

Downloading all my old Gmail attachments using this great Python script tool
https://github.com/mjseeley/Gmail-Attachment-Downloader
Finding some great old photos, but also realising how much digital crap we collect!

DATA: Spojení s menšími SPD pomohlo, účel splnilo i Spolu | @… - spolehlivé zpršvy
https://www.irozh…

Nová data o koalicích i ‚pseudokoalicích‘. Spojení s menšími skrylo slabší SPD, účel splnilo i Spolu
Sněmovní volby zakryly reálnou sílu mnohých politických stran. Agentura Data Collect proto zkoumala „střeva“ koalice Spolu, spojenectví menších stran a SPD i Pirátů se Zelenými.

I drove 256 miles in the Boxster today to collect the remainder of ski-trip luggage from Wicklow, and help Mum & Dad with their Australian tourist visa applications.
That trip, a mixture of motorway and B-roads really cemented it for me: that little blue thing is the best car I've ever owned (possibly ever driven?) If you have the chance, I heartily recommend obtaining one..
It's now also utterly filthy, but wearing the road-muck very well.

Kid1 has discovered text-based adventure games and is having a blast. Who knew the kids of 2025 would leave the PS5 to collect dust while playing what are effectively a souped-up versions of Hunt the Wumpus and Zork?

FTC says it won’t enforce COPPA against proper use of age verification tools https://therecord.media/ftc-says-it-wont-enforce-coppa-age-verification

The Sky: A Film Lesson in “Nature Study” (1928) — The Public Domain Review
https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/the-sky-a-film-lesson-in-nature-study-1928/

Tim Hardin - "Suite for Susan Moore and Damion - We Are - One, One, All In One" (1969)
The high lonesome sounds combined with all the family photos scream "She's left me". What a way to end the 60s.
#NowPlaying #TimHardin

Google agrees to pay $135M to settle a proposed class action lawsuit alleging that the tech giant programmed Android to illegally collect users' cellular data (Jonathan Stempel/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boa

Trump administration considers requiring banks to collect citizenship information (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2026/02/24/trump-banks-citizenship-status/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260224/p113#a260224p113

ProxyFL: A Proxy-Guided Framework for Federated Semi-Supervised Learning
Duowen Chen, Yan Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.21078 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2602.21078 https://arxiv.org/html/2602.21078
arXiv:2602.21078v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Federated Semi-Supervised Learning (FSSL) aims to collaboratively train a global model across clients by leveraging partially-annotated local data in a privacy-preserving manner. In FSSL, data heterogeneity is a challenging issue, which exists both across clients and within clients. External heterogeneity refers to the data distribution discrepancy across different clients, while internal heterogeneity represents the mismatch between labeled and unlabeled data within clients. Most FSSL methods typically design fixed or dynamic parameter aggregation strategies to collect client knowledge on the server (external) and / or filter out low-confidence unlabeled samples to reduce mistakes in local client (internal). But, the former is hard to precisely fit the ideal global distribution via direct weights, and the latter results in fewer data participation into FL training. To this end, we propose a proxy-guided framework called ProxyFL that focuses on simultaneously mitigating external and internal heterogeneity via a unified proxy. I.e., we consider the learnable weights of classifier as proxy to simulate the category distribution both locally and globally. For external, we explicitly optimize global proxy against outliers instead of direct weights; for internal, we re-include the discarded samples into training by a positive-negative proxy pool to mitigate the impact of potentially-incorrect pseudo-labels. Insight experiments & theoretical analysis show our significant performance and convergence in FSSL.
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The U.S. State Department has ordered certain public libraries nationwide
to cease processing passport applications,
-- disrupting a long-standing service that librarians say their communities have come to rely on
and that has run smoothly for years.
The agency, which regulates U.S. passports, began issuing cease and desist orders to not-for-profit libraries in late fall,
informing them they were no longer authorized to participate in the Passport Acceptance Fac…

US State Department halts passport services at nonprofit libraries
The State Department has ordered nonprofit public libraries to stop taking passport applications, cutting off a popular local service. In late fall, the agency started sending cease and desist orders, which take effect on Feb. 13. It says these libraries cannot collect and keep passport processing fees under federal rules. Librarians say the service has worked for years and residents still call every day. Members of Congress from several states pushed back in a letter to Secretary of State Marc…

The FTC says it won't enforce COPPA against companies using age verification tools as long as they use the collected data only to verify a user's age (Suzanne Smalley/The Record)
https://therecord.media/ftc-says-it-wont-enforce-coppa-age-verification

FTC says it won’t enforce COPPA against proper use of age verification tools
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) on Wednesday issued a policy statement advising industry that it will not bring enforcement actions against website and online service providers who collect, use and share personal data using age verification technologies.

Following federal cuts to history-focused organizations, the president of the Canadian Historical Association, Colin Coates, sent this letter to Marc Miller, the Minister of Canadian Identity and Culture.
One thing might not be obvious: Coates's reference to Carney's recent Quebec City speech suggests Canadians' need for historical context right now. He doesn't agree with Carney's claims. In fact, most Canadian historians would dispute them.

Neil Young - "After The Gold Rush" (1970)
Somehow I went all these years without acquiring this record, until today. Apparently this lp was inspired by a Dean Stockwell script for a movie that never got produced.
#NowPlaying #NeilYoung

Supreme Court will decide on use of warrants that collect the location history of cellphone users (Mark Sherman/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/supreme-court-location-tracking-warrants-9d8a0b0bcfcbc0a0891676e0e0a5f0c6
http://www.memeorandum.com/260116/p110#a260116p110

Russian BlueDelta hackers ran phishing campaign against Ukrainian webmail users https://therecord.media/russian-bluedelta-hackers-ran-phishing-ukraine-webmail

Tim Sweeney: the Ninth Circuit's decision on Epic v. Apple contempt ruling appeal "completely shuts down" App Store rules allowing Apple to collect "junk fees" (Jay Peters/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/843265/apple-epic-games-tim…

Tim Sweeney on the future of Fortnite after another win over Apple
Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney discusses what’s next for Fortnite after a big appeals court ruling in its legal dispute against Apple’s App Store policies.

Smart TV manufacturer ordered to stop collecting viewer data while court case proceeds in Texas https://therecord.media/hisense-ordered-to-stop-data-collection-texas-lawsuit