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Source: the 2024 cyber-attack by the Scattered Spider group on Transport For London resulted in the theft of personal data of ~10M people (Joe Tidy/BBC)
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cz0ggkr2g77o

2024 TfL hack affected around 10 million people, BBC can reveal
TfL insists it has "kept customers informed throughout this incident and will continue to take all necessary action".

bookcrossing: BookCrossing ratings (2005)
Two bipartite networks representing people and the books they have interacted with, from the BookCrossing website. Nodes represent users and books, and an edge connects a user to a book they have interacted with. The file book_implicit is unweighted; edge weights in book_ratings give the rating a user assigned to a book.
This network has 445801 nodes and 1149739 edges.
Tags: Economic, Preferences, Unweighted, Weighted

That kind of coverage achieves something even individual posts on social media cannot: it was not just the people with lots of followers, not just the people favored by the recommender algorithm or the tides of popularity, but instead a broad cross section of whoever was out there.
I don’t know who’s offering coverage like that in Iran like that right now. It may not exist. But even the BBC article at the top — filtered, edited, formatted, and tidied to sound like a BBC article, but still individual voices of people who are living through it — even that is welcome.
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Thousands of people gathered at the steps of the Texas capitol on Saturday
to protest against the construction of a border wall through Big Bend,
in a show of bipartisan opposition to the White House’s plans.
More than 2,000 people attended the rally, according to Texas Public Radio,
holding signs with slogans such as
“No Big Bend NP Wall,”
“Big Love for Big Bend”
and “No al Muro” – Spanish for “No to the Wall.”
Organizers gathered postcards f…

https://bsky.app/profile/josephcox.bsky.social/post/3mgdnr5iob22n

I’m seeing more comments to my blog from people asking for the latest support / bug / gap / etc for testing I’ve performed.
I write these posts so people can do it on their own.
I look forward to people commenting with their own (rigorous) testing results instead. Some day.

This is a book recommendation for a good book. I think more people should read it. #bookstodon

Another app to delete
"Spain hits back at Pavel Durov over mass Telegram post on social media ban plan" | Spain | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/feb/05/spain-hits-back-at-pavel-…

Q&A with UpScrolled founder Issam Hijazi, who says the non-algorithmic social app hit 5M users, mainstream apps were censoring pro-Palestinian content, and more (Katie Drummond/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/the-big-interview-podcast-upscrolled-…

He Started a Social Network Alone. Then 5 Million People Signed Up
Issam Hijazi launched UpScrolled after users alleged censorship on other platforms. Nine months later, its user base is soaring—while Hijazi tries to catch up with his own success.

Assistant Special Envoy to the Shield of the Americas Lewandowski, to you!
https://bsky.app/profile/nwayne66.bsky.social/post/3mgdoralrdc22