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FBI investigating ‘suspicious’ cyber activities on critical surveillance network
https://www.cnn.com/2026/03/05/politics/fbi-investigating-cyber-breach-critical-surveillance-network?cid=ios_app

FBI investigating ‘suspicious’ cyber activities on critical surveillance network
The FBI identified a suspected cybersecurity breach on a sensitive network used to manage wiretaps and intelligence surveillance warrants, and officials working to determine the seriousness of the incident, according to an FBI statement and a source familiar with the investigation.

X overhauls its Creator Subscriptions with new features including exclusive threads, a refreshed subscriptions paywall, and a shareable subscriptions card (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/05/x-re

X revamps Creator Subscriptions with new features, like exclusive threads and shareable cards | TechCrunch
X is rolling out a series of new features for creators, like the ability to offer paid threads and other marketing tools.

Like global search and replace but don’t like surprises?
Check out serpl – a handy little command-line app that gives you a visual preview of the changes you are about to make. You can even go in and remove the replacements you don’t want from the source previews. The regex support appears to be basic, however (I couldn’t get a negative lookbehind to work).

X overhauls its Creator Subscriptions with new features including exclusive threads, a refreshed subscriptions paywall, and a shareable subscriptions card (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/05/x-re

X revamps Creator Subscriptions with new features, like exclusive threads and shareable cards | TechCrunch
X is rolling out a series of new features for creators, like the ability to offer paid threads and other marketing tools.

In case you've ever wondered, MS stands for Machine Surveillance.
As in Machine Surveillance Teams, Machine Surveillance Word, Machine Surveillance Onedrive, and so on.
We're hamsters running round MS's maze, while they monitor everything we do.

Axon Enterprise Inc. is working with a Canadian police department to test the addition of face recognition technology (FRT) to its body-worn cameras (BWCs).
This is an alarming development in government surveillance that should put communities everywhere on alert. 
FRT brings a rash of problems.
It relies on extensive surveillance and collecting images on individuals, law-abiding or otherwise.
Misidentifications can cause horrendous consequences for individuals, includ…

Axon Tests Face Recognition on Body-Worn Cameras
Axon Enterprise Inc. is working with a Canadian police department to test the addition of face recognition technology (FRT) to its body-worn cameras (BWCs). This is an alarming development in government surveillance that should put communities everywhere on alert. As many as 50 officers from the...

Revisiting Scarflette
https://nakatsubyjna.com/2026/02/05/revisiting-scarflette/

Revisiting Scarflette
I started this Scarflette project in 2024(?) in Circulo Anne cotton yarn, and recently picked it up again. It’s pretty complex and has 10(!) charts, and it took me a while to figure out where I’d l…

$5000 Essay Prize/Call For Papers: Skirball Cultural Center https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20136927/5000-essay-prizecall-papers-skirball-cultural-center

The State of Anti-Surveillance Design https://www.404media.co/the-state-of-anti-surveillance-design/

In the first successful US prosecution of a spyware operator in 10 years, pcTattletale founder pleads guilty to promoting surveillance apps for unlawful uses (Zack Whittaker/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/06/foun

Founder of spyware maker pcTattletale pleads guilty to hacking and advertising surveillance software | TechCrunch
Bryan Fleming, the founder of hacked stalkerware company pcTattletale, pleaded guilty to federal charges linked to the running of his now-defunct Michigan-based spyware company.