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HISTORY: 🟠 The last email Satoshi Nakamoto ever sent, 14 years ago.

Number of man-made Satellites in Earth’s orbit over the years

JUST IN: NVIDIA $NVDA flips Microsoft $MSFT to become the world's most valuable company. @WatcherGuru

NEW - A federal judge rules that it was legal for Anthropic to train its AI models on published books without the authors’ permission under fair use. https://www.disclose.tv/id/a9z10hp3o1/ @disclosetv

US embassy wants 'every social media username of past five years' for new visas https://www.thejournal.ie/us-visa-changes-6740830-Jun2025/

Record DDoS pummels site with once-unimaginable 7.3Tbps of junk traffic https://arstechnica.com/security/2025/06/record-ddos-pummels-site-with-once-unimaginable-7-3tbps-of-junk-traffic/

Microsoft suspended the email account of an ICC prosecutor at The Hague https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/20/technology/us-tech-europe-microsoft-trump-icc.html

JUST IN - U.S. national debt surpasses $37 Trillion. https://www.usdebtclock.org/ @disclosetv

Websites Are Tracking You via Browser Fingerprinting https://engineering.tamu.edu/news/2025/06/websites-are-tracking-you-via-browser-fingerprinting.html

Texans Will Soon Be Forced to Verify Their Age To Download Apps Starting Jan 2026, Texas will require age verification for all app store downloads - Apple App Store or Google Play Store. This means Texans will have to upload documents or use a Digital ID. Kids under 18 need a parent-linked account to install anything. This doesn't stop harmful content. It enrolls everyone—not just kids—into the digital ID system. 9+ states pushing similar laws. Think it's a coincidence? Workarounds: – Use F-Droid or Aurora Store (not available on iPhone) – Download directly from developers – Ditch Big Tech phones for privacy-respecting options

NEW - 16 billion passwords from Apple, Facebook, Google, and more exposed: "pretty much any online service imaginable." https://www.disclose.tv/id/ot3dpndtfx/ @disclosetv

JUST IN - Iran to impose restrictions on internet access to "prevent the enemy from threatening citizens' lives and property". https://www.disclose.tv/id/1k0jqqu9py/ @disclosetv

iPod in 2001 vs. iPhone in 2025 https://redd.it/1lagq38 @r_interestingasfuck

JUST IN - Large X1.2-class solar flare erupts from the Sun. https://www.spaceweather.gov/news/r3-strong-hf-radio-blackout-event-observed @disclosetv

How you breathe is like a fingerprint that can identify you https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-01835-0

"Microsoft Locked My Account – I Lost 30 Years of Photos and Work" https://old.reddit.com/r/pcmasterrace/comments/1ldef4p/microsoft_locked_my_account_i_lost_30_years_of/

Journalists Wary of Travelling to US Due to Palantir Surveillance "I was denied entry, detained, and deported from the USA over the last 48 hours because of my reporting on the Columbia student protests. I arrived back in Melbourne hours ago and had my phone handed back to me upon landing... - They were waiting for me when I got off the plane - They knew (or it felt like they knew) everything about me - I had cleaned up my online presence expecting ad hoc digital sweeps; I was not prepared for their sophistication - Sophistication almost certainly facilitated by Palantir" https://bsky.app/profile/alistairkitchen.bsky.social/post/3lrjsdecc5c2x