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NEW - Major internet outage currently impacting numerous services due to issues with Amazon Web Services (AWS) affecting websites, banks, and apps such as Zoom, Amazon's products, and government services. Read more: https://www.disclose.tv/id/7p6j6nu5gy/ @disclosetv

Free the Internet: The Tor Project's annual fundraiser https://blog.torproject.org/2025-fundraiser-donations-matched/

'Death to Spotify': the DIY movement to get artists and fans to quit the app https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/oct/12/spotify-boycott-artists

Wi-fi signal tracks heartbeat without wearables https://spectrum.ieee.org/wi-fi-signal-heartbeat-detection

JUST IN - Telegram founder says Germany is persecuting anyone who dares to criticize officials on the Internet. @disclosetv

Why Self-Host? https://romanzipp.com/blog/why-a-homelab-why-self-host

ICE bought vehicles equipped with fake cell towers to spy on phones https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/07/ice-bought-vehicles-equipped-with-fake-cell-towers-to-spy-on-phones/

Google's Requirement for Developers to Be Verified Threatens App Store F-Droid https://www.techdirt.com/2025/10/07/googles-requirement-for-all-android-developers-to-register-and-be-verified-threatens-to-close-down-open-source-app-store-f-droid/

Fire destroys Korean government's cloud storage system, no backups available https://koreajoongangdaily.joins.com/news/2025-10-01/national/socialAffairs/NIRS-fire-destroys-governments-cloud-storage-system-no-backups-available/2412936

Self hosting 10TB in S3 on a framework laptop and disks https://jamesoclaire.com/2025/10/05/self-hosting-10tb-in-s3-on-a-framework-laptop-disks/

Laptops create systems. Phones feed algorithms. The asymmetry determines power https://zakelfassi.com/command-interface-device-power

Flock's gunshot detection microphones will start listening for human voices https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/10/flocks-gunshot-detection-microphones-will-start-listening-human-voices

Discord customer service data breach leaks user info and scanned photo IDs https://www.theverge.com/news/792032/discord-customer-service-data-breach-hack

Microsoft declares bring your Copilot to work day, usurping IT authority https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/01/microsoft_consumer_copilot_corporate/

ICE Is Buying a Tool to Track Phones, Without Warrants https://olgalautman.substack.com/p/ice-is-buying-a-tool-to-track-hundreds

Hackers strike Harrods in latest UK cyberattack https://observer.co.uk/news/national/article/hackers-strike-harrods-in-latest-uk-cyberattack

Imgur pulls out of UK as data watchdog threatens fine https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/2115228/image-site-imgur-pulls-out

NEW - Switzerland approves digital ID with 50.4% voting yes, an earlier proposal was rejected in 2021. The digital ID will be "optional." Read more: https://www.disclose.tv/id/ezn59k34n2/ @disclosetv

ICYMI - Will Wilson, co-founder of Antithesis, an AI contractor for Palantir: "It's very possible that we're entering a world where very soon any kind of cognitive labor, any kind of reason, any kind of thought... It'll be a thing that weirdos do." Read more: https://www.disclose.tv/id/uiptylubfw/ @disclosetv