The new “About This Account” feature on Twitter is a real safety risk and it fuels racism in a big way. There’s no opt-out and the harassment has already started. Someone sent me a cockroach gif yesterday just because of the country my account is “based in.” People now ask to block whole countries..

ℹ️ Note: Social media platform X (formerly Twitter) is currently experiencing international outages; incident not related to country-level internet disruptions or filtering #TwitterDown

The feature is back now and it looks like they hide locations for government leaders but not for activists, journalists, or people in repressive countries. The hypocrisy is unreal.

⚠️ Confirmed: Metrics show a decline in internet connectivity in Darwin, #Australia amid Category 3 Cyclone Fina's passage; the losses in service are attributed to power cuts due to heavy winds and flooding 🌀

Here are some takeaways from the closely watched meeting between President Trump and New York's future mayor Zohran Mamdani: reut.rs/3K2vgi2

Reporter: Are affirming that you think Trump is a fascist? Mamdani: We’ve spoken about— Trump: That’s ok, you can just say it.

ℹ️ Note: Social media platform X (formerly Twitter) is experiencing sporadic issues for some users internationally; incident not related to country-level internet disruptions or filtering #TwitterDown

Incredible things happening on Twitter

why is windscribe vpn being transphobic on the company twitter account in lundukes replies what is going on

“This could help highlight foreign-based agitators on the app.” hmmmm anyway, if you’re a creative who still uses X, i recommend leaving. www.techradar.com/vpn/vpn-priv...

BREAKING: Trump signs a bill to release files on Jeffrey Epstein, bowing to political pressure after months of resistance.

Trump signs Epstein bill he once labored to kill

Trump dismissing a Saudi journalist’s murder in front of MBS should worry us all

Update on Russia's overnight drone and missile attack Ternopil : 16 dead and 64 injured Rescue operations are ongoing

⚠️ Confirmed: Metrics show a disruption to internet connectivity in western regions of #Ukraine, after a series of deadly Russian missile and drone attacks targeting energy infrastructure followed by emergency power shutdowns 📉

⚠️ Confirmed: Metrics show an ongoing disruption to internet connectivity in Donetsk, Russian-occupied #Ukraine, following Ukrainian UAV attacks targeting Zuivka and Starobesheve thermal power plants; appointees have declared an emergency in parts of the region

After rejecting its past, X's solution to the awful Cloudflare outage is to run back to its ex (Twitter Inc. infrastructure). Twitter's tech legacy saves the day. Long live the ghost of the bird!

Researchers tried plugging every possible phone number into WhatsApp's web app. They found they could collect 3.5 billion users' phone numbers, plus photos for half and profile text for more than a third, the biggest personal data exposure ever by some measures. www.wired.com/story/a-simp...

"The internet needs to be owned by everyone, not leased from three." great encapsulation

Days before reversing his stance on releasing the Epstein files, President Donald Trump called a reporter "piggy" after she asked about his name being raised in emails sent by convicted sex offender, Jeffrey Epstein.

I'm enjoying the fact that Bluesky is still up and running. We are one server rack fire away from silence. The internet needs to be owned by everyone, not leased from three.

Once again, single point of failure brings the whole thing down. I seem to recall this Internet thing being designed for resilience in the face of even nuclear war. Nowadays, the web is dissolving if you look at it funny. 😵

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Marco Rubio tweets that the State Department “intends to designate Cartel de los Soles as a Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO). Headed by the illegitimate Nicolás Maduro…”

⚠️ Confirmed: Metrics show a disruption to internet connectivity in Donetsk Oblast, Russian-occupied #Ukraine, amid reports of a power outage caused by Ukrainian UAV attacks targeting Chaykino electrical substation 📉

⚠️ Confirmed: Internet connectivity has been disrupted in parts of #Russia surrounding Moscow for ~8 hours, with metrics showing declines in multiple oblasts followed by restoration; operator Rostelecom acknowledges an unspecified "backbone issue"

⚠️ Confirmed: Metrics show a decline in internet connectivity in parts of Wyoming and South Dakota; the incident is attributed to a voltage disturbance triggered by tripped lines near Medicine Bow per Western Area Power Administration

Trump’s BBC lawsuit is “a legal cliff edge,” says attorney Mark Stephens, warning it could do more harm than good.

Q: Given you answers about transparency, why are WH officials meeting with Boebert in an effort to get her to not sign the Epstein files petition? LEAVITT: Doesn't it show transparency that members of the Trump administration are willing to brief members of Congress?

⚠️ Confirmed: A power outage has knocked out internet connectivity across much of the Dominican Republic with national connectivity at 53% of ordinary levels; the incident is due to a failure in the national electricity transmission system per energy company ETED #apagon

I’ve written to Keir Starmer, Kemi Badenoch and Nigel Farage urging them to condemn Donald Trump’s attack on the BBC. The BBC belongs to Britain, not Trump. We must defend it together.

BREAKING: The Supreme Court rejects a call to overturn its decision legalizing same-sex marriage nationwide.

🇬🇧 Donald Trump has threatened the BBC with a $1 billion lawsuit over the editing of a speech he gave just before the 2021 US Capitol riots, a source close to the US president's legal team told AFP Monday. ➡️ u.afp.com/SnSG

⚠️ Update: Network data show widening internet outages in #Philippines as Super Typhoon Fung-Wong makes landfall near Aurora province, resulting in damage to infrastructure and power outages 🌀 #UwanPH

⚠️ Confirmed: Metrics show a decline in internet connectivity in the northern #Philippines corresponding to the approach of Super Typhoon Fung-wong's landfall in Luzon; the new incident comes only days after Typhoon Kalmaegi knocks out power and telecom lines #UwanPH

⚠️ Confirmed: Metrics show a disruption to internet connectivity in #Ukraine with high impact to Poltava, also affecting parts of Kyiv after a series of Russian missile and drone attacks targeting energy infrastructure followed by emergency power shutdowns 🔌📉

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⚠️ Confirmed: Network data show a disruption to internet connectivity in Pavlohrad, Dnipropetrovsk, #Ukraine, after Russian UAV attacks target energy infrastructure, leaving several coal mines cut off. 2595 miners trapped underground due to the power cuts have now been rescued 📉

Shortly after Zohran Mamdani was anointed the mayor-elect of New York City on Tuesday, he strode onto the stage of a cavernous theater in Brooklyn and delivered a victory speech that celebrated New York’s immigrants, working class and young people. Follow live: nyti.ms/3X9h35I

New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani trolled Donald Trump in a rousing victory speech, suggesting he was so old he might need to adjust his TV set for what was about to follow.

Cars, shipping containers swept away as Typhoon Kalmaegi kills 66 in the Philippines. Floodwaters described as unprecedented rushed through towns and cities, sweeping away cars, trucks and even massive shipping containers in the hardest-hit Cebu province

Mamdani: "New York will remain a city of immigrants, a city built by immigrants, powered by immigrants, and as of tonight, led by an immigrant."

Californians are voting today on whether to allow a partisan gerrymander of the state’s congressional map that is intended to benefit Democrats. Polling shows broad support for the measure.

Tesla's UK car sales halve in October, New Automotive data shows reut.rs/3WF1se6

Fourth in a row! "Tuesday was the fourth night in a row that the Belgian authorities reported drone sightings over Kleine-Brogel, a major military base near the Dutch border." www.bbc.com/news/article...

⚠️ Confirmed: Network data show a decline in internet connectivity in #Philippines with high impact to Cebu amid power cuts due to strong winds as deadly Typhoon Kalmaegi makes landfall in Mimaropa; Grid operator NGCP says it's working to restore power #TinoPH

"The president is right: a vote for Sliwa is a vote for Mamdani," Cuomo says on 77WABC radio in response to Trump's words of support just posted on Truth Social. "Now it's gonna be up to the Republicans, and I hope they listen to the president," he adds.

⚠️ Update: Live metrics show widespread restrictions to multiple social media and messaging platforms as #Tanzania comes back online after a five-day internet shutdown; the incident continues to limit election transparency and the free flow of information