But my analytics still shows: Hong Kong United States Japan Malaysia Taiwan and… CN 🤔 Interesting. Some people never comment. But the data always leaves footprints. 有些人不说话， 数据会留下脚印。 So… who is watching quietly? 👀 #AI# #Web3# #Crypto# #BTC# #ETH# #OnlinePrivacy# #XAnalytics# #BuildInPublic#

Surveillance Self-Defense is an expert guide made by @EFF to protecting you and your friends from online spying. Electronic Frontier Foundation is a non-profit working to protect online privacy for over thirty-five years.

Today, a $400 million settlement was announced with TikTok, ByteDance, and affiliated entities (TikTok) resolving litigation concerning compliance with the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act and its implementing regulations (COPPA). The settlement represents one of the largest recoveries ever obtained in a COPPA case. “This settlement is a major victory for American children and parents,” said @ASGWoodward. “The Department's priority is ensuring that children are protected online and that companies entrusted with their personal information meet their legal obligations. This resolution secures a substantial recovery while reinforcing the protections that families expect and deserve.” 🔗:

TikTok has reached an agreement with the US Justice Department to resolve a Biden-era lawsuit accusing the popular social media app of collecting data on children in violation of an online privacy law

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Vladimir Putin has signed a new law that increases restrictions on VPN services in Russia. VPNs are often used to access blocked websites and protect online privacy. Russia has regulated VPNs for several years, but the new measures give authorities stronger control over internet access and censorship. The government says the law aims to improve cybersecurity and protect national stability, but peopple say is just another step toward tighter control of information and reduced internet freedom. Russia is expanding its “sovereign internet” system, which allows closer monitoring and filtering of online traffic. As a result, many VPN services have become slower, blocked, or unreliable.

i'm not satoshi, but I was early in laser focus on the positive societal implications of cryptography, online privacy and electronic cash, hence my ~1992 onwards active interest in applied research on ecash, privacy tech on cypherpunks list which led to hashcash and other ideas.

DAILY SITUATION RECAP: New stealth model, YMTC IPO soon, Starcloud raises, DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Vision-Exp, Sol price cuts, Grok Bot expands availability Stealth model Ox Alpha is released on OpenRouter. It performs very well, beating Fable and Sol on many benchmarks, and has multimodal capabilities and a 1M context window. It is widely expected to be a stealth release of the next GLM model from For the next week, it’s free with very high rate limits. YMTC is planning to IPO soon. Yangtze Memory Technologies Corp., based in Wuhan, is China’s largest manufacturer of NAND flash memory and its second-largest manufacturer of memory in general. It’s targeting a valuation of roughly $41-49B. Starcloud raises $250M at a $2.3B valuation. Starcloud, founded in 2024, is working on space-based data centers in collaboration with Crusoe and Nvidia. It is the first startup to demonstrate AI training and inference in orbit. Anthropic hires chip expert Amir Salek. From 2013 to 2022, Salek was a senior director of engineering at Google, where he created the TPU organization and led its first seven generations. Anthropic is currently working on an inference chip. DeepSeek releases DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Vision-Exp, a multimodal version of DeepSeek-V4-Flash with vision capabilities. It outperforms DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731 on most benchmarks and is broadly competitive with Claude Opus 4.8. OpenAI cuts prices for GPT-5.6 Sol. For the next three months, it will cost $4/$20 per million input/output tokens, a discount from its previous price of $5/$30. SpaceXAI increases the availability of Grok Bot to SuperGrok Plus, Cursor Pro+, and Cursor Teams users, plus a free trial with limited usage to all other users. Grok Bot is SpaceXAI’s early prototype of a “drop-in remote worker”. TikTok agrees to a $400 million settlement with the US Department of Justice over allegations that it violated children’s online privacy, amid mounting backlash against Big Tech companies over children’s online safety concerns. Written by @theojaffee. Read more at our link in bio.