JUST IN: Apple to roll out a global iPhone “kill switch” to make stolen devices unusable.

6 ways I am cutting AI token spend in half. It’s the highest ROI thing a CFO can do right now given the exponential growth in AI spend. With no impact on AI adoption or outcomes…. onlycfo.io/p/how-to-cut-ai-m…

Signal is 100% right. The greatest trick governments ever pulled was convincing people that freedom and privacy are obstacles to safety. What we are witnessing is not child protection. It is the construction of a surveillance architecture that will eventually monitor, profile, categorize and control every aspect of our digital lives. Today it is age verification and content scanning, tomorrow it is digital identity, then financial monitoring, then behavioural scoring, then access to services conditioned on compliance. The destination is not difficult to see. It is a technocratic system where every interaction is tracked, every transaction recorded, every opinion assessed and every citizen reduced to a data profile managed by governments and corporations working hand in hand. A form of digital neo feudalism where a small unelected class controls the platforms, the infrastructure, the money and ultimately the boundaries of acceptable behaviour. The argument that only criminals should fear surveillance is as absurd as saying only criminals need freedom of speech. Privacy is not evidence of wrongdoing, it is the foundation of human dignity, individual sovereignty and genuine liberty. The UK government is asking citizens to accept the presumption of guilt simply to communicate online. To prove who they are, verify their age and allow their devices to inspect their content before they can participate in modern society. History teaches us that every power granted to the state eventually expands beyond its initial mandate. The technology introduced to detect one form of content today will be used to police entirely different forms of expression tomorrow. The choice before us is not between privacy and child protection, it is between preserving a free society, or constructing the infrastructure of a digital prison that will further enslave us.

A user reported that age verification company Yoti flagged and reported him for using GrapheneOS, a privacy-focused OS. Yoti's data policies have been scrutinized before, and Spain fined them €950,000 earlier this year for GDPR violations. alternativeto.net/news/2026/…

‼️ Apple is allegedly building a feature that lets carriers block apps on your iPhone in iOS 27 if you miss a payment. The string reads: "If your balance isn't paid in full by the time specified in the contract, [carrier] may block access to most of your apps and their associated subscriptions on this iPhone. You'll still be able to use [some apps] and these apps." The carrier name slots into a placeholder, and a short list of apps would stay usable. Aaron notes the meaning is still unclear. Screenshot by MacRumors' @aaronp613.

Microsoft is facing backlash after a leaked internal document reportedly included the phrase “Make people addicted” as part of a strategy for an AI assistant project. According to the report, the document outlined plans to build habits around the product and increase daily reliance on it. After the leak became public, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella pushed back, saying that making users addicted is “absolutely a non goal” and adding, “Not sure what this document is or who is writing and leaking this nonsense!” The document reportedly identified its authors, adding to the backlash

Fun fact: I used a VPN & a throwaway SIM to create the twitter account that got me arrested, when I asked the police interrogator how they found me, they admitted they matched up the details of my stabbing that I posted about on the account to the police report I made. Pure evil