Willa M. 🇲🇦

Her flying all the way out to the Philippines to collect the bundles herself is crazy… 😭

Cafe Raha, a well-known café in Blackburn, had its Muslim prayer room targeted in a firebomb attack on Monday morning. The room was damaged in the blaze, while Quranic calligraphy inside survived the attack. Police are investigating the incident, though the motive remains unclear.

🚨GOOGLE JUST REPLACED CAPTCHAS WITH A SYSTEM THAT LOCKS YOU OUT OF THE INTERNET IF YOU DON'T HAVE GOOGLE SOFTWARE ON YOUR PHONE.. WHILE GIVING AI BOTS A FREE PASS.. This is the most important internet story nobody is covering.. Google upgraded reCAPTCHA on millions of websites with something called Cloud Fraud Defense.. Instead of clicking traffic lights.. You now sometimes have to scan a QR code with your phone.. Sounds harmless.. Until you understand what's actually happening.. When you scan that QR code.. Your phone runs a cryptographic check through Google Play Services to verify your device is a genuine, unmodified, Google-certified phone.. If your phone doesn't have Google Play Services.. You fail the challenge.. That means every person running a privacy-focused phone.. GrapheneOS.. CalyxOS.. LineageOS.. Any de-Googled Android.. Can be locked out of millions of websites.. Not because they're bots.. Because they removed Google's tracking software.. While humans on privacy phones get blocked.. AI bots from Google, OpenAI, and Anthropic get frictionless access.. Corporate AI agents present a cryptographic passport using Web Bot Auth and SPIFFE.. And the system waves them right through.. No QR code.. No challenge.. Nothing.. A human who cares about privacy.. Blocked.. A corporate AI bot scraping the entire internet.. Welcome right in.. This isn't even a new idea.. In 2023 Google tried to make this an official web standard called Web Environment Integrity.. The internet exploded.. The EFF called it "Chrome's plan to DRM the web".. Mozilla said it "works against users' interests".. Google withdrew it.. Then they launched the core system three years later as a commercial product.. Skipping full public standards review.. No debate.. Millions of domains were automatically upgraded to it.. Website owners didn't even know.. They just wanted to stop spam.. Now they're unknowingly enforcing Google's hardware verification on many visitors.. The QR code system uses hardware-based cryptographic keys.. VPNs can't hide you.. Tor can't hide you.. The attestation bypasses everything.. The system doesn't fully stop real fraud.. Bot operators just buy real Android phones in bulk.. Set up device farms with cameras pointed at screens.. And physically scan the QR codes.. The hardware check passes because the phones are real.. Google upgraded a system that tried to stop bots with one that can block privacy-conscious humans.. Alternatives exist.. Proof-of-work CAPTCHAs that use math instead of hardware checks.. No tracking.. No Google dependency.. Work on any device.. But millions of websites already run Google's version.. The internet was supposed to be open.. Google just put a lock on the door and kept the key.

A data center in Georgia used 30 million gallons of water illegally, and locals only noticed when their water pressure was abnormally low. The data center claimed it was an honest mistake, but locals were told by the town to conserve water while the data center kept running.