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Garfield Re-2 School District is considering requiring its staff to notify parents if a student requests to use a chosen name at school that differs from their legal name and reflects their gender identity — a move that some community members support, while others worry it could further isolate transgender kids, and even put them at risk.

 

Taiwan said its public sector workers would be banned from using DeepSeek, a recently released Chinese artificial intelligence model, due to concerns over data leaks, joining a group of U.S. government agencies that reportedly introduced a similar restriction.

 

Trump’s policies will lead to neither domestic cohesion nor external peace, the essential pre-requisites for making America great again

 

The blogger, Temirlan Ensebek, 29, manages the satirical Instagram account Qaznews24. Police arrested him on January 17, 2025, and searched his home. On January 18, an Almaty court approved his pretrial detention for two months on vague criminal charges of “inciting interethnic discord” in connection with a post he uploaded to the Qaznews24 Instagram account over a year ago.

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TL;DR

After more than couple dozen hours of trying, here are the main takeaways:

  1. I found a couple requests sent by my phone with my precise location + 5 requests that leak my IP address, which can be turned into geolocation using reverse DNS.
  2. Learned a lot about the RTB (real-time bidding) auctions and OpenRTB protocol and was shocked by the amount and types of data sent with the bids to ad exchanges.
  3. Gave up on the idea to buy my location data from a data broker or a tracking service, because I don't have a big enough company to take a trial or $10-50k to buy a huge database with the data of millions of people + me. Well maybe I do, but such expense seems a bit irrational. Turns out that EU-based peoples` data is almost the most expensive.

But still, I know my location data was collected and I know where to buy it!

 

On February 1, President Trump signed executive orders that will slap 25% tariffs on all products from Mexico and Canada, and 10% tariffs from China, ostensibly to punish those governments for failing to stop undocumented immigration and fentanyl shipments into the United States (‘stopping the flood of illegal aliens and drugs” according to the White House fact sheet).

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