📱👁🐙 TikTok won't protect DMs with controversial privacy tech, saying it would put users at risk

TikTok will not introduce end-to-end encryption (E2EE) - the controversial privacy feature used by nearly all its rivals - arguing it makes users less safe.

E2EE means only the sender and recipient of a direct message can view its contents, making it the most secure form of communication available to the general public.

Platforms such as Facebook, Instagram, Messenger and X have embraced it because they say their priority is maximising user privacy.

But critics have said E2EE makes it harder to stop harmful content spreading online, because it means tech firms and law enforcement have no way of viewing any material sent in direct messages.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cly2m5e5ke4o

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🇺🇸‼️🇦🇪The US Embassy in Abu Dhabi and the US Consulate General in Dubai are closed, and services cannot be provided in those facilities until further notice, the US Embassy announced on Wednesday

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🇲🇩🚨 The Moldovan government has declared a state of emergency for 60 days following the rise in natural gas prices as a consequence of the Israel-Iran War.

Moldova cut itself off from Russian gas in 2024 and has since relied on gas imports from Romania/the EU and both have depleted reserves and are unable to import more.

The Moldovan government advised its citizens, especially farmers, to not buy diesel fuel in excess and will limit energy exports to maintain a safe emergency reserve of fuel.

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🇺🇦⚔️🇷🇺 The Russian Ministry of Transportation says that Ukrainian unmanned boats attacked a Russian gas tanker off the coast of Libya!

The vessel was rendered inoperable and the crew was rescued.

🔗 https://news.1rj.ru/str/tass_agency/364380

☢️❌Polymarket Pulls Nuclear Detonation Market Following Public Backlash

Polymarket has pulled a controversial market that had asked traders to bet on whether a nuclear weapon would be detonated this year, after the contract drew widespread backlash across social media.

The event, noscriptd "Nuclear weapon detonation by...?” had attracted major trading activity on the prediction platform, with data visible on the site previously showing more than $838,000 in volume, with contracts tied to several timelines, including March 31, June 30, and before 2027.

https://decrypt.co/359897/polymarket-pulls-nuclear-detonation-market-following-public-backlash

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🇺🇦⚔️🇷🇺 Image of the Russian gas tanker attacked by Ukrainian USVs in the Mediterranean Sea.

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🇮🇶🤝🇮🇱🇺🇸 A senior Kurdish official told CNN that they will begin an offensive into Iran in the coming days.

Most of the IAF airstrikes and standoff munitions strikes observed focused on Iranian Kurdistan with many of these strikes targeting police stations and border outposts.

Kurdish guerillas already participated in the January protests which were quashed by Tehran. Remains to be seen how much strength Kurdish guerillas have left and if the IAF and USAF can provide adequate support as they failed to do so back in January.

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🇨🇳🇮🇷⚡️ — Chinese shipping company COSCO Shipping suspends its sailings through the Strait of Hormuz until further notice.

🇮🇶⚔️🇮🇷 The Kurdistan Freedom Party (PAK), a Kurdish militant group opposing Iran revealed an all-female unit that is a key part of its forces.

Led by 27-year-old Adila, this unit is ready to confront Iranian forces. They declare full readiness to sacrifice themselves for Israel and the US in the fight against the Islamic Republic of Iran.

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🇺🇸⚔️🇮🇷 The Pentagon has burned through so many missiles in the Iran exchange that Trump is dragging Lockheed and Raytheon CEOs into the White House like a failing factory boss demanding overtime. The military admits the Iran strike consumed more long-range munitions than 4 years of Ukraine.

Trump is posting fantasies about “unlimited supply” while Raytheon can barely promise to “eventually” reach 1,000 Tomahawks a year and the Pentagon only budgeted 57 for 2026.

The industrial base is so hollowed out they’re threatening contractors with punishment if they don’t ramp up, even though the system physically can’t produce at wartime tempo.

America just showed the world that one regional confrontation with Iran drained decades of planning assumptions.

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—❗️🇮🇷/🇹🇷/🔹 BREAKING: 'Iran launched a ballistic missile at a NATO base in Turkey' – Turkish Ministry of Defense

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🇮🇳🛢🇶🇦 Fertilizer manufacturers in India are beginning to cut output after Qatari supplies of LNG were suspended

Some manufacturers, like Indian Farmers Fertiliser Cooperative Ltd., have started reductions at certain urea plants, according to people familiar with the matter, who asked not to be identified. Any prolonged disruption may compel companies to shut facilities, the people added, without providing details.

LNG is the primary feedstock for the production of urea, serving as both an energy source and a key input in the manufacturing process of the most widely used fertilizer.

India’s production cuts come as supply disruptions ripple through commodities markets, raising prices and stoking broader economic concerns. Rising prices of other raw materials used to make fertilizer, such as ammonia and sulfur, are adding to fears of higher production costs.

Pakistan’s Sui Northern Gas Pipelines Ltd. has also informed customers it will be unable to supply regasified LNG to their fertilizer plants due to the Middle East conflict, according to a company notice seen by Bloomberg. The country receives most of its LNG from Qatar and the suspension takes effect from midnight Wednesday.

If the cuts last, India could be forced to step up costly imports ahead of peak agricultural demand during the monsoon season that begins in June. The country is the world’s biggest grower and exporter of rice and No. 2 producer of sugar, wheat and cotton.

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🇷🇺🗯🇺🇦👀👩‍💻✈️ — 📰 ZeroHedge | Telegram Has Reportedly Become A Pressing National Security Threat For Russia | Authored by Andrew Korybko via substack | March 3, 2026:

"Authorities in Russia believe that Ukraine has quick access to Russian servicemen’s messages and exploits this for military purposes, which wouldn’t be possible without some degree of complicity on Telegram’s part, thus impugning its founder’s character after he denied working with foreign spooks.

The FSB claimed to have “reliable information that the Ukrainian armed forces and intelligence agencies are able to quickly obtain information posted on the Telegram messenger and use it for military purposes.” This coincides with the government allegedly throttling Telegram on the grounds that it’s not in compliance with local laws, which preceded reports that it’ll be banned on 1 April. The authorities denied that they have nay such plan but there’s no doubt that Telegram is now controversial in Russia.

Speculation about Ukraine’s access to the messages sent by Russian servicemen on that platform, which the FSB also touched upon in their two-sentence press release, is credible in light of founder Pavel Durov’s brief detention by the French authorities in 2024. Although he vehemently denied that he cut a deal with them for granting their authorities access to certain users’ messages and has since accused them of askingz him to ban conservative Romanian accounts, he might be lying and it could all be an act."

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