China is using phone trackers and other tools to track protestors, the first time mass surveillance has been directed at middle-class people in affluent cities (New York Times)

New York Times:
An investigation, based on ~160K documents from Roskomnadzor, details Russia’s vast surveillance and censorship apparatus, which helps Putin maintain his regime  —  Four days into the war in Ukraine, Russia’s expansive surveillance and censorship apparatus was already hard at work.

Washington Post:
A look at efforts by Google, Signal, Tor, and others to help Iranian protestors evade censorship; the White House has signaled support and relaxed sanctions  —  Though Yasmin Green fled Iran with her parents at 3 years old, she has never been more involved in the struggles of its people.

The Intercept:
Internal Iranian carrier documents detail SIAM, an Iranian government web program for surveilling the country’s cellphone users and disrupting communications  —  As furious anti-government protests swept Iran, the authorities retaliated with both brute force and digital repression.

Wall Street Journal:
How Twitter users in China have been circumventing the nation’s Great Firewall and fighting spam to get footage of protests out to the rest of the world  —  Chinese users employ VPNs to get videos and images out of the country, while fighting spam  —  Why Tesla’s China Ties Could Be a Problem for Twitter

Bloomberg:
Sources: hundreds of Foxconn workers at Apple’s iPhone plant in Zhengzhou clashed with security guards as protests erupted over unpaid wages and COVID-19 fear  —  Hundreds of workers at Apple Inc.’s main iPhone-making plant in China clashed with security personnel, as tensions boiled …

David Heaney / UploadVR:
In a new paper, Meta researchers demonstrated a system that can reconstruct a user’s plausible pose from only the Quest 2’s sensors using reinforcement learning  —  Meta researchers demonstrated Quest 2 body tracking without extra trackers.  —  Current VR systems ship with a headset and held controllers …