ICE Is Crashing the US Court System in Minnesota
The Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) operation in Minnesota is pushing the United States court system to its breaking point. Since Operation Metro Surge began…
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CBP Signs Clearview AI Deal to Use Face Recognition for ‘Tactical Targeting’
United States Customs and Border Protection plans to spend $225,000 for a year of access to Clearview AI, a face recognition tool that compares photos…
Iran’s Digital Surveillance Machine Is Almost Complete
“CCTV networks, facial-recognition systems, applications designed to capture or log private user messages, and systems assessing citizens’ lifestyle patterns and behavioral profiles collectively provide the…
AI Is Here to Replace Nuclear Treaties. Scared Yet?
For half a century, the world’s nuclear powers relied on an intricate and complex series of treaties that slowly and steadily reduced the number of…
Moltbook, the Social Network for AI Agents, Exposed Real Humans’ Data
An analysis by WIRED this week found that ICE and CBP’s face recognition app Mobile Fortify, which is being used to identify people across the…
ICE Agent’s ‘Dragging’ Case May Help Expose Evidence in Renee Good Shooting
Defense attorneys for a Minnesota man convicted in December of assaulting Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer Jonathan Ross are seeking access to investigative files related…
ICE and CBP’s Face-Recognition App Can’t Actually Verify Who People Are
The face-recognition app Mobile Fortify, now used by United States immigration agents in towns and cities across the US, is not designed to reliably identify…
Notepad++ Users, You May Have Been Hacked by China
Infrastructure delivering updates for Notepad++—a widely used text editor for Windows—was compromised for six months by suspected China-state hackers who used their control to deliver…
The Paramilitary ICE and CBP Units at the Center of Minnesota’s Killings
Two agents involved in the shooting deaths of US citizens in Minneapolis are reportedly part of highly militarized DHS units whose extreme tactics are generally…
How Data Brokers Can Fuel Violence Against Public Servants
A new report published Tuesday finds that while violent threats to public servants across the US have been increasing, “comprehensive” state-level consumer privacy laws do…
ICE and Qatari Security Forces at the Winter Olympics Put Italians on Edge
With less than a week to go until the start of the 2026 Milano Cortina Winter Olympics in Italy, the topic making headlines isn’t sports.…
Jeffrey Epstein Had a ‘Personal Hacker,’ Informant Claims
As the standoff between the United States government and Minnesota continues this week over immigration enforcement operations that have essentially occupied the Twin Cities and…