Attorneys for 15 Minnesota residents facing federal conspiracy charges have obtained evidence of a sweeping, possibly unconstitutional spying operation carried out by Immigration and Customs Enforcement against left-wing social movements in Minnesota and beyond. The…
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Two permission groups, named “Executive Leadership” and “AI Access,” appear to list people given exceptions to DHS’s web filter, which blocks some websites for employees. They contain the same 13 people, including former DHS head…
Defenders across the world face the burden of responding to yet another botched code-execution vulnerability, this time in boot-time firmware used by most of the world’s server vendors and data centers. The vulnerability, with a…
Bluesky is blocking users from opening links to a newly leaked archive of records on more than 41,000 Department of Homeland Security employees and contractors, and labels the pages “malicious.” The files include people’s email…
The vast majority (91%) of business users want meeting note-takers to access and act on context from outside a meeting, according to a global study of 403 organizations in Metrigy’s “Workplace Collaboration & Employee Experience:…
So what exactly did you stand up and say? What I did was I talked about the need for the government to accelerate its ban on nudification apps, which it did. So the then secretary…
Two Democratic senators who have long overseen US intelligence say the Trump administration is illegally withholding a secret court’s findings from Congress until lawmakers renew a program that lets federal agents read Americans’ communications without…
In a Microsoft 365 Message Center post (mirror), the company said, “During initial quality validation, detection may run in the background without showing warnings to users. After validation, users may see a warning when potential…
When OpenAI unveiled the latest version of its immensely popular ChatGPT chatbot this month, it had a new voice possessing humanlike inflections and emotions. The online demonstration also featured the bot tutoring a child on…
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