Trump administration begins interviewing UC faculty as part of antisemitism probe
Federal officials have begun contacting University of California faculty members for an antisemitism probe after the school complied with a subpoena from the Trump administration seeking the personal information of around 900 faculty members. The federal government is trying to pit them against each other.
How conservatives are using Columbia as a ‘test case’ to enforce Trump’s agenda
White House may seek legally binding control over Columbia through consent decree – report
Possible escalation comes after university already accepted changes as pre-condition for restoring $400m in grants
House Republicans Just Passed a Voter Suppression Bill That Would Disenfranchise Millions
The SAVE Act requires documentary proof of citizenship, such as a passport or birth certificate, to register to vote.
Nine percent of American citizens, roughly 21 million people, don’t have ready access to citizenship documents.
Also, 79 percent of American women married to men have taken their spouse’s last name; that equates to about 69 million women.
It also requires voters to provide this documentation in person at an election office--ending online registration, mail registration, and voter registration drives, methods that accounted for 1 in 3 registrations during the 2018–2022 election cycles. Rural voters in large counties would need to drive an average of more than four hours.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. falsely claims measles vaccine protection 'wanes very quickly'
Australian with working visa detained and deported on returning to US from sister’s memorial
Man who says he had previously left and re-entered the country multiple times alleges border officials called him ‘retarded’ and boasted ‘Trump is back in town’
Paul Krugman: The Third-Worlding of America
Thanks to Trump, dollar assets — traditionally the foundation of the global financial system — are no longer perceived as safe.
Did I see this coming? No, not really. Unlike the sanewashers, I knew that Trump’s policies would be irresponsible and destructive. However, even I didn’t expect him to destroy credibility accumulated over 80 years in less than three months. But he has.
And even if Trump were to backtrack on everything he’s done, we wouldn’t get the lost credibility back. The whole world, sanewashers aside, now knows that America is run by a mad king, surrounded by enablers, who can’t be trusted to behave rationally.
Border Patrol to retrain hundreds of California agents on how to comply with the Constitution
The leader of the Border Patrol’s El Centro sector, which conducted the raids, has maintained that his agents targeted specific people with criminal and deportation histories.
But agents hit targets frequented by day laborers and farmworkers, such as Home Depot. People were stopped indiscriminately and asked for their immigration papers.
Windows 11 tests sharing apps screen and files with Copilot AI
If you share your screen with Copilot Vision, it can help you navigate the app. "File Search" allows you to find a particular file on your device and ask questions about its contents.
At the moment, Copilot Vision (screen share) and File Search features are gradually rolling out in the Windows Insider Program. Microsoft hasn't clarified how the data is being processed or encrypted, but we'll likely learn more about the privacy policies when the feature exits the testing program.
U.S. cyber defenders shaken by Trump's attack on their former boss
“Every day feels somehow more bizarre than the last. It is incredibly difficult to focus on our mission,” one current Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency employee said.
Ex-Meta exec tells Senate Zuck dangled US citizen data in bid to enter China
Zuckerberg was willing to do almost anything to get the social network into China - including, she alleged, offering up Americans' data.
Researchers concerned to find AI models misrepresenting their “reasoning” processes
Simulated reasoning models frequently fail to disclose when they've used external help or taken shortcuts, despite features designed to show their "reasoning" process.
US Bank Regulator Didn’t Have Safeguard on Hacked Email Account
The US Office of the Comptroller of the Currency didn’t have 2FA enabled on an email account hackers exploited to spy on the messages of more than 100 bank regulators for over a year. The attackers got in through a password spray attack.
Tech CEO Charged In Artificial Intelligence Investment Fraud Scheme
Albert Saniger misled investors by exploiting the promise and allure of AI technology to build a false narrative about innovation that never existed. He marketed a universal shopping cart app that simplified online shopping by enabling users to “skip the checkout” on retail website by reducing the checkout process to a “single tap.” SANIGER repeatedly told investors and the public that the company’s app used proprietary AI technology to autonomously complete online purchases on behalf of users. But hte app’s actual automation rate was effectively zero percent. In truth, nate relied heavily on teams of human workers—primarily located overseas—to manually process transactions in secret, mimicking what users believed was being done by automation.