AI
Government by AI? Trump Administration Plans to Write Regulations Using Artificial Intelligence
The Transportation Department, which oversees the safety of airplanes, cars and pipelines, plans to use Google Gemini to draft new regulations. “We don’t need the perfect rule,” said DOT’s top lawyer. “We want good enough.”
These developments have alarmed some at DOT. The agency’s rules touch virtually every facet of transportation safety, including regulations that keep airplanes in the sky, prevent gas pipelines from exploding and stop freight trains carrying toxic chemicals from skidding off the rails. Why, some staffers wondered, would the federal government outsource the writing of such critical standards to a nascent technology notorious for making mistakes?
Sandia boffins let three AI agents loose in the lab. Science, not chaos, ensued
One day, they let a trio of AI assistants loose in their lab.
Five hours later, the bots had churned through more than 300 tests and uncovered a novel approach for steering LED light that is four times better than methods the researchers developed using their own wetware.
Anthropic's philosopher says we don't know for sure if AI can feel
AI models reading online criticism could end up feeling "not that loved.
Politics
ICE says its officers can forcibly enter homes during immigration operations without judicial warrants: 2025 memo
“Training new recruits, many of whom have zero prior law enforcement training or experience, to seemingly disregard the Fourth Amendment, should be of grave concern to everyone.”
The memo was rolled out in a secretive manner in which some agents were verbally briefed while others were allowed to view it but not keep a copy. It was reportedly clear that anyone who openly spoke out against this new directive would be fired.
Trump abandons attack mode as Minneapolis shooting backlash grows
Senate Democrats have announced they will now block that funding measure in their chamber, which would trigger a partial government shutdown on Friday night.
Treasury Cancels Contracts with Booz Allen Hamilton
“Booz Allen failed to implement adequate safeguards to protect sensitive data, including the confidential taxpayer information it had access to through its contracts with the Internal Revenue Service.”
Women filmed secretly for social media content - and then harassed online
Infosec
Phishing kits adapt to the script of callers
They can be adapted on the fly by callers to control what pages are presented in the user’s browser, in order to sync with the caller’s script and whatever legitimate MFA challenges the caller is presented with as they attempt to sign-in.
Hacker who stole 120,000 bitcoins wants a second chance—and a security job
Ilya Lichtenstein, who was at the center of a massive 2016 crypto heist worth billions at the time, wrote online that he is now out of prison and has changed his ways.
Women filmed secretly for social media content - and then harassed online
In the UK currently, there is no specific law against filming someone in public without consent.
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