AI
Nvidia shares rise 8% as Jensen Huang says $660 billion capex buildout is sustainable
The tech industry’s surging capital expenditures for AI infrastructure are justified, appropriate and sustainable, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said Friday. ″The reason for that is because all of these companies’ cash flows are going to start rising.”
New York Is the Latest State to Consider a Data Center Pause
Red and blue states alike have introduced legislation in recent weeks that would halt data center development, citing concerns from climate to high energy prices.
Microsoft’s AI Efforts Are Faceplanting
Customers simply ain't loving Copilot.
Evaluating and mitigating the growing risk of LLM-discovered 0-days
Claude Opus 4.6 found more than 500 high-severity vulnerabilities, some that had gone undetected for decades. It performed fuzzing, manual analysis, and then inspected Git commits addressing memory corruption and use of dangerous functions like strstr.
Politics
ICE
Exclusive: Detention Center Captives Are Throwing Lotion Bottles Wrapped With Notes to Organizers Outside Otay Mesa Facility
“For 280 days we haven’t eaten a single piece of fruit, banana, apple, orange, or anything fresh," an Otay Mesa captive communicated through handwritten note. "We are all in one big room with no doors or windows. We can’t see any grass or trees. We are all constantly sick."
Government attorney who told judge in ICE case, 'This job sucks,' removed from detail
Le said it was like “pulling teeth” to get the Department of Homeland Security, Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the Justice Department to follow court orders. “It takes 10 emails from me for a release condition to be corrected. It takes me threatening to walk out for something else to be corrected.”
"Tsunami" of immigration detention cases strains U.S. Attorney's offices across America
Government cuts and resignations have diminished the U.S. Attorney's office for the District of Minnesota to 17 assistant U.S. attorneys — down from 70 during the Biden administration. The number of decisions that have been adverse to the Justice Department have skyrocketed – from nearly 100 in September to more than 600 by December.
Trump administration declines judge’s request to return college student who was deported over Thanksgiving break
ABC news now describes court orders as "requests" -- apparently they saw what happened to news agencies that tell the truth.
Judge orders 3 families returned to US after finding agents used 'lies' to deport them
A federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to return three immigrant families to the U.S. after finding that federal immigration agents used "lies, deception, and coercion" to remove them.
Border Patrol agent's texts after he shot a Chicago woman five times will be released, judge rules
“I fired 5 rounds and she had 7 holes. Put that in your book boys.”
US Senator Accuses Waymo of Bypassing Ban to Bring Chinese Vehicles to US
MAGA’s favorite rockers ‘quietly removed’ from Kid Rock’s tour as he faces controversy
Creed has vanished from the show. Kid Rock has been recorded more than once advocating sex with minors. He did it on SNL in 2001, and one of his songs includes these lyrics: “Young ladies, young ladies, I like ‘em underage,” Rock sings on the track. “See some say that’s statutory.”
It Turns Out That When Waymos Are Stumped, They Get Intervention From Workers in the Philippines
"They provide guidance."
Infosec
BOD 26-02: Mitigating Risk From End-of-Support Edge Devices
CISA issued a binding directive to federal agencies requires phasing out EOS edge devices.
New tool blocks imposter attacks disguised as safe commands
Tirith can detect homoglyph attacks over command-line environments by analyzing URLs in typed commands and stopping their execution.
Secure Boot playbook for certificates expiring in 2026
PCs manufactured before 2024 will need to install the 2023 Secure Boot CAs before the 2011 CAs start expiring in June of 2026.
South Korean crypto firm accidentally sends $44 billion in bitcoins to users
The exchange had planned to distribute small cash rewards of 2,000 Korean won ($1.40) or more to each user as part of a promotional event, but winners received at least 2,000 bitcoins each instead.
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