How you may find yourself on the front line of Trump's crackdown on immigration
The Trump regime has already sued the city of Rochester, N.Y., accusing its officials of illegally impeding immigration enforcement. It could sue individuals who obstruct immigration agents. The Justice Department is already prosecuting a Milwaukee judge on charges of obstructing immigration agents.
You may find yourself in the midst of this, particularly if you do as I suggested Sunday — help ensure that undocumented residents of your community know their rights.
Trump Administration’s Targeting of International Students Jeopardizes Free Speech and Privacy Online
The federal government has already revoked over 1600 student visas.
Seasonal COVID shots may no longer be possible under Trump admin
So far, the FDA has treated updated COVID-19 vaccines the same way it treats seasonal flu shots, which have long been updated annually to match currently circulating strains of flu viruses. But political staff are now requiring Novavax to conduct a new randomized controlled trial, which could cost tens of millions of dollars and would take many months.
Trump’s justice department appointees remove leadership of voting unit
Political appointees have also instructed career employees to dismiss all of their active cases without meeting with them and offering a rationale – a significant break with the department’s practices and norms. The changes have raised significant alarm about what the future of voting rights enforcement will look like for the federal government at a moment when states continue to pass restrictive voting measures.
Fraud in California community colleges triggers call for Trump investigation
CalMatters reported that fake community college students have stolen more than $10 million in federal financial aid and more than $3 million in state aid in the last 12 months. California’s Republican representatives say that investigating fraud at California’s community colleges should be part of President Donald Trump’s ongoing efforts to “curb wasteful federal spending.”
Trump’s hasty Take It Down Act has “gaping flaws” that threaten encryption
The Take It Down Act—which requires platforms to remove both real and artificial intelligence-generated non-consensual intimate imagery (NCII) within 48 hours of victims' reports. Given such a short window to comply, platforms will likely remove some content that may not be NCII, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) warned. And even more troublingly, the law does not explicitly exempt encrypted messages, which could potentially encourage platforms to one day break encryption due to the liability threat. Also, it seemed likely that the removal process could be abused by people who hope platforms will automatically remove any reported content, especially after Trump admitted that he would use the law to censor his enemies.
Elon Musk Accidentally Wasted a Vast Sum of Taxpayer Money Due to His Staggering Incompetence
Mass firing and then re-hiring thousands of public sector workers could cost upward of $135 billion this fiscal year alone. And the Internal Revenue Service, which has lost thousands of its employees due to the cuts, is expected to collect a staggering $500 billion less this year following the bloodletting, a loss that dwarfs Musk's limited savings.
EFF Leads Prominent Security Experts in Urging Trump Administration to Leave Chris Krebs Alone
There's a letter to sign.
First ever 'black hole bomb' created in the lab
A black hole bomb – an idea first proposed in 1969 – has now been realised in the lab as a toy model made from a rotating cylinder and magnetic coils. Studying the bomb could help us better understand real black holes.
Burning Data with Malicious Firewall Rules in Azure SQL Server
Exploiting a security gap in firewall rule-naming can suddenly delete entire servers and targeted assets when combined with admin actions.
The Age of Realtime Deepfake Fraud Is Here
Fraudsters are able to change their race, facial hair, voice, and more during live video calls with very little effort. Scammers are already fooling the elderly and verification systems.
Researchers Secretly Ran a Massive, Unauthorized AI Persuasion Experiment on Reddit Users
A team of researchers who say they are from the University of Zurich ran an “unauthorized,” large-scale experiment in which they secretly deployed AI-powered bots into a popular debate subreddit called r/changemyview in an attempt to research whether AI could be used to change people’s minds about contentious topics.
Kali Linux warns of update failures after losing repo signing key
Offensive Security warned Kali Linux users to manually install a new Kali repository signing key to avoid experiencing update failures. OffSec lost the old repo signing key nd was forced to create a new one.