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Even the FBI Thinks Masked ICE Agents Are a Bad Idea

In a bulletin first reported by Wired, the bureau warns masked agents are easier for criminals to impersonate.

Reason · Nov 7, 2025

Republican Rep. Nancy Mace accused of directing expletive-ridden rant at ‘incompetent’ airport cops: police report

The Republican congresswoman was ‘very irate’ and ‘talking loudly using profanity,’ the police report says

The Independent UK · Nov 1, 2025

Influencers could learn a thing or two from traditional journalism about disclosing who’s funding their political coverage

Online influencers, through their postings on Instagram, Threads, TikTok and elsewhere, have created an exuberant universe of news and commentary that often outruns mainstream media in reach and even impact. They work the same waterfront as journalism and public relations, but their relationship with those mainstay practices built around fact…

The Conversation · Oct 24, 2025

Psychedelics Without the Trip? Heavyweights Like Neuralink, Coinbase, Twitch Back AI Startup Developing 'Least Psychedelic Psychedelic' Drug

Mindstate Design Labs is developing drugs that aim to deliver psychedelic benefits without a trip, drawing funding from Y Combinator and the founders of OpenAI, Neuralink, Instacart (NASDAQ:CART), Coinbase (NASDAQ:COIN), and Twitch, according to Wired.

Benzinga · Oct 2, 2025

Tile exploit could let stalkers follow you with your own tracker — Bluetooth broadcasting flaw is relatively simple to exploit, researchers discover

Georgia Institute of Technology researchers found design flaws in Tile location trackers that can be abused to stalk their owners.

Tom’s Hardware · Sep 29, 2025

Trump’s new $100,000 H-1B visa policy causes chaos at San Francisco airport as passengers demand to leave plane

‘It is a situation where we had to choose between family and staying here,’ one passenger’s husband said

The Independent UK · Sep 23, 2025

Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai Reacts As Jensen Huang Goes Bananas For Google Gemini's Nano Banana: 'How Good Is That'

Nvidia Corp.’s (NASDAQ:NVDA) CEO Jensen Huang's playful praise of Google Gemini's "Nano Banana" AI image tool drew a lighthearted response from Alphabet Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG) (NASDAQ:GOOGL) CEO Sundar Pichai, even as analysts project a multi-trillion-dollar boom in AI data center demand by 2030.

Benzinga · Sep 18, 2025

Google Accused of Axing Over 200 Workers Who Trained Gemini Chatbot After They Demanded Better Pay

Google is facing accusations of laying off over 200 contract workers who trained its Gemini chatbot, a move that some claim was in retaliation for their demands for better pay and working conditions.

International Business Times UK · Sep 17, 2025

Google terminates 200 AI contractors — 'ramp-down' blamed, but workers claim questions over pay and job insecurity are the real reason behind layoffs

Google has fired over 200 AI response rating contractors as part of what it claims is a "ramping down" of that role. They join hundreds of other low-paid AI workers who have been let go at various AI developers in recent weeks.

Tom’s Hardware · Sep 16, 2025

China’s Great Firewall suffers its biggest leak ever as 500GB of source code and docs spill online — censorship tool has been sold to three different countries

Chinese censorship suffered a significant breach on September 11, when researchers confirmed that more than 500GB of internal documents had been dumped online.

Tom’s Hardware · Sep 13, 2025