Taiwan launches working holiday program for Israelis
Taiwan launches working holiday program for Israelis amid rising global antisemitism
In a show of deepening ties, Taiwan opens its first Middle East working holiday program, inviting up to 200 Israelis annually to live, work and build lasting cultural connections in the East Asian nationItamar Eichner (ynetnews)
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Kristi Noem Claims Claudia Sheinbaum Inciting LA Protests
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[2025 Special Competitive Studies Project AI Expo in DC] Max Blumenthal attends AI warlord conference [13:07 | JUN 08 2025 | The Grayzone]
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The Grayzone's Max Blumenthal and Aaron Mate discuss the 2025 Special Competitive Studies Project AI Expo in DC, and how Max got ejected for filming and attempting to question a few of the war criminals on hand.Generated Summary:
Main Topic: Max Blumenthal of The Grayzone reports on the Special Competitive Studies Project AI Expo in Washington D.C., highlighting the event's focus on AI and cyber warfare, particularly in relation to China and Israel, and his experience being ejected from the conference for asking critical questions.
Key Points:
- AI Expo Focus: The conference, overseen by Eric Schmidt, brings together AI and cyber warfare contractors, military branches, and intelligence agencies, with a strong emphasis on countering China.
- Israeli and Ukrainian Presence: The Israeli and Ukrainian embassies had prominent booths, with Israel being celebrated for its AI advancements in warfare, specifically the Lavender system.
- Palantir's Role: Palantir, a data analytics company, was a major presence, showcasing its Foundry product, which is being used to centralize data on American citizens.
- Blumenthal's Ejection: Blumenthal was initially warned for filming a reporter questioning Palantir representatives. He was later ejected after questioning former Israeli military intelligence head Amos Yadlin about his role in shaping policies that led to civilian casualties in Gaza.
- Confrontation with "Holocaust Supporter": After questioning Yadlin, Blumenthal was confronted by a woman who claimed to be a Holocaust survivor and accused him of antisemitism. Blumenthal responded by accusing her of supporting a current genocide.
- Lack of Critical Journalism: Blumenthal notes the absence of critical journalists at the conference, with most reporters present being paid by the arms industry to ask softball questions.
- Security Measures: Security at the conference was reportedly concerned about protests and critical questions, discussing measures to vet attendees and search bags.
- Rhombus Power: Another major sponsor, Rhombus Power, was showcasing generative AI that they claimed could predict cataclysmic events, such as the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Highlights:
- Blumenthal's direct confrontation with Amos Yadlin and the woman who accused him of antisemitism, highlighting the hypocrisy of those who weaponize the Holocaust to defend current Israeli policies.
- The description of the AI Expo as a gathering of "AI warlords" and the lack of critical media coverage, underscoring the close relationship between the tech industry, the military, and the arms industry.
- The irony of Palantir, a company focused on restoring control and preventing social unrest, being unable to prevent protests at its own conference.
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Why Conservatives Are Calling Each Other “Woke” Now
Members of the MAGA Elite Have a New Favorite Slur for Each Other. It’s Tearing Them Apart.
Here we have a fight between those who are concerned about the radicalization of young white men, and those who see it as an asset.Molly Olmstead (Slate)
But getting them to turn on each other is beneficial to the rest of us.
No, they use it correctly
It is woke to think for yourself. Woke means awake, like self aware and able to see through the bullshit
They've always used the word correctly... Woke means someone who didn't believe their words at face value
NOAM OFF 2025: Il 12 e 13 giugno due Giorni di Cinema e Talk alla Biblioteca Comunale Manfrediana di Faenza (Ra)
Faenza si prepara ad accogliere l'edizione 2025 di NOAM OFF, lo spin-off primaverile del NOAM Faenza Film Festival, dedicato al cinema nordamericano. L'evento si terrà giovedì 12 e venerdì 13 giugno nella suggestiva cornice della Biblioteca Comunale Manfrediana, trasformata per l'occasione in un punto di incontro per appassionati di cinema e cultura.
Il tema di questa edizione, "Sub Astra. Cinema sotto le stelle", celebra l'incanto delle arene estive e il fascino delle proiezioni all'aperto. L'inaugurazione, giovedì 12 giugno alle 18:30, darà spazio all'area Bar & Food, permettendo ai partecipanti di godersi un aperitivo tra le mura storiche della biblioteca. Alle 20:00 si aprirà il primo NOAM Talk con Faso, bassista degli Elio e Le Storie Tese e commentatore di baseball per DAZN. Con il suo stile ironico, Faso approfondirà il mondo del baseball insieme al musicista e giocatore Luca Pasotti. A seguire, alle 21:15, la proiezione in anteprima assoluta del film "Eephus" del regista statunitense Carson Lund, introdotto dal giornalista Giulio Sangiorgio, direttore della rivista FilmTv.
La seconda serata, venerdì 13 giugno, prenderà il via ancora una volta alle 18:30 con l'apertura dell'area Bar & Food. Alle 20:00 sarà il turno del secondo NOAM Talk con Marco Manetti, della celebre coppia di registi Manetti Bros, che discuterà di cinema fuori dagli schemi insieme al moderatore Francesco Bentini. Alle 21:15 sarà proiettato "Dìdi", film del regista taiwanese-americano Sean Wang, introdotto dalla content creator Juliet Vampire. La serata si concluderà con il NOAM Party, un dj set che animerà la Biblioteca Comunale, sottolineando il valore storico e culturale del luogo.
NOAM OFF è finanziato nell'ambito del progetto GECO-FA e patrocinato dall’Unione della Romagna Faentina. Gli organizzatori, Andrea Valmori e Gian Marco Magnani, sottolineano come l'iniziativa voglia esplorare nuove modalità di fruizione del cinema e valorizzare la Biblioteca Comunale Manfrediana come spazio culturale attivo e partecipato.
NOAM OFF 2025: Il 12 e 13 giugno due Giorni di Cinema e Talk alla Biblioteca Comunale Manfrediana di Faenza (Ra) - ViaggieMiraggi
Faenza si prepara ad accogliere l’edizione 2025 di NOAM OFF, lo spin-off primaverile del NOAM Faenza Film Festival, dedicato al cinema nordamericano.Redazione (ViaggieMiraggi)
“Samsara – Il ciclo delle idee” a Carmagnola (To) dal 20 al 22 giugno 2025
Il programma di “Samsara – Il ciclo delle idee” vuole valorizzare le eccellenze del Piemonte che sono prima di tutto eccellenze al servizio della nostra nazione.
Tra passato, presente e futuro. Storie di grandi piemontesi, da Augusto Del Noce fino ad Amedeo Guillet passando per Adriano Olivetti e Annibale Radicati di Cocconato. E grandi ospiti che oggi rappresentano il Piemonte: dalla fondazione Garuzzo, al monastero di Bose, il circolo dei lettori di Torino, il politecnico, il CCR la Venaria Reale e non solo.
È un cammino che si pone come strumento di riscatto sociale e di partecipazione civica, rappresentato proprio dal confronto e dalla collaborazione intergenerazionale. Attraverso il sapere, la cultura e la riflessione da venerdì 20 a domenica 22 giugno 2025 a Carmagnola (TO) su iniziativa del Comune, con il sostegno dell’Assessorato alle politiche sociali della Regione Piemonte e con la direzione artistica del giornalista Sebastiano Caputo, il progetto raggiungerà il suo apice, dopo mesi di attività sul territorio che hanno visto il coinvolgimento di associazioni, enti del terzo settore e giovani.
Diversi saranno gli ospiti che rappresentano le istituzioni artistiche, sociali, spirituali, industriali e culturali del territorio.
"Samsara - Il ciclo delle idee" a Carmagnola (To) dal 20 al 22 giugno 2025 - ViaggieMiraggi
“Samsara – Il ciclo delle idee”: a Carmagnola la cultura diventa motore di riscatto sociale Dal 20 al 22 giugno 2025 la città piemontese ospita una rassegna culturale che unisce memoria, innovazione e partecipazione civica. Dal 20 al 22 giugno...Redazione (ViaggieMiraggi)
Report: Trump Administration Ignored Advice When Installing Starlink at the White House
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Athletes expose the reality of fighting for survival in the UFC
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ABC News provides the latest news and headlines in Australia and around the world.Mahmood Fazal (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
I wouldn't really call this "World News", based on the reports and comments, the community agrees.
See !news@lemmy.world and possibly even !business@lemmy.world as it's getting into UFC business practice.
Endocrine disruptors impair women's fertility, may lead to Polycystic Ovary Syndrome, major review finds
Endocrine disruptors impair women's fertility, may lead to PCOS
Endocrine-disrupting chemicals (EDCs) damage female reproductive health, contributing to infertility, PCOS and early puberty, a large review shows.Pamela Ferdinand (U.S. Right to Know)
People who profit from Climate change are against rules to slow down climate change
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How we really judge AI
How we really judge AI
A new study finds people are more likely to approve of the use of AI in situations where its abilities are perceived as superior to humans’ and where personalization isn’t necessary.MIT News | Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Do Not, Under Any Circumstances, Try to Woo Back Elon Musk
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With some prominent Democrats and liberal pundits arguing for the party to try to win Elon Musk back to its side, you have to ask: Is American politics simply a matter of who can best kiss the ass of narcissistic reactionary billionaires?
Do Not, Under Any Circumstances, Try to Woo Back Elon Musk
With some prominent Democrats and liberal pundits arguing for the party to try to win Elon Musk back to its side, you have to ask: Is American politics simply a matter of who can best kiss the ass of narcissistic reactionary billionaires?
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Is American politics simply a matter of who can best kiss the ass of narcissistic reactionary billionaires?
Always has been.
Radeon Software For Linux Dropping AMD's Proprietary OpenGL/Vulkan Drivers
Radeon Software For Linux Dropping AMD's Proprietary OpenGL/Vulkan Drivers
With how well the open-source and upstream AMD Radeon Linux graphics driver stack is these days between the mainline Linux kernel and Mesa, the Radeon Software for Linux packaged driver releases are not usually notable these days on Phoronix..www.phoronix.com
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Spyware maker cuts ties with Italy after government refused audit into hack of journalist’s phone
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In a shocking first, Paragon has cut off ties with the Italian government after a special government committee essentially investigated themselves and concluded that no government spyware was used in the hacking of an Italian journalist. This comes after the same body refused to allow the spyware company to independently verify this conclusion.
The spyware manufacturer Paragon said Monday that it has ended its contract with Italy because a special government committee investigating alleged abuses there declined to let the company independently verify that Italian authorities did not hack into the phone of a well-known journalist."The company offered both the Italian government and parliament a way to determine whether its system had been used against the journalist," Paragon said in a statement issued to the Israeli publication Haaretz. Because Italian authorities “chose not to proceed with this solution, Paragon terminated its contracts in Italy,” the company said.
Last Wednesday, the Parliamentary Committee for the Security of the Republic (COPASIR) approved its report, which acknowledged that Italian foreign and domestic intelligence services used Paragon’s spyware product, Graphite, to target phones belonging to civil society activists.
The committee found no evidence the surveillance technology was used against journalist Francesco Cancellato, the report said. Cancellato — known for an investigative report documenting ties between Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and young Italian fascists — is among about 90 WhatsApp users who Meta notified about spyware targeting in January.
COPASIR said it searched the intelligence agencies’ databases for Cancellato’s number and did not find it. The report also said there is no evidence that Italian officials asked for permission to spy on Cancellato.
A spyware manufacturer has never before publicly acknowledged terminating a contract with a government client due to abuse.
Spyware maker cuts ties with Italy after government refused audit into hack of journalist’s phone
Israel-based spyware maker Paragon and Italy's government had a falling out over the company's offer to help investigate what happened on journalist Francesco Cancellato's phone.Suzanne Smalley (The Record)
Would you care for a financial product in these trying times?
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IRS tax filing software released to the people as free software
Last week, the IRS published the majority of Direct File's source code to GitHub, with one of the people who worked on Direct File noting that "establishing trust with taxpayers was core to our approach for designing and building Direct File." IRS Direct File, commonly referred to as Direct File, is a tax-filing program offered by the IRS that allows US taxpayers to prepare and electronically file federal income tax returns at no cost. The majority of Direct File's source code getting uploaded to GitHub is a step forward for free software, both because of Direct File's scale and what it represents: that there is still a lot of power in collective action. It will protect the work of its developers regardless of whether Direct File will be offered for the 2025 tax season.
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Pavel Durov (CEO of Telegram) about the use of "the Gag order" in U.S against social media privacy
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But what Durov revealed next pulled the lens even wider. What happened in France, he said, is part of a larger pattern: governments exploiting legal systems to weaken privacy protections—and it’s even more extreme in the United States.Nitter
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If liberals refuse to say water is wet, eventually the Nazis will be trotting it out like they came up with it. Doesn't really help anyone to deny that intelligence collaboration with USA bloc is mandatory for tech companies.
Does Carlson, who wanted to join the CIA and supported all kinds of neoconservatives throughout his career, really pose any challenge to this? No, he is just going to inoculate Trump supporters from the information being used against the right, which paints itself as "against the New World Order". Fascism has done this since its inception, such as with Mussolini and others posing as anticapitalist critics as part of their eclectic strategy to gain support while out of power.
New apps help immigrants navigate Trump’s deportation crackdown
Hack Latino is an artificial intelligence-powered app for Latinos in the U.S., made by the Georgia-based entrepreneur Adrian Lozano Jr. It offers restaurant suggestions and consular information to more than 30,000 users, along with a key feature to keep them safe: a map of ICE sightings, launched in April.It is one of a slew of mobile platforms created by nonprofit organizations, independent developers, and foreign governments, which have cropped up amid a surge in immigration raids in the U.S. The Donald Trump administration has vowed to enact mass deportations from the U.S., home to some 13.7 million undocumented individuals. The digital tools provide services such as “Know Your Rights” guides, legal information, and emergency resources to help the community prepare for potential encounters with immigration authorities.
Apps such as Hack Latino or digital tools like Stop ICE Alerts function much like the community patrols of the 1990s, when neighbors and activists in neighborhoods with a large Hispanic presence would warn others about the arrival of authorities — except these apps have the added benefit of real-time technology, said Pedro Rios, director of the American Friends Service Committee, a Quaker organization that supports migrants and refugees.
Immigration raids fuel demand for migrant safety apps like ConsulApp - Rest of World
Tools like Hack Latino, ConsulApp, and Know Your Rights 4 Immigrants offer real-time alerts and legal help, but some are going offline under pressure.Karla Zabludovsky (Rest of World)
An LAPD helicopter claimed to have ID'ed protesters from above and threatened to "come to your house"
Cool...
This one goes out to all the small government, privacy loving, Republicans out there, supposedly hating invasive big brother tactics and representing the values of the American heartland.
Would be much appreciated if you could have a word with your people about this.
A LAPD helicopter claimed to have ID'ed protesters from above and threatened to "come to your house"
The practice, an expert warns, could lead to "reprisals and retribution by the police for your politics.”Mother Jones
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Any software defined radio that can transmit on these bands and RF amplifiers.
The ham radio community also has all the information on how to build them out of of basic components, power RF transistors being the most expensive components, but that is still dollars not tens of dollars.
Sometimes ready made gps jammers can be obtained off the shelf from overseas markets outside of the hegemon's reach.
But active protest does require being smart about it. No point in just causing irritation with the population while leaving the enemy able to operate unencumbered.
That means performing observation, OSINT, signals intelligence to understand their system and find their weaknesses.
They will have covered most vulnerabilities from their own guerilla warfare manuals so study those and find their blind spots.
Find where they have become overconfident in their hardware's ability. Where they have started taking from granted technologies that remain only reliable in peacetime.
Use their systems against them
Are you a bot? Or a paid troll? There's no way anyone has the ability to post as much drivel online as do you without having a sponsor.
First, you make an illogical statement, suggesting that social services somehow equates demographics (it doesn't) and then don't do anything to show how Russia and China have better social services. Even if they did (they don't), it wouldn't make a demographic argument.
Your first linked study is odd. It suggests that almost 70% of women and almost 60% of men will have post-secondary degrees by 2070. Even if that was realistic (it isn't), what jobs do you think these Chinese people are going to have? They would have to abandon their current economy and adopt an entirely new economy. That means someone else would have to become the world's factory. The Chinese would be too busy in other jobs. Some things scale easily. If you want to build more engines, you can ramp-up production and quickly increase the supply of engines. If you want more professors of mathematics, that takes a generation. The people have to be born, educated, and then employed. It doesn't happen at once. The rate of growth is necessarily slow. Sure, you could get post-grad garbage degrees that require very little cognitive skill, but that's not what your article is suggesting.
Second, See also here.
Your video on demographics is misleading because it looks at population growth rate. We already know China's future growth is well below what's needed because their birth rates are much, much lower. Population growth is a lagging indicator as China's "Great Leap" decimated China's population and therefore their population is missing many people who were born before 1962. These people born after the "great leap" are just now hitting retirement age. They will be dead in the next 20 years, give or take. This is why the author does not extrapolate data as it is projected into the future.
Your youtube guy also suggests that immigrants are a problem to the US. They aren't. I am friends with a LOT of immigrants. Their children are just the same as mine. One of my friends told me she was sad because her daughter cries in English. To her that was an emotional disconnect. People used to say the same of Irish and Italian Catholics, that it'll break the US. They were wrong. Both integrated very well. Hispanics integrate well. Asians integrate well.
Speaking of immigration, you still haven't replied to why nobody is immigrating to China and the US is very popular to immigrate to. It was a big part of your youtube guy's argument. But nobody on your side wants to tell us why immigrants want to go to the US but do not want to go to China.
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Meta is reportedly making a $15 billion bet on AGI
Meta is reportedly making a $15 billion bet on AGI
Meta is close to finalizing an almost $15 billion investment in Scale AI, the training data giant with clients including OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, and Meta.Hayden Field (The Verge)
Mustafa Kemal Ataturk: vita del padre della Turchia moderna
Mustafa Kemal Ataturk: vita del padre della Turchia moderna
La vita, le imprese e la morte di Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, eroe e fondatore della Turchia moderna e laicaAlessandro Sabelli (Fatti per la Storia)
Airlines Don't Want You to Know They Sold Your Flight Data to DHS
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A data broker owned by the country’s major airlines, including Delta, American Airlines, and United, collected U.S. travellers’ domestic flight records, sold access to them to Customs and Border Protection (CBP), and then as part of the contract told CBP to not reveal where the data came from, according to internal CBP documents obtained by 404 Media. The data includes passenger names, their full flight itineraries, and financial details.
CBP, a part of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), says it needs this data to support state and local police to track people of interest’s air travel across the country, in a purchase that has alarmed civil liberties experts.
The documents reveal for the first time in detail why at least one part of DHS purchased such information, and comes after Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detailed its own purchase of the data. The documents also show for the first time that the data broker, called the Airlines Reporting Corporation (ARC), tells government agencies not to mention where it sourced the flight data from.
“The big airlines—through a shady data broker that they own called ARC—are selling the government bulk access to Americans' sensitive information, revealing where they fly and the credit card they used,” Senator Ron Wyden said in a statement.
ARC is owned and operated by at least eight major U.S. airlines, other publicly released documents show. The company’s board of directors include representatives from Delta, Southwest, United, American Airlines, Alaska Airlines, JetBlue, and European airlines Lufthansa and Air France, and Canada’s Air Canada. More than 240 airlines depend on ARC for ticket settlement services.
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ARC’s other lines of business include being the conduit between airlines and travel agencies, finding travel trends in data with other firms like Expedia, and fraud prevention, according to material on ARC’s YouTube channel and website. The sale of U.S. flyers’ travel information to the government is part of ARC’s Travel Intelligence Program (TIP).
A Statement of Work included in the newly obtained documents, which describes why an agency is buying a particular tool or capability, says CBP needs access to ARC’s TIP product “to support federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies to identify persons of interest’s U.S. domestic air travel ticketing information.” 404 Media obtained the documents through a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request.
A screenshot of the Statement of Work. Image: 404 Media.
The new documents obtained by 404 Media also show ARC asking CBP to “not publicly identify vendor, or its employees, individually or collectively, as the source of the Reports unless the Customer is compelled to do so by a valid court order or subpoena and gives ARC immediate notice of same.”
The Statement of Work says that TIP can show a person’s paid intent to travel and tickets purchased through travel agencies in the U.S. and its territories. The data from the Travel Intelligence Program (TIP) will provide “visibility on a subject’s or person of interest’s domestic air travel ticketing information as well as tickets acquired through travel agencies in the U.S. and its territories,” the documents say. They add this data will be “crucial” in both administrative and criminal cases.
A DHS Privacy Impact Assessment (PIA) available online says that TIP data is updated daily with the previous day’s ticket sales, and contains more than one billion records spanning 39 months of past and future travel. The document says TIP can be searched by name, credit card, or airline, but ARC contains data from ARC-accredited travel agencies, such as Expedia, and not flights booked directly with an airline. “[I]f the passenger buys a ticket directly from the airline, then the search done by ICE will not show up in an ARC report,” that PIA says. The PIA notes the data impacts both U.S. and non-U.S. persons, meaning it does include information on U.S. citizens.
“While obtaining domestic airline data—like many other transaction and purchase records—generally doesn't require a warrant, there's still supposed to go through a legal process that ensures independent oversight and limits data collection to records that will support an investigation,” Jake Laperruque, deputy director of the Center for Democracy & Technology's Security and Surveillance Project, told 404 Media in an email. “As with many other types of sensitive and revealing data, the government seems intent on using data brokers to buy their way around important guardrails and limits.”
CBP’s contract with ARC started in June 2024 and may extend to 2029, according to the documents. The CBP contract 404 Media obtained documents for was an $11,025 transaction. Last Tuesday, a public procurement database added a $6,847.50 update to that contract, which said it was exercising “Option Year 1,” meaning it was extending the contract. The documents are redacted but briefly mention CBP’s OPR, or Office of Professional Responsibility, which in part investigates corruption by CBP employees.
“CBP is committed to protecting individuals’ privacy during the execution of its mission to protect the American people, safeguard our borders, and enhance the nation’s economic prosperity. CBP follows a robust privacy policy as we protect the homeland through the air, land and maritime environments against illegal entry, illicit activity or other threats to national sovereignty and economic security,” a CBP spokesperson said in a statement. CBP added that the data is only used when an OPR investigation is open and the agency needs to locate someone related to that investigation. The agency said the data can act as a good starting point to identify a relevant flight record before then getting more information through legal processes.
On May 1, ICE published details about its own ARC data purchase. In response, on May 2, 404 Media filed FOIA requests with ICE and a range of other agencies that 404 Media found had bought ARC’s services, including CBP, the Secret Service, SEC, DEA, the Air Force, U.S. Marshals Service, TSA, and ATF. 404 Media found these by searching U.S. procurement databases. Around a week later, The Lever covered the ICE contract.
A screenshot of the Statement of Work. Image: 404 Media.
Airlines contacted by 404 Media declined to comment, didn’t respond, or deferred to either ARC or DHS instead. ARC declined to comment. The company previously told The Lever that TIP “was established after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks to provide certain data to law enforcement… for the purpose of national security matters” and criminal investigations.
“ARC has refused to answer oversight questions from Congress, so I have already contacted the major airlines that own ARC—like Delta, American Airlines and United—to find out why they gave the green light to sell their customers' data to the government,” Wyden’s statement added.
U.S. law enforcement agencies have repeatedly turned to private companies to buy data rather than obtain it through legal processes such as search warrants or subpoenas. That includes location data harvested from smartphones, utility data, and internet backbone data.
“Overall it strikes me as yet another alarming example of how the ‘Big Data Surveillance Complex’ is becoming the digital age version of the Military-Industrial Complex,” Laperruque says, referring to the purchase of airline data.
“It's clear the Data Broker Loophole is pushing the government back towards a pernicious ‘collect it all’ mentality, gobbling up as much sensitive data as it can about all Americans by default. A decade ago the public rejected that approach, and Congress passed surveillance reform legislation that banned domestic bulk collection. Clearly it's time for Congress to step in again, and stop the Data Broker Loophole from being used to circumvent that ban,” he added.
According to ARC’s website, the company only introduced multifactor authentication on May 15.
U.S. Counterintel Buys Access to the Backbone of the Internet to Hunt Foreign Hackers
Getting information from the NSA would take too long, according to internal documents from a counterintelligence agency. So it turned to Team Cymru to buy netflow data that can allow analysts to track activity through virtual private networks.Joseph Cox (404 Media)
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Greta Thunberg deported to Paris after Israel illegally invades humanitarian aid boat "Madleen" on international waters and kidnappes crew.
Greta Thunberg speaking with France 24 after her deportation from Israel:
Greta Thunberg arrives in Paris after deportation from Israel
Greta Thunberg arrived in Paris after being deported by Israel, saying she was “illegally attacked and kidnapped”.Al Jazeera
Pentagon draws up rules on possible use of force by Marines deployed to LA protests
Pentagon was scrambling Monday to establish rules to guide U.S. Marines who could be faced with the rare and difficult prospect of using force against citizens on American soil, now that the Trump administration is deploying active duty troops to the immigration raid protests in Los Angeles.
U.S. Northern Command said it is sending 700 Marines into the Los Angeles area to protect federal property and personnel, including federal immigration agents. The 2nd Battalion, 7th Marines are coming from Twentynine Palms, California, and will augment about 4,100 National Guard members already in LA or authorized to be deployed there to respond to the protests.
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Hang on, did the iPad just become a computer?
Hang on, did the iPad just become a computer?
At WWDC, Apple announced a new version of iPadOS with much more powerful window management. It turns the tablet into a surprisingly capable computer.David Pierce (The Verge)
Google’s AI search features are killing traffic to publishers
Google’s AI search features are killing traffic to publishers | TechCrunch
Google’s AI Overviews and other AI-powered tools, including chatbots, are devastating traffic for news publishers, per a Wall Street Journal report.Rebecca Bellan (TechCrunch)
Microsoft Edge is getting an AI-powered browser history that works with typos
Microsoft Edge is getting an AI-powered browser history that works with typos
Microsoft is adding an AI-powered browser history search feature to Edge. It lets you find websites in your browser history by using phrases and synonyms.Tom Warren (The Verge)
Practical bicycles / Velocars at the SPEZI bike show 2025
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Mergulhe em Aventuras Digitais com a MerwomanPG
Se você gosta de emoção, estratégia e recompensas, a MerwomanPG é uma plataforma que merece a sua atenção. Com um ambiente moderno e recheado de opções de jogos interativos, ela se consolidou como um dos principais destinos para quem busca diversão e praticidade no mundo digital.
A proposta da MerwomanPG vai além de apenas oferecer jogos: ela proporciona uma verdadeira jornada interativa. Cada seção do site é pensada para facilitar a navegação e oferecer uma experiência fluida. A estética é vibrante e os menus são intuitivos, permitindo que o jogador encontre seus títulos favoritos com poucos cliques.
A grande estrela da plataforma são suas máquinas temáticas, que transportam os usuários para diferentes universos: mundos mitológicos, aventuras espaciais, piratas, tesouros perdidos e muito mais. Cada jogo traz gráficos de alta definição, trilhas sonoras envolventes e diversas formas de acumular prêmios, como rodadas bônus, multiplicadores e níveis especiais.
Além disso, a MerwomanPG promove eventos e campanhas com frequência. Os jogadores podem participar de torneios, desafios relâmpago e sorteios com premiações atrativas. Isso cria uma comunidade ativa, onde os participantes compartilham experiências e celebram conquistas.
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EU holds back on taxing US Big Tech
In April, EU Commission president Ursula von der Leyen floated an 'Amazon tax' on digital ads as a counter to US tariffs. But with the EU now limiting retaliation to goods, the bloc appears to be backing away from that threat.
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Spain | Supreme Court to prosecute Attorney General for disclosing confidential information
Supreme Court probe finds evidence Spain’s top prosecutor leaked confidential data in a politically sensitive case tied to Madrid’s regional government.
Fatal shooting in secondary school in Graz, Austria
Several people have been killed in a shooting that took place in a secondary school in south-eastern Austria.
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Landmark High Seas Treaty now ‘inches away’ from ratification
The High Seas Treaty, adopted in 2023, would allow countries to establish marine protected areas in international waters.
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Londra e Parigi cercano di trattenere gli USA in Europa il più a lungo possibile
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California Governor calls out Alabama murder rate after Senator Tuberville says LA is ‘a third world country’
Gavin Newsom calls out Alabama murder rate after Tuberville says LA is ‘a third world country’
Tuberville joined Trump in saying the California governor should be arrested.Heather Gann | hgann@al.com (al)
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“Alabama has 3X the homicide rate of California,” Newsom wrote Monday in a post to X.
Meanwhile, over here in California, kids are literate. Alabama can't claim that.
Fuck you, Tommy, you stupid piece of shit. I don't love my gov (I quite dislike him, though he's been all right in the last two days). At least his name doesn't sound childish: Tommy Tuberville, the guy who held up military promotions because he's a bigot. Get fucked, bud.
Meanwhile, over here in California, kids are literate.
California, shockingly, has the lowest literacy rate of any state
“We really haven’t been investing” for decades, she said. “We’ve been underspending the entire time.”California, currently sitting on a surplus bigger than many states’ entire budgets, has for years spent less – about 13 percent less – than the national average on K-12 schools. Recent research shows that even high-performing California students score lower on standard tests than their counterparts in better performing states.
School spending, of course, is only one factor shaping California’s dismal literacy rate. The state has the most diverse population in the country, more than 200 languages are spoken here. California also has the biggest wealth chasm.
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Parental education might be the biggest factor. But income disparity – which is linked to parental education – plays a role as well. A big role. States with large percentages of highly literate parents unsurprisingly had highly proficient 8th graders, according to the National Center for Education Statistics.Those states also had, among other things, more libraries per capita than the national average.
California has the most public libraries of any state, with 1,130, said State Librarian Greg Lucas, but because of its huge population, the state falls below the per-capita national average. California has 4.5 libraries per 100,000, and the national average is 5.2.
Lucas said public libraries help school kids who speak one of California’s 200-plus languages to find reading material, while also helping adults whose hopes of a better job require some level of literacy.
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“There are stacks of studies that show that caregivers who talk, read and sing help build an appetite for reading. And there’s another big stack that says a kid succeeds better at a school with a teacher librarian,” he added.California, unfortunately, trails the pack on that measure, too. The state has about 900 teacher-librarians (credentialed teachers with a library sciences degree) for its more than 6 million school kids. Texas has around 4,300 such specialists and a million fewer kids.
California, shockingly, has the lowest literacy rate of any state - Capitol Weekly
One in four people over the age of 15 lack the skills to decipher the words in this sentence, says the nonpartisan World Population Review.WILL SHUCK (Capitol Weekly)
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U.S. Literacy Rates by State 2025
Discover population, economy, health, and more with the most comprehensive global statistics at your fingertips.worldpopulationreview.com
Even with this revised data, California has some of the worst literacy rates in the nation to the point of being worse that Alabama
Colorado bill to hold social media companies responsible for protecting children fails
They hoped their children’s deaths would bring change. Then a Colorado bill to protect kids online failed
Parents who lost children to online harms helped draft the bill – then watched it collapse under political pressureKatie McQue (The Guardian)
China's electric cars are becoming slicker and cheaper - but is there a deeper cost?
China's electric cars are cheaper, but is there a deeper cost?
The future for EVs will inevitably involve China. But where does that leave the UK and Europe markets – and what of the questions around national security?Theo Leggett (BBC News)
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