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Immigration and Customs Enforcement. ICE collects data on every person it encounters, arrests, detains, transports via flight, and deports. We post below data that ICE produced in response to several FOIA requests by multiple organizations. Crucially, in some data releases, there are linked identifiers across data types such as arrests and detainers, allowing merges that …
ConsumerAffairs: “The link between economic activity and traffic appears to hold true for our ranking: The cities with the worst traffic in America are among the cities with the highest economic output. Geographically, the top-ranked cities are clustered in two regions: Three of the worst cities for traffic are in the South, and the remaining …
ZDNET: “A quick Google search will surface article after article claiming that Waze is far better than Google Maps. But is that actually true? I’m a longtime Google Maps (and Google Earth) user. I swear by the app, and I regularly side-eye anyone who says otherwise — especially, god forbid, Apple Maps users. I’m also …
Muck Rack Complete Report – Snipped from Executive Summary • Citations affect responses: Simply enabling or disabling the ability for AI to search the web drastically modifies responses, indicating that the systems are truly basing their responses on the cited works. • Journalism and earned media are important drivers: More than 95% of links cited …
BiometricUpdate.com: “U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has quietly deployed a new surveillance tool in its Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) arsenal – a smartphone app known as Mobile Fortify. Designed for ICE field agents, the app enables real-time biometric identity verification using facial recognition or contactless fingerprints. Based on leaked emails reported by 404 Media, the …
Business Insider – Its contractor left it wide open. “An internal spreadsheet obtained by Business Insider shows which websites Surge AI gig workers were told to mine — and which to avoid — while fine-tuning Anthropic’s AI to make it sound more “helpful, honest, and harmless.” The spreadsheet allows sources like Bloomberg, Harvard University, and …
“The following products have been determined to contain either classified information or controlled unclassified information by the Executive Branch audited agencies and therefore cannot be publicly released. As such, they have not been posted to GAO’s website and have product numbers that end in C (classified) or SU (controlled unclassified information). Many also have an …
404 Media – no paywall: “When your laptop is infected with infostealing malware, it’s not just hackers that might get your passwords, billing and email addresses, and a list of sites or services you’ve created accounts on, potentially including some embarrassing ones. A private intelligence company run by a young founder is now taking that …
Washington Post via MSN: “Let’s say that you’re worried about artificial intelligence turning us into mushy-brained monsters, draining resources from the planet, slurping all your data and human knowledge, preying on vulnerable minds, wiping out jobs, choking your favorite websites, lying to you, or not being useful. Too bad. AI is becoming increasingly unavoidable in …
