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ICE.gov: “ICE’s 287(g) Program The Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 added Section 287(g) to the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA), authorizing U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to delegate state and local law enforcement officers the authority to perform specified immigration officer functions under ICE’s direction and oversight. Likewise, Title 25 …
Medium – “The world’s oldest known wild bird, Wisdom, the Laysan albatross, has returned to Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge to nest. Wisdom, the Laysan albatross (or mōlī in Hawaiian), Phoebastria immutabilis, has once again returned to Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge to nest. She was originally banded as she incubated an egg on 10 …
EFF – “A new report released today offers journalists tips on cutting through the sales hype about police surveillance technology and report accurately on costs, benefits, privacy, and accountability as these invasive and often ineffective tools come to communities across the nation. The “Selling Safety” report is a joint project of the Electronic Frontier Foundation …
Read the Full Report (PDF) “Today, the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Minority Staff released a new report analyzing the cost to American consumers of President Trump’s attack on the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), the agency that has returned $21 billion directly to Americans who were cheated by big banks and …
Follow up to CIA ends publication of its popular World Factbook reference tool – See The World Factbook is now the OpenFactBook – “The community-maintained successor to the CIA World Factbook. Comprehensive data on 254 countries and territories. OpenFactBook provides free, comprehensive, and accurate information about every country in the world. We believe geographic and …
A Media Verification & Research tool, detects AI, developed by Henk van Ess with Claude Code by Anthropic as coding assistant. “Why AI Detection Fails on the Fakes That Matter Most. Total fakes are easy to spot. Hybrid fakes slip through. Most AI detectors work like calculators — they output a number. They need to work like …
“Humanize AI text from ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini for free. Make content natural to bypass AI detection and feel truly human. Guaranteed undetectable results.” [Let that sink in.] AI Humanizer Eliminates AI Tones for Natural Writing – Directly trim the stiff and repetitive patterns found in machine-generated writing. AI text humanizer converts dry drafts into …
Via LLRX – Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, February 14, 2026 – Privacy and cybersecurity issues impact every aspect of our lives – home, work, travel, education, finance, health and medical records – to name but a few. On a weekly basis Pete Weiss highlights articles and information that focus on the increasingly …
The “Are You Sure?” Problem: Why Your AI Keeps Changing Its Mind Try this experiment. “Open ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini and ask a complex question. Something with real nuance, like whether you should take a new job offer or stay where you are, or whether it’s worth refinancing your mortgage right now. You’ll get a …
PCMag: “You can now sync your contacts and ‘find friends’ on OpenAI. Is this the first major step toward the company becoming a social media app? ChatGPT is getting more social, with a new feature that allows you to sync your contacts to see if any of your friends are using the chatbot or any …
Via LLRX – AI in Finance and Banking, February 15, 2026 – This semi-monthly column by Sabrina I. Pacifici highlights news, government documents, NGO/IGO papers, conferences, industry white papers and reports, academic papers and speeches, and central bank actions on the subject of AI’s fast paced impact on the banking and finance sectors. The chronological links provided …
“GeoConfirmed is a volunteer-driven open-source intelligence (OSINT) project dedicated to geolocating and verifying visual content—such as videos and photographs—from around the world. Our mission is to bring clarity and accuracy to events by confirming exactly where something happened, using publicly available information. While much of our recent work has focused on conflict zones, our methods …