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New court filings allege that federal and state officials withheld evidence of the Trump administration’s involvement in the Everglades detention facility known as “Alligator Alcatraz,” a revelation that could revive a court-ordered shutdown. The Jan. 7 filings come as the Miccosukee Tribe presses ahead with its legal challenge amid President Donald Trump’s recent veto of legislation expanding the tribe’s control over Everglades lands.
The filings, submitted by Friends of the Everglades…

New ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ records suggest federal funding and involvement in Florida detention camp
Court filings appear to undermine DHS claims that “Alligator Alcatraz” was a state project, potentially reviving a court-ordered shutdown

slop consequences 🥹
I have no illusions that there's gonna be any once slop code does harm, tho. After all, companies got away with all kinds for hand-crafted, artisanal negligence for decades.
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ars-tech…

Ars Technica Fires Reporter After AI Controversy Involving Fabricated Quotes
Ars Technica has fired senior AI reporter Benj Edwards following an outrage-sparking controversy involving AI-fabricated quotes.

Source: Ars Technica fired senior AI reporter Benj Edwards after his February 13 story had AI-fabricated quotes; Edwards admitted to using Claude and ChatGPT (Maggie Harrison Dupré/Futurism)
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ars-technica-fires-re…

Ars Technica Fires Reporter After AI Controversy Involving Fabricated Quotes
Ars Technica has fired senior AI reporter Benj Edwards following an outrage-sparking controversy involving AI-fabricated quotes.

“What they posed as the threat they were trying to preempt
—an attack by Iran against US forces
—is so extremely implausible, it is also laughable,” said one analyst
Experts Pillory Trump Case for War on Iran: ‘Flimsiest Excuse for Initiating a Major Attack’ in Decades
https://www.comm…

Experts Pillory Trump Case for War on Iran: 'Flimsiest Excuse for Initiating a Major Attack' in Decades | Common Dreams
"What they posed as the threat they were trying to preempt—an attack by Iran against US forces—is so extremely implausible, it is also laughable," said one analyst.

After a magistrate judge left AG Pam Bondi furious by rejecting a criminal complaint against Lemon on January 18, she tried to get her revenge Friday morning
A few hours later, the DOJ’s case is falling apart as prosecutors in Minnesota and LA refuse to get involved.
https://newre…

Rebuilding public trust in AI requires meaningful citizen engagement, transparent governance, and robust legislation. Technology itself is not the problem. The issue is that few people trust institutions to deploy it wisely and for their benefit. This makes the first step to answer the following question: What’s it in for me?

Breaking the doom loop: How to rebuild trust in AI
Rebuilding public trust in AI requires meaningful citizen engagement, transparent governance, and robust legislation. By involving communities and prioritising effective oversight, institutions can break the ...

Notepad Hijacked by
State-Sponsored Hackers
Following the security disclosure published in the v8.8.9 announcement investigation has continued in collaboration with external experts and with the full involvement of the (now former) shared hosting provider.
According to the analysis provided by the security experts,
the attack involved infrastructure-level compromise
that allowed malicious actors to intercept and redirect update traffic destined for notepad-plu…

Israel on Tuesday said it had
💥suspended more than two dozen humanitarian organizations,
including "Doctors Without Borders" and CARE,
from operating in the Gaza Strip
for failing to comply with new registration rules.
Israel says the rules are aimed at preventing Hamas and other militant groups from infiltrating the aid organizations.
But the organizations say the rules are arbitrary and warned that the new ban would harm a civilian population d…

Israel to halt operations of several humanitarian groups in Gaza starting in 2026
Israel says it will suspend several humanitarian organizations for failing to meet its new rules to vet international organizations working in Gaza. The Ministry of Diaspora Affairs said on Tuesday that the organizations that will be banned on Jan. 1 did not meet its new requirements for sharing staff, funding and operations information. It accused Doctors Without Borders, known as MSF by its French acronym, of failing to clarify the roles of some staff that Israel accused of cooperation with H…

The government of California is implementing a law that requires operating system providers to implement some form of age verification into their account setup procedures.
Assembly Bill No. 1043 was approved by California governor Gavin Newsom in October of last year, and becomes active on January 1, 2027 (via The Lunduke Journal).
The bill states, among other factors, that "An operating system provider shall do all of the following:"
"(1) Provide an accessib…

A new California law says all operating systems, including Linux, need to have some form of age verification at account setup
It's basic, and by the looks of it, near unenforceable.

While the pictures of Trump flanked by underage girls are hard to look at,
it’s disturbing in another way to see how women who want to earn power from him feel they must look now.
In 2025,
💥“Mar-a-Lago face”
entered the lexicon,
a term used to describe the combination of plastered-on makeup and aggressive plastic surgery
that makes women look like inflatable sex dolls,
as Trump’s apparent sexual tastes have morphed MAGA aesthetics into something inh…

The right hit peak incel in 2025
From Mar-a-Lago face to Elon Musk, MAGA's sexual dysfunction exposed itself