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Google Fulfilled ICE Subpoena Demanding Student Journalist’s Bank and Credit Card Numbers
https://theintercept.com/2026/02/10/google-ice-subpoena-student-journalist/?mid=1#cid=3384744

Google Fulfilled ICE Subpoena Demanding Student Journalist’s Bank and Credit Card Numbers
Amandla Thomas-Johnson didn't know how much information ICE requested in a subpoena now. Google never gave him a chance to fight it.

How independent Venezuelan outlets, operating from exile and in alliance with reporters who remain in the country, managed to cover Maduro's ouster (César López Linares/LatAm Journalism Review)
https://latamjournalismrevie…

How Venezuelan journalists broke the information blockade with a 10-hour broadcast of Maduro’s ouster
How Venezuelan journalists broke the information blockade with a 10-hour broadcast of Maduro’s ouster Digital Native. Latin American Journalism Review by The Knight Center at The University of Texas at Austin.

Google handed over a trove of personal data
about a student and journalist to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement
in response to a subpoena that had not been approved by a judge, according to a report by The Intercept. 
The search and advertising tech giant provided ICE with the usernames, physical addresses, and an itemized list of services associated with the Google account of Amandla Thomas-Johnson,
a British student and journalist who briefly attended a pro-P…

Google sent personal and financial information of student journalist to ICE | TechCrunch
The tech giant handed over the personal information of a journalist and student who attended a pro-Palestinian protest in 2024. This is the latest example of ICE using its controversial subpoena powers to target people critical of the Trump administration.

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It lets you sent messages from the Fediverse to your WordPress Author profile and appends those to a weekly draft post. At the end of th…

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Universal scale-free representations in human visual cortex https://journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/article?id=10.1371/journal.pcbi.1013714 "revealing a universal high-dimensional spectrum of visual information that emerges despite individual differenc…

Universal scale-free representations in human visual cortex
Author summary The human cerebral cortex is thought to encode sensory information in population activity patterns, but the statistical structure of these population codes has yet to be characterized. By examining large-scale neuroimaging recordings of human vision using a spectral approach more common in physics than neuroscience, we reveal the universal scale-free structure of population codes in visual cortex, which is found in all subjects and at multiple stages of visual processing. Moreove…

“Google handed over a trove of personal data about a student and journalist to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in response to a subpoena that had not been approved by a judge…”
“…latest example of how the U.S. government is using a controversial type of legal request, called an administrative subpoena, to demand that tech companies turn over the private data of individuals who have been critical of the Trump administration.”

Google sent personal and financial information of student journalist to ICE | TechCrunch
The tech giant handed over the personal information of a journalist and student who attended a pro-Palestinian protest in 2024. This is the latest example of ICE using its controversial subpoena powers to target people critical of the Trump administration.

Analysis: news organizations' open-source activity has fallen from a peak of 2,092 new public GitHub repositories in 2016 to 396 in 2025, an ~80% decline (Nieman Lab)
https://www.niemanlab.org/2026/02/journalism-lost-its-culture-of-sharin…

Journalism lost its culture of sharing. Here’s how we rebuild it
The data are clear: The open-source culture that defined an earlier era of online journalism has collapsed.

A look at the erosion of press freedom and independent reporting in Israel, where journalists report escalating censorship, harassment, and self-censorship (Yael Krifcher/Committee to Protect Journalists)
https://cpj.org/2025/12/under-the-rada

Under the radar: Israel steps up censorship and suppression of independent reporting - Committee to Protect Journalists
Two years into Israel’s genocide in Gaza, press freedom inside the country has reached a breaking point. Journalists report escalating censorship, harassment, and self-censorship that, they say, now functions as “part of the war effort.” Independent reporting has sharply declined, leaving the Israeli public with a distorted view of the conflict. An October 2025 report...

Nicaraguan journalists who fled their country for Costa Rica amid a press freedom crisis say the regime's threats, harassment, and blackmail have followed them (Committee to Protect Journalists)
https://cpj.org/2026/01/they-are-hunti

‘They are hunting journalists’: Nicaragua’s covert repression tactics strike fear beyond borders - Committee to Protect Journalists
An estimated 268 Nicaraguan journalists have fled the Central American country for exile, many settling in the neighboring Costa Rica, to escape what CPJ’s research has documented to be a government-backed system of political repression and judicial harassment against media outlets that often prevents journalists, fearing for their families, from reporting the truth. Yet for...

At least 53 of the 67 journalists killed in the past 12 months were victims of war or criminal networks; 503 journalists are detained globally, 121 in China (Reporters Without Borders)
https://rsf.org/en/2025-deadly-year-journalists-where-hate-and-impunity-lead

2025, a deadly year for journalists: this is where hate and impunity lead
Journalists do not just die – they are killed. The number of murdered journalists has risen again, due to the criminal practices of military groups — both regular and paramilitary — and organised crime. At least 53 of the 67 media professionals killed over the past year are victims of war or criminal networks.