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Media advocates criticize a US Department of Energy plan to throw out FOIA requests sent before October 1, 2024, unless the request is formally renewed (Jason Koebler/404 Media)
https://www.404media.co/trump-administration-outlines-p…

Trump Administration Outlines Plan to Throw Out an Agency's FOIA Requests En Masse
The Department of Energy said it will close FOIA requests from last year unless the requester emails the agency to say they are still interested. Experts say it's an "attempt to close out as many FOIA requests as possible."

Sources said journalists’ Microsoft accounts were compromised and could have granted the intruder access to work emails they sent and received. The reporters targeted include those on the national security and economic policy teams, including some who write about China.
No paywall.
Cyberattack on Washington Post Strikes Journalists’ Email Accounts

Gabbard’s team has sought spy agency data to enforce Trump’s agenda

The Director’s Initiative Group has expressed an interest in gaining access to emails and chat logs of the largest U.S. intelligence agencies to root out “weaponization,” according to multiple people familiar with the effort.

Gabbard’s team has sought spy agency data to enforce Trump’s agenda
A team created by Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard has sought access to emails and chat logs of the largest U.S. spy agencies to root out “weaponization.”

Sources: xAI was part of a US government AI initiative alongside OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google, but was removed after Grok posted antisemitic content in July (Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/xai-grok-government-contract-hitler/

xAI Was About to Land a Major Government Contract. Then Grok Praised Hitler
Internal emails obtained by WIRED show a hasty process to onboard OpenAI, Anthropic, and other AI providers to the federal government. xAI was on the list—until MechaHilter happened.

Considering my options to evacuate from Vilnius if needed: via Suwalki, Klaipėda or Rīga.
https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2589799/baltic-states-to-develop-joint-mass-evacuation-plans

Trump Administration Outlines Plan to Throw Out an Agency's FOIA Requests En Masse https://www.404media.co/trump-administration-outlines-plan-to-throw-out-an-agencys-foia-requests-en-masse/

There are undoubtedly morally justified uses of facial recognition technology, but improving and refining these technologies directly enables racist policies.
https://www.404media.co/ice-is-using-a-new-facial-recognition-app-to-identify…

ICE Is Using a New Facial Recognition App to Identify People, Leaked Emails Show
The new tool, called Mobile Fortify, uses the CBP system which ordinarily takes photos of people when they enter or exit the U.S., according to internal ICE emails viewed by 404 Media. Now ICE is using it in the field.

Interface Fragmentation via Horizontal Vibration: A Pathway to Scalable Monodisperse Emulsification
Lingfeng Piao, Anne Juel
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.07742

Interface Fragmentation via Horizontal Vibration: A Pathway to Scalable Monodisperse Emulsification
We present a scalable method for producing monodisperse microscale emulsions in a container holding two stably stratified layers of immiscible liquids by applying horizontal vibration. Our experiments and theoretical modelling show that the critical non-dimensional acceleration for regular droplet formation is governed by a shear-dominated breakup mechanism, which scales as $N^{-1/2} ω^{*3/2}$, where $N$ is the viscosity ratio and $ω^{*}$ is the frequency of forcing on the viscous-capillary s…

Internal emails: ICE is using Mobile Fortify, an app that uses facial recognition and fingerprint scanning via phone cameras to identify people in the field (Joseph Cox/404 Media)
https://www.404media.co/ice-is-using-a-new-f…

ICE Is Using a New Facial Recognition App to Identify People, Leaked Emails Show
The new tool, called Mobile Fortify, uses the CBP system which ordinarily takes photos of people when they enter or exit the U.S., according to internal ICE emails viewed by 404 Media. Now ICE is using it in the field.

Google rolls out a new Gmail feature to manage subscriptions, showing a list of emails delivered via active subscriptions, sorted by the most frequent senders (Andrew Liszewski/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/701282/gmail-manage-email-sub…

Gmail’s new tab is made for unsubscribing from emails
Gmail’s introducing a new Manage subscriptions feature that shows the most frequent senders on one screen so you can easily unsubscribe with a single click.