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"ICE Expands Power of Agents to Arrest People Without Warrants"
(I can't read the rest - paywall - but.. Seriously?!? Ugh)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/us/politics/ice-expands-power-agents-warrants.html

ICE Expands Power of Agents to Arrest People Without Warrants
An internal memo changed the standard from whether people are unlikely to show up for hearings to whether they could leave the scene.

Federal agents were told this week that they have broader power to arrest people without a warrant, according to an internal Immigration and Customs Enforcement memo reviewed by The New York Times.
The change expands the ability of lower-level ICE agents to carry out sweeps rounding up people they encounter and suspect are undocumented immigrants,
rather than targeted enforcement operations in which they set out, warrant in hand, to arrest a specific person.
A week before t…

ICE Expands Power of Agents to Arrest People Without Warrants
An internal memo changed the standard from whether people are unlikely to show up for hearings to whether they could leave the scene.

»„Man muss sein Gehirn nicht benutzen" — Studie warnt vor kognitiven Folgen durch KI im Unterricht:
Während KI-Tools in den Klassenzimmern Einzug halten, schlagen Forscher:innen Alarm. Eine neue Studie kommt zu dem Ergebnis, dass die neue Technologie vor allem Beziehungen negativ beeinflussen könnte«
Wer hätte dies je gedacht… moment mal um was geht es, um was denn genau, was labert die KI denn uns vor?!??
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„Man muss sein Gehirn nicht benutzen": Studie warnt vor kognitiven Folgen durch KI im Unterricht | t3n
Während KI-Tools in den Klassenzimmern Einzug halten, schlagen Forscher:innen Alarm. Eine neue Studie kommt zu dem Ergebnis, dass die neue Technologie vor allem Beziehungen negativ beeinflussen könnte. Das Center for Universal Education der US-amerikanischen Brookings Institution hat die KI-Nutzung von Kindern und Jugendlichen untersucht. Im Rahmen des einjährigen Projekts führten die Forscher:innen Interviews und Diskussionsrunden […]

Erneuter Rückruf: BMW warnt vor Brandgefahr bei Hunderttausenden Autos
Erst kürzlich hat BMW Hunderttausende Autos wegen Brandgefahr zurückgerufen. Nun schon wieder. Allerdings wegen einer anderen Ursache.

ICE blocked from warrantless arrests in Oregon | Courthouse News Service
https://www.courthousenews.com/ice-blocked-from-warrantless-arrests-in-oregon/

Chinesische #EAutos stehen unter Verdacht, potenziell fernsteuerbar zu sein.
Der #Verfassungsschutz warnt vor theoretischen Risiken wie Zugriff auf #Fahrdaten oder Innenraumaufnahmen. A…

Spionagegefahr: Verfassungsschutz warnt vor E-Autos aus China - Golem.de
E-Autos aus China könnten theoretisch ferngesteuert werden. Die technischen Risiken sind dokumentiert - doch auch Tesla sammelt massenhaft Daten.

Erneuter Rückruf: BMW warnt vor Brandgefahr bei Hunderttausenden Autos
Erst kürzlich hat BMW Hunderttausende Autos wegen Brandgefahr zurückgerufen. Nun schon wieder. Allerdings wegen einer anderen Ursache.

Leaked DHS Memo Reveals ICE Claiming Expansive New Warrantless Arrest Powers | Common Dreams
https://www.commondreams.org/news/ice-memo-warrantless-arrests

In a big win for protesters’ rights,
the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit overturned a lower court’s dismissal of a challenge to sweeping warrants to search a protester’s devices and digital data and a nonprofit’s social media data.
The case, "Armendariz v. City of Colorado Springs", arose after a housing protest in 2021,
during which Colorado Springs police arrested protesters for obstructing a roadway.
After the demonstration, police also obtaine…

Victory! Tenth Circuit Finds Fourth Amendment Doesn’t Support Broad Search of Protesters’ Devices and Digital Data
In a big win for protesters’ rights, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit overturned a lower court’s dismissal of a challenge to sweeping warrants to search a protester’s devices and digital data and a nonprofit’s social media data.The case, Armendariz v. City of Colorado Springs, arose...

When the FBI executed a warrant on Wednesday
to seize records from the 2020 presidential vote in Fulton County, Georgia,
it marked both an extraordinary event in the history of American elections
and a significant escalation in Donald Trump’s breaking of democratic norms, several legal experts said.
Trump has long claimed, without evidence, that the 2020 election was stolen from him
and blamed Georgia, in particular,
for his loss to Joe Biden.
Afte…

FBI’s Search of Georgia Election Center Is “Dangerous,” Experts Warn
The search warrant, which sought 2020 election ballots, tabulator tapes, digital data and voter rolls from Fulton County, marked what experts described as a significant escalation in President Donald Trump’s breaking of democratic norms.