Credit to Author: Matt Burgess, Dell Cameron| Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2025 15:26:29 +0000
The total number of US Customs and Border Protection device searches jumped by 17 percent over the 2024 fiscal year, but more invasive forensic searches remain relatively rare.
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Credit to Author: Fernanda González| Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2025 09:00:00 +0000
The USS Gerald R. Ford is a $13 billion aircraft carrier sailing to the Caribbean with nuclear propulsion, an electromagnetic plane launcher, and 90 aircraft onboard.
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Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman, Matt Burgess| Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2025 10:30:00 +0000
A database containing information on people who applied for jobs with Democrats in the US House of Representatives was left accessible on the open web.
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Credit to Author: Dell Cameron| Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2025 22:59:51 +0000
US border patrol is asking companies to submit plans to turn standard 4×4 trucks into AI-powered watchtowers—combining radar, cameras, and autonomous tracking to extend surveillance on demand.
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Credit to Author: Caroline Haskins| Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2025 20:31:57 +0000
A federal contracting database lists an ICE payment for $61,218 with the payment code for “guided missile warheads and explosive components.” But it appears ICE simply entered the wrong code.
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Credit to Author: Matthew Gault| Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2025 09:00:00 +0000
Anthropic partnered with the US government to create a filter meant to block Claude from helping someone build a nuke. Experts are divided on whether its a necessary protection—or a protection at all.
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Credit to Author: Andy Greenberg, Matt Burgess| Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2025 10:30:00 +0000
Plus: A secret FBI anti-ransomware task force gets exposed, the mystery of the CIA’s Kryptos sculpture is finally solved, North Koreans busted hiding malware in the Ethereum blockchain, and more.
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Credit to Author: Andy Greenberg, Matt Burgess| Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2025 01:00:00 +0000
With just $800 in basic equipment, researchers found a stunning variety of data—including thousands of T-Mobile users’ calls and texts and even US military communications—sent by satellites unencrypted.
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Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2025 10:30:00 +0000
Plus: US government cybersecurity staffers get reassigned to do immigration work, a hack exposes sensitive age-verification data of Discord users, and more.
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Credit to Author: Reece Rogers, Lily Hay Newman| Date: Thu, 09 Oct 2025 17:22:32 +0000
“We are going to do everything in our power to fight this,” says ICEBlock developer Joshua Aaron after Apple removed his app from the App Store.
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