CURRENT EVENTS February |

[nycfan]

—> https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/trump-w...9?st=ZcfRjV&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink

[Not much more info in that link currently than Trump’s post]

“… Hegseth's demands vindicate Amodei's mid-February warning to New York Times columnist Ross Douthat that AI can be used to undermine constitutional rights and AI. He expressed particular concern about AI rendering public surveillance hyperlegible, empowering the government to efficiently parse through and act on what's currently an overwhelming amount of data. This would "make a mockery of the Fourth Amendment by…finding technical ways around it," he said….”

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At least they don’t nationalize them, I guess, which was a threat.

 

[superrific]

At least they don’t nationalize them, I guess, which was a threat.

Not a serious one.

 

[nycfan]

We’re self-immolating as a nation.

 

[superrific]

We’re self-immolating as a nation.

Why are you bringing the nation into it? I'm not self-immolating or immolating anything at all.

 

[BlueSteel]

His behavior is like an abusive husband whose wife and step-kids are the U.S. Military.

The war on smart people seems to be ramping up. Can't have smart people who are able to think for themselves running around.

 

[nycfan]

 

[nycfan]

https://www.wsj.com/politics/national-security/kristi-noem-classified-report-shoes-airport-bae3bae0?st=mbKZSF&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink

 

[nycfan]

https://www.wsj.com/politics/national-security/kristi-noem-classified-report-shoes-airport-bae3bae0?st=mbKZSF&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink

“…
allowing passengers to pass through screening checkpoints with their shoes on—is creating “significant” security risks, according to a letter from the inspector general reviewed by The Wall Street Journal and officials familiar with the matter.

In July, she announced the change with great fanfare, granting the shoes-on policy to passengers even if they weren’t enrolled in the Transportation Security Administration’s precheck program. The announcement to eliminate what millions of travelers view as a nuisance was one of Noem’s most politically popular moves to date.

But a classified November report by the Department of Homeland Security’s inspector general, the agency’s top watchdog, found that some of the TSA full-body scanners that most airline passengers pass through can’t scan shoes, according to people familiar with the report’s contents. The report determined Noem’s policy move had inadvertently created a new security vulnerability in the system. Some White House officials have been made aware of the report.

When the secretary’s office was briefed on the report, officials there gave it a higher level of classification and blocked it from being publicly released, people familiar with the matter said. A spokeswoman for the department disputed the inspector general’s claims and said Noem had appropriately responded to the findings.

Many homeland-security officials said Noem’s handling of the inspector general report fits a pattern in which she has ignored or played down national-security concerns…”