ICE Says Critical Evidence In Abuse Case Was Lost In ‘System Crash’ a Day After It Was Sued

The federal government claims that the day after it was sued for allegedly abusing detainees at an ICE detention center, a “system crash” deleted nearly two weeks of surveillance footage from inside the facility.   People detained at ICE’s Broadview Detention Center in suburban Chicago sued the government on October 30; according to their lawyers and…

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Ukraine Is Jamming Russia’s ‘Superweapon’ With a Song

The Ukrainian Army is knocking a once-hyped Russian superweapon out of the sky by jamming it with a song and tricking it into thinking it’s in Lima, Peru. The Kremlin once called its Kh-47M2 Kinzhal ballistic missiles “invincible.” Joe Biden said the missile was “almost impossible to stop.” Now Ukrainian electronic warfare experts say they…

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Joe Rogan Subreddit Bans ‘Political Posts’ But Still Wants ‘Free Speech’

In a move that has confused and angered its users, the r/JoeRogan subreddit has banned all posts about politics. Adding to the confusion, the subreddit’s mods have said that political comments are still allowed, just not posts. “After careful consideration, internal discussion and tons of external feedback we have collectively decided that r/JoeRogan is not…

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Massive Leak Shows Erotic Chatbot Users Turned Women’s Yearbook Pictures Into AI Porn

An erotic roleplay chatbot and AI image creation platform called Secret Desires left millions of user-uploaded photos exposed and available to the public. The databases included nearly two million photos and videos, including many photos of completely random people with very little digital footprint.  The exposed data shows how many people use AI roleplay apps…

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HOPE Hacking Conference Banned From University Venue Over Apparent ‘Anti-Police Agenda’

The legendary hacker conference Hackers on Planet Earth (HOPE) says that it has been “banned” from St. John’s University, the venue where it has held the last several HOPE conferences, because someone told the university the conference had an “anti-police agenda.” HOPE was held at St. John’s University in 2022, 2024, and 2025, and was…

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ACLU and EFF Sue a City Blanketed With Flock Surveillance Cameras

Lawyers from the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) sued the city of San Jose, California over its deployment of Flock’s license plate-reading surveillance cameras, claiming that the city’s nearly 500 cameras create a pervasive database of residents movements in a surveillance network that is essentially impossible to avoid.  The lawsuit…

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