A new form of “reach out and touch someone.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/20/technology/us-tech-europe-microsoft-trump-icc.html?unlocked_article_code=1.QU8.L7r1.jIQ5Sl08LtOG&smid=nytcore-android-share

Europe’s Growing Fear: How Trump Might Use U.S. Tech Dominance Against It

To comply with a Trump executive order, Microsoft recently helped suspend the email account of an International Criminal Court prosecutor in the Netherlands who was investigating Israel for war crimes.

When President Trump issued an executive order in February against the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court for investigating Israel for war crimes, Microsoft was suddenly thrust into the middle of a geopolitical fight.

For years, Microsoft had supplied the court — which is based in The Hague in the Netherlands and investigates and prosecutes human rights breaches, genocides and other crimes of international concern — with digital services such as email. Mr. Trump’s order abruptly threw that relationship into disarray by barring U.S. companies from providing services to the prosecutor, Karim Khan.

Soon after, Microsoft, which is based in Redmond, Wash., helped turn off Mr. Khan’s I.C.C. email account, freezing him out of communications with colleagues just a few months after the court had issued an arrest warrant for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel for his country’s actions in Gaza.

Microsoft’s swift compliance with Mr. Trump’s order, reported earlier by The Associated Press, shocked policymakers across Europe. It was a wake-up call for a problem far bigger than just one email account, stoking fears that the Trump administration would leverage America’s tech dominance to penalize opponents, even in allied countries like the Netherlands.

I wonder if the lawyers are AI?

https://thehackernews.com/2025/06/qilin-ransomware-adds-call-lawyer.html

Qilin Ransomware Adds "Call Lawyer" Feature to Pressure Victims for Larger Ransoms

The threat actors behind the Qilin ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) scheme are now offering legal counsel for affiliates to put more pressure on victims to pay up, as the cybercrime group intensifies its activity and tries to fill the void left by its rivals.

The new feature takes the form of a "Call Lawyer" feature on the affiliate panel, per Israeli cybersecurity company Cybereason.

Perhaps this is the best way to employ AI?

https://www.zdnet.com/article/ai-agents-win-over-professionals-but-only-to-do-their-grunt-work-stanford-study-finds/

AI agents win over professionals - but only to do their grunt work, Stanford study finds

AI agents are one of the buzziest trends in Silicon Valley, with tech companies promising big productivity gains for businesses. But do individual workers actually want to use them?

A new study from Stanford University shows the answer may be yes -- as long as they automate mundane tasks and don't encroach too far on human agency.

Titled "Future of Work with AI Agents," the study set out to move beyond hype around AI agents to understand how, exactly, these tools can be practically integrated into the day-to-day routines of professionals. While previous studies have investigated the impact of AI agents on specific job categories, like software engineering and IT, the Stanford researchers analyzed individual categories of tasks, allowing them "to better capture the nuanced, open-ended, and contextual nature of real-world work," they noted in their report.

Perspective.

https://www.gartner.com/en/newsroom/press-releases/2025-06-17-gartner-announces-top-data-and-analytics-predictions

Gartner Announces the Top Data & Analytics Predictions

Gartner, Inc. has announced the top data and analytics (D&A) predictions for 2025 and beyond. Among the top predictions, half of business decisions will be augmented or automated by AI agents; executive AI literacy will drive higher financial performance; and critical failures in managing synthetic data will risk AI governance, model accuracy and compliance.

Explains a lot, if not everything.

https://www.upworthy.com/why-does-it-seem-like-dumb-people-are-in-power

Philosophy expert answers the question: Why does it seem like dumb people are always in power?

As the old song by The Who goes, “Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.” It’s a sentiment many of us feel every time a new mayor, governor, or president takes office, and we can’t help but feel that we deserve someone better. In a country with so many brilliant scientists, business people, educators, and public policy experts, why do the least impressive of us seem to rise to power?

Philosophy expert Julian de Medeiros, a popular TikToker and Substack blogger, recently wrestled with this question, and it must have been on a lot of people’s minds because the video received over 4.2 million views. “Why does it seem like so many people in power are so dumb? It's like, why can't we get a better class of leaders?” he asked.

Ultimately, de Medeiros believes that power and intellect are often at odds. “I've thought about it a bit more, and I think this is my thesis: that power is inherently anti-intellectual. Because what does intellect do? Intellect questions power. It speaks truth to power. It critiques power. And power doesn't like that,” he says. “And so power has to speak to the lowest common denominator. It dumbs everything down."

We don’t need our brains when AI does all the work.

https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/18/is_ai_changing_our_brains/

Brain activity much lower when using AI chatbots, MIT boffins find

EEG and recall tests suggest people who use ChatGPT to write essays aren't learning much

Using AI chatbots actually reduces activity in the brain versus accomplishing the same tasks unaided, and may lead to poorer fact retention, according to a new preprint study out of MIT.

Seeking to understand how the use of LLM chatbots affects the brain, a team led by MIT Media Lab research scientist Dr. Nataliya Kosmyna hooked up a group of Boston-area college students to electroencephalogram (EEG) headsets and gave them 20 minutes to write a short essay. One group was directed to write without any outside assistance, a second group was allowed to use a search engine, and a third was instructed to write with the assistance of OpenAI's GPT-4o model.  The process was repeated four times over several months.

While not yet peer reviewed, the pre-publication research results suggest a striking difference between the brain activity of the three groups and the corresponding creation of neural connectivity patterns. 

“Give us everything and we’ll pick out what we want” isn’t good enough? Imagine that.

https://pogowasright.org/doj-seeks-more-time-on-tower-dumps/

DOJ Seeks More Time on Tower Dumps

Seamus Hughes reports:

After previously receiving a ninety day reprieve, today the Justice Department is asking for another month to decide if they will appeal a Mississippi federal judge’s sweeping ruling that determined so-called “tower dumps” are unconstitutional.

Tower Dumps are a frequently-used law enforcement technique of pulling large swaths of data from cellular towers, which would include location information about innocent individuals within the area of the tower, to find alleged criminal activity. 

FBI agents in Mississippi had initially submitted four sealed search warrants for a tower dump’s data as part of an investigation into a string of shootings and car thefts involving an unnamed violent gang. U.S. Magistrate Judge Andrew Harris repeatedly declined to authorize the search warrants, even after the DOJ submitted a follow-up memorandum clarifying their position, and a conference call was held with Judge Harris to address his concerns.

The February order marked the first instance in which a judge ruled against law enforcement’s use of tower dumps, extending the scope of an August ruling in a federal appeals court that found the use of a geofence warrant — in which law enforcement sends a request to Google for the location data of phones at a specific location  — was unconstitutional.

Read more at CourtWatch.

Bias is protected by the first amendment?

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/6/17/elon-musks-x-sues-new-york-to-block-social-media-hate-speech-law

Elon Musk’s X sues New York to block social media hate speech law

In its complaint, X said the law forces firms to disclose ‘highly sensitive and controversial speech’ that is protected under the US Constitution’s First Amendment.

… Deciding what content is acceptable on social media platforms “engenders considerable debate among reasonable people about where to draw the correct proverbial line”, X said, adding “this is not a role that the government may play”.

The complaint also quoted a letter from two legislators who sponsored the law, which said X and Musk in particular had a “disturbing record” on content moderation “that threatens the foundations of our democracy”.

New York’s law requires social media companies to disclose steps they take to eliminate hate on their platforms, and to report their progress. Civil fines could reach $15,000 per violation per day.

Modern war includes the digital front.

https://cyberscoop.com/iran-bank-sepah-cyberattack/

Iran’s Bank Sepah disrupted by cyberattack claimed by pro-Israel hacktivist group

Bank Sepah’s website is offline following a hacktivist group’s claimed attack on the Iran state-owned bank. The group, known as Predatory Sparrow — or Gonjeshke Darande in Persian — said in a social media post early Tuesday that it “destroyed the data of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ Bank Sepah.”

Iran-focused media outlets report Bank Sepah branches are closed, customers are unable to access accounts and payment processing is down. London-based Iran International said Iran’s Fars News Agency confirmed Bank Sepah’s infrastructure was impacted by a cyberattack, resulting in service disruptions.

The attack on one of Iran’s largest financial institutions highlights the growing role of cyber warfare in the escalating conflict between Israel and Iran, and has had immediate consequences for the country’s critical infrastructure.

(Related)

https://thehackernews.com/2025/06/iran-restricts-internet-access-to.html

Iran Slows Internet to Prevent Cyber Attacks Amid Escalating Regional Conflict

Iran has throttled internet access in the country in a purported attempt to hamper Israel's ability to conduct covert cyber operations, days after the latter launched an unprecedented attack on the country, escalating geopolitical tensions in the region.

True.

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2025/06/where-ai-provides-value.html

Where AI Provides Value

If you’ve worried that AI might take your job, deprive you of your livelihood, or maybe even replace your role in society, it probably feels good to see the latest AI tools fail spectacularly. If AI recommends glue as a pizza topping, then you’re safe for another day.

But the fact remains that AI already has definite advantages over even the most skilled humans, and knowing where these advantages arise—and where they don’t—will be key to adapting to the AI-infused workforce.

AI will often not be as effective as a human doing the same job. It won’t always know more or be more accurate. And it definitely won’t always be fairer or more reliable. But it may still be used whenever it has an advantage over humans in one of four dimensions: speed, scale, scope and sophistication. Understanding these dimensions is the key to understanding AI-human replacement.

This essay was written with Nathan E. Sanders, and originally appeared in The Conversation.

How to use deepfake?

https://www.wbur.org/news/2025/06/16/biden-ai-robocall-new-hampshire-steven-kramer-not-guilty

N.H. jury acquits consultant behind AI robocalls mimicking Biden on all charges

… Kramer, who owns a firm specializing in get-out-the-vote projects, argued that the primary was a meaningless straw poll unsanctioned by the DNC, and therefore the state’s voter suppression law didn’t apply. The defense also said he didn’t impersonate a candidate because the message didn’t include Biden’s name, and Biden wasn’t a declared candidate in the primary.

Jurors apparently agreed, acquitting him of 11 felony voter suppression charges, each punishable by up to seven years in prison. The 11 candidate impersonation charges each carried a maximum sentence of a year in jail.

How would you blur recall without destroying AI usefulness? (Did Llama get 58 percent wrong?)

https://www.understandingai.org/p/metas-llama-31-can-recall-42-percent

Meta's Llama 3.1 can recall 42 percent of the first Harry Potter book

In recent years, numerous plaintiffs—including publishers of books, newspapers, computer code, and photographs—have sued AI companies for training models using copyrighted material. A key question in all of these lawsuits has been how easily AI models produce verbatim excerpts from the plaintiffs’ copyrighted content.

For example, in its December 2023 lawsuit against OpenAI, the New York Times Company produced dozens of examples where GPT-4 exactly reproduced significant passages from Times stories. In its response, OpenAI described this as a “fringe behavior” and a “problem that researchers at OpenAI and elsewhere work hard to address.”

But is it actually a fringe behavior? And have leading AI companies addressed it? New research—focusing on books rather than newspaper articles and on different companies—provides surprising insights into this question. Some of the findings should bolster plaintiffs’ arguments, while others may be more helpful to defendants.

The paper was published last month by a team of computer scientists and legal scholars from Stanford, Cornell, and West Virginia University. They studied whether five popular open-weight models—three from Meta and one each from Microsoft and EleutherAI—were able to reproduce text from Books3, a collection of books that is widely used to train LLMs. Many of the books are still under copyright.

Probably not going to happen.

https://scholarlycommons.law.case.edu/jolti/vol16/iss2/3/

Policing in Pixels

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is transforming border security and law enforcement, with facial recognition technology (FRT) at the forefront of this shift. Widely adopted by U.S. federal agencies such as the FBI, ICE, and CBP, FRT is increasingly used to monitor both citizens and migrants, often without their knowledge. While this technology promises enhanced security, it’s early-stage deployment raises significant concerns about reliability, bias, and ethical data sourcing. This paper examines how FRT is being used at the U.S.-Mexico border and beyond, highlighting its potential to disproportionately target vulnerable groups and infringe on constitutional rights.

The paper provides an overview of AI’s evolution into tools like FRT that analyze facial features to identify individuals. It discusses how these systems are prone to errors—such as false positives—and disproportionately affect racial minorities. The analysis then delves into constitutional implications under the Fourth Amendment’s protection against unreasonable searches and seizures and the Fourteenth Amendment’s guarantee of equal protection. This framework is particularly relevant when considering cases like those involving Clearview AI and Rite Aid, which resulted in severe consequences for both companies and exemplify how improper facial recognition technology (FRT) deployment can lead to significant privacy violations and reinforce societal disparities.

This paper advocates for a multi-layered approach to address these challenges. It argues for halting FRT deployment until comprehensive safeguards are established, including bias mitigation measures, uniform procedures, and increased transparency. By reevaluating the relationship between law enforcement and citizens in light of emerging technologies, this paper underscores the urgent need for policies that balance national security with individual rights.

Because, science fiction!

https://alsun.journals.ekb.eg/article_432675.html?lang=en

The Ethical Dilemmas of the “Three Laws of Robotics” in Isaac Asimov’s Runaround (1942) and Little Lost Robot (1947)

This paper examines the ethical dilemmas presented by Isaac Asimov’s Three Laws of Robotics in his stories Runaround (1942) and Little Lost Robot (1947). The Laws are analyzed and reevaluated within the framework of the ethical theories of Immanuel Kant’s deontology and Jeremy Bentham’s utilitarianism. The analysis demonstrates the ethical conflicts between deontology’s rigid adherence to universal moral absolutes and utilitarianism’s emphasis on maximizing societal welfare. This is through illustrating Asimov’s critical insights into contemporary debates on artificial intelligence ethics and regulation, prompting a re-evaluation of human responsibility, human-robot trust, and the boundaries of robotic autonomy. The stories reveal the limitations of Asimov’s Laws in addressing real-world complexities, exposing their inability to guarantee consistent ethical behavior in artificial intelligence systems. Furthermore, this study introduces a novel perspective on the interplay between ethical theory and speculative fiction, underscoring the practical value of Asimov’s narratives in shaping forward-thinking approaches to robotic legislation and ethical programming

Runaround https://archive.org/details/Astounding_v29n01_1942-03_dtsg0318/page/n93/mode/2up

New data is hard to get. Will old data will help AI confirm the flat earth theory?

https://apnews.com/article/ai-chatbot-training-data-libraries-idi-e096a81a4fceb2951f232a33ac767f53

AI chatbots need more books to learn from. These libraries are opening their stacks

Everything ever said on the internet was just the start of teaching artificial intelligence about humanity. Tech companies are now tapping into an older repository of knowledge: the library stacks.

Nearly one million books published as early as the 15th century — and in 254 languages — are part of a Harvard University collection being released to AI researchers Thursday. Also coming soon are troves of old newspapers and government documents held by Boston’s public library.

Cracking open the vaults to centuries-old tomes could be a data bonanza for tech companies battling lawsuits from living novelists, visual artists and others whose creative works have been scooped up without their consent to train AI chatbots.

“It is a prudent decision to start with public domain data because that’s less controversial right now than content that’s still under copyright,” said Burton Davis, a deputy general counsel at Microsoft.

Because, why?

https://taskandpurpose.com/military-life/army-reserve-lt-col-tech-execs/

Army bringing in big tech executives as lieutenant colonels

The Army said the new senior officers, including Meta's Andrew Bosworth and Palantir's Shyam Sankar, will attend a six-week course at Fort Benning and be required to pass Army PT and marksmanship tests.

Four senior executives of tech giants like Meta and Palantir are being sworn into the Army Reserve as direct-commissioned officers at the unusually high rank of lieutenant colonel as part of a new program to recruit private-sector experts to speed up tech adoption.

The Army calls the program to recruit Silicon Valley executives Detachment 201: The Army’s Executive Innovation Corps. One of the executives, Andrew Bosworth of Meta (formerly Facebook) posted on X that the “201” monicker was a nod to an HTTP coding command, in which a “201” response indicates the creation of a new programming resource.

… The Detachment 201 program is aimed at bringing in part-time advisors from the private sector to help the service adopt and scale commercial technology like drones and robots into its formations. The idea of incorporating private-sector expertise is right out of Ukraine as soldiers there who are engineers or computer scientists in their day jobs are MacGyvering makeshift drones or 3D printing parts to use on the front lines against Russia.

No different here?

https://www.bespacific.com/harnessing-gen-ai-in-law/

Harnessing Gen AI in law

Harnessing Gen AI in law. Lessons from the front lines in Europe  – European law firms are ramping up efforts to embrace the potential of Gen AI. In a recent report by The Global Legal Post in association with LexisNexis, senior lawyers and executives from leading firms in Spain, Germany, Italy, Portugal and Belgium said they expect Gen AI tech to transform how they deliver legal services and the way their lawyers will work on a day-to-day basis. From testing and piloting Gen AI tools to roll out and adoption, there is no single approach to follow; instead, it will be dictated by the size of the firm and its culture. “The smaller ones will be able to implement very quickly, because the disruption would be quite limited,” said Sebastien Bardou, VP strategy in the CEMEA region at LexisNexis. “For the larger ones, it’s better to implement in waves. You can’t just turn on a switch and say everyone is going to use it.” Firms should also ensure they have support programmes in place to bolster adoption efforts and reduce the chances Gen AI tools will go unused. For example, some firms are providing support such as technical training and access to prompt libraries to make it easier for lawyers to get the information they need. “We really want to ensure a good user experience from the very first moment and also make sure our junior lawyers are trained from the beginning,” said Eric Wagner, a partner at Gleiss Lutz in Germany… As Gen AI changes the way lawyers work on a daily basis, expectations around service delivery are also likely to evolve as the technology redraws relationships between firms and their clients. For now, there remains a diverse range of attitudes towards AI among legal services buyers, which potentially makes it more challenging for firms to roll out AI technology firmwide. “Some clients are very much into AI themselves and so are already buying licenses for AI products, some ask us agnostically how we are using AI tools, and then there are others who just say we shouldn’t use AI tools when serving them,” said Margarida Saragoça, Business and Knowledge Director at VdA. “This means our policies have to be spread out so everybody is in tune and knows what AI tools can be used or shouldn’t be used…”

Tools & Techniques.

https://www.makeuseof.com/excel-trimrange-cleanup/https://www.makeuseof.com/excel-trimrange-cleanup/

Clean Up Data Effortlessly With Excel's New TRIMRANGE Function

You shouldn’t need five steps to clean a column. Or a script. Or a headache. Excel’s new TRIMRANGE function quietly solves a huge pain point. And if you work with imported or user-entered data, this one’s a lifesaver.

Food for thought?

https://pogowasright.org/using-facial-recognition-three-recent-articles-of-interest/

Using facial recognition? Three recent articles of interest.

A few reports we were reading this week about facial recognition that we found of note.

First, Odia Kagan of Fox Rothschild writes:

Following the Federal Trade Commission’s decision in December 2023 to ban Rite Aid from using AI facial recognition, it has become crystal clear that U.S. regulators expect a risk assessment when a retailer uses facial recognition technology.

A new, and detailed, report from the New Zealand privacy commission provides helpful considerations for such Data Protection Impact Assessments (DPIAs). They include:

• Was the data trained on minorities?

• How long will the retailer retained data that wasn’t matched?

• Data minimization techniques (including when to share among stores and when to add to a watchlist).

• How accurate should the match be to trigger consideration (92.5%)?

Second, over in Ireland, the DPC announced the conclusion of its investigation into use of facial matching technology in connection with the Public Services Card by the Department of Social Protection (DSP). The four-year investigation followed an earlier investigation. The findings if the current investigation were that DSP:

• Infringed Articles 5(1)(a), 6(1), and 9(1) GDPR by failing to identify a valid lawful basis for the collection of biometric data in connection with SAFE 2 registration at the time of the inquiry;

• Having regard to the preceding finding, infringed Article 5(1)(e) GDPR by retaining biometric data collected as part of SAFE 2 registration;

• Infringed Articles 13(1)(c) and 13(2)(a) GDPR by failing to put in place suitably transparent information to data subjects as regards SAFE 2 registration; and

• Infringed Articles 35(7)(b) and (c) GDPR by failing to include certain details in the Data Protection Impact Assessment that it carried out in relation to SAFE 2 registration.

In light of the infringements identified above, the DPC has (1) reprimanded the DSP, (2) issued administrative fines totalling €550,000, and (3) issued an order to the DSP requiring it to cease processing of biometric data in connection with SAFE 2 registration within 9 months of this decision if the DSP cannot identify a valid lawful basis.

Read more about the investigation and findings on the DPC’s site.

And third, let us also take this opportunity to remind entities of the need to consider at what point the use of facial recognition is even warranted. Joe Cadillic sent along a recent item from The Guardian in the UK about a retail store customer who was put on a facial ID watchlist at Home Bargains after dispute over 39 pence of paracetamol they accused her of stealing. She firmly denies stealing it, but her complaint notes:

“To be clear: [she] did not steal the paracetamol during the first visit. The allegations by Home Bargains are false. However, even taking Home Bargains’ allegations at face value, their – and Facewatch’s – biometric processing was clearly not in the substantial public interest.

“The watchlist entry was created and acted upon in order to apprehend someone supposedly guilty of (on one occasion) stealing goods valued at less than £1. It is scarcely possible to imagine a less serious ‘offender’.”

Worth exploring…

https://www.bespacific.com/ai-ethics-with-professor-casey/

AI Ethics with Professor Casey

AI Ethics with Professor Casey – “For nearly five years, I’ve (Casey Fiesler aka Professor Casey) been creating social media content (largely on TikTok and Instagram) about artificial intelligence, especially as related to ethics, policy, and social impact. This page is intended as a syllabus of sorts–a post-hoc curated collection of videos that provide introductions, examples, and deep dives into various concepts.  In addition to the resources below, I also maintain a spreadsheet of AI ethics and policy news that is categorized into similar buckets, for further reading.  This document is very much under construction!  Though I’m officially sharing it as of June 2025 with a skeleton of some favorite videos, it will continue to be populated with both old and new content, and I will also continue to add many more references to further readings and resources from others. I am also in the process of uploading all of these videos to my YouTube channel as well. Some links will initially only be to TikTok because that’s where they were originally shared but more videos will be populated with YouTube links in the coming days!

Table of Contents
1  What is AI and what can it do?
2  Information literacy and mis/disinformation
3  Bias and fairness
4  IP and data
5  Labor and creativity
6  Education
7  Sustainability
8  Regulation
9  (Yet) uncategorized

Perspective. (And a philosophy?)

https://www.zdnet.com/article/why-denmark-is-dumping-microsoft-office-and-windows-for-libreoffice-and-linux/

Why Denmark is dumping Microsoft Office and Windows for LibreOffice and Linux

Denmark's Minister of Digitalization, Caroline Stage, has announced that the Danish government will start moving away from Microsoft Office to LibreOffice. Why? It's not because open-source is better, although I would argue that it is, but because Denmark wants to claim "digital sovereignty." In the States, you probably haven't heard that phrase, but in the European Union, digital sovereignty is a big deal and getting bigger.

A combination of security, economic, political, and societal imperatives is driving the EU's digital sovereignty moves. EU leaders are seeking to reduce Europe's dependence on foreign technology providers, primarily those from the United States, and to assert greater control over its digital infrastructure, data, and technological future.

Why? Because they're concerned about who controls European data, who sets the rules, and who can potentially cut off access to essential services in times of geopolitical tension.  

Always something new.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/nyc-woman-found-phone-buried-105000183.html

NYC woman found a phone buried in her lawn — and police say it’s a new tactic thieves use to spy on homeowners

… Mary Kehoe, who’s lived in her Forest Hill home for 35 years, spotted the strange device outside. It looked like an Android phone wrapped in black tape, with only the camera exposed — like it was made to watch, not call.

… Experts warn that these kinds of planted devices may be part of a growing tactic used by burglars to spy on homeowners, tracking their daily routines or scouting for valuables. And it’s not just an isolated case — similar incidents have popped up across the Tri-State Area.

Shouldn’t we have an alternative before we toss out the old rules?

https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/10/trump_cybersecurity_eo_digital_ids/

Trump guts digital ID rules, claims they help 'illegal aliens' commit fraud

President Donald Trump late Friday signed a cybersecurity-focused executive order that, in the White House's words, "amends problematic elements of Obama and Biden-era Executive Orders."

In his last few days in office, President Biden signed a executive order (EO) focused on cybersecurity that aimed to eliminate the use of stolen and fake identities by criminal gangs, because they are used to "systemically defraud public benefits programs costs taxpayers and wastes Federal Government funds."

To accomplish this goal, Biden’s presidential mandate directed federal agencies to work with states to develop and issue mobile driver's licenses and the infrastructure needed to verify these types of digital ID cards.

Trump’s order wipes out a section of the Biden order, titled "Solutions to Combat Cybercrime and Fraud".

Coming soon to a city near you?

https://www.bespacific.com/waymo-false-flag-militarizing-america-through-psychological-warfare/

Waymo False Flag: Militarizing America Through Psychological Warfare

MindWar: The Psychological War on Democracy – “As tanks are sent en masse to the nation’s capital, complete with revolutionary insignia, for a propaganda event this Saturday, one of the president’s top advisors is accusing the government of the State of California of aiding and abetting “an invasion”—a condition for a charge of treason—while the “Border Czar” threatens to arrest the governor. What we’re seeing is a clumsy, transparent psychological warfare campaign being executed by the federal government against American citizens. It is, of course, totally illegal and unconstitutional, but regardless, Los Angeles is being used as an example and as psychological conditioning for a national rollout of this strategy. As I wrote, the raids by ICE were a PSYACT, a psychological action, designed to provoke a reaction—the peaceful protests on Friday night.

That reaction, protests, was met by another PSYACT, the completely unnecessary deployment of National Guard troops to the streets of Los Angeles against the will of the Mayor and the Governor. This provocation was designed to provoke another reaction—even bigger protests. And so on. Added to the mixture, like a constant flow of kerosene, is the massive propaganda platform controlled by the federal government with the cooperation of the majority of the media, which portrayed LA as consumed by fire, as an out-of control insurrection, worthy of state violence or, as the president’s son suggested, vigilanteism. Nonsense…”

Tools & Techniques.

https://www.bespacific.com/duck-ai/

Duck.AI

“Duck.ai is a free feature that allows you to have private conversations with 3rd-party AI chat models, anonymized by us. It currently supports Anthropic’s Claude 3 Haiku, Meta’s Llama 3.3 70B, Mistral AI’s Mistral Small 3 24B, and OpenAI’s GPT-4o mini. Each model relies on unique algorithms and datasets and will respond to your prompts differently. You can use Duck.ai to get answers to questions, compose an email, summarize text, or just have an interesting conversation. Navigate there directly, or move from traditional search results to ask follow-up questions. Return to past conversations with Duck.ai’s Recent Chats feature, which stores chats locally on your device – not on DuckDuckGo or other remote servers. Recent chats can be deleted individually or with a click of the Fire Button. You can add or remove the Duck.ai button in your DuckDuckGo browser from browser settings, and hide the Duck.ai buttons on the search results page from search settings. DuckDuckGo’s approach to AI is to provide private, useful, and optional AI features that don’t track how you use them, store your prompts, or train on your data. More information about optional AI-assisted answers on our search engine can be found here …

We have agreements with model providers to further protect your privacy. As noted above, we call model providers on your behalf so your personal information (for example, IP address) is not exposed to them. In addition, we have agreements in place with all model providers that further limit how they can use data from these anonymous requests, including not using Prompts and Outputs to develop or improve their models, as well as deleting all information received once it is no longer necessary to provide Outputs (at most within 30 days, with limited exceptions for safety and legal compliance)…”